Yup - the Brew-Thru's a big thing on North Carolina's Outer Banks.BTW......has anyone here actually seen or even heard of a "drive-thru" liquor store?
www.brewthru.com/index.cfm
So how do you say it?
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How do you pronounce it, then?
www.brewthru.com/index.cfm
www.brewthru.com/index.cfm
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The vowel is an ah sound, like when the dentist makes you open your mouth, but less drawn out.
You do not hear, and so you cannot be redeemed.
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BRITS OUT!variol son wrote:The test is screwed anyway. I don't pronounce aunt in any of those four ways.
What's on the back of my Celtic jersey.
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36% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.
I didn't know there was a road along the highway and I've never ever heard of "cabbage night"
I didn't know there was a road along the highway and I've never ever heard of "cabbage night"
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That's a dialect from many different parts of the country unique to a group known as "wealthy".variol son wrote:The vowel is an ah sound, like when the dentist makes you open your mouth, but less drawn out.
See Thurston Howell the 3rd from Gilligan's Island for reference.
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Brew-Thru kicks major booty. My drive down for senior break in 1989 was brilliant. I was the only over-21 member of the trip. I was passed out in the back seat, the driver filched my driver's license and bought $200 worth of booze from one of those joints.
BTW, don't try to walk thru one of them, they have no sense of humor.
BTW, don't try to walk thru one of them, they have no sense of humor.
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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What can I say, I'm a mushroom.....A fun guy....
I slay me....
Seriously, bad idea to walk through a drive-through liquor store. Especially when you're sweaty and bleeding 'cause the guy with the car just hit a tree.
I slay me....
Seriously, bad idea to walk through a drive-through liquor store. Especially when you're sweaty and bleeding 'cause the guy with the car just hit a tree.
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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oh, uh...i'm just realizin we actually had something like those drive thru things...we called 'em moonshiners. 
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have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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Growing up in NV, we didn't even have liquor stores, much less drive thru ones. In a land where the bars never close and the liquor is in the same isle as the beer...
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variol son wrote:The vowel is an ah sound, like when the dentist makes you open your mouth, but less drawn out.
Read this post three times now, and I've just realized what it reminds of: The Legendary Black Beast of AAAAAGHHHHHHHH! I love the state liquor stores in Virginia. You can't beat the name "ABC Store." (Alcoholic Beverage Commission) It doesn't even sound like a liquor store. And their bags are an elegant blue color that provides for easy sneaking onto dry campuses.
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When my parents retired they moved down to the middle of absolute nowhere down in Arkansas. Most of northern Arkansas consists of "dry" counties. Now, I rarely drink (maybe a few glasses of wine a year, usually in fine restaurants or at weddings) so that wasn't usually a problem for me.
The one time it was a problem was in Jonesboro. Now, this is a major college town, mind you. My dad had gone to the big hospital there for cancer surgery and I flew down to spend the weekend with him. At the time there was no direct flight from Detroit to anyplace within the state of Arkansas, so I had to dink around and change flights in various cities just to get down there (and I depsise flying, so this was very stressful). Then, when I finally got into Little Rock I had to drive something like five hours to get to the hospital where my dad was.
After visiting hours were over I went to the Holiday Inn, where I had a reservation for the night. I had not eaten anything since breakfast, and I was both exhausted and very hungry. So I left my room and went in search of the hotel restaurant. Normally I stay out of hotel restaurants because a lot of them have poor food, but I was so tired and hungry I wasn't in the mood to drive around Jonesboro and try to find anything better.
So I wander around the hotel and find what looked like the restaurant. So I walk in and ask the hostess for a table for one, nonsmoking. She told me I had to buy a membership in order to be served there.
I just stood there and looked at her.
I must have looked pretty frazzled and shell shocked because she did eventually take pity on me and explained that this was the private club where they served alcohol and if all I wanted was food, there was a restaurant closer to the front lobby.
Apparently because it was in a dry county, in order to get a drink you have to be the member of a private club. So this was the hotel's way of providing alcohol to its patrons. They charged something like a $5 membership.
The food in the restaurant was of poor quality, by the way. To this day I have wondered if I should have "joined the club", not to drink, but just in case the food was any better.
The one time it was a problem was in Jonesboro. Now, this is a major college town, mind you.
My dad had gone to the big hospital there for cancer surgery and I flew down to spend the weekend with him. At the time there was no direct flight from Detroit to anyplace within the state of Arkansas, so I had to dink around and change flights in various cities just to get down there (and I depsise flying, so this was very stressful). Then, when I finally got into Little Rock I had to drive something like five hours to get to the hospital where my dad was. After visiting hours were over I went to the Holiday Inn, where I had a reservation for the night. I had not eaten anything since breakfast, and I was both exhausted and very hungry. So I left my room and went in search of the hotel restaurant. Normally I stay out of hotel restaurants because a lot of them have poor food, but I was so tired and hungry I wasn't in the mood to drive around Jonesboro and try to find anything better.
So I wander around the hotel and find what looked like the restaurant. So I walk in and ask the hostess for a table for one, nonsmoking. She told me I had to buy a membership in order to be served there.
I just stood there and looked at her.
I must have looked pretty frazzled and shell shocked because she did eventually take pity on me and explained that this was the private club where they served alcohol and if all I wanted was food, there was a restaurant closer to the front lobby.
Apparently because it was in a dry county, in order to get a drink you have to be the member of a private club. So this was the hotel's way of providing alcohol to its patrons. They charged something like a $5 membership.
The food in the restaurant was of poor quality, by the way. To this day I have wondered if I should have "joined the club", not to drink, but just in case the food was any better.
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