Kevin's Watch

How can anyone say no to CovJr?

I can be persuasive when I want to be I can also be dead when Aliantha wants me to be...

I'll protect you.

...maybe I should bring my bo staff...

CovenantJr wrote:I can also be dead when Aliantha wants me to be...

Oh so true. Let's revisit this in Denver, shall we?

Ok.... I am a little scared now....

Haha, I know better than to mess with a determined mother. Looks like you might be on your own with this one, MagickMaker I can try my patented "Look! A monkey!" technique, but I fear a direct assault is out of the question.

All joshing aside, I don't think the cops will be stopping by to card anybody. I just gotta do the Mom thing, y'know -- "cool mom" or not.

Her sister drank legally in Ireland when she was still underage in the States. So it's not unprecedented in the family.

And we are not not NOT going to be speaking about any underage drinking I might or might not have done while in college. Or the location of any bars in Bloomington, Indiana, which did not card in the late '70s. Or what a "hairy buffalo" consists of. None of that is open to discussion. Got it?

As long as I am not gonna get brained in the back of the head with a frying pan for "accidentally" leaving my plate of polluted watermelon chunks next to Magickmaker on the picnic table unsupervised....

<sigh> Prolly not...

Sounds like a plan... I get Jenn to do it...

aliantha wrote:Or the location of any bars in Bloomington, Indiana, which did not card in the late '70s.

Jenn and I have been talking about this.
Wasn't drinking age legally 18 for a few years back then?
My sister, and Damelon too most likely, since he was born the same year, got caught in the raising the age farce.

When I was 18, drinking age was 18. The year my sister turned 18, it went up to 19. And then the following year, before she turned 19, it was raised back to 21.

Menolly wrote:

aliantha wrote:Or the location of any bars in Bloomington, Indiana, which did not card in the late '70s.

Jenn and I have been talking about this.
Wasn't drinking age legally 18 for a few years back then?
My sister, and Damelon too most likely, since he was born the same year, got caught in the raising the age farce.

Yes, but the legal age varied from state to state. I remember in high school, Indiana's drinking age was 21, but 18-year-olds could cross the state line into Michigan to buy alcohol legally. Of course, I was 17 then. I didn't turn 18 'til December of my freshman year in college, at which point I was nowhere near the state of Michigan. That would've been 1975. I think the deal was that states were in danger of losing their federal highway funding if they didn't raise the drinking age to 21. The idea was to limit the number of teens dying in traffic accidents, IIRC.

You may remember that the feds pulled the same scam, at about the same time, to knock the speed limit down to 55 mph on interstate highways. I remember in high school driver's ed, going 70 mph on I-94, a couple of weeks before the lower speed limit went into effect. I believe that was all about saving gas, tho, not about keeping people from killing themselves on the highways by going too fast. Tho that turned out to be a nice side benefit.

aliantha wrote:Yes, but the legal age varied from state to state.

Ah...that I didn't know or remember. Obviously, Florida had the 18 legal age.

aliantha wrote:I remember in high school, Indiana's drinking age was 21, but 18-year-olds could cross the state line into Michigan to buy alcohol legally. Of course, I was 17 then. I didn't turn 18 'til December of my freshman year in college, at which point I was nowhere near the state of Michigan. That would've been 1975. I think the deal was that states were in danger of losing their federal highway funding if they didn't raise the drinking age to 21. The idea was to limit the number of teens dying in traffic accidents, IIRC.

I had also forgotten about the states loosing their federal highway funding if they didn't raise the legal drinking age. I do remember groups tying the younger age to more teen accidents.

Do you know if any states stood up to the federal government and took the loss of highway funding?

aliantha wrote:You may remember that the feds pulled the same scam, at about the same time, to knock the speed limit down to 55 mph on interstate highways. I remember in high school driver's ed, going 70 mph on I-94, a couple of weeks before the lower speed limit went into effect. I believe that was all about saving gas, tho, not about keeping people from killing themselves on the highways by going too fast. Tho that turned out to be a nice side benefit.

Yeah, I remember that. The extra 15 mph made the from New York to Florida drive so much quicker, or so it seemed when we had relatives drive down, compared to when we did it when we lived on Long Island when I was a kid.

Looks like I will be missing out on a lot of fun. . .

And is there a San Fran BBQ thread? I need to know if I will be making the promised chocolate cake (Mississippi Mud Cake?) and my famous Baked Mac and Cheese.

Bloodguard Bob is supposed to be posting a thread about the SF BBQ this weekend. If not you can always call him and nag him about it.

Wyldewode wrote:Baked Mac and Cheese

Menolly wrote:Do you know if any states stood up to the federal government and took the loss of highway funding?

I don't know for sure, but I think they all caved.

My mom's house is 3 blocks from the Michigan state line. So it was not much of a road trip for kids to go up there. (BTW, I had totally forgotten about all this....)

I figured out last night why CovJr is making such a big deal out of corrupting my daughter with drunken watermelon. You're not 21 yet either, are you, Rog?

aliantha wrote:

Menolly wrote:Do you know if any states stood up to the federal government and took the loss of highway funding?

I don't know for sure, but I think they all caved.

My mom's house is 3 blocks from the Michigan state line. So it was not much of a road trip for kids to go up there. (BTW, I had totally forgotten about all this....)

I figured out last night why CovJr is making such a big deal out of corrupting my daughter with drunken watermelon. You're not 21 yet either, are you, Rog?

...uh-oh...

...and now she called him Rog...