On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 04:00:17PM -0500, Karen J. Cravens wrote:

>For the record, Carl the lifelong Kansas resident was also boggled by hard 
>liquor in the grocery store.  Come to that, having lived here for several 
>years by that time, *I* had a moment of "Whoa.  Haven't seen THAT in a 
>long time.  Dang, that looks weird."

American liquor laws look very bizarre to us in the UK - I think it's
because we've never had a temperance movement strong enough to push for
a total ban. Ours are quite odd too, but they're all the same throughout
England and Wales (Scotland has its own set), so there isn't the same
feeling of "I have just crossed a line and all is changed".

Well, you can get on a ferry and go to Calais for cheaper booze, but
they're French so one _expects_ it to be different.

>At least it was a nice hotel.  Just think what it would have been like if 
>we *hadn't* had a nice solid brick wall between us and the 2am belching 
>contest.  (Also for the record, hotel security was *very* prompt in 
>responding, other than it was about a twenty-minute walk from the front of 
>the hotel to where we were.  *Big* hotel.)

I ended up in the Marc Plaza as my second or third choice, the first
year I was there, and having seen it and some of the other ones put it
as my first choice every year thereafter.

-- 
Roger, gaming grognard
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