Re: [DL] Gencon Shindig! under 21 (tongue very firmly in cheek.)

["Graveyard Greg" <graveyardgreg@ngender.net>]

> *snip*
> >> In the UK and NZ, the drinking age is 18, and do you know what - the =
> >> countries haven't yet gone to hell in a handbasket. poor America, still
=
> >> run by Puritans 300 years on :)
> >
> >
> >So, ah, when's the last time you won a war against Germany?
> *snip*
>
> When was the last time the U.S. won a war against Germany *without* the
help
> UK and ancillary countries? ;-) For that matter when was the last time the
> U.S. won a real war (i.e. the likes of Grenada and Panama don't count)
> without the help of U.K. and ancillary countries?  Hmm, that would be
about
> the Spanish-American war, 1898.  The same for the U.K., the Falklands,
1982.
> ;-)
>     Actually, the *real* reason the drinking age in the U.S. is 21 is the
> result of the combined lobbying efforts of Canadian and Mexican border
bars
> who depend on 18-20 year old American drinkers.  ;-)

Methinks this topic is getting into the Deadlands-OT territory.

Time for me to bring back the Whiffle Bat, and knock it clean into OT Left
Field.

*grins*

Graveyard Greg
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