h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ermmmm....i take it that my vodka filled chocolate fishies with be confiscated at the airport gate and not allowed to travel with me if i attend the games?
monsy

Only if you say that you are in possesion of them!!

i will just put them in a fishbowl and tell them they are an exotic fish from the western islands
of course, once they are consumed i am sure they will notice something a bit odd about them
monsy

But you should be waiting till you get to my place before consuming them. Share and enjoy and all that I mean if you come to SLC and Don't visit I would be bummed.

if i happen to be able to make it there then i will be sure to hunt you down and insist that you sample the fishies for purity
monsy

It is good to see that the cream of h2g2 will stick togeather. Even If I can't spell.

looks alright to me, after all, doesn't "togeather" rhyme with "feather"?

Good stuff Marv - I had heard about this from a co-worker who used to live in Utah (A suburb of SLC, although I can't remember which one).

All of Salt Lake valley is a suburb of SLC. Thanks for checking it out. I swear that I ama not making any of that up. It scares me when I think about it.

Now... just so I have my facts straight, the difficulty of getting alchohal is due to the Mormon nature of the state, right?

If you asked the government they would deny that, but the department that controls alcohol here in Utah has 4/5ths mormons on the board and no one that represents any resteraunts or bars or clubs. It is against the charter to have them represented at all. The state controls all hard alcohol sales through the state owned liquor stores. They are inconvenient to get to and over priced. And *any* alcohol that has over 3.2% alcohol by weight has to bought at a liquor store. No vote would pass that loosened the rather restrictive laws because the voting population has enough Mormons to kill anything that might come up. I wish that what I said in my entry was fiction, but it can be more convenient to go to Nevada to get your booze simply because you can never make it to the state liquor stores during their hours. Some communities will not allow bars or restaraunts to come into their neighborhood. The laws make it hard to go to the pub casually, and their can be only so many bars in a given stretch of road. I think that this encourages drunk driving, especially because you cannot hail a cab in SLC (also against the law). Over all I think that the state would gain more revenue from taxes than by the sales from the liquor stores if they opened the market. Again this is a public service for anyone coming to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

I can understand the alcohol, but why the cabs?

I don't know. But the only place you can hail a cab is at the airport or a special section near the convention center.

If you are flying over Utah you can't buy a drink from the flight crew until you get over another state.

no, kidding

That would be FUNNY!

~Irving,

This one is true. When you take the bus to Wendover Nevada, you can play bingo on the way but they have to wait till you get over the border to give you your prizes. Don't ask me I don't know.

My younger brother was sent to SLC for a month on business and he had the *worst* time of his life! And I seem to recall Dennis Rodman complaining about the state a few years back when the Bulls were playing the Jazz.

It's nice to know that there are a few places on earth more restrictive than Pennsylvania when it comes to alcohol sales. [1]

Good entry, but could do with a bit of organizing and I think it could be Approved by TPTB!

[1]In Penna., you can drink what you like in bar or tavern but for take-home, only beer can be bought outside of state-owned Liquor Stores. In a bar, you can buy beer two 6-packs at a time to take home. Or you can go to a 'distributorship' where you can buy beer by the case or keg (but no 6-packs). For wine and stronger spirits, you've got to go to a 'State Store' which all close at 8 p.m. on weekends.

- X

Jimi, if you have any suggestions please let me know. I would like to see one of my humble little articles approved.