sonickteam2
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 03, 2008 at 11:09 PM UTC
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if you're in Baltimore there's this at the Ottobar
ELECTION NIGHT DANCE PARTY
with 2 4 1 drinks upstairs and downstairs.
Watch CNN election results on a big screen T.V. downstairs
with dj's Emily Rabbit, Craig Boarman, DJ Mills
Mark Zimin, Robbie Fearless, Heartbreak Beat and Simon the Phoenix
Doors open at 8pm- $3 COVER- 18 & OVER
PigIron
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 03, 2008 at 11:14 PM UTC
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Home, people. The best place. And I just hope its over before bedtime. If Obama wins, I'm happy. If McCain wins, I kind of hope the conservative, right wing warnings come true and we sink into a period of cold, brutal socialism marked by censorship, breadlines, and despotic rule. And then we are forced to fight back with nothing but molotov cocktails and the hunting rifles we were forced to bury in our back yards when the Obama regime took power. And then, when the smoke clears, that beacon of democracy, Sarah Palin, rises from the ashes and leads us to freedom again. It will be like "Red Dawn". But with Sarah Palin. That would be awesome.
Doctor Doom
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 03, 2008 at 11:25 PM UTC
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For once Julian is actually funny :D
jaguar
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 12:05 AM UTC
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
and before all the cooler-than-thou hipsters pipe up: this is DC. presidential elections are as big as the super bowl. i know of at least one place that is selling $50 open-bar tickets…
Isn't that sort of on the illegal side? Or, at least, it use to be. Yet, I can fully understand the desire to meet up and sulk or cheer as you anxiously watch the returns as though it's some sports event.
elj
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 12:08 AM UTC
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
Isn't that sort of on the illegal side? Or, at least, it use to be.
What law would it be breaking?
jaguar
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 12:09 AM UTC
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
Does anyone know where I can buy noisemakers? Does CVS carry them?
I would bet that Party City has them getting ready for New Year's. Don't know where the closest one to you is but you may very well have to go out into the burbs.
jaguar
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 12:15 AM UTC
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Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
Originally posted by hutch:
now let me make sure that champagne bottle is in the fridge…
Oh no, I hope you don't mean a regular refrigerator! It should be a crime for people not to own a proper wine chiller. Vinocide should get you a nickel in a federal pen.
Vinocide. Ha! I like that word.
Neither for a good champagne. It destroys the delicate bubble. Ice it down, baby, and wrap a linen napkin around that succulent nectar of the French gods!
jaguar
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 12:23 AM UTC
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Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Isn't that sort of on the illegal side? Or, at least, it use to be.
What law would it be breaking?
At one time it was illegal for bars to be open during election time. But even so, if it's all after the polls close, it wouldn't be an issue. It had to do with preventing unscrupulous practices of getting people drunk then they going in to vote for whomever the provider chooses. Think they may have lifted that law a number of years ago though and not sure if it was a state to state thing or national.
sweetcell
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 12:34 AM UTC
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Isn't that sort of on the illegal side? Or, at least, it use to be.
What law would it be breaking?
At one time it was illegal for bars to be opened during election time.
pretty sure that's not the case anymore (remind us how young you are, bags? :p ) proof: the BYT party is starting at 3 PM. then again, they are of the coke-and-underwear persuasion, so what they do might not be a good benchmark for legality…
jaguar
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 12:38 AM UTC
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That was before my drinking days but I do remember hearing talk of it.
you be betty
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 01:52 AM UTC
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i'm going to probably hang out at one of my favorite dive bars in alphabet city, in my underwear, with coke. lots.
elj
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 02:22 AM UTC
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I was under the impression the whole get people drunk and on the bandwagon law went out with prohibition.
elj
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 02:23 AM UTC
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Originally posted by you be betty:
i'm going to probably hang out at one of my favorite dive bars in alphabet city, in my underwear, with coke. lots.
Just so we're clear: 18 yet?
jaguar
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 03:38 AM UTC
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Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
I was under the impression the whole get people drunk and on the bandwagon law went out with prohibition.
Nope. In fact, some states still impose a ban on alcohol on Election days.
It was a bitch trying to weed through search engines trying to find who changed when but here's something more current that gets to the point. I don't think Maryland changed their laws until the '60s or '70s but I'm tired of searching.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/10/index.html "Come Tuesday, some voters still can't choose … to buy a drink
Seven states have some sort of ban on Election Day liquor sales, and that doesn't go down well with the Distilled Spirits Council.
The Election Day sales ban is a ridiculous relic of the Prohibition era when saloons sometimes served as polling stations," says council Vice President David Wojnar in a statement his organization released today. "Repealing the 1930s ban on Election Day alcohol sales would provide adult consumers with much-needed convenience â??- whether they're celebrating election returns or mourning them."
The seven states that the council says need to loosen up:
â?¢ Kentucky, Indiana and South Carolina, which have statewide bans on alcohol sales at restaurants, bars and package stores.
â?¢ Utah and West Virginia, where sales are prohibited at package stores.
â?¢ Alaska and Massachusetts, which ban sales, "except that local governments are authorized to provide an exemption from the ban."
sonickteam2
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 04:18 AM UTC
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Speaking of drinking games, a couple of neighbors are gathering at our house tomorrow night and we've come up with an election drinking game.
the rules are simple: Chug a beer or do a shot, each time Obama wins a state that was won by Bush in 2004. We would have gone with only Obama supporters doing this and McCain supporters drinking when McCain won a Kerry state from 2004, but the fact is, none of us are McCain supporters and aside from Pennsylvania it looks unlikely McCain will actually do that since Kerry only really won like 15 states!
Doctor Doom
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 04:23 AM UTC
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Rhett Miller
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 12:06 PM UTC
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Got Haggis?
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Re: good/fun places to watch election results?
November 04, 2008 at 01:56 PM UTC
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last election,I spent watching the results at the blarney stone in fells point with like 4 other people at the bar…this year probably just at home cuz I have felt like shit for the past two days, ugh.