State police check for underage drinking

[dan]

Invest in "Soylent Green". The breakfast food that keeps on recycling.

[corner]

but soylent green is people!

[dgriffin]

Rick, I've often wondered the same. Picture yourself standing in line at the Motor Vehicle office and all the clerks are stoned. Well, I suppose that could be true now, but probably not.
In the era of a few hundred years ago when ideas leading toward democracy were born, the answer was that general society just left the drunkards and opium addicts and their families to die by the side of the road. Took over their farms as they became available. Survival of the fittest. Could be drugs, etc., will be the new Black Plague.

[Clipper]

I have to think Al Gore would be behind such an effort in reality. Just think of the green houses gases that would prevented from entering the atmosphere, if we were recycled instead of letting us decay and compost. Kinda takes away some of the dignity we have attached to death of a fellow human being. Heck, why not go "all the way" in that direction, and instead of a funeral and a burial, that costs thousands, we can call a rendering truck, and be paid for a body instead. Then we can all come back as a bottle of Elmer's Glue, or in a bag of organic fertilizer. Your kids could take grandma to school in their bookbag.

Just think, no more cemetery plots to buy, no more need for funeral planning, and we can all follow the rendering truck in a procession, instead of following a hearse. Say a prayer and toss grandma in with the bones and scraps from Price Chopper's meat department.

Trade grandma in, for a couple bags of dog food, a few candles, a bottle of Elmer's, and some fertilizer. What a deal!!! Funeral directors can cross-train, and become members of the meat cutter's union. Processing plants can separate bones from flesh, and fat.

Just think, the funeral homes will have to be rezoned to be "light industrial", and will have to trade in the embalming equipment for a couple of band saws and a grinder.

I can see it now! Heinz's on Herkimer Road, with a sign at the curb with an arrow pointing to "shipping and receiving."

All I can say, is that I am glad I am as old as I am. I may escape some of the ultimate degradation as a society slides down the slope to destruction.

[clarencebunsen]

I know this should go in the book category, but anyway:
Go re-read "Stranger in a Strange Land"

[dgriffin]

"Ewww, Soylent Green!" has been a family joke since my kids saw the movie on its tenth anniversary (1983) and the next time they were served something for supper that they didn't like.

[denise]

Things have changed so much. When I was in high school (early 1980s) we used to go to the Frankfort gorge to do our drinking. Drinking age was 18 back then. The state police used to come through periodically and we'd get told, "Hey you kids, get out of here." There was no checking of IDs, no tickets written, no alcohol confiscated.

Now just about every other young person I am sent to talk to has at least one incident where they were ticketed for Minor in Possession of Alcohol. If anything else, it is a real moneymaker!

[wilum47]

it is a real moneymaker

BINGOOOOOOOOO!!!

[frankcor]

Aug 3, 2008 17:38:27 GMT -5 @rickolney said:

If everything that hurts a person is made legal for the sake of liberal 'freedom' ... then what shall we ever do after everyone is addicted and self destructive?

We let them ride motorcycles without helmets?

Vote Freedom! Vote Libertarian!

[Clipper]

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