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notcasesensitive · 11-21-2005, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
What? That's CRAZY. Where?

(OK, not crazy, but I thought prohibitions on open containers were pretty widespread.)

ETA

Ha ha, I got this from a site called "legalmatch.com" -- legal, match, get it?

Texas just passed its Open Container Law while we lived there. I find it hard to believe that you and NFH are so astounded by this. People routinely carried a warm-up drink with them when we went out in Big D (both before and after passage of said law). I've never particularly cared about doing so, but it is a pervasive practice.

When I was growing up, I'm pretty sure it was legal for the driver to have an open container in Indiana, as long as s/he wasn't over the legal limit.

Gattigap · 11-21-2005, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It's not "Stubbs," it's "Tubbs." Either way, it won't be the same. Tubbs was an eighties-smooth and cool sidekick. Jamie Foxx will try to update him making him cool and funny. If they're trying to update the franchise, that might work. But you have to remove the camp value a Phillip Michael Thomas impression would bring. Without that and the ridiculousness of Don Johnson's Crockett, all you have is another buddy cop flick.

TM

And you might not even get that. Shop talk suggest that Miami Vice isn't even out of production yet, and it's already circling the drain.

* The movie was supposed to shoot for three months, but is now six months over schedule — with no end in sight.

* According to a well-informed source, "Miami Vice" was "greenlit at $120 million, but the budget has been blown and it is now costing upwards of $180 million. And they aren't even done yet. It will likely be a $200 million tab by the end of shooting."

* Adding to the budget problems, filming has to be moved from Miami to Peru because of Hurricane Wilma damage.

* The script is "not good," according to several people who have read it. "This will bomb," said one.

* Stars Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell have become slightly bloated, with Farrell sporting "beer boobs" due to their constant partying in Miami. Farrell, in particular, has been carousing at almost every hotel bar and club in town, at times drinking VOX vodka straight from the bottle.

bnb, it's time to make a little drive and knock some sense into this boy. Man-boobs are one thing, but drinking from the bottle? It's this kind of behavior that leads you from S.W.A.T. all the way down to Kicking and Screaming 2.

ThurgreedMarshall · 11-21-2005, 07:07 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Yes, people have been drinking all day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Musberger was working and then presumably going out with the buds. Drinking in a car? For what? To catch up?

"Woo dude you're going to have to pound the Buds to catch up with us man. You can't get in to [insert name here] sports bar unless you've caught a buzz man."

I get a perverse satisfaction in hating you. You're not like purse junkie. It's like you've never thought out anything you've ever said. You think you have. And you think you're being clever (and maybe you think you're funny). It's like watching William Shatner act before he realized he was a joke.

TM

bilmore · 11-21-2005, 07:08 PM

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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
deleted because I'm stoopid.

You need to drop your standards, else the rest of us can no longer post.

Replaced_Texan · 11-21-2005, 07:10 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Yes, people have been drinking all day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Musberger was working and then presumably going out with the buds. Drinking in a car? For what? To catch up?

When I was a kid, my parents used to fix "to go" cups of gin and tonics for any trip of 100 miles or more. I was under the impression that it was a fairly common practice in the 70s and 80s.

ltl/fb · 11-21-2005, 07:13 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Texas just passed its Open Container Law while we lived there. I find it hard to believe that you and NFH are so astounded by this. People routinely carried a warm-up drink with them when we went out in Big D (both before and after passage of said law). I've never particularly cared about doing so, but it is a pervasive practice.

When I was growing up, I'm pretty sure it was legal for the driver to have an open container in Indiana, as long as s/he wasn't over the legal limit.

I'm sure it was legal when I was growing up, everywhere. It's the now I'm surprised about. I am naive.

http://www.panexa.com/ -- funny. ETA and safe for work, unless you work for, like, Pfeizer or GSK or something.

bilmore · 11-21-2005, 07:15 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
When I was a kid, my parents used to fix "to go" cups of gin and tonics for any trip of 100 miles or more. I was under the impression that it was a fairly common practice in the 70s and 80s.

I remember driving with four buds across TX, high as kites, long-haired, loaded for party, and sort of in mortal terror of the infamous anti-liberal Texan po-lice.

I had a beer up to my lips as we rounded a slow curve. There sits a Ranger (?) staring right at me from his front seat, about fifteen feet away.

Hearts stop. Hands tremble. I'm sure one of us, at least, peed in our pants a little bit. Midnight Express, here we come.

Ranger raises his own beer, salutes us with it, and pulls out, going the other way.

Flinty_McFlint · 11-21-2005, 07:15 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
When I was a kid, my parents used to fix "to go" cups of gin and tonics for any trip of 100 miles or more. I was under the impression that it was a fairly common practice in the 70s and 80s.

Did they at least put it in a sippy cup for you and the siblings?

NotFromHere · 11-21-2005, 07:16 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I get a perverse satisfaction in hating you. You're not like purse junkie. It's like you've never thought out anything you've ever said. You think you have. And you think you're being clever (and maybe you think you're funny). It's like watching William Shatner act before he realized he was a joke.

TM

Tell you what, I'll stop giving you the opportunity.

Alex_de_Large · 11-21-2005, 07:18 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I'm sure it was legal when I was growing up, everywhere. It's the now I'm surprised about. I am naive.

http://www.panexa.com/ -- funny. ETA and safe for work, unless you work for, like, Pfeizer or GSK or something.

I think I suffer from Excessively Floppy Tail Syndrome.

Alex_de_Large · 11-21-2005, 07:21 PM

Try blood wrestling.

Spree: nudity, but no genitals.

Nut Case, Sensitive · 11-21-2005, 07:22 PM

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Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
I think I suffer from Excessively Floppy Tail Syndrome.

I called the hotline and they have confirmed that my tail is nice and firm.

No Nuts this time.

Well, maybe.

greatwhitenorthchick · 11-21-2005, 07:24 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
When I was a kid, my parents used to fix "to go" cups of gin and tonics for any trip of 100 miles or more. I was under the impression that it was a fairly common practice in the 70s and 80s.

I'm sure I have told this story, but when I hitchhiked from northern to southern Ontario, one of the cars I rode in was driven by "Dave" who told me that he couldn't drive unless he had a beer between his legs.

He drove us for about 2 hours. I had to sit in the front while my hitching buddy and ostensible male protector dozed in the back seat. I found out *all* about Dave. And it was true - he constantly had an open beer can propped between his legs. He went through about 4 of them.

ThurgreedMarshall · 11-21-2005, 07:25 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
When I was a kid, my parents used to fix "to go" cups of gin and tonics for any trip of 100 miles or more. I was under the impression that it was a fairly common practice in the 70s and 80s.

This may explain why you think you're such a good driver.

TM

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 11-21-2005, 07:28 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I'm sure I have told this story, but when I hitchhiked from northern to southern Ontario, one of the cars I rode in was driven by "Dave" who told me that he couldn't drive unless he had a beer between his legs.

He drove us for about 2 hours. I had to sit in the front while my hitching buddy and ostensible male protector dozed in the back seat. I found out *all* about Dave. And it was true - he constantly had an open beer can propped between his legs. He went through about 4 of them.

My dad (repeatedly) tells the story about a fishing buddy of his who, with a pal, drives down to Daytona (straight through) for the 500 (I can't even imagine the redneckedness of this event) every year. They pack two 30-packs of beer and usually finish almost all of it by the time they get to the race.

I think my dad is full of shit.