Alabama bans Cycles Gladiator wine

**lunacycles** · 07-31-2009, 03:37 PM

I have a framed version of that image in my shop, and an empty bottle (label intact) that holds my pieces of welding and brazing rod. It is one of my favorites (obviously). She is beautiful.

**PamNY** · 07-31-2009, 05:53 PM

Oh, that's funny. And nostalgic, since I grew up in the South. Of course human foolishness knows no geography, but this does seem very, very Southern.

**lo123** · 08-01-2009, 01:05 PM

Maybe I should get the jersey and ride here in good old Alabama... Though I might get a ticket for indecent exposure or some such nonsense.

**crazycanuck** · 08-01-2009, 04:00 PM

I don't know about a ticket...I think some folks might just drop dead in fright

**shewhobikes** · 08-02-2009, 05:10 AM

Originally Posted by lo123

Maybe I should get the jersey and ride here in good old Alabama... Though I might get a ticket for indecent exposure or some such nonsense.

We should do it. How perfectly stupid this is...

**lo123** · 08-02-2009, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by shewhobikes

We should do it. How perfectly stupid this is...

That should a women's team jersey in the 'ham.

As I tell my husband.. Every day in this state, I think I get more liberal because of the idiots in charge.

**Mr. Bloom** · 08-02-2009, 06:50 PM

OK, do I have Alabama stories!

In high school, I worked at the Jolly Ox restaurant (Brookwood Village location). It was actually "Steak and Ale", but Alabama had a law prohibiting the name of a libation in the name of a restaurant.

In college, I was the one sober driver in a car passing north through Cullman County Alabama. Unfortunately, I was in the back seat (I know...youthful invincibility...). The two front seat passengers were arrested - not for drunk driving - for "transporting alcohol through a dry county". Hmmmm

Cost ME $1,200 to bail them out of jail...that was back in college when I had some money...

As we moved from Atlanta to Birmingham in 1970...we crossed the state line to a billboard saying that "300,000 Southern Baptists Welcome You to Alabama".

Alabama is the buckle of the bible belt...it will always have conservative laws on drinking.

**lo123** · 08-03-2009, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Silver

As we moved from Atlanta to Birmingham in 1970...we crossed the state line to a billboard saying that "300,000 Southern Baptists Welcome You to Alabama".

Alabama is the buckle of the bible belt...it will always have conservative laws on drinking.

Well, that is starting to change.. Free the Hops just got a bill passed that raised the limit of alcohol content in beer. It's a step in the right direction at least.

The 300,000 southern Baptists sign is before my time, but I think this is in the same vein. It's on I-65N just north of Montgomery (just past the Prattville exit).

<rant>Because, you know, as long as you go to church you're fine.. doesn't matter about what kind of person you are, so long as Sunday morning your butt is in a pew</rant>

**skinimini** · 08-04-2009, 08:02 AM

[QUOTE=Mr. Silver;451659]OK, do I have Alabama stories!

In high school, I worked at the Jolly Ox restaurant (Brookwood Village location). It was actually "Steak and Ale", but Alabama had a law prohibiting the name of a libation in the name of a restaurant.

I remember the Jolly Ox restaurant--I had my first adult beverage there (actually several). When were you there?

I was raised in Birmingham until I left for college. I graduated from Berry High School in 1975. No family there at all now. I have quite a few stories as well (and fond memories). I'm so proud of being a southerner now, but in the '70s I wanted nothing more than to rid myself of the southern accent. I always say that at my college, I was diversity. I was the girl from Alabama.

I wish I had one of those Jerseys and I would do as Pedal did--make my way to the Alabama border on the Silver Comet! What fun!

**Pedal Wench** · 08-03-2009, 06:21 AM

Originally Posted by lo123

Maybe I should get the jersey and ride here in good old Alabama... Though I might get a ticket for indecent exposure or some such nonsense.

I have the old REI version of the Cycles Gladiator jersey - sleeveless.

So, I put it on and we headed out on the Silver Comet trail here in Georgia, aiming for the Alabama state line for a neat century and photo op. Five miles from the boundary, the skies opened, lightening all around and wind gusts straight out of the west forced us to turn back towards Atlanta.

Guess that's a pretty powerful ban.

**SadieKate** · 08-03-2009, 06:38 AM

Wow, I could say so many things non-PC things . . . .

**Cataboo** · 08-03-2009, 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by Pedal Wench

I have the old REI version of the Cycles Gladiator jersey - sleeveless.

So, I put it on and we headed out on the Silver Comet trail here in Georgia, aiming for the Alabama state line for a neat century and photo op. Five miles from the boundary, the skies opened, lightening all around and wind gusts straight out of the west forced us to turn back towards Atlanta.

Guess that's a pretty powerful ban.

lol.

**denny** · 08-03-2009, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by Pedal Wench

I have the old REI version of the Cycles Gladiator jersey - sleeveless.

So, I put it on and we headed out on the Silver Comet trail here in Georgia, aiming for the Alabama state line for a neat century and photo op. Five miles from the boundary, the skies opened, lightening all around and wind gusts straight out of the west forced us to turn back towards Atlanta.

Guess that's a pretty powerful ban.

Pedal!! I'm shocked you rebel!

**Pedal Wench** · 08-04-2009, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by denny

Pedal!! I'm shocked you rebel!

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