{xpost} Massholes our time is coming!!!!

[vinzclortho]

I....I don't know what to say...no words....to describe...should have sent...a poet.

http://business.bostonherald.com/bus...?articleid=840
Sunday liquor sales passed

Massachusetts residents won't have to live near the state line to buy alcohol on Sunday under a plan lawmakers approved last night.

Tucked in a $100 million economic stimulus package - along with tax credits for businesses and a one-day ``sales-tax holiday'' set for Aug. 14 - is a provision allowing year-round, statewide Sunday liquor sales at package and grocery stores.

The move, which upends a long-standing tradition of banning booze sales on the Sabbath, would allow towns to opt out of the idea. Store owners would also have the option.

Package stores along Massachusetts' borders are now allowed to sell booze on Sunday, in an attempt to buffer them from the impact of Sunday liquor sales in other states, such as New Hampshire.

All package stores can sell liquor on Sundays between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

Liquor-industry representatives applauded the year-round move as ``a resounding vote for a more consumer-friendly marketplace in Massachusetts.''

``I could weep right now,'' added Richard Nsanja, manager of Brookline Liquor Mart, in Allston. ``I'm happy. The way the economy has been running, we need something to keep us going. Business has been picking up a bit because of the holidays, but this is what we need at this time.''

The move overshadowed the rest of the $100 million economics package - which includes making the state's investment tax credit permanent and using tobacco settlement funds to invest in emerging technologies, as House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan) wanted.

The package also includes Gov. Mitt Romney's idea for a pilot program that gives tax rebates to biomedical companies building manufacturing plants in Massachusetts.

The one-day ``sales-tax holiday,'' pushed by Senate President Robert Travaglini (D-East Boston), would only apply to items valued at $2,500 or less, thus excluding big-ticket items such as cars and boats.

The Senate originally wanted two sales-tax-exempt days, the second one in December. But the House balked and negotiators settled on only the August date, said state Rep. Peter Larkin (D-Pittsfield).

The economics package also provides tax credits for brownfields and historic-property developments.

But the real buzz of the night was booze and Sundays.

``States are realizing that Sunday sales make sense in a 21st century economy,'' said the Distilled Spirits Council.

Some of the border package stores - they must be within 10 miles of neighboring states - have opposed allowing Sunday sales statewide for fear of losing business.

Still, Susie Moodie, who works at Shawsheen Village Liquors in Andover, which is open Sunday, said the store wouldn't likely lose much business. While the store gets the occasional customer from afar, most business is local.

``I don't think people are traveling 40 miles to come here,'' she said.

One local store manager wasn't thrilled with the decision.

``Great,'' she said. ``I'm a manager so I'd be required to work, so I'm not sure how I feel about that.''

[mildbill.]

[gospel choir]ohh happy daaaaay! ohh happy daaaaay![/gc]

now just get that 11pm rule, and make my town NOT A FUCKING DRY TOWN.

yarg.

anyone going to tgr tongiht? the base and will be in attendance with game faces on.

[vinzclortho]

I'm about 75% on going, my friend Stan works the front door so hopefully I can get in for free...sshhhhhhh don't tell Owens.

[basom]

All package stores can sell liquor on Sundays between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

this has always been true as long as i can remember..... are they saying it is just going to be sold between these dates??? cause if thats so its nothing new.

but yes. TGR supershow tonight at the avalon on landsdown. bill and i will try and beat our preformance at focused....... bill its raining again, time to pull out the bio 9 (wait there are no hedges on landsdown, over the escalade with 24's then....... leave no dents)

[mildbill.]

i have the company 'tell everyone what their bonuses are' party at jillians starting at 5, done 730-8ish [FREE BOOZE]. what time you heading to landsdowne? or should i head back out to the hill? i shoudl get in touch with brad, eh?

vinz i'll be wearing an underground snowboards baseball hat and a sweatshirt that has a "D" on the front.

d what? DEEZ NUUUUTS!

basom if it is raining hard enough i will show you the ill move my buddy josh pulled one time when we were walking home from teh bar--he ran towards an isuzu trooper, jumped, landed both FEET on teh hood and slid across it on his feet, dropped off the other side. gotta be wet as hell though...

[basom]

bill i dont know, gotta see what happens. maybe bringing the new lady friend (yes i'm trying to scare her, so dont worry about being a asshole drunk )

and vinz, i'll be wearing some clothes too, just so you can find me amongst the 500 people who will be there.

[mildbill.]

well doors be at 8. i'll be good and drinkolated, maybe you and the lady meet me there???

shit my shop is sponsoring this thing, hmm i bet i could get in gratis...

[rightcoast]

what time at the Avalon??
if im not stuck at work until 8, ill be there!

[vinzclortho]

basom - yeah that's always been on the books, but they are talking about every sunday year round. for a town known for it's love of drinking it's definitely feeble that it's taken this long...but we are free at last! well....soon we will be ....I guess.
oh and if yer wearing clothes I'm sure I'll be able to pick you out pretty easy.



doors open 8:00.

[PhishingME]

I should be over there. Is there any "pregame" festivities?

[bad_roo]

Originally posted by mildbill.
make my town NOT A FUCKING DRY TOWN.

Even the mayor has taken pity on your liver.

[mildbill.]

this post is of no value. i apologize.

[rightcoast]

hmmm, i should be able to get out that way by 8-8:30...
have to take it kind of easy on the booze tonight though, super long/early day tomorrow.
any meeting places in mind?

[shamrockpow]

First sunday back in Boston: 20 December

If not skiing I will be boozing, who's wit me?

[basom]

sham, thats a little far in advance to plan.

but i have been drinking in mass on sundays for years kid. see there are these places called "bars" where you can drink even on sundays. just to fill your chilean self in with all the new info you might not be privy to down there

[DaveTV]

This weather keeps up, and I'm really gonna NEED the packies to be open Sundays. Get $hitfaced,watch the Patriots and read about all the POW the Western MAGS are gettin.. Grrrr

[PhishingME]

Sweet flick! Didn't see any of you other guys though. How were the bands? I left after the footy.

[mildbill.]

ow. free grateful deads at company party make billy blacked out. went to the movie, got 2? wristbands? arg. took many bowls to get me to work today...gl;adfjks v

[basom]

so i'm in the show. bill keeps calling me.

bill "what door did you go in??"
base "the front door, where are you?"
bill "how did you go in that door?"
base "wtf are you talking about?"

then he calledme like 8 times and spewed jibberish. message read on my machine later - "ben i'm in a cab, i have no idea to get to where you are, the movie was gone, i got too drunk. did i tell you about the time when....... (goes off on tangent, stopping to scream at the cabbie)......." end msg.

fucking hilarious

the turntablism was hot, i think two thrids of the croud was just there to see q-bert and the scratch tour. those boys are on it for sure.

[mildbill.]

did i see you?

arg. no promotion for billy after getting in the head of IS's face calling him a pussy because he wouldn't race beers with me. shit. you best believe i woud have beat him in the race thoguh...

edit: verb make sentence go.

[Plakespear]

[lowblow] Drink all you want on the Sabbath, it still won't change the fact that the Red Sox are never going to win the World Series in any of your lifetimes!!! [/lowblow]