Re: [DL] Gencon Shindig! under 21 (tongue very firmly in cheek.)

["Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net>]

*snip*
>> In the UK and NZ, the drinking age is 18, and do you know what - the =
>> countries haven't yet gone to hell in a handbasket. poor America, still =
>> run by Puritans 300 years on :)
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>So, ah, when's the last time you won a war against Germany?
*snip*

When was the last time the U.S. won a war against Germany *without* the help
UK and ancillary countries? ;-) For that matter when was the last time the
U.S. won a real war (i.e. the likes of Grenada and Panama don't count)
without the help of U.K. and ancillary countries?  Hmm, that would be about
the Spanish-American war, 1898.  The same for the U.K., the Falklands, 1982.
;-)
    Actually, the *real* reason the drinking age in the U.S. is 21 is the
result of the combined lobbying efforts of Canadian and Mexican border bars
who depend on 18-20 year old American drinkers.  ;-)
          Daniel
"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all."
     Hamlet, Act III, scene i.