[RJpuffs]

Us pipe'rs are too mellow, we put up with this crap and they come up with more crap for us to put up with, and so on and so forth.

The next time there is a Wine expo/tasting - point out to the law'ers that drinking in public is illegal (at least in most towns), the convention hall/hotel is a public place (as they decreed when the pipers were booted out to smoke), therefore drinking wine there would be a violation of the sacred law of not drinking in public places. Send 'em outside into a tent to spit out their wine (what a waste, anyways!).

Likewise, spitting in public places is also probably illegal, so another way to make a legal scene.

Point is - unless we stand up and point out the stupidity of a handful of zealots, we are going back in a historic circle to the time of prohibition. And burning of witches, et al.

And to rub it in a lil more - we're the idiots that elected the idiots that passed these idiot laws. Doh! In NY we can't smoke in bars - that is the most absurd thing, I haven't been to a bar since the ban. Saved a fortune buying beer by the case however.

In Atlantic City, NJ - the casinos are being forced to go smokeless. No smoking at the blackjack table??? What would Bond (thats Bond, James Bond) think!