> > (To the non-Americans: During Prohibition -- when we constitutionally
> > illegalized liquor -- the Bureau of Revenue within the Treasury
> > Department was in charge of enforcing the liquor laws. Hillbillies
> > thus called them revenuers.)
> >
> > I'm sure that there are lunar revenuers. Maybe that's what Ghost Gors
> > was really about. There could be a lunar hero band called the
> > Untouchables, with their leader, Eliotus Nessus.
/// Thank you for this excellent joke, I burst into laughing so loud my wife came to see what it was about !
This whole "prohibition" stuff is extremely strange to a French. You'd think the american government would avoid mingling into peoples' private lives. Was it something religious ?
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