hcarteau_at_PXoOTSN49MpevkjN4E1agT-6LkEppQ_YpRnN_1UWcT9juxaRpmLD72zq8G3atj_jCugQV2QYRLViAYc.yahoo.invalid wrote:
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> /// 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.
>
Have you met our government? ^__^
> Was it
> something religious ?
>
>
It had a very strong religious streak to it, yes. Temperance (one of the
cardinal virtues)
I think the Temperance movement as focused on alcohol and prohibitionism
was mostly a Commonwealth/Anglo-Saxon kind of thing.
LC