Ala. ban of wine with nude label is marketing boon

Southeast Missourian ^ | July 31, 2009 | Phillip Rawls

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

“My Cousin” wine, however, will continue to be sold in Alabama stores.

[Dallas59]

I've seen 1000x worse at the local Museum...

[TornadoAlley3]

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[napscoordinator]

I think Alabama might be the most puritan state in the U.S.

[Drango]

GASP! The horror!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I’m in ‘Bama. I don’t see anything wrong with that particular depiction of the ‘human form’, myself. Actually, I’ve seen a lot WORSE that has been considered ‘art’.

[AUJenn]

I was born and raised in Alabama...this is pretty typical of how the state’s priorities are so out of whack.

I’ve seen this wine bottle at the store and never really even noticed the nymph is naked. Who cares.

In the meantime, Birmingham has turned into a thug-filled crime den too dangerous to visit during most hours. A good chunk of the politicians are under federal indictment and/or are in jail. Jefferson County is broke. The economy is in the tank.

But, hey, let’s focus our efforts on a random $12 bottle of wine.

[Yardstick]

I recently moved to Huntsville and have no complaints. I’ve been all over this country and Alabama is about like everywhere else. If anything I worry about losing regional variation. I actually find this thing with banning bottles with the nude figure kind of quaint and charming.

[AUJenn]

I love Huntsville! We actually just moved from there a couple years ago (against my wishes - had to leave for husband’s job). It’s my second-favorite place I’ve ever lived. It is nothing like Birmingham, Montgomery or Mobile. Much more tame! Do you work for the arsenal?

[mono]

Alabama........

Well, we now know where their priorities lie.

[Yardstick]

I sure do work for the arsenal. You mention that Huntsville was your second favorite place to live — what was your first?

[elcid1970]

I was in flight school at Fort Rucker AL in 1971. The post was surrounded by dry counties; local cops liked to nail Army personnel living off post for bringing home adult beverages they had bought at the Class Six store. They literally lurked outside the main gate.

That summer the Alabama legislature passed a law stating that general fund monies resulting from liquor taxes collected in wet counties, would henceforth be for the benefit of wet counties only.

Any update on this?

Anyway, that has to be among the most innocent depictions of the naked female form. Only “September Morn” could be as harmless. So what’s so wrong with the beauty of the female body?

[Graybeard58]

I've been through Birmingham about 5 different times in as many different years and every time they have some serious highway construction going on. Is that a perpetual thing there?

[Nosterrex]

I live in Alabama, and I love the state; however, it never ceases to amaze me at some of the most ridiculous things that the state's representatives do. The problem is that 50% of the state is composed of Baptist fundamentalists and Pentecostals. This ban is nothing but hypocrisy, purely for show. From my observation, and by the number of illegitimate children we have in this state and the brisk business at the liquor stores, this whole issue demonstrates how hypocritical people can be. I doubt that more than a handful of people are actually offended by this naked nymph. If fact, I have to wonder, if Baptists don't drink, how would they know?

[PowderMonkey]

A 2006 Syrah? Gawd! That alone should be sufficient to ban its presence in the country...but I'll take the girl.

"...I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back
As she disappeared, but soon she returned
In her hand was a bottle of wine, in the other, a glass
She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass
And raised it to her lips
And just before she drank it, she said:
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl..."
- Eric Burdon and War, "Spill the Wine"

[Nosterrex]

I totally agree with you. It’s no different than the US congress devoting its time to discussing the BCS or the steroids issues. When you can’t deal with the important or controversial issues, create an issue. Does anyone actually believe that any of these politicians are offended by the naked nymph? This is nothing but a bunch of horse manure.

[SonnyBubba]

All this started with 79 year old chairman of the ABC board, Emory Folmar, who as mayor of Montgomery once raided an adult clothing store wearing full police garb, and arresting the old lady running the store. He also defended the cities ban on sex toys on a talk radio show, telling a woman caller to sit on a clothers dryer if she wanted a vibrator. His polical views are to the right of Adolf Hitler, and managed to escape scandal dispite a long term affair with another woman.

[SonnyBubba]

All this started with 79 year old chairman of the ABC board, Emory Folmar, who as mayor of Montgomery once raided an adult clothing store wearing full police garb, and arresting the old lady running the store. He also defended the cities ban on sex toys on a talk radio show, telling a woman caller to sit on a clothers dryer if she wanted a vibrator. His polical views are to the right of Adolf Hitler, and managed to escape scandal dispite a long term affair with another woman.

[SonnyBubba]

All this started with 79 year old chairman of the ABC board, Emory Folmar, who as mayor of Montgomery once raided an adult clothing store wearing full police garb, and arresting the old lady running the store. He also defended the cities ban on sex toys on a talk radio show, telling a woman caller to sit on a clothers dryer if she wanted a vibrator. His polical views are to the right of Adolf Hitler, and managed to escape scandal dispite a long term affair with another woman.