Alabama liquor agency says no to nude nymph

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[JoeProBono]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A wine label showing a nude nymph is too racy for Alabama's liquor control agency, which has told restaurants and stores not to sell the product.

[JoeProBono]

[doodad]

That is exactly the label I was guessing. Not great wine but I do like the artwork.

[edpc]

I’m sure the drinking age is at least as high, if not higher, than the “racy” magazine purchase age in Alabama. Seems silly.

[Lurker]

The Alabama Liquour Commission just guaranteed that there will be a case of this stuff in every Alabaman wine lovers home.

Idiots.

[Monterrosa-24]

Commercial faggot images everywhere and our AL bureaucrats say no to a stylized female nude. Jeepers

[GunRunner]

Wow, a state alcohol agency that is more fascist than TABC (Texas). I didn't think there was such a thing.

What if I wanted to put the Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" on my label? I wonder if they'd ban that too.

[the invisib1e hand]

I’ve been saying no to nymphs for years now...

[Responsibility2nd]

Joe Bob from the Alabamas liquor control agency:

"Hail, if ya buys that wine, then ya probly end up gettin' drunk and fallin' off a by-sickle like that girl on the label!"

[a fool in paradise]

Liquor laws are like this.

Same as tobacco is controlled in how it can be marketed.

I hear that you can’t even put COLD BEER on both sides of street sign (in Texas).

It’s BS. The ATF is a tax regulatory agency. The power to tax is the power to destroy.

And some misguided souls say “legalize pot and end the drug war”, “tax the hell out of it”. It’d just move the DEA under the ATF to make sure that home growers, etc were caught up on their tax stamps and not using provocative advertising or making statements to actually encourage its use.

[doodad]

What if I wanted to put the Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" on my label?

I think there is a wine like that. I am sure it would be banned.

[Domandred]

That’s racy? Just go to walmart and check out the register news stands and get way more racy than that.

[4yearlurker]

When I was a kid in the early 60s I remember seeing a billboard of a topless nymph looking into a pool of water. I can't remember the advertisers name. It was for Schweppes or Canada Dry soda.

[DuncanWaring]

I think it was Schweppes. Seems to have gone the way of “Burma Shave”.

[mysterio]

That's as dumb as Ashcroft putting Lady Liberty in a towel.

Folks, every human child out there has already seen a boob. And they came out of it better than before.

[Snickering Hound]

[SGCOS]

Stupid ad.....

long hair would get caught in the derailleurs...

plus that tire must really burn...

plus it's uphill......obvisously a sprinter...can't do shit if it's not downhill...

[3niner]

She’s not nude, she’s just wearing a skin colored leotard (like figure skaters use).

[3niner]

What if I wanted to put the Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" on my label? I wonder if they'd ban that too.

Need you ask?

[ExiledChicagoan]

“ATF is a tax regulatory agency.”

The TTB runs booze for the feds. Has done so since 2004, I believe. The state often supersedes the fed when it comes to labeling laws, that's why some states can show the alcohol by volume on labels and others can't

[Slings and Arrows]

He didn’t. It was a neutral background for press conferences. Lady Liberty just happened to be behind it.