On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 18:38:28 +0100, "Michael Kuettner"
> wrote:

>
><sf> schrieb
>> Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
>>
>>>Eighteen year olds are also adults for the purposes of being subjected
>>>to capital punishment, or going over to Iraq to get their appendages
>>>blown off, but they aren't allowed to consume beer.
>>
>> California already tried that idea, remember? It wasn't a good one.
>> We can't control Iraq and we couldn't control the Viet Nam conflict,
>> but we *can* control our alcohol laws.
>>
>Of course. Can you spell "Prohibition" ?
>Strict alcohol law that made the Mafia rich.
>But somehow I fail to see "control" in this scenario ...
>
Go back to class. CA had a few years during the Viet Nam Conflict era
when the drinking age was lowered to age 18. We discovered it wasn't
a good idea and the legal drinking age reverted back to 21.

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