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Default binge drinking and prohibition

st.helier wrote:
> "Ed Rasimus" wrote .....
>
>>Can I send you the draft language of our Prohibition Act? It worked
>>very well in the US and made several old line Italian families in New
>>York and Chicago quite successful.
>>Ed Rasimus

>
> Hey Eddie
>
> Don'a make fun of my uncle Al!
> We know where you live!
>
> Lefty!
>

My dad lived in Chicago during the prohibition days. One night when he was
having a beverage in a speak easy, two men armed with Thompson sub machine
guns came in the door, soon followed by Al Capone, who announced that the drinks
were on him. My dad thought Al seemed like a nice fellow,
Dick R.