Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 25, 2017

I’ve walked around with an open jar that USED to have mayonnaise in it.

Does having a hole in his head count?

“Open container law”? Anyway, I would hate to be arrested for pig’s interpretation while taking said container to the recycling bin.

Copper in your mayo? Ugh.

Open containers are best for dumpster diving.

Usually, the statement that a town or state has an open container law means that the locality prohibits open alcohol containers in public places or in vehicles. The state of Georgia has such a law. I’m not sure how the Savannah law overrides the state law, but the Savannah historic district allows possession and consumption on the street of one alcoholic beverage in an open plastic container of not more than 16 ounces. I don’t get the apparent discrepancy here. But I’m not the lawyer here. Mr. Pastis is.

Pastis seems to be referring to this. “In the Savannah Historic District of Downtown Savannah, Georgia, city law allows possession and consumption on the street of one alcoholic beverage in an open plastic container of not more than 16 ounces. Because Georgia has no state public open container law, the city law governs. Throughout the rest of Savannah, however, open containers remain prohibited.” Two observations: 1) 16 ounces of Wild Turkey is a lot. 2) I would have thought that Rat would rather go to Mississippi where you can drink and drive.

I thought it only applied if it was Duke’s mayo

I think Pig will be taken down by Sam and Ella.

New Orleans has drive-through daiquiri shops. Like Mississippi, you can drink and drive, as long as it’s not enough to be DUI.

Please remember what our President is teaching us: just because you can do something, doesn’t necessarily make it a good idea>

I was shocked beyond words at the drive-thru liquor store/bar in Louisiana. My cousin ordered a mixed drink that they gave her in a white Styrofoam cup with a straw. Of course, she wasn’t driving but still! She sipped on that while her boyfriend drove us around. Fun times!

When people tell me we live in the freest country in the world, I just laugh and ask them if they’re allowed to enjoy a cold beer in a public park on a sunny day.

Yeah, I know that it’s allowed in some places or at certain times, but most folks would really have to stop and think about exactly where and when… not exactly the signs of a free country.

Another day, another pun…

Why would they want to, Pig?

xxx

Used to be open container all along the gulf coast; you could drive for 1,000 miles with an occasional open alcoholic beverage. I remember stopping at drive-in bars in Texas driving Route 66 and ordering a beer when the waitress came to my window. You were allowed to drink while driving but not to be drunk while doing so. That was back in the 60s – things have probably changed.

Rat you should try Mississippi.

No statute prohibiting. The driver must stay below 0.08 percent blood alcohol content.

I suspect that Pig is safe in any state, at least I’ve never been stopped for having an open mayonnaise jar.

Open container of regular mayo = OK. Open container of Miracle Whip = Instant Death.

Pig is really quite weird.

Rat’s opening statement is a bit ambiguous, since in most places an “open container law” refers to a prohibition on open containers of alcoholic beverages. Such was the case in a smallish college town in which I lived, where the Daily Police Blotter in the local newspaper was filled mostly with citations for public drunkenness, public urination, or open container violations, almost all of them college students. I’m glad that helpful commenters explained the Savannah situation!

But does Savannah recognize Mayonnaise as an instrument?

But is there a place permits both open container and open carry?

I live in Vietnam and Cambodia. Many problems, but at least I can drink a beer where and when I want. Sorry folks, I could never live in the USA.

A bucket of copper ore responds, “I wasn’t going to, Pig!”

I thought it meant they didn’t have a recycling program. I don’t know! I had an attack of temporary stupidity!