enough to drive one to drink...

[Ken Gargett]

    If you were around in 1919 and 
  came upon the following poster...

 

I mean, seriously ..... 
  wouldn't you just keep drinking?!     

[Ford2112]

Those women may look surly but believe me behind closed doors they were total vixens!!

[NSXCIGAR]

Apparently they didn't realize the only reason anyone had been touching their lips was alcohol.

[Islandboy]

3 hours ago, Ford2112 said:

Those women may look surly but believe me behind closed doors they were total vixens!!

I’m having a good look at the photo, doing my best to imagine this....it’s not working.

[NSXCIGAR]

Needless to say, campaigns like that did not work. The only reason prohibition passed in the first place was because all the men were off in WWI when it got rammed through congress.

4 hours ago, Ford2112 said:

Those women may look surly but believe me behind closed doors they were total vixens!!

Believe you? Yikes. No details please. 

[stogieluver]

Hanging, appropriately over the toilet, in my man cave bathroom. 
 

[La_Tigre]

Comes to mind:

Winston Spencer Churchill has been the subject of many a piquant anecdote based on his personality, robust wit and felicity of phrase. The story is being told of his encounter with a politically minded lady who, after failing to shake him in an argument, broke off with the petulant remark, “Oh, if you were my husband, I’d put poison in your tea.”“Madame,” Winston responded, “if I were, I’d drink it with pleasure.”

[Ken Gargett]

7 hours ago, La_Tigre said:

Comes to mind:

Winston Spencer Churchill has been the subject of many a piquant anecdote based on his personality, robust wit and felicity of phrase. The story is being told of his encounter with a politically minded lady who, after failing to shake him in an argument, broke off with the petulant remark, “Oh, if you were my husband, I’d put poison in your tea.”“Madame,” Winston responded, “if I were, I’d drink it with pleasure.”

that was lady astor. mary astor, first woman to take a seat in the british parliament. she and churchill did not get on but she gave a few back. he once asked her what disguise would be suitable for a masquerade ball she was throwing. "try coming sober".

churchill was not a fan of women in parliament and said once that it was like having a woman walk in on him in the bathroom. she got up and said "you are not handsome enough to have that fear". or something like that. 

i think - though this could be any member of the parliament but is sometimes attributed to lady astor - she once asked him "mr churchill, must you fall asleep when i am speaking?" to which he responded, 'no, it is purely voluntary'. 

perhaps her most famous quote was 'i married beneath myself. all women do'. 

apparently she was so anti stalin/communism that she ended up labelled as supporter of the nazis, which did her little good.