origin of "Blue Laws"
Yusuf B Gursey
the set of regulations prohibiting the sale of items on sunday.
Harlan Messinger
>what is the origin of the expression "blue laws"? in the USA it refers to
>the set of regulations prohibiting the sale of items on sunday.
>
According to the Columbia Encyclopedia, "The term was originally
applied to the 17th-century laws of the theocratic New Haven colony;
they were called "blue laws" after the blue paper on which they were
printed."
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Harlan Messinger
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N.Mitchum
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> what is the origin of the expression "blue laws"? in the USA it refers to
> the set of regulations prohibiting the sale of items on sunday.
Said to be so named because the original laws were printed on blue
paper. But "blue laws" are not limited to sales on Sunday: they
cover several types of events on Sundays and, specifically, refer
to the puritanical laws of New England.
----NM
D. Edward Gund v. Brighoff
I would've said "originally" or "historically" instead of "specifically".
Growing up in the Missouri, where liquor sales were prohibited on Sundays,
I had no idea that the term "blue laws" had aught to do with New England.
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Yusuf B Gursey
: In article <3C5DC4...@lafn.org>, N.Mitchum <aj...@lafn.org> wrote:
:>Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
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:>> what is the origin of the expression "blue laws"? in the USA it refers to
:>> the set of regulations prohibiting the sale of items on sunday.
:>>....
:>
:>Said to be so named because the original laws were printed on blue
:>paper. But "blue laws" are not limited to sales on Sunday: they
:>cover several types of events on Sundays and, specifically, refer
:>to the puritanical laws of New England.
: I would've said "originally" or "historically" instead of "specifically".
: Growing up in the Missouri, where liquor sales were prohibited on Sundays,
market selling of liquor on sunday is prohibited in connecticut as well
(you can drink in bars).
: I had no idea that the term "blue laws" had aught to do with New England.
N.Mitchum
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> > and, specifically, refer to the puritanical laws of New England.
>
> I would've said "originally" or "historically" instead of "specifically".
No, I wrote what I meant. "Blue laws" referred specifically to
those puritanical laws; in a more general sense, the term refers
to any similar laws at any time.
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> Growing up in the Missouri, where liquor sales were prohibited on Sundays,
> I had no idea that the term "blue laws" had aught to do with New England.
>....
Well, the Missouri laws were blue laws in the general sense. The
New England laws were blue laws in the original, specific sense.
----NM
perchprism
"N.Mitchum" <aj...@lafn.org> wrote in message news:3C5EF1...@lafn.org...
You know what? I just found out that Kentucky blue grass is an Old World
plant.
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D. Edward Gund v. Brighoff
>D. Edward Gund v. Brighoff wrote:
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>> > and, specifically, refer to the puritanical laws of New England.
>>
>> I would've said "originally" or "historically" instead of "specifically".
>>....
>
>No, I wrote what I meant. "Blue laws" referred specifically to
>those puritanical laws; in a more general sense, the term refers
>to any similar laws at any time.
If you wrote what you meant, why did you change it just now?
(Had you originally had "referred" instead of "refer", I wouldn't have
replied.)
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>> Growing up in the Missouri, where liquor sales were prohibited on Sundays,
>> I had no idea that the term "blue laws" had aught to do with New England.
>>....
>
>Well, the Missouri laws were blue laws in the general sense. The
>New England laws were blue laws in the original, specific sense.
Are. AFAIK, the blue laws where I used to live haven't been repealed.
Ulysses Zweibel
originally had..."
Jackass.
"D. Edward Gund v. Brighoff" <de...@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote in message
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James Follett
Ulysses Zweibel <gros...@hotmail.com> writes
>And I would have written "Had you originally written..." instead of "Had you
>originally had..."
>
>Jackass.
Ah... An Outlook Express user to play with.
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