40 Days To Freedom!

In a previous article, "Defusing the Powder Keg" (or, "It's The Final Countdown!"), we had discussed, among other things, a fairly novel way to lower the legal drinking age from 21 to 18 gradually but fairly quickly, with minimal lead time and minimal chaos as well.  That is, phasing down the drinking age, generally of course but especially for on-premise service at bars, clubs, and restaurants, by one month each day.  That is, 20 years 11 months, 20 years 10 months....until it is 18 years and 0 months.  And that phasedown will take all of....36 days to complete.  (Hat tip to a guy on Facebook many years ago who came up with that idea, which we also call "The Final Countdown", like the famous song by Europe.)  Alternatively, we could drop it by a month every other day, and it would then take 72 days total.  This general idea is primarily to defuse the fear of overall chaos in general, especially at bars and surrounding areas, as well as on the roads.

We were recently thinking about a better branding for that genius idea, and we came up with "40 Days to Freedom", named after "40 Ounces to Freedom", the debut studio album of the ska-rock band Sublime, which also later became a humorous alternate name for the famous drinking game "Edward Fortyhands"* as well (though that is actually often 80 ounces in practice).  And if the every other day method is used, we could call it "80 Days to Freedom", or perhaps even "Around the World in 80 Days" (apologies to Jules Verne).  In both cases, simply add a mere few days of lead time to round it off to the aforementioned total numbers of days.

(*DISCLAIMER:  Do NOT try this, or ANY other drinking games at home!  You have been warned.  Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.)