From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 93 12:07:14 PDT
To: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Subject: Re: a quote
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Richard Kennaway writes of P.J. O'Rourke:

> He is American, I presume?  Sorry to draw this tangent even further out,
> but I can't resist pointing out that in the UK it is perfectly legal to
> give whiskey and keys (car keys, I assume) to a 17 year old, and the
> heavens have not fallen.

The issue for O'Rourke is not the legality of doing so; it's the wisdom of
doing so. I can't resist pointing out that it's no wiser to give drunken
teenagers the car keys in the UK than it is in the USA.


--Mike