From a business perspective having a nice French girl teach the language classes guarantees high attendance and frequent renewals. If Mylène Farmer had taught English at my high school instead of Ms. Svoboda......

It's very dangerous to get legal lessons from popular movies, (although I don't think that Smokey and the Bandit ever actually said it was illegal, it was kind of implied through Bandit's actions as a "blocker" for the semi containing the beer), and a whole lot of people think of that movie as proof that Coors beer used to be illegal east of the Mississippi.

But that's silly. It's not now, nor has it ever been to my knowledge, illegal to transport beer through 'dry' areas. It's illegal to sell beer in those areas. Coors is not pasteurized, and at that time did not have distribution set up except in areas close (some claim a single day's drive) to their brewery in Golden Colorado.

The Bandit was pursued because he picked up Sallie Fields' character, who was a runaway bride, having just left Smokey's not-so-bright son at the altar. Smokey was never chasing the semi containing the Coors.

Trevor

Not exactly. Transporting beer/liquor across Southern states is not a problem. Half the counties you drive through, though, will have a maximum amount you can have in your possession for "personal use." Usually something like 2 cases of beer or two bottle of liquor. Commercial transport of any quantity is legal.

As I recall, the Smokey and the Bandit idea was to move beer from Texarkana to Georgia because it was Coors beer. At the time, Coors was a big fad (and pretty good beer) but it was only available in the central part of the US that included Texas, but not East of there. Coors claim to fame back then was it was brewed cold, and kept cold all the way to the liquor store refrigerator... never allowed to warm. They seemed to have skipped the "keep cold" part in the movie. Artistic license I suppose.

Psht. You'll be telling me that I can't practice medicine, despite having watched ALL the episodes of ER. That's 15 years of med school!