Are you guys insane? What right winged religious nut in your organization came up with this one? If you follow the thought to its logical conclusion you shouldn't even sell liquor as it leads to a shorter life.So maybe you should ban yourselves.
Did anyone do any research or did the government just cave, as it usually does, to some lone whiner.
"There is a definite seriousness to the human skull bound by mortality -- death’s head has long been the mark we associate with secret societies, toxic substances and black-flagged pirate ships serving most commonly as a warning to those who fear putting their lives at risk. Dangerous and horrific, this image certainly doesn’t seem like an obvious icon for fashionable living. which is why it’s surprising that not only does this mark turn up on this days tattoos, t-shirts, trucker hats, but also must-have designer toys, so what’s the deal? Is the human skull still the same signifier it once was, from ancient iconography to its appearance alongside a history of alienated youth culture - or is it placed in the running for some kind of image makeover?" Source - http://bit.ly/9h8AsP
Shall we then ban the wearing of skulls on t-shirts, tattoos, etc so that these fundamentalist idiots not be offended? how far does the censorship need to go to satisfy your (LCBO) new masters?
From Wikipedia: (which also includes references to death as well as these)
The skull that is often engraved or carved on the head of early New England tombstones might be merely a symbol of mortality, but the skull is also often backed by an angelic pair of wings lofting mortality beyond its own death.
One of the best-known examples of skull symbolism occurs in Shakespeare's Hamlet, where the title character recognizes the skull of an old friend: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest. . ." Hamlet is inspired to utter a bitter soliloquy of despair and rough ironic humor.
The emblem of
the skull cannot be assumed to be a mere symbol of Death. The skull is placed
significantly on the writing desk of Saint Jerome in Albrecht Dürer's woodcut.
Not truly a Memento
mori, the skull's huge empty eye-sockets contrast with Jerome's
downcast eyes in one of the best evocations of the interior vision
of
contemplation, perhaps focused on Eternity, ever realized in Western
art.
Next to the Magdalene's dressing-mirror, in a convention of Baroque
painting, the
Skull has quite different connotations and reminds the viewer that the
Magdalene has become a symbol for repentance.
When the skull is represented in Nazi SS insignia, the
death's-head (Totenkopf)
deals with the fear of death, but
when tattooed
on the forearm its apotropaic power helps an outlaw biker cheat death.
But it is not the same emblem when it flies high above the poop deck as the Jolly Roger: there the pirate death's-head epitomizes the pirates' challenging (of) the natural order of things.
Or is it that someone at the LCBO just doesn't like Dan Ackroyd?
hey Ontario - if you want a bottle let me know...
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