Elsie Hotpepper's Lips Touched By Alcohol Shall Not Touch Mine

1919 Temperance Union Poster

You know how you get "joke" emails or emails with "attachments" from some people and you pretty much auto-delete the "joke" or "attachment" without reading the joke or looking at the attachment?

And then there are those who have established they have good taste and a highly evolved sense of humor. With jokes you read and attachments you open.

Alma, the Songbird of the Texas Gulf Coast, and Betty Jo Bouvier fall into the good taste, highly evolved sense of humor category, with jokes I read and attachments I open.

This morning Alma, the Songbird of the Texas Gulf Coast, sent me the 1919 Temperance Union Poster you see here, of a group of gals letting it be known their lips would not be touching any lips that had been touched by alcohol.

The text accompanying the poster said....

"If you were around in 1919 and came upon the above  poster wouldn’t you just keep drinking?"

I think the premise here is that the Temperance Union gals in the poster do not look very kiss-worthy. I can see where, for the most part, this seems to be true.

However, the Temperance Union gal directly under the sign bears a striking resemblance to Elsie Hotpepper.

Elsie Hotpepper seems kiss-worthy to me, in good lighting and when she's not armed with more than one firearm and when her lips have not been touched by alcohol.