My recent post about the Chips Ahoy Oi! commercial got me thinking about my days as a straight-edge guy (back before I discovered how much I enjoy beer). I also noticed that I’m experiencing a bit of a “generation gap” when I think about straight-edge back then and today. So I wrote a little about what I was into back then so the kids who are calling them straight-edge now know where it came from back when it was still coming out of the hardcore scene.

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I was having dinner and a few beers at a local pub (good eats!) that caters to a blue collar and biker crowd and was sitting near a group of guys who were apparently catching up with one another. They were talking about their work (union plumbers and pipefitters) and, the fact that I was sitting only a few feet away, I overheard most of their conversation.

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