Even if your purpose is just to memorialize the business for which your family is best known locally, you can still get into a lot of trouble in Missouri. (Dan Margolies, “Literal interpretation of obscure state law threatens Smithville restaurant”, Kansas City Star, Jun. 28)(via Eric Berlin).
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This is quite amusing. Certainly there must be a sneaky way around this that both excludes these guys from the law and also flips a bird at the pharmacy board. Perhaps they could hire a local pharmacist to act as a supervisor, or perhaps they could adjust the name and have a DBA…something?!?! Petitioning the legislature is costly and time consuming and I imagine a variance is out of the question. “Justus Pharmicy”…Pharmocy…etc…(I read the part about re-applying).
The exact text of the statute is not posted but the description strikes me as being overly vague. That part about banning “similar words” that is. Is “Dung” similar to “Drug”? How about “Rug”? “Apothecary” and “Apotheosis” Or if they are only concerned with the meaning of the word being similar, how about “medicine”, “potion”, “Tonic” or “remedy”? Would “Drug Depot” or “Elixir Emporium” “Medicine Market”
As was used in another post by another contributor, I suspect these Rx Board people are a bunch of punkasses. Until these Justus boys put their stones on the line and send a shot across the bow of the Rx board, their restaurant could be called, “Eat at Joes” and they would still get harassed. Justus will not know Justice until the pharm board buys the farm. (Sorry, just too tempting to not write it).
It seems that quite often that those who are not our nation’s best and brightest end up on the boards of minor bureaucracies. They then proceed to make use of their positions of authority to compensate for their lacking. It appears that God has brought this situation to our attention so as to reinforce this point.
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[Sen. Luann Ridgeway, a Smithville Republican] said she spoke to Gov. Matt Blunt on Thursday about the pharmacy board’s cease-and-desist order, and he responded by calling the action “stupid.”
Blunt, she said, promised to step in personally.
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Calls from the governor’s office and all the top-level, close attention and scrutiny which attend them are not things bureaucrats seek (at least the ones whose hardest work seems to be always aimed at remaining secure in their jobs). Worse when those calls are prompted by something they’ve done which the governor believes is outright “stupid.”
Clearly the pharmacy board withdrawing its order would be in this case the best resolution all around.
This reminds me one time I drove by a bar named, “The Office.” I can only conclude that it was given that name so that husbands could call their wives and truthfully say, “Sorry, honey; I’m going to be at the office until late.”
Tom T has managed to drag me back to early post-childhood.
Even back in the sixties every college campus worth attending had a bar within close proximity named “The Library” Probably the better ones still do.
For younger readers this era marked the end of college students of the female persuasion being cloistered behind a Brun Hilda at every dorm and sorority house, who demanded they sign-in and sign-out when leaving for an evening of fun and frolic.
My first college bar tending job was at The College Street Library (Kent, Ohio – yes, the one with the shootings).
Another example of how government is out of their minds! Its a great resturant and who gives a damn what it is named!!!!!!!!!! Everyone needs to get a life.