(and pfft to Sparky1)
Hey! I asked a legitimate question! Have you ever been off the bean since I've known you?
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sparky1 - Jan 06, 2006 10:02:40 am PST #8249 of 10002
Librarian Warlord
DavidS - Jan 06, 2006 10:03:24 am PST #8250 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I like all kinds of bars from swanky to themed to dives. They each have their own flavor. As noted, dive bars do have the advantage of cheaper prices.
Lee - Jan 06, 2006 10:04:16 am PST #8251 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I got Juliana this book [link] as part of her housewarming present, and Amazon shows you can get them for NY and Chicago too.
Hey! I asked a legitimate question! Have you ever been off the bean since I've known you?
A year in Maine and other shorter periods of time. (For the record, 2 days is a period of time-- it counts!)
Kristen - Jan 06, 2006 10:04:49 am PST #8252 of 10002
Plei, my sistah!
My friend K and I used to go to this great dive bar - oddly enough, it was across from Bloomingdales - it was always empty and so cheap! You could drink all night and not need to take out a personal loan to pay the tab.
As opposed to, say, the bar at the St. Regis. I will always be profoundly grateful to the unnamed millionaire (and the bartender who conned him into picking up our tab) because he enabled me to still eat that month.
Lee - Jan 06, 2006 10:06:17 am PST #8253 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Thanks Msbelle.
I think Kristen and Plei should come visit me and the dive bars.
Lee - Jan 06, 2006 10:06:22 am PST #8254 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Twice even.
Sue - Jan 06, 2006 10:07:20 am PST #8255 of 10002
hip deep in pie
I like dive bars because they are unpretentious and usually not full of stupid people. I am just as fond of the neighborhood bar.
Jesse - Jan 06, 2006 10:08:52 am PST #8256 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What's the difference between a dive bar and a neighborhood bar? I feel like they're both kind of dirty and cheap and like the kind of thing that I like. Until they get overrun with hipsters, and then I'm pissed.
Nutty - Jan 06, 2006 10:10:36 am PST #8257 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
There are too many corner Irish pubs around here for the dive bar to make many inroads. Mashed potatoes, polished wood, and game nights somehow don't say "dive" to me (despite their being, functionally, neighborhood bars). Downtown Crossing is infested with divey bars, and I've seen some in the ring towns -- Quincy, Braintree, Everett -- but the hipster ones are obnoxious and the not-hipster ones are depressing.
I bet if you took a hipster into a not-hipster dive bar, she'd run away.
Jessica - Jan 06, 2006 10:10:49 am PST #8258 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What's the difference between a dive bar and a neighborhood bar?
"Dive" to me means cheap and a little skeevy. "Neighborhood" doesn't imply anything to me but locality.