A bar is where you order hoity-toity fancy-shmancy $10 cocktails, and a dive bar is where you drink $2 cans of PBR.
Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.
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Tom Scola - Mar 04, 2010 9:50:40 am PST #13167 of 30001
hwæt
Barb - Mar 04, 2010 9:52:44 am PST #13168 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
I learned how to shoot pool in a gay bar in SF with all the leather daddies acting as babysitters while my sister DJ'd. I was twelve.
Good times.
And as meara and I can attest, we are REAL!
Daisy Jane - Mar 04, 2010 9:53:14 am PST #13169 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
So glad you asked! Here's an article on dive bars in Dallas that just happens to mention The Grapevine! [link]
Aims - Mar 04, 2010 9:53:22 am PST #13170 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
He went there for research. The guy riding with him in the car was also probably there for research.
I swear that said the guy riding him in the car.
I may be pre-verted.
Barb - Mar 04, 2010 9:54:44 am PST #13171 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, and sign that my children are adapting to their new surroundings?
We saw a baby furry at Barnes and Noble the other day. (Teenager, street clothes w/tail and ears) and Abby did a minor double take, then shrugged and went on looking at the manga shelves.
Trust me when I say this is not something we would have ever encountered in Jacksonville.
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2010 9:56:53 am PST #13172 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A bar is where you order hoity-toity fancy-shmancy $10 cocktails
::weeps:: I tried to order a fancy cocktail this weekend and nobody there knew what a Dark and Stormy was. So I paid high coin for a Ketel gimlet instead. I should know better than to ask Buffistas for drink suggestions. Arcane hipsters.
I haven't bought anything other than a vodka gimlet straight up in years.
Tom Scola - Mar 04, 2010 9:58:44 am PST #13173 of 30001
hwæt
A Dark & Stormy is no good unless the bar has real ginger beer.
Steph L. - Mar 04, 2010 9:59:16 am PST #13174 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Ginger beer, yum. I like it so bitey it makes my tongue hurt.
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2010 10:01:25 am PST #13175 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A Dark & Stormy is no good unless the bar staff has heard of it.
Dude, let us break for lunch.
tommyrot - Mar 04, 2010 10:02:27 am PST #13176 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I went to a fancy bar once and they didn't know what a grasshopper was. So I told them and they made some for us. Nummy!
And it turns out that what I told them to make was a Wisconsin variant, made with ice cream instead of cream. (The other indredient is crème de menthe.) That's the way my parents made them.
In the North Central states, especially Wisconsin, Grasshoppers are blended drinks where ice cream is substituted for cream.