So... Whats for lunch?

[Lil Me]

you guys are hilarious.
 
 A speakeasy is an illegal bar.  Like the ones in basements during Prohibition.
   

[purelife]

Lil Me wrote:
you guys are hilarious.

A speakeasy is an illegal bar.  Like the ones in basements during Prohibition.
    I learn something new.  Illegal bar meaning open at odd hours?  Or doing things that are illegal?
 

[Lil Me]

Illegal meaning no business licence and often operating past "last call" at night.
 [a href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakeasy"]vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakeasy[/a]
 
 
 I recently read a book where the illegal bar was called a "shebeen".  In the story, the business was a bar/loan shark operation where the owner let people drink on credit, then collected huge interest payments at the end of the month.
 
 
   

[purelife]

That sounds interesting.  Thanks for sharing.  I could see Russ running that operation and raking in the dough.  

[Sportsdude]

 moonshine.    

[Michel]

   
 

[Sportsdude]

after hours? there's got a be a better name for that.
Were I'm from its the ("oh look at this guys!" and ends up in the paper the next morning) hour. lol
 

[purelife]

I call it "Happy Hour."

[Sportsdude]

lol happy hour is from 4 til 7.
7-10 night out
10-1 pushing it
1-5 you wake up 24hrs later in a field wondering how you got there.
 

[Russ]

Michel wrote:
 We call those After-Hours in Montréal.[/DIV]
 They are called that here as well. I have been to a few of those.. hear about it when you finally stagger out of a bar and theres a guy standing there giving you a small flyer.. catch a cab there and they serve beer with sometimes a questionable guy selling food as well. PLaces Ive been to are stores with covered windows and houses with covered windows.    

[P.C.]

When I hear the term 'speakeasy', it immediately conjures up images of Mae West for some reason.

[Lil Me]

[span class="body"]A hard man is good to find.[/span]
  [span class="bodybold"] [a href="vny!://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/maewest106771.html"]Mae West[/a] [/span]
 
  [span class="body"]A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.[/span]
  [span class="bodybold"] [a href="vny!://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/maewest106731.html"]Mae West[/a] [/span]  

[Lil Me]

I could totally picture Mae West at Russ' kegerator establishment.  She'd be all "Hello, Sailor!"  

[P.C.]

Two more of my favourite Mae West pearls of wisdom.

  When I'm good, I'm very very good....but when I'm bad, I'm better. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c032.gif" border=0]

    Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c007.gif" border=0]  

[gentle fawn]

[span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 255);"]I DONT KNOW WHO MAE WAST SI BUT I DO LIEK MA3 TA'ES!!111 LOL[/span]