So... Whats for lunch?

Started by kits, Feb 06 06 09:57

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Lil Me

you guys are hilarious.
 
 A speakeasy is an illegal bar.  Like the ones in basements during Prohibition.
   
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

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="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakeasy"]http://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.
 
 
   
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

purelife

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

Sportsdude

 moonshine.    
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

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
 
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

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.
 
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

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.    
Mercy to the Guilty is Torture to the Victims

P.C.

When I hear the term 'speakeasy', it immediately conjures up images of Mae West for some reason.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Lil Me

[span class="body"]A hard man is good to find.[/span]
  [span class="bodybold"] [a href="http://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="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/maewest106731.html"]Mae West[/a] [/span]  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Lil Me

I could totally picture Mae West at Russ' kegerator establishment.  She'd be all "Hello, Sailor!"  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

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="http://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="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c007.gif" border=0]  
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

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]  

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