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dive bar?

Today’s Zippy:

Remarkable drinks.

ADS-L has recently been having a discussion of dive bar and dive. For some posters, dive is just a short version of dive bar ‘disreputable bar’, but for others it’s taken on a life of its own, so that there can be dive restaurants. Hipster joints are s0mething else again.

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3 Responses to “dive bar?”

  1. Robert Coren Says:
    January 14, 2014 at 8:20 am | Reply

    Having recognized “Dark & Stormy”, I’m wondering if all the other bizarrely-named drinks do, in fact, appear on bar menus somewhere (Brooklyn hipster dives or elsewhere).

  2. Jack Hamilton Says:
    January 14, 2014 at 12:04 pm | Reply

    There’s a dive bar in Sacramento. The mermaids’ tails were made by this fellow:

    http://www.towleroad.com/2013/04/meet-the-gay-man-living-the-mermaid-lifestyle-video.html

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