[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Dr Sagan often took a shine to certain lab classes and would frequently meet with the 8-10 students of these labs at the local pub, The Palms...He’d go on for days about Babylonian culture

That's one hell of a bar tab.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

He’d go on for days about Babylonian culture ... That's one hell of a bar tab

To be clear, the discussion would end one evening and he would pick it right up where he stopped the following evening, which could be convened as much as a week later. Further, I do not recall him ever picking up the bar tab, large or small.

[Berosus]

He must have been drinking beer through a straw. That’s how the Babylonians did it.