Some like it hot: Babe emporiums gear up for delegates

Boston Herald ^ | 7/25/04 | Christopher Cox

[pt17]

It's the eve of D-Cup Day. The groundwork has been laid: extra ads, more supervixen staff, full humidors, limos on call.

Now, the gentlemen's clubs and the restaurants where waitresses are hotter than the barbecued wings are waiting on the players in town for the Democratic National Convention.

The Republicans can claim to be the party of Lincoln; this is the party of Linkin Park. The big tent surely can accommodate Summer and Misti and The Men Who Tip Them Handsomely.

At Hooters, a long outlet pass away from the FleetCenter, manager Stephen Caruso anticipates a 50 percent boost in sales. The 6-year-old Friend Street hamburgers 'n' hotpants emporium will increase staffing 75 percent.

[pt17]

More on the party in Kerryland

[MoralSense]

I used to take my little boy to that Hooters for burgers and dogs and fries, always got lots of attention from the waitresses, because he was such a cute kid. But I have to tell you, Boston ain't the place for good-looking women. The Hooters girls in Beantown couldn't even make the cut in Atlanta or Dallas or L.A.

[pt17]

It's the eve of D-Cup Day.

If their cups runneth over, can the famous Kennedy/Dodd "waitress sandwiches" be far behind?

[AndyJackson]

Well, it is a free market and I am not going to advise others how to spend their time and money. If these guys think there is money to be made of the dem convention, more power to them, but they better remember that the average delegate is not a successful plumbing contractor with a wad of cash to blow on a good time.

I lived in San Francisco during a Democratic convention. Except around the convention center the town was dead as a doornail. Restaurants you needed to book a month in advance you could walk into and they stopped serving at 9PM.

[pt17]

If these guys think there is money to be made of the dem convention, more power to them ....

I suspect businesses that are having to close because of all the security restrictions don't think this way. My money's on the city losing money on this one.

[RaceBannon]

Am I the only one who sees a moral depravity in all this excitement in the increase of prostitutes and strip bars and scantily clad women intending to make men lust for them to increase sales of food??

[jocon307]

"Am I the only one who sees a moral depravity in all this excitement..."

You are not alone.

[punster]

Some of those democrats must think they are firemen, because they are looking for something to hose down.

[RGSpincich]

Am I the only one who sees a moral depravity in all this excitement...

Mr. Potter lives in spirit with the Democrat elite. Every town their tent goes up in becomes Pottersville.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Yet all the media coverage I have seen to this point is how NYC is flying in extra hookers from all over the world to satisfy the Republicans. As if they are the bigger offenders in this area. Well, I guess it's probably true, the democrats are more likely importing lots of 10 to 13 year-old boys to Boston.

[pt17]

Am I the only one who sees a moral depravity in all this excitement in the increase of prostitutes and strip bars and scantily clad women intending to make men lust for them to increase sales of food??

No, I don't think so. Also, the use of scantily clad women for purposes of selling things isn't new and the idea of buying things primarily because of lust is, IMHO, a little over done. I've never been to a Hooters myself; however, if the food was really good I might give it a try and consider well-endowed waitresses (who are probably not all that scantily clad) as a side benefit. If the food wasn't good, I wouldn't go, regardless of their cup sizes.

[megatherium]

Anyone remember an old Saturday Night Live sketch (broadcast May 20, 1978) showing a meeting of the Sodom chamber of commerce? They were discussing their new advertising campaign for their convention business. They wanted to show Sodom as a family-friendly city, but they also wanted to remind the viewer exactly why you have a convention in Sodom in the first place.

[ninonitti]

I don't remember that particular show but the concepts and writing certainly seemed much better on SNL back then.

[tet68]

Am I the only one who sees a moral depravity in all this excitement..."

Shouldn't that be,

Am I the only one who sees excitement in all this moral depravity ..." ?

[pt17]

I don't remember it but, if I did, don't think Boston really fits. The city's been cleaned up a lot since the days of the "Combat Zone" and is, IMHO, one of the better cities for tourists to take their families.

[NCjim]

Or even North Carolina...