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Giving Thanks to Bar Hopping
The Journal News (New York) ^ | November 25, 2004 | Elizabeth Johnson

Posted on 11/25/2004 5:04:30 AM PST by jolie560

If you're reading this through bleary eyes, and your first thought this morning was not "Turkey!" but "aspirin," chances are you went out last night. Because yesterday was not just the biggest travel day of the year. According to bar owners, last night was also the biggest party night of the year.

"For years, it's been the craziest night to go out," said Mike Termini, the owner of the animal-themed Zoo Bar in Nyack. "I don't think there's any holiday that compares to it for the bar business."

(Excerpt) Read more at nyjournalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bars
say...what?
1 posted on 11/25/2004 5:04:30 AM PST by jolie560
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To: jolie560

Well, I'm just back from a night of bar hopping, so I guess the article isn't entirely inaccurate...


2 posted on 11/25/2004 5:11:25 AM PST by Welsh Rabbit
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To: Welsh Rabbit

On Thanksgiving Eve is it okay to open one present? The kids keep bugging me to open them Wednesday night. Of course, they still get up early and open the rest of them from under the turkey.


3 posted on 11/25/2004 5:14:53 AM PST by Lawgvr1955 (I think Kerry needs more cowbell.)
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To: jolie560
As a former bar and restaurant manager, I can say this article is pretty much on the money.

It's not just the bar business that booms, we always had a lot of dinners in the restaurants, followed by the harder-core partiers in the bars because that's just something people do when they get together after not not having seen each other in a while.

What with the huge upsurge in travel this year, bar and restaurant owners are probably pretty happy with the haul. How happy the bartenders and waitresses are depends on the economy, particularly the price of fuel along the travel route.

4 posted on 11/25/2004 5:19:46 AM PST by cake_crumb (The IQ of the average Democrat voter is slightly less than body temperature)
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To: jolie560

 

Yep.

 

5 posted on 11/25/2004 5:30:32 AM PST by Fintan (Someday we''ll look back on this and plow into a parked car...)
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To: Lawgvr1955

Well, my family has always opened family presents on Thanksgiving Eve, and Santa presents- er, I mean Great Pilgrim presents on Thanksgiving...


6 posted on 11/25/2004 5:31:27 AM PST by Welsh Rabbit
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To: Fintan

Mom?


7 posted on 11/25/2004 5:34:11 AM PST by bad company (Four more years.)
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To: Fintan

my ex wife...


8 posted on 11/25/2004 5:52:40 AM PST by hadaclueonce (shoot low, they are riding Shetlands.....)
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To: hadaclueonce

My current wife.


9 posted on 11/25/2004 5:54:33 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Fintan

Dammit, quit posting my picture!


10 posted on 11/25/2004 5:56:20 AM PST by Xenalyte (Who you tryin' to get crazy with, ese? Don't you know I'm loco?)
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To: hadaclueonce
5 Steps to Succesful Marriage

1. Find a woman who is a good cook.

2. Find a woman who is good with money.

3. Find a woman who is good with children.

4. Find a woman who is good in the bedroom.

5. Make sure the woman you marry never meets the other 3 women mentioned above.

11 posted on 11/25/2004 6:16:49 AM PST by Lawgvr1955 (I think Kerry needs more cowbell.)
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To: Lawgvr1955

LOL!


12 posted on 11/25/2004 6:19:20 AM PST by Brett66 (W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1)
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