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Topless clubs feel the economic squeeze
Toronto Star ^ | 12/10/08 | Jim Irwin

Posted on 12/11/2008 7:30:09 PM PST by T-Bird45

DETROIT – How bad are things around the Motor City? So bad that even Jon Jon's Cabaret is offering half-off deals.

The topless club in the suburb of Warren – where General Motors and Chrysler employ upwards of 20,000 people – cut the cost of a table dance in half, from $20 to $10, in mid-November. The dancer gets all the money plus any tips, while food and drinks generate the club's income, general manager Kelly Sander said Tuesday.

Jon Jon's has lowered prices on drinks, but business is still down 50 percent from a year ago, Sander said. She now opens the club at 6 p.m. instead of 11 a.m.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: aflcio; motorcity; pinkslips; pricecuts; sleaze; tabledance; uaw
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To: T-Bird45

Looks like we should all go out and, um, stimulate the economy...


21 posted on 12/11/2008 7:56:31 PM PST by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away.(Jim Ignatowski))
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To: Ken H
They'll bounce back...

...after things firm up, of course!

22 posted on 12/11/2008 7:57:19 PM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: T-Bird45

Sign me up!


23 posted on 12/11/2008 7:58:00 PM PST by gura (R-MO)
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To: gura

Now you’ve gone and done it...thanks for the great picture to make this thread worthwhile!!


24 posted on 12/11/2008 8:04:53 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: tubebender

I’m holding out for the freebies. ;)


25 posted on 12/11/2008 8:08:56 PM PST by SouthTexas (Remember, it took a Jimmy Carter to bring us a Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Huskrrrr

When we were in high school, we always wondered where we could get a hold of some “tat”.


26 posted on 12/11/2008 8:09:20 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: T-Bird45

Half off? No thanks. I was never able to stop a just one cup.


27 posted on 12/11/2008 8:24:05 PM PST by ArmstedFragg
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To: ArmstedFragg

“AT” just... jeeze!


28 posted on 12/11/2008 8:24:54 PM PST by ArmstedFragg
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To: Snickering Hound

In regards to your graphic, which is funny, I actually had a second grader tell me a couple of years ago that his mommy is a dancer. “She dance on a pole!” Very sad. Same class, second grade, where I overheard a one of the girls telling her classmate as they lined up, “My NEW daddy is moving in with us tonight.”


29 posted on 12/11/2008 8:27:57 PM PST by FrdmLvr (What fresh hell is this?)
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To: Snickering Hound; FrdmLvr

That picture was actually drawn by a kid who’s mom sold snow shovels at Home Depot.


30 posted on 12/11/2008 9:05:12 PM PST by Koblenz (The Dem Platform, condensed: 1. Tax and Spend. 2. Cut and Run. 3. Man on Man)
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To: Koblenz

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!


31 posted on 12/11/2008 9:17:45 PM PST by FrdmLvr (What fresh hell is this?)
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To: T-Bird45

Things are hard all over...


32 posted on 12/11/2008 9:41:18 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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To: Clintonfatigued; seowulf

The jokes seem so obvious but still LOL!!


33 posted on 12/11/2008 10:01:14 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: al baby

Maybe they’ll have to start accepting 50 cent pieces....


34 posted on 12/11/2008 10:11:36 PM PST by Defiant (I for one welcome our new Obama Overlords.)
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To: T-Bird45

It’s series. Where will it end?


35 posted on 12/12/2008 1:12:42 AM PST by dr_lew
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To: ari-freedom

This guy looks like about a quarter of the geezers on the road driving here in Florida.


36 posted on 12/12/2008 4:08:23 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: basil

From what I’ve read a large portion of strippers are single moms, crack heads or just sluts.
Dancing pays the bills much better than a minimum wage fry line job at McDonalds.
Disgusting exploitation any way ya look at it.


37 posted on 12/12/2008 4:11:00 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Apparatchik

Yes, we should stimulate the economy. Otherwise, how will Cinnamon, Bambi, and Mercedes pay their way through college?


38 posted on 12/12/2008 6:06:21 AM PST by VA_Gentleman ("There are sheep, and there are wolves. In the end, the wolves always win." - Col. Ripley, RIP)
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To: VA_Gentleman
how will Cinnamon, Bambi, and Mercedes pay their way through college

those names remind one time when I was at a Gentlemens Club..it went something like this..a dancer sat down at our table..she said she didn't like her stage name and that maybe we could help her come up with a better one..I suggested Contagious..she got up and left..must have been something I said...

39 posted on 12/12/2008 7:03:47 AM PST by BerniesFriend
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To: Snickering Hound

That is just wrong on so many levels.


40 posted on 12/12/2008 8:27:21 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Control the information, you control the people.")
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