On Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 6:00:07 PM UTC-5, Hank Rogers wrote:
> Dr. Bruce wrote:
> > Bryan Simmons wrote:
> >
> >> On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 7:17:03 PM UTC-5, Taxed and Spent
> >> wrote:
> >>> On 4/14/2021 2:07 PM, Dr. Bruce wrote:
> >>>> Bryan Simmons wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 3:37:44 PM UTC-5, Dr. Bruce
> >>> wrote: >>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 4/14/2021 3:55 PM, GM wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 2:37:41 PM UTC-5, Ed
> >>> Pawlowski >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On 4/14/2021 3:26 PM, bruce bowser wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> I've noticed that fewer bosses smoke in the building and
> >>>>>>>>>> stash liquor in the bottom desk drawer. I guess its because
> >>>>>>>>>> its not politically correct. Its still a shame.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Many places would fire you for any alcohol. I always had
> >>> wine >>>>>> in the fridge at work. Nothing fancy, just a box of red
> >>> and >>>>>> one of white.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Work culture - white collar at least - has really changed. I
> >>>>>>>> watch a lot of older movies, office/work drinking was often
> >>>>>>>> featured, as a butt of comedy, e.g. Pillow Talk, Will Success
> >>>>>>>> Spoil Rock Hunter? ...or as tragedy, e.g. The Days of Wine
> >>> and >>>>> Roses, The Apartment...
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Lotsa ads in old issues of The New Yorker and the NY Times
> >>> for >>>>> those "portable" bars that executives apparently touted
> >>> around >>>>> on their travels, places like Hammacher Schlemer,
> >>> Abercrombie & >>>>> Fitch had some very snazzy offerings...
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Where my father worked in the late 1950s the two owners had
> >>>>>>> offices side by side, but another room in between. It had a
> >>> well >>>> stocked wet bar for when they had visitors.
> >>>>>> Is a wet bar with alcohol and a dry bar with coca cola and
> >>> orange >>> juice?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> That is correct.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>> Of course that is not correct. A wet bar has running water. DUH.
> >>>
> >> A stupid question deserved a stupid answer.
> >>
> >> --Bryan
> >
> > Considering the US' anally retentive puritanism, where cider contains
> > no alcohol etc, "wet bar" could mean anything as far as I'm concerned.
> >
> A wet bar is a fixture where a pedophile nurse washes the semen off
> the basket bear.
>
NO! Not the basketbear. Think of the cubs.

--Bryan