Upgrades At The Whine Bar!
After a good glass of nothing but the best whine, people kept wanting to dance at the old Whine Bar. Well, we had to knock out a wall and put in a jukebox – but I think you will agree the results are SPECTACULAR:
That’s yours truly at the bar, with Ramana, Jean, bikehikebabe –with some guy she found walking down the street – dancing the night away. This is only the start of our upgrades and the next step will be the addition of pictures for the walls.
Why don’t you drop by for some fine whine and let’s get the party started. I mean…something must be chapping your hide a bit in times like this, when a person can’t even watch the news without becoming irritated. Doesn’t matter which country you live in these days.
Get it off your chest and then you’ll feel like a little partying again! If you are unclear on the house rules, I reprint them here:
- What you bring up must be something that actually is an irritant to you. Not something abstract. Something in your life.
- What you bring up must be petty. It just can’t matter in the scheme of things.
- What you speak of should be something someone else will probably be able to relate to.
- Your relating of your topic cannot help others at any level to understand the world better or give them solutions.
- If someone else laughs after reading it, you get extra points.
Why did we open this joint? Because the world needs refuges, places to get away. We’ll get back to business tomorrow – but, tonight we dance!
By the way, here’s a picture of a couple of the staff members after whining, dining and trying out the new dance floor last night:
If you’d like to identify yourselves…
Late addition:
This cartoon, Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley fits in well with the ol’ Whine Bar ethic:
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Tags: Humor, People, Whine Bar
Yesterday on the Today Show they announced,”Here’s Hoda & Cathy Lee”.
Cathy Lee was saying to Hoda, “You shouldn’t be showing cleavage.” Then she looked surprised at the camera, like she didn’t know she was on Air -ha!- & said “Today we are celebrating In South America.”
Hoda said, “We can show cleavage in South America”.
Cathy Lee said, NO! When you’re over 50, you DON’T show cleavage!
I clutched my teeth & boiled.
Cathy Lee should be kicked off the show. But then we wouldn’t have SNL (Sat. Night Live) funny lady’s sketch on Cathy Lee with Hoda.
I just turned on TV & there’s Hoda with a neckline up to her neck. Cathy Lee has on the plunging neckline, but must admit–no cleavage showing there.
Sorry, my contribution to whining are this picture and this post. I’m a bust at whining. I’d rather wrestle with cartoons.
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Just because I’m a bust doesn’t mean I don’t think you’re not offering a great service.
Keep up the great work!
Jean Browman–Cheerful Monk’s last blog post..Are You Conducting Yourself Well?
Well, bikehikebabe, normally I would say something soothing – but the fact is Cathy Lee is full of crap!
I’m like you. I hate the sanctimonious garbage that some of our “keepers of values” put forth. If you want to show cleavage, show cleavage. There are real human issues to deal with out there! Like Jesus said, they strain out gnats and swallow camels.
By the way, it is now an official policy of the Whine Bar that anyone who wishes to show cleavage is fully cleared to do so.
I know that you never take the whining attitude, but the thing you will appreciate is the irony of intentionally whining.
You’re going to love the dance floor in any case!
By the way, that picture and that post are very valuable additions to our collection! When pictures go up on the wall, might I have permission to use it – with full credit, of course?
The reason Cathy Lee doesn’t want to show cleavage is that her boobs are huge.
Large ones hang low & if you push them UP, they look like two balloons squished together.
Alas, I’m afraid that bit of fashion sense is too late to save some! You think she’s natural? At any level?
No way! About those OO–if you get my drift.
What comes out of her mouth is natural. Cathy Lee’s funny. Especially when you see that funny lady on SNL imitating her.
I must say this post is every educational!
Yes, feel free to use my pictures. Anything I put on Flickr has a Creative Commons license. I love the Creative Commons community and am thrilled when I can make a contribution. It makes me feel connected when I’m plugging away in my little monk’s cell.
Jean Browman–Cheerful Monk’s last blog post..Are You Conducting Yourself Well?
Oops! It’s “very” educational, not “every”.
Jean Browman–Cheerful Monk’s last blog post..Are You Conducting Yourself Well?
First, bikehikebabe, I think you are about ready to do a little dancing. I know how you hate to just sit around! What song shall we put on the jukebox?
Jean, thanks for allowing us to use the pictures. BTW, I really like your new one that you are developing!
And, I also like “every educational” because it made it sound so universal.
Conrad,
Just in case I gave the wrong impression about whining, I did write a post once about the joys of doing it.
I did it for a full year once and loved it, but my patient husband finally said, “You’re really letting this get to you, aren’t you, Jean?” That’s when I decided I had done more than my share and it was time to give the poor guy a break. So I think the Whine Bar is a great idea, even if I personally am on the wagon. Just one or two little whines can’t hurt, can they? Of course not. Not for most people. But as a recovering whiner I’d best not take any chances.
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Jean, that’s hilarious! What would you like instead? Here are a few selections:
Scotch: to scotch rumors.
Rum: we put it near the door to lure Rumuser in.
Brandy: wait! That’s her legs sticking out of the trunk. Nice gams, eh?
Cup of Joe: wait! He’s the legs under Brandy.
Well, we have some filtered water… and the dance floor is open to all!
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Ok, yer proprietor has to take a glass of whine for himself. The house whine is just fine for me – got to watch my overhead, you know.
I hate phone trees. I guess that’s what you call them when you call in and have to run the gamut to try to get to someone, anyone. My wife just got entangled in one that put her in a continuous loop. Last month, I finally made my way through one only to have someone pick it up after 15 minutes…and then hang up before talking with me!
I know why they exist – to keep people from getting through to “customer service”, a real misnomer.
Mr. Hake, you got a lot of b@#$% showing me in the trunk of that car! How would like me showing a picture of you and your wife in the back seat of your car?
Hey, if her legs look like that in the picture, you go right ahead!
I understand!!
I am a great whinner but I’m going on the wagon starting today. It’s good if you can (at least soon) get the humor from it.
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Absolutely, bikehikebabe. It only goes so far and then its time to get on with it. When I can clear the decks, I’m ready for some other blogging adventures and will launch them. Today’s schedule is a bit full, but I’m thinking this evening or tomorrow morning I can have us off on another tack.
Besides, the hangover from too much whine is horrible! Especially cheap whine…
Wine does facilitate certain kinds of more free-flowing communication among friends. Whine is often free-flowing yet, one-sided dialogue. Negative energy can spread and evoke whining in others or, it can be a test to raise awareness of certain behaviours that do not serve one’s greater good or self-growth.
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Cleavage, legs, Creative Commons Community, rum, brandy, dancing, b$%^, what is the world coming to?
I came here to whine and dine and see what you dish up? How on earth can I get myself to whine with this rubbish going around here?
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Ah, Liara. That’s why the prohibition from any of the whines being of a serious nature, nothing that can ever try to help humanity. That is why I am an upstanding member of the Irony Board!
We only ask for whines with a twinkle in the eye, a robust appreciation for the insignificance of their power in our lives. This is really the anti-whine bar where faux whine is used to tickle the funny bone.
That picture of the new dance floor…confession. That isn’t really me behind the bar. One of the dancers really is Ramana, though.
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Ramana, I know what you mean. Oy, humanity. If they didn’t bring coin, I’d have to toss the whole lot out on their cans. Ungrateful bunch. And, now they’ve spilled whine on the dance floor! They think I live to mop up their mess…
sparkzspot, this is a silly post and intended to be so.
Don’t worry, your proprietor will assume a mantle of great gravitas again tomorrow. Thanks for coming by.
This is the last of the daily Boob reports.
Cathy Lee has them nicely covered. Hoda has on an outrageously plunging neckline, but she is wearing a wide yellow tie that covers the plunge. There’s humor for ya.
I don’t have a cleavage problem.
Okay, I have something to whine about. I HATE how whenever you have a big problem in your life that is occupying your thoughts and your time, the rest of the world doesn’t come to a halt. I mean, seriously. Is it really fair that whenever I have to deal with personal issues my teachers keep giving tests???
bikehikebabe, I’m going to miss your cleavage reports. You could start a whole blog based on them. Kind of like a weatherwoman: the Midwest is predicting a low front today…
My wife and I went to see a Las Vegas show in the early 80’s with Ann Margret. If you’d traveled that cleavage, you’d have gotten extra flyer miles!
Ah…fond mammaries…
Carly, give me that teacher’s phone number! As your father, I’m outraged.
Okay, my turn!!! I absolutely hate it when someone has a blog that gets so many comments that the Current Comments list isn’t long enough for me to make sure I don’t miss some. Geez, Bro, set a limit or I’ll be simply and totally lost. . . . maybe forever this time.
Great job, Conrad! It has me laughing out loud…thanks to every one who commented. I’ll never be able to see another cleavage without thinking of this post and of bikehikebabe. People will be wondering what I’m smiling about.
Jean Browman–Cheerful Monk’s last blog post..Are You Conducting Yourself Well?
OK-Ms. Bikehikebabe- ask Mr. Hake to show you some cleavage pictures. I know he has them!!
Mr. Rummuser– whine-whine-whine.What do you expect from Mr. Hake???
Carly,
Please have some compassion. Teachers are STUPID. In spite of generations of evidence to the contrary they still think the purpose of college is to learn facts and ideas. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence knows it’s about the social life.
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Conrad,
About phone menus…I went through a long one last week and when I finally got to Customer Care the message was, “Our hours are…. Please phone back during regular business hours.”
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Correcting my last Boob Report where Hoda was wearing “an outrageously plunging neckline”—she wore a man’s yellow necktie that covered the problem area.
Wow, I go downtown to replenish supplies and come back to…
Alright, which one of you has a key? I know I locked that door!
Ahem! Now that I have that off my chest – where, by the way, I have cleavage somewhat reminiscent of our California Governor’s in his prime! – let’s get to some of the fine whine we have here.
bikehikebabe: you have vaulted yourself from the realm of mere mortals to true party royalty. My suspicion is that it will no longer start until you come in the door. Now, I have to see if I can get pictures of Hoda before and after the necktie addition – strictly for scientific research, of course.
Gail: Take it easy on Ramana. He comes in here to get away from his neighbors! You simply would not believe those people. As for cleavage pictures, I will take a picture of me with the top of my shirt open after hours. That will have to do, because the rest of the pictures fold out and I don’t know how to get them onto the blog.
Viki: Like I said, somebody has a key to this place and any limits I set seem to have no effect. What’s a guy to do?
Jean: Like you, I had several good laughs on returning. But, remember what I said about whine being spilled on the dance floor? Well, now they leave pretzels in my logic bowl…and you know what that can be like.
“Wow, I go downtown to replenish supplies and come back to…
Alright, which one of you has a key? I know I locked that door!”
Is that any way to show customer appreciation? A simple thank you would be sufficient. You create a great place and whine, whine, whine when people like it.
Jean Browman–Cheerful Monk’s last blog post..Are You Conducting Yourself Well?
Conrad,
Sorry about that. I should show more sympathy. Your complaint is the same as most celebrities…it’s nice to be loved and famous but sometimes it’s also a great burden. Please do the best you can to bear it for the sake of your loyal fans.
Jean Browman–Cheerful Monk’s last blog post..Are You Conducting Yourself Well?
Or, you could post your hours and let us know when you’re closing for a well-deserved rest. That might work too.
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You know, Jean, that’s a great lesson in humility you just handed me. Why, just the other day, hanging out with the Dalai Lama, I was saying, “Dalai, you gotta quit plagiarizing my stuff.” Now, I’m realizing, after what you said, that I should have shown more compassion. I mean, he’s a busy guy and so what if he kypes something every so often. After all, he’s only
humandivine.Gail, a whine, why is everyone Mr or Ms to you? I find being called Mr. rummuser rather odd! Or, are you expecting me to call you Ms. Gail?
What I expect from Mr. Hake is exactly what he is providing here.
Carly, if you go back a post or two, I have been certified as a gangster by your beloved father. If you want a hit man to take care of your teachers, just whistle. After that, you can whine about what I did to them.
Conrad, why are YOU whining about my neighbors? Stay off my property. I reserve the exclusive right to whine about them.
rummuser honey, I think you drank too much of Conrad’s Whine. You are generally such a sweet guy!
You know, bikehikebabe, I think I know what happened: that new supply of whine I had to go downtown to get yesterday is the problem. You know how the economy is. I usually get the good Napa Valley whines, but this time I got something called Thunderbird and another called Ripple. I’d never heard of them, but they were fresh – some of them were made just yesterday! – and I thought they would be a refreshing change.
Now, I have my eye on something called Night Train Express, a fine apple whine out of Modesto. On the label, it says, “Serve Very Cold” for some reason. Anyway, it tastes just like cough syrup, so I figured it had to be healthy.
Ramana, I had a dream last night of you and Gail in the Antebellum South, with her coming up onto the porch of your plantation manse and you saying, “Ms. Gail, have you and that rapscallion Mr. Hake been denigratin’ my neighbors again? You know I’ll have none of that! Keep that man off of my property!”
And, Gail responds, “Oh, fiddle-dee-dee, Mr. Rummuser, we can go where we want!”
Then, I show up with a peace offering of Mint Juleps and all is peaceful in our paradise once again! Either that, or you released the hounds, I can’t remember which…
Mr. Rummuser. I was taught to respect my elders. Maybe I will change my ways with your permission? Chow!!
But, Gail, Ramana is only 36!
Gail, despite what Mr. Conrad may think about it, permission granted.
Conrad, I might as well have said, “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Or after I have the mint julep, spiked properly by you, “I’m very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening’s over. ”
Bikehikebabe, I think you get the drift alright!
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You know, you are quite correct, Ramana. I had you cast as the plantation owner – but there’s no doubt about it. You are Rhett!!