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How's about the moloko bar from A Clockwork Orange? It always seemed completely surreal to me, as did the rest of the story. Real horrorshow, me droogies.
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For the, um...*ahem* very talented bartender. Yes. _
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I got a t-shirt at Worldcon years ago that says "QUARK'S" in the "Cheers" font, and underneath it says "Sometimes you want to go where every being knows your name."
MORN!
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Always wanted to meet the crowd in there--and not just for Punday nights.
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D listers all.
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Shouldn't that at least also say, "scum and villany"? (It is a wretched hive of them after all!)
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On a less picky note, glad to see Callahan's made the list. :)
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Taking a break from Uncle Owen, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your droids,
and afraid of your lightsabre skills.
You wanna be where you can see,
Smugglers aren't all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your droids.
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He was in the holodeck
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Chiri's club from Effinger's Mahrid Audran series.
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Do read the next two books as well!
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The Draco is second only to Callahan's
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It's one of Arthur C. Clark's lesser known short story collections. Every one is told like you're hearing it from that regular retiree at the bar who comes in every day seeking nothing more than a bit of drink and company.
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I'd also like to mention The Winchester. Can you think of a better place to wait out the zombie apocalypse?
09/20/09
"There are no casual observers in the Old Pink Dog Bar on the lower south side of Han Dold City, because it isn't the sort of place you can afford to do things casually in if you want to stay alive. Any observers in the place are mean, hawklike observers, hevaily armed, with painful throbbings in their heads which cause them to do crazy things when they observe things they don't like.
There is an evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar that screeches out the names and addresses of local contract killers, a service the bird provides for free.
The hand and forearm of the original owner of the bar still hangs around- it had been bequeathed to medical science. Medical science decided they didn't like the look of it and bequeathed it right back to the Old Pink Dog Bar. The hand sits on the bar. It takes orders, it serves drinks, it deals murderously with people who behave as if they want to be murdered.
The Old Pink Dog Bar does not accept American Express."
09/20/09
Oh come on. This is a restaurant not a bar.