# Help me name a bar **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2001, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400 "2001-09-08T14:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Formerly\_Bandersnatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e36b37/32.png) [@Formerly\_Bandersnatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Formerly_Bandersnatch)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/41 "2001-09-11T12:23:14Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Skijumper \* > \*\* > If it helps, one of my friends already owns another bar. It’s called Bar None, and it’s a more uptown wine-and-cigar bar kind of thing._\* Then how about Bar Sinister? ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/42 "2001-09-11T12:35:57Z")
Troika I think it’s Russian for three. I might be wrong. Even if it isn’t Russian it still sounds like three (with the “tr” part). ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/43 "2001-09-11T12:57:58Z")
Is that the **“Bar None”** in Tampa/Ybor??? And is this new place going to be in Tampa? ## O Vidi Vici Veni! ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/44 "2001-09-11T19:43:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Funky McDuck \* > They specialise in cocktails and ever since I spotted the doper’s name I’ve been trying to get them to name one **Tequila Mockingbird**. No luck yet. ☹ You realize, of course, that a proper Tequila Mockingbird is just a shot of tequila with half an ounce of birdseed on the bottom…right? I actually served one once–the joker’s friends made him drink it. He couldn’t believe I actually had birdseed on hand. If I owned a bar, I would (after checking with Spider Robinson) call it “Callahan’s”–never mind that I’ve never even met anyone named Callahan. For an artsy bar, how about “Bar Noir” and do all the decor in black and white (or shades of gray)? ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/45 "2001-09-16T12:29:11Z")
Just for the record, I LOVE ‘Bar Sinister’ and if I ever own a bar I’m stealing your idea, **Icefalcon**. ---
**Author:** ![AM\_PM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AM\_PM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AM_PM)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/46 "2001-09-16T13:49:54Z")
Reading “chill-out space” made me think that was a good name. “Clientle” works for me too. Tape your discussions and then look at the words you used. ---
**Author:** ![Formerly\_Bandersnatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e36b37/32.png) [@Formerly\_Bandersnatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Formerly_Bandersnatch)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/47 "2001-09-16T19:00:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by August West \* > \*\*Just for the record, I LOVE ‘Bar Sinister’ and if I ever own a bar I’m stealing your idea, **Icefalcon**. \*\* No need to steal, it’s freely given. 🙂 Just hurry up, I could use a beer. ---
**Author:** ![Kittie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Kittie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kittie)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/48 "2001-09-16T19:36:33Z")
You can copy Family Guy and name it **Ye Old Pube** Just a thought…😃 ~Kittie ---
**Author:** ![Thrasybulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Thrasybulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thrasybulus)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/49 "2001-09-16T19:38:40Z")
Ubar Alles (or Ubar for short) Vinutae The Red Lion (famous Whitehall St. pub in London) Grapes & Grain (name of a liquir store I once saw) Sine qua non (legal term meaning a requisite condition) ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/50 "2001-09-16T20:43:20Z")
Ohh…Another idea! The Vending Machine! and underneath the sign, you could have another, smaller sign, saying: “Notice: All money removed from this machine daily.” just my thought. ---
**Author:** ![psychogumby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@psychogumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychogumby)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/51 "2001-09-16T22:06:09Z")
**Bar_F_**? Maybe pronounce it ‘bar f’, so people don’t get sickened by the name? Well, that’s what usually happens after I enjoy myself waaaay too much at a bar. 😃 Or a phonetic spelling like /bâh/ … ? ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/52 "2001-09-16T22:56:43Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by tiglon1 \* I also heard of one called “The Office”. If you got home late and someone asked where you were you could just tell them… I was at the office.QUOTE] My father used to go to bar that we nicknamed “The Office.” My dad’s probably a little too much like Norm from _Cheers_ because he actually had a corner of the bar that belonged to him. Above the corner was a sign that said Carpet Corner. Too many men named John went there so they called him John Carpet. Anyway, because he spent so much time there we called the bar The Office. It also made a good excuse when people called for him. Only close friends and family members knew what we meant when we said he was at the office. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/53 "2001-09-17T00:28:40Z")
Put a picture of a Grizzly out front covered in bandages. Call the place _The Bar Tender_. In the words of Spider Robinson–“I bear beer, bear.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/54 "2001-09-17T02:32:29Z")
I say you name it “Your Momma’s House.” Not for the homey feeling or anything, but just so that come Monday, when a co-worker asks me where I went the night before, I can answer, “Your Momma’s House.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![urban\_gorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@urban\_gorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban_gorilla)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/55 "2001-09-17T15:36:02Z")
Whiskey A-Go-Go that or “Humbug” ala Scrooge (Bah! Humbug!) ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/56 "2001-09-17T16:30:44Z")
Name it “Free Liquor” and watch the crowds “pour in”. Truth in advertising isn’t all it’s cracked up to be anyway. ---
**Author:** ![23skidoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f04885/32.png) [@23skidoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/23skidoo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/57 "2001-09-17T18:50:43Z")
Nevermore The Alkaline Manifesto’s The Bus Stop The Cleaners ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/58 "2001-09-17T19:33:54Z")
GAS BEER EATS If one guy has a bar called Bar None, this could be Bar One. Or Bar Minus One, if you’re going that direction. ---
**Author:** ![Formerly\_Bandersnatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e36b37/32.png) [@Formerly\_Bandersnatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Formerly_Bandersnatch)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/59 "2001-09-17T19:42:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\*GAS BEER EATS \*\* Depending on what you’re serving that might should be BEER EATS GAS. ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400/60 "2001-09-17T21:53:02Z")
Since it’s 3 levels with different atmospheres how about “Up, Down, or in the Middle”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-a-bar/80400.md?page=4)