# Neighborhood bar needs a new name
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 29, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288 "2005-01-29T17:00:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/21 "2005-01-30T17:38:39Z")
How’s about the _Regal Beagle_?
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/22 "2005-01-30T19:18:43Z")
If they can have \*\*Hooters[\b] on FL, they can have \*\*Tooters[\b] on CA
\*\*Blue Martini Nightclub, Family Sports Bar, and Tattoo Parlor[\b]
\*\*BJ’s[\b] … umm … maybe not.
\*\*Earthquake Ethal’s[\b] … not sure if this place is still in business or not, Beaverton, OR.
\*\*This Is It[\b] … I saw this one up in the mountains somewhere.
\*\*The Other Place[\b] … from a small town in IL that has only 2 bars.
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### Author:  [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/23 "2005-01-30T19:28:58Z")
I decided that if I ever had a bar I’d name it “Descartes’s” in reference to this joke:
René Descartes walks into a bar and orders a beer. He drinks it, and the bartender asks if he’d like another one. Descartes says, “I think not,” and he disappears.
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### Author:  [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/24 "2005-01-30T21:42:36Z")
**Garlic Bagel**
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/25 "2005-01-30T21:47:18Z")
Walkin’ To
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/26 "2005-01-30T22:37:28Z")
Is it used as a meat market (meet market)? It could be the Hitching Post.
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### Author:  [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/27 "2005-01-30T23:52:55Z")
> [@Musicat](#):
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> Is it used as a meat market (meet market)? It could be the Hitching Post.
Have you been to St. Cloud? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@jweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jweb)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/28 "2005-01-31T01:07:39Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#):
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> \*\*BJ’s[\b] … umm … maybe not.
There was actually a bar in my college town named BJ’s. Sadly, it was not frequented by many college-aged kids.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/29 "2005-01-31T02:17:59Z")
_The Church of Blissful Sedation_ …
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### Author:  [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/30 "2005-01-31T04:10:05Z")
**The Drinkin’ Fightin’ Irishman**
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### Author:  [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/31 "2005-01-31T04:19:38Z")
Inns:
Tucker
Come On
Stumble
Rock & Roll
Dew Drop
…etc. etc. etc.
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### Author:  [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/32 "2005-01-31T04:47:16Z")
I got a brilliant idea!.. Lets call it **Cheers**!
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what? Whatd’ya mean its taken?
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/33 "2005-01-31T04:47:19Z")
You Are Here– **X**
In West Lafayette, Indiana, a restaurant/bar opened in a building where a bank had once been. It was called _The Left Bank._
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/34 "2005-01-31T06:51:10Z")
> [@jweb](#):
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> There was actually a bar in my college town named BJ’s. Sadly, it was not frequented by many college-aged kids.
We used to hang out in a local’s bar, appropriately named, “Dicks”.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/35 "2005-01-31T12:18:44Z")
In Baltimore (Annapolis?) is a bar named after Admiral Fell.
**The Admiral Fell Inn**
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/36 "2005-01-31T12:29:22Z")
I’d go to a bar called The Suffering Bastard! Get a Tiki theme going.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/37 "2005-01-31T14:04:22Z")
**Weak Drnks & Lousy Food** –“We serve the Worst Food & Drink in the city”.
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/38 "2005-01-31T14:06:44Z")
Up Your Glass
or
The Slipper Inn
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### Author:  [@sWitchazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sWitchazel)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/39 "2005-01-31T15:13:44Z")
Back in the day, my osteology professor wanted to own a place and call it “The Temporo-Mandibular Joint”.
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-bar-needs-a-new-name/287288/40 "2005-01-31T15:43:37Z")
Why not Daffy’s?
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