# Okay Reeder, now you may pit the Bush girls **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 7, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502 "2004-09-07T17:27:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/1 "2004-09-07T17:27:37Z")
Nothing about politics. This is more about upbringing. Last Wednesday at the RNC, the Bush girls attended a party with several friends at the Avalon Club. They ran up a bar tab of around $4500. Their tip? $45. Sorry, that’s just pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/2 "2004-09-07T17:32:20Z")
one percent? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/3 "2004-09-07T17:38:35Z")
Link? I know it’s New York and all, but $4500!!! :eek: That’s why the short tip - they only had a grand left for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/4 "2004-09-07T17:39:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Their tip? $45. Dammit. $48, not forty-five. This is from Friday’s NY Post Page Six gossip column. The Post doesn’t seem to believe in archiving their gossip column, either that, or I just suck at using their search freature. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/5 "2004-09-07T17:48:09Z")
Probably too drunk to tip properly. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/6 "2004-09-07T18:01:14Z")
:eek: :eek: Okay. I gotta ask. What does one eat, precisely, to run up a tab to $4500 for dinner for two?? I mean, I’m assuming it isn’t quantity (except for the bar tab), but what could _possibly_ cost $2250 each? ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/7 "2004-09-07T18:07:50Z")
What’s the problem? The Bush girls’ conduct seems perfectly compatible with the Republican philosophy of contempt for the American worker. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/8 "2004-09-07T18:08:18Z")
Maybe they were tipping $1 a drink, and between them and their “several” friends put down 45 $100 drinks? “I’ll have another octuple top-shelf Long Island, please!” ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/9 "2004-09-07T18:12:06Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > :eek: :eek: Okay. I gotta ask. What does one eat, precisely, to run up a tab to $4500 for dinner for two?? I mean, I’m assuming it isn’t quantity (except for the bar tab), but what could _possibly_ cost $2250 each? > [@](#): > > the Bush girls attended a party with **several friends** at the Avalon Club. They ran up a **bar tab** of around $4500. We don’t know who was on the tab. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/10 "2004-09-07T18:12:14Z")
One bottle of wine, potentially. (I’ve frequently seen wine lists with one or more high-end bottles in this range. Of course, I was looking in the cheaper ranges.) Or, more likely, they were paying for a group of friends. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/11 "2004-09-07T18:13:02Z")
That seals the deal for me. I definately want to party with the Bush girls. I’ve tried my best and the most I’ve ever clocked on a bar tab in Chicago was $300. They must be some type of reverse ethics Hunter Thompsons… ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/12 "2004-09-07T18:26:06Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > What’s the problem? The Bush girls’ conduct seems perfectly compatible with the Republican philosophy of contempt for the American worker. Dude! When’d you bail? ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/13 "2004-09-07T18:29:11Z")
Perhaps the server wrote [a note on the bill](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273697&page=1&pp=50). Or maybe the girls are at war with all servers, in a misguided attempt at revenge against the waitstaff that turned them in for underage drinking. Salon says that [they were with an entourage of 25](http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room//index.html#twin_tips) (click to get a free day pass by watching a short ad), so each person drank $180 worth of liquor. Can $180 even get you buzzed in Manhatten? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/14 "2004-09-07T18:33:00Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > That seals the deal for me. I definately want to party with the Bush girls. I’ve tried my best and the most I’ve ever clocked on a bar tab in Chicago was $300. They must be some type of reverse ethics Hunter Thompsons… Chidope 2K2 Friday night bartab was over $1K (I think it was 1,096). Saturday night’s bartabs (two groups) ran over that, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/15 "2004-09-07T18:33:57Z")
Maybe they had a couple bottles of [Johnny Walker, Blue Label](http://www.queenannewine.com/johwalblu.html). This site has it listed at $200 a bottle. Now, take into account that they were in Manhatten, and that a shot will cost more than just an equal portion of the bottle, and it’s entirely possible to break $4,500. Or they could just be ignorant cunts. But I’d still do Jenna. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/16 "2004-09-07T18:46:36Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Maybe they had a couple bottles of [Johnny Walker, Blue Label](http://www.queenannewine.com/johwalblu.html). This site has it listed at $200 a bottle. Now, take into account that they were in Manhatten, and that a shot will cost more than just an equal portion of the bottle, and it’s entirely possible to break $4,500. > > Or they could just be ignorant cunts. But I’d still do Jenna. Oh, my Opeth listening friend, you need to see the light. Barbara is the hot one. ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/17 "2004-09-07T18:56:25Z")
Whoa. I thought that leaving a $48 tip on a $4500 bill was bad, but The Salon article says that the Page Six article said > [@](#): > > They [and their entourage of about 25] drank $4,500 dollars worth of drinks — bottles and bottles of vodka,’ says a club insider. 'Then, having been comped all the alcohol, they left a $48 tip. They were comped. They were comped. They drank $4500 worth of free alcohol. They paid nothing for $4500 worth of free alcohol. And then they stiffed the server on the tip. That’s _really_ bad. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/18 "2004-09-07T19:04:46Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > Chidope 2K2 Friday night bartab was over $1K (I think it was 1,096). Saturday night’s bartabs (two groups) ran over that, I believe. The difference being that ChiDopers know how to tip. Our waitress that Friday night ROCKED and she deserved every penny of the huge tip we left her. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/19 "2004-09-07T19:07:11Z")
> [@sugaree](#): > > Whoa. I thought that leaving a $48 tip on a $4500 bill was bad, but The Salon article says that the Page Six article said > > They were comped. > > They were comped. > > They drank $4500 worth of free alcohol. > > They paid nothing for $4500 worth of free alcohol. > > And then they stiffed the server on the tip. That’s _really_ bad. They were COMPED and left $45? I am almost physically ill with rage. You run up $4,500 in vodka (probably Absolut :rolleyes: ), you’re given the gift of NOT having to spend the money after all, and instead of leaving at least a THOUSAND dollar tip, you leave FORTY-FIVE FUCKING DOLLARS? I change my mind about the death penalty. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502/20 "2004-09-07T19:09:28Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > Oh, my Opeth listening friend, you need to see the light. Barbara is the hot one. Ah, someone noticed my location. How cool is that? 😃 You may have Barbara, if you wish. I just think she looks a little too much like her dad. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-reeder-now-you-may-pit-the-bush-girls/263502.md?page=2)