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There is still a nudie club in San Jose called the Pink Poodle. It's practically a local monument.

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way way too many monosyllabic words there skoal.

just sayin.

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Where's Limey Liz these days? I miss 2L.

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Safari so good...

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They recreate June Taylor Dancers' routines on their HoveRounds.

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That name would get you McSued in a heartbeat.

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This is why The Lusty Lady in San Francisco's North Beach is a co-op - owned by the women who work there. They just got tired of being ripped off all the time.

Then there was the old Condor. Carol Doda would come down to the stage on the top of a piano lowered from the ceiling. One night, after closing, a bouncer/barker and one of the employees decided to get it on while on the piano.

It went up and crushed him. The poor woman had to spend the night under the dead guy until the morning crew arrived.

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Copenhooter.

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I think strip clubs put it in the dancers' drinks, at least the good ones. Pregnant strippers are bad for business. Plus it takes at least 3 months to get back in stripper shape, depending on how competitive your local market is, so you're without Amber-Lynn for a whole year. Bad business

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As one who was once awesome enough to have a stripper GF, I have firsthand knowledge of these practices. The first $75 goes to the house every night You have to tip the house mom who works in the dressing room - about $25 TIp the DJ for him to introduce you on the mic and play your favorite songs - $25 Oh, and if you're late, you have to pay based on how late you are. Say your shift starts at 7p, and you get there at 8, that's an extra $100 to the house, I believe it was $50 per half hour at the time. And you ARENT ALLOWED to leave during your shift, and at closing time you have to wait until all the patrons to leave the parking lot before you can go to your car. This is supposed to be for the safety of the girls, and to prevent them from turning tricks during their shift, so I guess that part is sort of a good thing. Ahhh, the things I learned dating a stripper, good times, good times. Most weekend nights, she would still clear $500. Oh, I forgot the part where if you're the boyfriend, all of a sudden it's MY job to pay for your trip to the Abortionplex!

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<blockquote>Phillips also ruled that the chain is required to grant all dancers in their clubs employee status within six months </blockquote> The strip club gets<i> six months</i> to have the strippers fill out W4s? Sweet Jebus that's ridiculous. It takes five minutes.

Of course, being strippers and employees with (you'd hope) health insurance, they'll all want free birth control and/or free Obamacare abortions when they get legitimately raped. So I guess the Spearment Rhino "gentlemans' club" is yet another victim of creeping Sharia Law/socialized medicine.

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$500,000 a year? Let's say each young lady works 50 weeks a year - just to keep the math simple. That's $10,000 a week. Five nights a week? $2,000 per shift.

Work 10 hours per night? OK - $200 an hour. Serious tips, indeed...

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