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Sorry, no gunz on M. I.

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There's a difference of opinion about that. You can hear both versions around the Great Lakes. One is "correct" and the other is "vernacular." Don't ask me which is which.

Kind of like going to NW Detroit and asking a bunch of folks to tell you the correct pronunciation of the street that the Redford Theater is located on. (And then ask them to explain why their answer is the correct one.) Pack a bag -- you're going to be there awhile.

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Men fight* like it's a ritual or a contest, and once it's over, it's over. Both fighters will realize and accept that one of them won and the other one lost and they will stop the fight at that point. Women fight like it's total war, and it is never, ever over. Neither one will ever accept that they lost or that the outcome is settled.

_____________________________________________* For real, not as in this incident, which was not a fight

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girls don't mess around. I see one break out, I'm humming "Gimme 3 Steps" while paying my bar tab.Signed, veteran of nearly every shitty biker bar from Tampa to Bangor.

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You call that a bar fight? I was in the High Times Tavern in Salem, Ohio on Christmas Eve, 1975, when a fight broke out. One of the participants kicked a bar stool really hard, and it shot up and hit my forearm and took out the top of my Genessee Cream Ale 16 Oz. (a Pounder). The bartender ran up and said, "Are you all right?" I held up my broken bottle and said, "I'm fine, but my beer was injured." He gave me a fresh one, no charge. Ah, the seventies.

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Run away! Run away!

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Unfortunately, the Republican campaign tool box only contains two tools: Attack and smear.

The Republican Debate, on the other hand, contained eleven tools.

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A guy could get blisters on his fingers clutching pearls like that.

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Who in the hell would go to a bar with a security camera?

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Stop bringing up my family we like our privacy and also too brawls as it is American past time many years ago when we ran the bells to warn the British that my virgin daughter Bristol was in the family way and Obama makes bad laws as he hates American and our constitutional rights are being denied such as also then we have lovely Mountains in Alaska. So take that you bunch of mansy pansy sissy boy liberals.

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That was fuckin lame...

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girls hit better than that - so do teddy bears -

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Those Grannies can be murder if you fuck with their markers!

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The US obviously has a much weaker grade of Yob than the UK

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I was in a bar out in the sticks. Nobody but me and a bunch of farmers. A couple of them got into a knock-down drag out brawl which included breaking chairs over heads. Not those breakaway chairs in action movies but real, heavy, wooden chairs. I had a fragment of one of those chairs for years until I lost it in a move. I doubt if Messers Yob or Beeson have been in anything worse than a pillow fight.

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