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| Okay, hive mind, I have an interesting case for you. I was listening to the latest episode of one of my three or four favorite podcasts, Judge John Hodgman, wherein he adjudicates minor disputes (with support from bailiff Jesse Thorn). John Hodgman is known to most as the “I’m a PC” guy, though possibly also for his deranged millionaire spots on the Daily Show. In this recent podcast he ruminated on a topic that flatly mystified–but also intrigued–me. It touches on one of my very favorite topics, the culture of pub-going. (I have a whole section on it in The Beer Bible.) Here he turns to Portland, but espies something I don’t really recognize:
“There’s one city that I’ve been to in the United States, Jesse Thorn, where people line up at bars. They form an orderly line without being asked, and the line is sacrosanct. Can you guess what city in the United States that I’ve been to where this is part of the culture of the bar.” [Jesse guesses Walla Walla.]“You are not far off; it i … |
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