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Default Less booze at work. Not PC enough?

Dr. Bruce wrote:
> Bryan Simmons wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 7:17:03 PM UTC-5, Taxed and Spent
>> wrote:
>>> On 4/14/2021 2:07 PM, Dr. Bruce wrote:
>>>> Bryan Simmons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 3:37:44 PM UTC-5, Dr. Bruce
>>> wrote: >>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/14/2021 3:55 PM, GM wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 2:37:41 PM UTC-5, Ed
>>> Pawlowski >>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 4/14/2021 3:26 PM, bruce bowser wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I've noticed that fewer bosses smoke in the building and
>>>>>>>>>> stash liquor in the bottom desk drawer. I guess its because
>>>>>>>>>> its not politically correct. Its still a shame.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Many places would fire you for any alcohol. I always had
>>> wine >>>>>> in the fridge at work. Nothing fancy, just a box of red
>>> and >>>>>> one of white.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Work culture - white collar at least - has really changed. I
>>>>>>>> watch a lot of older movies, office/work drinking was often
>>>>>>>> featured, as a butt of comedy, e.g. Pillow Talk, Will Success
>>>>>>>> Spoil Rock Hunter? ...or as tragedy, e.g. The Days of Wine
>>> and >>>>> Roses, The Apartment...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Lotsa ads in old issues of The New Yorker and the NY Times
>>> for >>>>> those "portable" bars that executives apparently touted
>>> around >>>>> on their travels, places like Hammacher Schlemer,
>>> Abercrombie & >>>>> Fitch had some very snazzy offerings...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Where my father worked in the late 1950s the two owners had
>>>>>>> offices side by side, but another room in between. It had a
>>> well >>>> stocked wet bar for when they had visitors.
>>>>>> Is a wet bar with alcohol and a dry bar with coca cola and
>>> orange >>> juice?
>>>>>>
>>>>> That is correct.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>> Of course that is not correct. A wet bar has running water. DUH.
>>>

>> A stupid question deserved a stupid answer.
>>
>> --Bryan

>
> Considering the US' anally retentive puritanism, where cider contains
> no alcohol etc, "wet bar" could mean anything as far as I'm concerned.
>


A wet bar is a fixture where a pedophile nurse washes the semen off
the basket bear.

The child (patient) never knows of the molestation.