Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 18, 2019

Nice name for a bar. We have one in town called " Cal lthe Office "

But they take 80% of the company profits.

Must be one of the trumpster’s places.

Executives – specimens for whom the glass is always half-empty and smells of opportunity.

I thought the martini lunch was to forget all of those things.

Designed to ease the pain of realization

Y’know most folks who’re obscenely rich didn’t get that way while being slothful. The rest seems right.

Did you post it on Yelp?

I’ll have tee martunies please

I thought ascribing negative characteristics to an entire group of people was a hallmark of the inferior mentalities on the political Right.

Yet when I accuse Wiley of harboring a deep-seated prejudice against businessmen, he says it’s just a joke.

I’ve seen plenty of pictures of sloths on the interwebz and not once have they impressed me as something I’d like to drink.

This HAS to be in trump tower…

Creating bar names to target a specific clientele is fun. Bars for attorneys is a good beginning: Convicted, Acquitted, Hung Jury and the problematic Disbarred. A bar for car collectors: The Rusty Dipstick. NASCAR fans: Spinout.

I always thought “3 martini lunch” was just an expression…and then I went to work on Wall Street in 1979.

So Bill Gates and Warren Buffett? The stereotypes are tedious.

The type can be sometimes shaken, but never stirred.

Makes me think of the old Iggy Pop lyric – “I’m bored. I’m the chairman of the bored…”

And for their employees: “There stands the glass – fill it up to the brim – make my troubles grow dim – it’s my first one today.”

I love a good Martini. Very dry please.

I don’t really think “sloth” fits. You have to be driven to swim with the sharks.

I’ve thought of opening a rather small place, and calling it “Silencio!” There would be no TV screens, no WiFi, no music, no pool tables, no video games, no dart board, no newspaper boxes, no seating at the bar, tables would sit only two, cell phones and similar devices would be blocked, guns are absolutely prohibited, and any conversation that could be overheard more than one table away would result in those persons’ immediate eviction from the premises. I wouldn’t make any money, but I would love the peace and quiet.

There use to be a bar in a small town in central New York called “The Town Pump.”

I met my wife of 40 years in a bar in Hollywood called “J Sloans a saloon”

The sign for the bar is The Bored Room as opposed to a Board Room you’d find in an office. Seems the former is an oxymoron if Bar were to follow