Don't Know Tavern knows cooking
It's just impossible not to try to write a headline that's a pun on the name Don't Know Tavern, the place Other Reviewer Richard wrote about so positively in today's paper.
I should have a contest to see if you can come up with a better one than mine or the one on the original review. Give us your best shot.
The owner of Don't Know, by the way, is the Jason who is a frequent commenter here.
Go Terps.
(Gene Sweeney Jr./Sun photographer)
Comments
Don't Know Tavern Does
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | March 19, 2009 7:19 PM
That's a good one, RiE! I've always liked bars that are named to answer the question "where are you going"? There are several here besides Don't Know.
There used to be a bar in Wichita named "The Library". (I know, I know, someone's gonna say "I drove through Kansas once" followed by (1) "there's nothing there", or (2) "it's so FLAT!" or (3) "no wonder Dorothy wanted to leave".
Posted by: Carol in Hampden | March 19, 2009 9:48 PM
Carol, there is a strip club in Las Vegas called "The Library." Ran into a guy in an airport once who was wearing one of their t-shirts. He told me he was a big librarian fan.
Posted by: Lissa | March 20, 2009 6:32 AM
Well, if Richard's review had appeared on Saint Patrick's Day, and perhaps had involved Rocking Zombies, you could have gone with "Don't Know Tavern on the Green Day of the Living Dead."
But yeah, OK, I guess that's a stretch....
Posted by: Zevonista | March 20, 2009 7:49 AM
A friend whose husband was stationed in Kansas claimed that Kansas was so flat that July 4, you stand in the middle and watch fireworks on both ends of the state.
Posted by: Eve | March 20, 2009 8:29 AM
When I was an undergrad at the University of TN, there was a bar on the strip called the Library. Students could call home and say "Boy, Mom, I was at the library for HOURS last night, and I have to go again tonight" and she'd be so proud. Harder to explain the low grades after that, though . . .
Posted by: KristinB | March 20, 2009 9:36 AM
Lissa wrote: Carol, there is a strip club in Las Vegas called "The Library." Ran into a guy in an airport once who was wearing one of their t-shirts. He told me he was a big librarian fan.
I don't think it's the same place,,,
Eve wrote: A friend whose husband was stationed in Kansas claimed that Kansas was so flat that July 4, you stand in the middle and watch fireworks on both ends of the state.
That's my home. Go Jayhawks!
Posted by: Carol in Hampden | March 21, 2009 1:42 AM
what's a jayhawk?
Posted by: doug | March 21, 2009 11:24 AM
permission to board landlubbers ... using the rules of the horizon for sailing and converting from nautical to statute miles, kansas is 400 miles across so 200 each way in the middle the fireworks would have to reach an altitude of 7.5 miles to be seen. so no. Good fireworks that go up about 1300 feet can be seen 40 miles away by an average sized human.
Posted by: captain jim | March 21, 2009 12:05 PM
You are right, Captain Jim, even without taking into account that the eastern part of Kansas, at least by Kansas City, is rather hilly.
Doug, a jayhawk is a hawk that doesn't cross at the crosswalks and tends to cut in front of other hawks while they are trying to get to food.
Posted by: Lissa | March 21, 2009 1:44 PM
A Jayhawk is an imaginary bird, the mascot of the University of Kanas who won the NCAA tournament last year.
Posted by: Carol in Hampden | March 22, 2009 8:25 PM