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On Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:58:32 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2026-04-01, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 01/04/2026 06:42, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:44:12 +0200, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The plural of bar is bars,
>>> 
>>> Show me the was to the next whisky bar.
>>> I thought bar was one of those words that didn't have a plural form.
>>
>> Good lord. where did you get that idea?
>>
>> They aren't fish, or sheep...
> 
> Besides, how else would you describe how many stops you made on a pub
> crawl?
> "We hit six bars.  And then we had to walk home because our cell phone
> had no bars so we couldn't call a taxi."

"For if we don't find
The next whiskey bar
I tell you we must die"

Lightweights, stopping after 6. 

That song has one of the stranger backstories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_and_Fall_of_the_City_of_Mahagonny

Brecht's collaborator, Elisabeth Hauptmann, wrote 'Alabama Song' in 
English and it was always performed in English.

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