So they put me waiting tables, slinging beer.

"There's a sense of finding something down here, of discovering a spot," Mr. Rennie said, slinging beer in his bar's basement.

The waitresses slinging beers in Catholic-schoolgirl outfits are kinda weird, but hey, this is a funky old place that flips the bird to political correctness - if the old-fashioned cigarette machine is any indication.

In one advertisement running constantly against Propositions 30 and 31, a trio of sleazy-looking lowlifes, in greasy hair and lounge lizard shirts, sling beer bottles as they discuss a scheme to bilk insurance companies in a scam called the "swoop and squat."