M; Anthropomorphic and Human BAR-FAUNA

CURRENT CONTENTS

Ark's bar *
Fubar / snafu
Gary the gator
Hamlet's ghostly dream
Lack of enlightenment **
Lizards' lair *
Medical watering hole
Monster-bar *
Mule 
Sober October *
Underground bar

*   embedded illustrations courtesy of Unsplash

* *  ditto, for NASA; 

other photos were taken by the author

Authors' Note:  

barista: Italian for bartender at an establishment serving either coffee-based drinks or alcholic beverages.

The story of the primal flood and Noah's Ark provides some opportunity for speculation, as here. What space for care and facilities for recreation were provided for the animals fortunate enough to be selected to board and avoid the environmental destruction that otherwise awaited them? These passengers were slated to become the basis for repopulation of the planet after the floodwaters receded. (One might also ask about the facilities for the animal husbandry crew, but that's another question.) Previous authors seem to have given little thought to these issues. 

The authors, on occasion, visit a waterside watering-hole, known as "Art's Bar", whose name, transmogrified, gave birth to the current fantasy.  

Author’s Note: Slang expressions derived from the American military in the 1940s, FUBAR (used primarily as an adjective), and SNAFU (used primarily as a noun) were initialisms for F***ed up Beyond All Repair, and Situation Normal, All F***ed Up, respectively. In more polite situations, the F-word is explained as “fouled”. The use of SNAFU has become more commonplace, and is now often written without the capitals. Snafu has come to have a more targeted meaning, implying a specific obstacle or a glitch in a projected plan. The usage of fubar has currently receded, but it seemed worth mentioning in relation to Fulton’s bar.

Author’s Note: “See you later, alligator” with a funky stress of the final word, is an idiom used in the southern United States. In the 1950s, it sparked an eponymous hit song by the rock group Bill Haley and His Comets.

The American alligator, Alligator misissippiensis, once endangered, now thrives in an extensive portion of the country. The large reptile is less aggressive towards human than its crocodilian relatives. Nonetheless, over 30 fatal attacks have been recorded in the last five decades. The story described above in verse, dealing with an attack in a food-service location, is apocryphal.

Authors' Note: 

dietary: (DYE-eh-t'ree, as here, or DYE-uh-tay-ree): a hospital department best known for producing meal trays to be distributed to in-patients.

 This verse is dedicated to the proposition that bars located near hospitals may be viewing-places of partiular interest. And yes! Dr. Korn is likely the medical centre's sole specialist-practitioner in his area of interest.

Authors' Note:  The golem, an entity from Jewish folklore, is likely the least well-known of the supernatural beings participating in this story. Made entirely of inanimate matter, e.g. mud or clay, this sizable being can classically be either a victim or villain, and connote hope or despair. In more recent popular culture, it refers to any crude automaton devised by a sorcerer.

Although she apparently has few close friends, “Nessie” is a nickname for Scotland’s famed Loch Ness monster.

Authors' Note: A mule, formerly known as a buck, makes a wonderful mixed drink on a very hot day. Its key ingredients are ginger beer (ideally the opaque soapy extract bottled in the Caribbean), citrus juice (most often freshly squeezed lime), and a variety of liquors. In the concoction’s most common form, the Moscow mule, vodka is used as the source of alcohol.

 

Author's Note: This verse, borrowed from OEDILF, deals with seasonal underage drinking on the Canadian prairies; click HERE.

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