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Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Nick » Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:17 pm

Mine is GTs. Don't make it there as much as I'd like though. Annie and Mike rule. As does Lanny. Does he still work there?

What's yours?

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by joseph » Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:23 pm

who are you? COPS arent allowed

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by DaVo » Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:31 pm

Nick wrote:Mine is GTs. Don't make it there as much as I'd like though. Annie and Mike rule. As does Lanny. Does he still work there?

What's yours?
Yup Lanny is there every Friday and KungFu on Sundays.

I don't know it's a toss up. GTs is OK but I always feel like I'm going to bump into someone. KungFu is better laid out and they have the covered patio. Lately one of my favorites is Cooney's. The Heman Woman Haters Club was meeting up there for a while on Mondays but we've all been too broke or too busy.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by inx515xhell » Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:12 pm

i'd say gts or kung fu.
annie is fine.

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by joseph » Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:21 pm

inx515xhell wrote:annie is fine.
ive never seen you so tonguetied before

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by El Rhino » Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:24 pm

inx515xhell wrote:annie is fine.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Nick » Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:28 pm

DaVo wrote: Yup Lanny is there every Friday and KungFu on Sundays.

I don't know it's a toss up. GTs is OK but I always feel like I'm going to bump into someone. KungFu is better laid out and they have the covered patio. Lately one of my favorites is Cooney's. The Heman Woman Haters Club was meeting up there for a while on Mondays but we've all been too broke or too busy.
I assume you're talking about Cooney's in Beaverdale? That bar does rule. Awesome whiskey selection and decent beers on tap. Bunch of 'ol drunk Catholics in there most of the time it seems. Defintinely a bar I'll stop in at from time to time if I am ever in the neighborhood.

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by joseph » Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:35 pm

i got a related question- can somebody name me a bar that has no windows, tvs or a jukebox? in dsm, please

edit- the lift and mews dont count

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by DaVo » Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:05 pm

Nick wrote:
DaVo wrote: Yup Lanny is there every Friday and KungFu on Sundays.

I don't know it's a toss up. GTs is OK but I always feel like I'm going to bump into someone. KungFu is better laid out and they have the covered patio. Lately one of my favorites is Cooney's. The Heman Woman Haters Club was meeting up there for a while on Mondays but we've all been too broke or too busy.
I assume you're talking about Cooney's in Beaverdale? That bar does rule. Awesome whiskey selection and decent beers on tap. Bunch of 'ol drunk Catholics in there most of the time it seems. Defintinely a bar I'll stop in at from time to time if I am ever in the neighborhood.
Yup and the pints are still the cheapest in town. We used to go there every Sunday night back in the day cause everything else was closed except the sports bars. I think we are the reason they don't sell car bombs or Jagermeister. All hail the Guinness Summer of 97.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Beaver » Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:34 pm

I'm a bar whore so I don't think I have one. If I did would say:

Kung Fu - close, cheap, good people, always characters on a saturday afternoon.

Vaudeville Mews back bar - seasonal, cheap drinks 24/7 ftw, good dudes, comedy, hot drunken skanks to spit at, bro dudes to shove

Club 2000- lol I said it. Southside trash at its finest.

Locust Tap - just only started frequenting regularly. Reminds of Lucky's. The yuppies, suck though.

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Big Fat Retard » Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:46 pm

Beaver wrote: Locust Tap - just only started frequenting regularly. Reminds of Lucky's. The yuppies, suck though.
Locust Tap was pretty cool before the Yuppie infiltration. They used to sell High Life and PBR by the quart for $3. I went in there about two weeks ago and ordered a quart of MHL and they looked at me like I was a big fat retard.

i'd have to say my favorites at the moment are The Hull and Fong's.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Bullet Tooth » Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:59 pm

liars club.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Big Fat Retard » Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:10 pm

Bullet Tooth wrote:liars club.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Bullet Tooth » Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:27 pm

Big Fat Retard wrote:
Bullet Tooth wrote:liars club.
gay
i thought you liked whores. my bad.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by noel_nothing » Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:16 pm

gt & kung fu, though i've only been to kung fu once, i thought it was really nice.

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Big Fat Retard » Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:35 am

Bullet Tooth wrote:
Big Fat Retard wrote:
Bullet Tooth wrote:liars club.
gay
i thought you liked whores. my bad.
I love whores. I don't like the Liar's Club.

Went to the Underground for the first time tonight. Cool place. The Wednesday night jam is alotta fun. I just wish they'd have some cheaper beer available, but I'd still go back.

Something about the men's bathroom made me want to snort lines off the top of the urinal.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Nick » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:13 am

Big Fat Retard wrote:Went to the Underground for the first time tonight. Cool place.
It's not bad for a hipster bar. Good jukebox anyway. Nice pool tables and real dartboards are always key.

A guy that my girlfriend went to school with co-owns the place.

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by joseph » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:23 am

Nick wrote:
Big Fat Retard wrote:Went to the Underground for the first time tonight. Cool place.
It's not bad for a hipster bar. Good jukebox anyway. Nice pool tables and real dartboards are always key.

A guy that my girlfriend went to school with co-owns the place.
hipster? good jukebox?


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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by robdigi » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:50 am

When I lived in DSM I rarely went to the bars I actually liked because my friends never wanted to leave the suburbs.

So while GTs or The Lift were my favorites, you could usually find me posted up at the motherfuckin' VALLEY WEST PUB.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Nick » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:58 am

robdigi wrote:When I lived in DSM I rarely went to the bars I actually liked because my friends never wanted to leave the suburbs.
This is how it used to be for me as well. I always seemed to spend most of my time with my friends at The Pub in Waukee, which sucked hard.

Now I rarely go to bars, but if I do, it is usually something close to home like O'Malley's on NE 14th - it's a local COP bar.

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by baron.von.wasteland » Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:53 pm

joseph wrote:i got a related question- can somebody name me a bar that has no windows, tvs or a jukebox? in dsm, please

edit- the lift and mews dont count
The bar in my basement.

Even has a puke bucket.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by baron.von.wasteland » Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:54 pm

joseph wrote:
inx515xhell wrote:annie is fine.
ive never seen you so tonguetied before
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by joseph » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:07 pm

baron.von.wasteland wrote:
joseph wrote:i got a related question- can somebody name me a bar that has no windows, tvs or a jukebox? in dsm, please

edit- the lift and mews dont count
The bar in my basement.

Even has a puke bucket.
yes it does. its stuck on the poker channel though

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by baron.von.wasteland » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:31 pm

I like Kung Fu for the Fatty. Like GT too but it creeps me out sometimes...

Favorite bar in Des Moines, or anywhere EVER, was definitely the WALNUT TAP when the dudes owned it. And it failed miserably. Des Moines people... I dunno put something sweet and awesome in front of them and they'll just say THAT'S STOOPIT, WHERE'S THE CHEETOS.

Not everybody though. No offense to cheetos.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by servo » Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:11 pm

i dont think theres a single bar in des moines in which i feel fully comfortable. other people are hell.
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by inx515xhell » Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:13 pm

maybe it's because you thrive on being a pompous ass to people and try to insult them in ways that you think only you can understand, and that you're afraid of getting your fucking face split open by someone who is not amused by your pathetic little "social experiments".

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Joe » Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:14 pm

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by servo » Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:26 pm

i would love an example in which i did that within the past 24 months
i mean, im sure i have, especially to drunk jerks on 4th
but yeah, thats totally my thing and i do it all the time
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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by Hank Fist » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:22 pm

this reminds of the guy with the big shoes at UTM v.4 that got really pissed when he got called out. Hope to see him at v.5.

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Re: Favorite bar in Des Moines?

Post by kristy » Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:21 pm

remember how i totally won that bet? size 22s, baby.

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