My little sister got a new job finally. At Hooters.

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I hope they won't serve meatballs.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:36 (twenty years ago) link

Hooters is great.

― Calum, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:39 (twenty years ago) link

no, hooters ARE great.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:43 (twenty years ago) link

I have been to Hooters a lot, one of my friends (who happens to be gay) is in love with Hooters. It's bizarre, it's always me, him, and some random Israeli dude, all of his roommates are Israelis. And the waitresses. I have a shirt from Hooters, I'm pretty jealous of my sister, because I kept threatening to go work at Hooters but SHE ACTUALLY DID IT.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:46 (twenty years ago) link

at one of the places I used to work at in Chicago, we'd order Hooters for dinner all the time. I've eaten the food, but never been in one. Unfortunately, not long after I started this job I went veggie.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:48 (twenty years ago) link

I have been to the original Hooters in Clearwater, business lunch. The girls were ok if you like stripperly types. I could gawk at women at Clearwater beach without having to pay for crap food if I wanted to do that.

Hooters has had many sexual harrassment lawsuits against it. I guess that is pretty much expected.

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

Am I the only one who keeps misreading the word "tips" on this thread? Yes? Okay. I'm off to perform penance.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:50 (twenty years ago) link

OK, my dad clarified his misplaced blame: he believes this is the result of me giving my sister shiny leather pants.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:51 (twenty years ago) link

"Shiny, shiny, shiny pants of leather..."

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:53 (twenty years ago) link

I'm off to perform penance.

That's a new way of putting it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:55 (twenty years ago) link

h - Yet again, I kiss you!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:55 (twenty years ago) link

just no tongue - mind my lipstick.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:58 (twenty years ago) link

I think the worst thing about Hooters is that they make them wear nude hose with shorts and white Reeboks. ::shudder::

http://www.originalhooters.com/saga/images/product1.jpeg

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:58 (twenty years ago) link

Aren't you wearing your own leather pants over there, Han Solo?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

Y'know...

I just have to ask: What in Holy Fuck is the deal with this vapid tone among Young College Intellectuals that seems to deride any playful expressions of the "straight male mindset" as being completely deplorable and "neanderthal"? And why do I get the feeling that those same YCI's would have "fuck-all" to say about, say, a known gay entertainer publicly drooling over which straight male celebs he'd love to see half-naked and greased up (something I've come across on a few occasions, in some of the movie/entertainment rags), for example???

I mean, not trying to start a fight here (although I doubt that'll fend off some of ILX's more Righteous types), but I'm just openly wondering...

― absolute skittles, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

i'm going to open a rival chain for women called Nads, where there will be hot male waiters in extremely short yet loose shorts.

Supposedly there's a sports bar in Baltimore called Balls. No information on the staff uniform available.

Then my friend Jacki and were joking about opening a restaurant to be called Buns, featuring waiters in bike shorts and half-shirts.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

America is proud.

― Sarah MCLusky (coco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

Dude, both me and my sister are Young College Intellectuals, and we're like living our lives on the basis of the straight male mindset.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:09 (twenty years ago) link

Skittles, I don't really sense that tone here. First of all a few people here seem very enthusastic about Hooters. The rest (including myself) seem to feel that Hooters=just-not-titaliting-and-rather hilarous instead of "deplorable and "neanderthal".

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

Skittles, you are bang on but to be fair that tone is more prevalent at ILM and Ally has never given me the impression that she's of this opinion (I mean, she's just started a thread on Hooters).

― Calum, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

The real urgent and key question is who is the entertainer, and who does he want to see greased up? I'm betting it's Nathan Lane discussing Matthew Broderick.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link

Skittles, I think your descriptions of ILXers as "righteous" and "hipsters" is a little unfounded. I for one, am so far from being either of those it's a joke. Maybe even hip!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link

Hey I know straight guys like to look at T&A. Big deal. This in and of itself is hardly offensive.

-Old, unhip, former college intellectual

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:19 (twenty years ago) link

But Nordicskillz, It's hip to deny you're a hipster!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:19 (twenty years ago) link

there are a lot of strip clubs that serve food, y'know. Somehow, this does not appeal to me (despite being a fan of both naked girls and food).

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:20 (twenty years ago) link

Besides, what is U&K is that we discuss those horrid, horrid uniforms.

come on Ally, I know you hate nude hose! Would you really want to work there and be forced to wear them?

(stence, I'd be afraid of the ol' pubic hair in the soup.)

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

Hose with shorts is a horrible idea.

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:22 (twenty years ago) link

Besides, what is U&K is that we discuss those horrid, horrid uniforms.

I've never understood them. Bright orange is appealing? To whom?

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:22 (twenty years ago) link

ddg, soup would be the last thing I'd order in a strip club.

The first thing would be a lapdance, of course.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

Bright orange is appealing? To whom?

semafore workers?

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

Murderers?

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

Where are you from, skittles, that is so square that it makes ILX seem like hipstermania by comparison?

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

Skittles: You have a point but part of this has to do with the restaurant setting. There's a notion (which the Hooters chain subtly encourages) that male restaurant patrons are entitled to ogle and maybe even grope female waitstaff, by virtue of their service role. And I admit that my "Buns" concept does play off a gender-bent version of this same dynamic.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

Bright orange is appealing? To whom?
Tell this to Puma, please!

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

I've never understood them. Bright orange is appealing? To whom?

Hunters, when not looking for deer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

But Nordicskillz, It's hip to deny you're a hipster!

That was the point of my last sentence, it just wasn't put well...A hipster would never make a mistake like that! Or would they?

Bright orange is often symbolic of madness. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

I wore a bright orange shirt the first time I met all the NYC ILXors.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

I am currently wearing a bright orange shirt.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link

To be honest, I think I was reacting mostly to the tone of Adam's post -- "I got dragged to Hooters not once but twice last year for "business lunches"--the IMAX Corporation is perhaps not as sophisticated as some. The food was _awful_--even the fries were foul. Also the girls were ugly in that fresh-out-of-rural-Louisiana way, with the eyes a little too far apart" -- more than anything. The "YCI/righteous" comments were definitely tongue-in-cheek...

However, J.Lu, if you're opening a Buns joint in the Chicagoland area, feel free to send an application MY way...

― absolute skittles, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link

The color of my candy-coated shell is, indeed, bright orange...

― absolute skittles, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link

A coupla years ago I saw a former high school classmate at a bar where I was working. Turned out he was a Hooters manager. He looked me up and down really creepily and offered me a job.

It was just strange to see someone I hadn't seen in years and have him commenting on my tits rather than the usual pleasantries.

I'd look horrible in orange, anyway.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:34 (twenty years ago) link

Hooters has a fantastic fried grouper sandwich (I was all-the-way veggie for a moment there, but I can't give up da fish, bullocks!). A girl I work with here works nights at Hooters. We ordered food from there the other day and her friend brought it. She was gorgeous, and wearing (slightly hippie-ish) street clothes.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

my one trip to hooters (also an "after work get together", although this was planned by us plebes not the higher ups) was like eating at bennigans minus the crazy crap on the walls with ugly, poorly dressed waitresses. dud.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

also anonymous "new" (probably old, regular) posters creating ilx strawmen: dud.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

"ilx strawmen" = the new Star Wars figures?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 15:00 (twenty years ago) link

Very flammable. Sacrificial idols perhaps? Wicker Men?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

also anonymous "new" (probably old, regular) posters creating ilx strawmen: dud.

Eat me, jess

(kidding)

― Geir Honky, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 15:04 (twenty years ago) link

All I'm saying is that everyone is right about the hose.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

I myself have never been to a Hooters. I like the hardcore shit, like the Foxy Lady's "Legs and Eggs Saturdays".

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

Foxy Lady's probably pays much better, too.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

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http://ox.eicat.ca/~scarruthers/ilx/pope-dan.jpg

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Buca di Beppo was it?

― peter james, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Look, I don't have time to read through this whole thread. Is it ok to just assume that your sister met the guy she married while serving him at Hooters?

Also, can we talk about the thinking behind the Hooters mascot being an owl with human breasts for eyes?

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

the milk of wisdom? breasts=windows to the soul?

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I went into a Hooter's for the first time this weekend and the smell of fried food and ketchup was so overpowering I nearly wretched. And I like fried food and ketchup.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

spencer, for you, i will make them change their romance story to that one.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm finding it hard to shake the image in my mind of an owl with human breasts for eyes trying to get to the center of a tootsie roll (TOOTSIE ROLL!) pop.

Also, owls are assholes because of their annoyingly superior and withering gaze, but with human breasts for eyes, they're really something else aren't they?

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

You've put forward this "owls are assholes" thesis before, haven't you?

― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

It's Onion based:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/35819

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

iraqis consider owls to be stupid and calling someone an owl is an insult.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

but really, just do a google image search for owl and you'll see what I mean. They don't think very much of us.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i must say that i don't care much for owls either

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

This is what I do to owls:

http://rrc.boisestate.edu/Student%20Projects/N%20Taylor%20project/bucket%20o%20Bur%20Owls.jpg

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

thats right, PUT THEM IN A PLASTIC BUCKET

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

they are just going to fly out.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/ihasabukkets1.jpg

― Laurel, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I CLIPPED THEIR SMUG LITTLE WINGS

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

not with enough cement they won't

xposts

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i fucking love owls, they are so totally the black-sheep bad-asses of the bird of prey family.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

oh laurel that fucking rules!

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I AM OWL MAN

― Eisbaer, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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