{"id":28537,"date":"2025-04-07T09:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28537"},"modified":"2025-04-07T09:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:24:54","slug":"international-beaver-day-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/international-beaver-day-update\/","title":{"rendered":"International Beaver Day update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/a7596caf90778f2670886c052ec2fc53\/international-beaver-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Beaver Day<\/a>. I recommend you celebrate with a Beaver Eater shot at Bardog.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Bardog, allow me to share a few quotes from the folks sitting at the bar yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have britches, slash, trousers on, you\u2019re a solid guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s Putin\u2019s last name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I added a couple of quotes of my own. \u201cIf your kid is born on March 15, you can name him Brutus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s acceptable to name your dog Adolf if he\u2019s a German shepherd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone ordered a round of breakfast shots, with orange juice and bacon chasers. \u201cThey should open a bar inside DGX and serve a discount version of breakfast shots,\u201d I said. \u201cThey could use <a href=\"https:\/\/culinarylore.com\/food-history:what-happened-to-sizzlean-bacon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sizzlean<\/a> instead of bacon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Internet turns 56 today. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/datatracker.ietf.org\/doc\/html\/rfc1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RFC 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">The restaurant formally known as Wingman, on Madison across the street from the Brass Door, is now called Neon Nights Lounge. Wings still feature heavily on the menu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">A few days ago, I mentioned you could get a\u00e7ai bowls at Memphis Chess Club. There\u2019s another place on Madison that has them too. That would be Downtown Nutrition next-door to Wi &#8211; er, Neon Nights Lounge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The civil rights museum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/04\/06\/national-civil-rights-museum-temporarily-closes-after-flooding-severe-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will be closed today<\/a> due to flooding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/foodees-food-and-culture-festival-memphis-tennessee-tickets-1069290399369?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foodees Food and Culture Festival<\/a> happens this weekend in Tom Lee Park. 50 food trucks and vendors. Jewelry, arts and crafts. Free admission.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta go. 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Speaking of Bardog, allow me to share a few quotes from the folks sitting at the bar yesterday. \u201cIf you have britches, slash, trousers on, you\u2019re a solid guy.\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s Putin\u2019s last name?\u201d I added a couple of quotes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/international-beaver-day-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International Beaver Day update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28538,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537\/revisions\/28538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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