This Week for Happy Hour: Twitter Transmitter

Thanks to everyone who sent in pictures for the “Choose Matt Murphy’s Twitter Icon” Contest.  It was a big hit and a really fun, albeit horrifying, selection process.   

This week for Happy Hour, Rhino is doing the usual half-price 5-9pm happy hour.  But this week’s bhlog is dedicated to some of the best submissions that the contest received – and will reveal the winner of the contest and Murph’s new Twitter Icon!

But first, make sure to follow Matt Murphy on Twitter at: @murphyabides  

You'll get informed on Rhino specials, and will be graced with the man's skewed and peculiar wit for free!

We've performed you a frickin' service (disservice?) and have removed all of the images with hardcore nudity and/or Rhino customers' faces, so breathe easy.  And now, with no further ado, here’s the countdown to the winner:

10.

Nerds!

9.

Fail?

8.

Fight Club's bar sign?

7.

Double middle finger salute from the world's most respectful nationality.  Wonderful.

6.

This explains a lot, but I'm guessing it's not the Dupont Circle stop.

5.

Really?  Even Jack the Bulldog looks put off.

4.

I like that the onlooker is applauding.

3.

I've heard there's a bladder inside boxed wine, but that's ridiculous.

2.

Points for concision.

1.

Winner: Hogan Knee, Brother!

The winning "Hogan Knee" image was submitted by none other than Powerful Doug Laux, who may redeem his as-promised free beer or cocktail anytime in the next fortnight.  Look at the Hulk, look how casual his face is despite his dynamism.  Amazing.

Thanks again to everyone who submitted a pic!

Don’t forget to follow Matt Murphy on Twitter at: @murphyabides  And if you're already on Twitter, send Hulk Hogan a Tweet and let him know that he's being honored, Brother!

See you at the white marble!

Cheers!

This Week for Happy Hour: Back to the Brewski

I know, I know.  It’s April 20, 4/20, National Weed Smoker’s Day.  But that commonplace commemoration is silly, and frankly, Rhino bar don’t sell no wacky tobacky.  Clinking glasses to herb is like singing the Canadian National Anthem at a baseball game, and I won’t have it.  Good day, sir.

So, this week all drinks are half price at Rhino happy hour, 5-9pm, to honor prodigious actor and super weirdo Crispin Hellion Glover, who turns 48 years old today.

Supercuts victim.

You probably remember Crispin best from his unforgettable performance as George McFly in Back to the Future.  Gotta love when he finally grows a pair and stands up to Biff, that big dumb galoot:

After he knocks Biff on his Tanner and lays the heat down on Loraine he gets a little cock-strong and goes around town ordering chocolate milks left and right like he's the Mayor or something.  Would have been funnier, I think, if he’d started drinking peach schnapps on the reg with ol’ Loraine in that sweet Buick, but hey, 1955 and all.  Either way, Georgie did the right thing and got the lady, while Biff got covered in doodie.

Anyway, it got me thinking about how that movie came out in 1985 and was about going back in time 30 years, and how in only 3 years 1985 will be 30 years ago.  Which didn’t seem all that long ago until I realized that this thing I’m writing on and this thing you’re reading on and the middleman that makes it possible hadn’t been invented yet.  And now, all of a sudden, Crispin seems kind of old.  His hair style aside.

Hell, he's 48, and BTF is 28.  So let's show some appreciation, and raise a glass to time traveling at Rhino tonight.  You’re downstairs, you do some shots, boom: it’s an hour later and you’re upstairs with a beer in your hand, talking to a stranger.  You down your beer, boom: you wake up the next morning in the big green chair on the lawn of the Duke Ellington School and for some reason you’re wearing two different shoes.

Well, that’s time travel, my friends, and it don’t require no DeLorean.  It’s for sale – half price, in fact.

See you at the White Marble!

Cheers!