All I know is my gut says "maybe".

He's Belloq to Mario's Indy - a dark reflection.

If wizards were real, I suppose I would agree.

At least they're out in the sun and fresh air, running around. There aren't exactly a surfeit of nerdy activities which encourage that.

The booze is cheap. This is also the reason I frequent the Blue Parrot instead of Rick's.

Perhaps I have a skewed perspective because I come from a place with sunshine and sand, but no water. That said, how is the "Club Tropicana" lyric weird, or even particularly difficult to parse?

I live in Portland, Oregon these days.

And the ladies need not abandon their collections of corsets.

The District Tavern in Tucson, Arizona has a similar special to this day. A shot of Old Crow and a bottle of Miller High Life for $3.

The local brews are delicious, but you'll certainly pay for them.

Just dummy up and you'll be on the trolley.

Couldn't one just leave regular "goth clothes" in the sun? One would be transformed into a symphony of indifferent greys, lavenders, and pinks.

Oh, but that's the best part.

Well, I do need a new umbrella…

One of the ladies distributed a bottle to each employee that was working that day. Everyone got one with their name on it except me. Mine said that I should share a Coke with "a friend".

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The target demographic for those bottles appears to be middle-aged women. Every office I've worked in these past few months has a small contingent of gals that cannot get enough of them.

More of a Nero Wolfe fan, are we?

In addition to being the largest, he is also the most intelligent. Potentially the Khan Noonien Singh of the Chipmunk cosmology.

Surely the Chipmunks animated movie, which involved a race around the world, smuggling, and several musical numbers, would be better source material?