"George points out that the image of Nebuchadnezzar II found on the newly translated stele is one of only four known representations of the biblical king."

My headline pointed out that they'd found Nebuchadnezzar's stele gaze.....

I get it! Drew drinks beer...ha haa haa!

It makes it easy to trace back your lineage when for the better part of a century the family tree looks like a festivus pole.

Golgafrincham, like all our ancestors.

And look at the sign they found outside.

FTA:

Apparently, if you have the female keeper put the beer on your tab during the summer, she will have the right to extract a tax from you, of unknown amount, in winter.

"If a female tavern-keeper gives [in] summer one beer-jar to someone on credit its nigdiri-tax will be [...] in win[ter]..." (Translation by Miguel Civil)

The lesson? If you live in ancient Mesopotamia don't put the beer on your tab.

In reality most societies did not have much in the way of money and most transactions between known parties were on credit. If the smallest coin could buy 20 beers than it would be hard to make change for just one. So everybody ran tabs that would be periodically be paid up say with a chicken or two.

What the law is probably talking about is the situation where a tab has not been paid for 6 months and interest kicking in.

Always pay cash - NEVER start a tab. I've been screwed by unscrupulous bartenders.

CaptainBeer: Always pay cash - NEVER start a tab. I've been screwed by unscrupulous bartenders.

Aye aye Captain!

Anyone catch him on Bob and Tom yesterday? I'm suprised there wasn't a thread on it. I didn't see it but my wife said his suggestion on how to keep baby jesus from getting stollen didn't go over well.

CaptainBeer: Always pay cash - NEVER start a tab. I've been screwed by unscrupulous bartenders.

I used to tend bar, and I liked it when people paid cash for drinks rather than starting a tab. People generally tip on a "per drink" basis (e.g. $1 or 50 cents) when paying cash each time, but if they settle a tab, they tip a certain percent. Usually, depending on the amount consumed, the tips from cash customers worked out to around 50%, but people who racked up a large tab on a credit card tipped anywhere from 10-20%.