In characteristic Lisbon style, we take our beers and saunter off to another, contrasting, venue that has helped bolster Cais do Sodré's revival: B.Leza.
One of the biggest businesses seems to be the drugs that are sold through a telling handshake: the palm with contraband crosses the palm with cash and the traders saunter off in opposite directions.
As with Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock, if he isn't kept to the briefest of scenes, the white-haired sitcom god of Cheers could saunter off with the show.
Step forward Diego Costa, whose ability to spin bedlam out of thin air, then saunter off with a faux-innocent bemused look on his face, is second to none.
According to Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, whose work Graeme Gibson excerpts in THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF BEASTS: A Wildlife Miscellany (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $35), the appropriate reaction is to "walk purposefully away at an oblique angle without exciting the lion"; or, hope that the lion, too, would rather avoid a skirmish and will muster the decency to saunter off himself.
Steven Scalici, who has a new appreciation of time since his fight against prostate cancer this year, vows not to "race off the Staten Island Ferry," on his way to his Manhattan job as a transportation engineer, but rather to "saunter off like a laggard".
So viewers saunter off to the doctor to request a prescription, and often the doctor will dutifully fill it.
They saunter off, celebrating with their pals, still half-flaccid weapons slapping against their thighs.
They saunter off, celebrating with their mates, still half-flaccid weapons slapping against their thighs.
So before you saunter off to play an Oak-clad wallflower at your next dark techno afterhours, remember that it was a bunch of guys in stovetop hats and raggedy-ass coat-tails who used to throw insane ragers in Morgan Ave warehouses... and then set them on fire back in 1999.
