The bar has amazing spikes hanging above it, so everything they serve could be the last thing you ever eat or drink before a spike runs you through, which adds a certain twist to the whole thing.
The plant grows to a height of 6 metres (20 feet), producing hanging spikes of disagreeably scented white flowers.
The "hangroot", an alternative to the histogram, compares an empirical distribution with a theoretical distribution by means of "hanging" spikes from the theoretical distribution.
One of the easier Western species to grow, Banksia lemanniana has some horticultural potential in its attractive chocolate buds, green-yellow hanging flower spikes and large grey spikes with prominent follicles.
When more chairs were needed, he leapt onto the sofa and plucked four off the wall, where they were hanging from iron spikes.
In 2009, Sports Illustrated estimated that 78 percent of N.F.L. players go bankrupt or face serious financial stress within two years of hanging up their spikes.
They are the political equivalents of baseball players who take refuge in the broadcasting booth after hanging up their spikes (and who, in some instances, then scramble back into the game as team managers).
"A change of sport would perhaps mean hanging up the spikes and donning some other sporty kit, but it's very much at an early stage of I'm just thinking about it," she added.
I'm now four years into the Senate and I have not delivered any meaningful federal legislative success on this issue and to the extent I will run for re-election it is in part because, boy, I just can't imagine hanging up my spikes and having to sit down with Neil Heslin or whomever and tell them, 'Yeah, I didn't get it done.' It is different now.
Was that all there was to an execution, pounding a big metal spike into a man's head, then hanging him until he was almost dead but not quite, then taking him down and drawing and quartering him, then sewing him back together, then hanging him again, then shooting him full of arrows?
