The Rovers Return used to be the kind of pub where men would trade bar-room blows over some convincingly male, blue-collar issue (a dearth of pork scratchings, say, or who was the latest beau of heartbreaker Elsie Tanner).
The two countries were particularly keen to bring in Iran and Iraq, which are both Opec members, because they are both currently working hard to increase their output held back in the past by trade bars and war respectively.
Recruiting PeeWee Longway, the rappers trade bars back and forth so seamlessly that it feels like the duo entered the game together.
I have repeatedly watched grainy footage on Youtube where future stars like Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, Tinchy Stryder, and Lethal B trade bars and battle with each other.
When I was a street hustler in Denver in the 70s, you had to pick up johns in "trade" bars, of which there were three notorious specimens along Colfax Avenue.
If the panel determined that the firm had failed to cooperate, the exchange could fine it, take away some of the stocks that it trades, bar it from applying to trade new stocks or options or suspend it.
Ruskin was known and loved for trading bar tabs for art, and Max's soon was hung with such stuff as curators' dreams are made of, works by John Chamberlain, Dorothea Rockburne, Frank Stella, and so many other notables of their generation.
After a fiery jazz face-off, they end up, in deference to their host country, trading bars of Greensleeves and fragments of Beatles songs.
He's since collaborated with UK bass linchpin MJ Cole, traded bars with Dizzee Rascal, and is about to have his first big single released by Ministry of Sound.
It benefited further when the Securities and Exchange Commission suddenly changed its rules governing stock trading, barring investors from being able to bet against Goldman's shares by selling them short.
Following that metaphor with his kicks, the Yeezy Boost 750 is kind of like DJ Envy's Dream Team Paid in Fullmixtape, which featured a pre-College Dropout Kanye trading bars with the whole Roca-A-Fella clique.
