Ohhh this picture makes me crack up. I took it outside "The Sink," a bar in Boulder, Colorado when I was there a bit ago for a science conference. Yes, it says "STD Happy Hour." I forget what it was suppost to stand for, but it did have some other meaning.
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uhh... you were there for happy hour?
No, later than that. I'm not sure whether to be sad or grateful.
If you go to India, you will find a lot of shops carrying the sign 'STD Booth or STD facility inside' or variations thereof!
Apt to throw of a Western tourist unfamiliar with the term.
(STD stands for Subscribers Trunk Dialing which means long-distance calling within the country. Not everyone has long-distance calling activated on their home/cell phones and hence such booths are quite popular)
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the Sinks Two Dollar Happy Hour :P
Only in Boulder... Gotta love the hippies.
It should be translated as Socially Transmitted Diseases, in that the Sink is where I learned to waste most of my mind from the 50s to the 80s.