But in the end the thumping turned out to be the strange, underwaterish rhythm of 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport', coming from a small transistor radio belonging to a fed-up-looking North Countryman with a big family and sand in his turn-ups.

"Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago[…]

1977, Betty H. K. Dee, The Aerobic Bacterial Flora of the Intestinal Tract of Marine Fishes:

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