The recent passing of The Edge Pub at 303 Columbia (attached to the Columbia Hotel) has begotten us the new bar/nightclub called Whiskey Dix. I don’t know much about it beyond what I’ve seen and read on their website, which is to say that they spent a million dollars to be in “Gas Town” (sic), that their clientele is made up of young people (mostly pomaded dudes in vests), that they sell Dirty Hooker shots (real classy given this neck of the woods), and that there is no greater light than purple ones. All superb news if you’re into that sort of thing, but I must say that it’s nothing short of a miracle that the arbitrarily-driven liquor licensing police still haven’t smacked them down for having an explicitly booze-forward brand (verboten in Vancouver under Section 4, Article 9b of the Nanny No Fun City Act of 1975). Their inaction so far is made doubly astounding by their seeming acceptance of the word Dix, which could be misconstrued as a reference to every man’s personal appendage, which is also not allowed. The owners could counter-argue by pointing out that Dix is a reference to the cocaine and methamphetamine cocktail that the Germans invented for their troops in 1944, but I’d advise against that for a number of reasons. I know the nabobs are notoriously inconsistent with enforcement (witness the continued existence The Keg), but if they didn’t allow Moonshine on Gassy Jack Square (the name was changed to Six Acres), then this is just bizarre. We’re currently taking gentlemen wagers on how long it will take before Whiskey Dix is forced to change their name. My vote is for an attempted switch to “Vodka Pussy” at some time before Christmas. What about you?