Strange and Unusual facts about the Deadwood . . .

  1. Yes, we have a giant dolphin hanging in the bar, no Jim didn’t catch it illegally . . .
  2. There is a secret series of steam tunnels that runs underneath Iowa City and currently connects the Dublin Underground and the Deadwood – just in case prohibition is ever reinforced.
  3. Tommy, Jim Bell’s best friend is really a woman . . .
  4. Yes, Hunter S. Thompson was thrown out of the Deadwood for unsavory behavior in the mafia booth.
  5. Hoffa’s body and Al Capone’s vault are both in the basement of the Deadwood.
  6. Rory Brown (the owner of the Dublin Underground and Jim Bell’s friend) is really a leprechaun with a thyroid condition.
  7. The misshapen propeller hanging behind the bar is actually from a prop plane that Jim Bell crashed while on an archeological dig in South America.
  8. Jim Bell’s bar managers are really robots that he builds himself in the basement out of spare parts, stale beer and cigarette butts.
  9. The Deadwood is actually a front for an international crime syndicate known as the Central Intelligence Agency.
  10. One of the Deadwood’s employees was arrested and taken to jail for overdue library books. (Hey, at least the staff knows how to read . . .)
  11. The whole Where’s Waldo phenomenon is actually based on real life events from Jim Bell’s last trip to Mexico.
  12. The fish hanging behind the bar, contrary to popular belief, was not caught by Jim’s father – it was the other way around.
  13. Jim Bell never actually returned from his last trip to Mexico. The Jim Bell currently at large in Iowa City is really a Mexican clone sent to the United Sates to conquer Iowa City . . . and then the world.
  14. The horns hanging behind the bar are actually from Jim’s unborn twin that he had removed last year when he went to the doctor for his “knee surgery.”
  15. Chris Tones and John Mummey, on recent trip to Mexico, ate a man for calling them, “Los Guapos!”
  16. If you ever want to ask Jim Bell for something, talk into his left ear – he’ll simply smile and nod his head.