R.I.P. Hooters Founder Guy

The founder of the Hooters chain of restaurants (apparently, those hot chicks are there to serve food!) has passed away. A true American hero and restaurant revolutionary, Robert Brooks kicked the chicken bucket and sprouted spicy buffalo angel wings so he could fly up to heaven this past Sunday. Brooks is the marketing pioneer who realized that if pantyhose and short shorts were sexy enough for the Three's Company gals, then they'd be sexy enough for his waitstaff well into the 21st century.

Robert H. Brooks
1936 - July 16, 2006

Thanks to Brooks, Hooters restaurants have paved the way for other innuendo-based eateries like the Pink Taco (no, really). Brooks' legacy will live on only if other restaurants named after sexual euphemisms continue to be founded, so here's looking to a bright future of fast-food chains with names like The Bearded Clam Shack, The Baloney Pony Deli, The Nice Rack Ribhouse, Funbags Sack Lunches and The Hard Rock Cafe: Vagina Town. Insert your own "Knockers," "Jugs," "Honeypot," "Weenie" and "Beef Curtains" jokes here.