1.   But some patrons insist that the ignorance is in direct proportion to the number of empty Guinness glasses littering the tables.

2.   Empty beer bottles littered the tables by the time Baxter Black, an impish man in an orange shirt, climbed the stage to read poetry.

3.   Empty water glasses and scraps of paper littered the tables.

4.   Gone are the drafting tables littered with sketch paper and tiny pencil nubs, chewed rough by nervous architects.

5.   It is such a tribute to excess that tables are littered with the corpses of half-eaten Mont Blancs.

6.   Solid jade vases, perfume decanters made of amethyst and carved Chinese and Japanese sculptures littered the tables.

7.   Tinker toys littered the table as the eight women and one man chatted, settled their children and ordered BLT sandwiches and iced tea with lemon.

8.   Cigarette-filled ashtrays, watermelon rinds and beer bottles littered the tables.