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Key West already had been dropping a pirate's wench at the Schooner Wharf bar and a conch shell at Sloppy Joe's bar, the old Ernest Hemingway haunt.

''We were trying to figure out what could top the conch shell,'' Schroeder said.

Inspiration came from the 1994 Australian cult hit, The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, which features two drag queens and a transsexual who travel across the Outback.