Same drinking trick in Trees Lounge?

In 'Trees Lounge' in 1996 with Steve Buscemi, Buscemi's character does the same trick at the bar with a girl in order to get her to go home with him. I understand that this movie was written in the early 1990s and was stuck in development hell for some time. But is this a common, old school trick? And what other movies has this bar trick been featured in? Thoughts?