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| 664.1 | urban legend #2 ?? | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 1:25000 - a magic number | Tue May 09 1989 11:04 | 14 |
| G'day,
They wanted toput one near Guildford, I think it was...
on the edge of town...
The Verge Inn
nope - got banned...
derek
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| 664.2 | Near Tunbridge Wells, Kent | IOSG::GARDNER | Eugene Gardner | Tue May 09 1989 14:32 | 1 |
| The Brahms & liszt
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| 664.3 | Hic... | MARVIN::WALSH | | Tue May 09 1989 16:42 | 1 |
| The Slug and Lettuce, Winkfield.
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| 664.4 | | ERIS::CALLAS | Don't pull your lips off | Wed May 10 1989 01:25 | 6 |
| One of my fantasies of what I'm going to do when I grow up and thus
can't be a software engineer is to start a brewpub. One of the names
I've thought of is The Mouse and Keyboard, with a logo of a rodent
crawling on a piano.
Jon
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| 664.5 | | GALLOP::COOPERM | It's a Bee-u-tiful place bob ! | Wed May 10 1989 18:43 | 6 |
| In Ipswich, two pubs (owned I think by the same people).
The first to open was the toad and rasberry, the second the newt
and cucumber.
From day one the toad and rasberry has been known as the frog and
fart, however no one has been able to come up with any improvements
on the newt and cucumber - suggestions anyone ?
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| 664.6 | Newt&Cuke --> Nuke | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | I'll pick a white rose with Plantagenet. | Wed May 10 1989 20:11 | 0 |
| 664.7 | how about... | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 1:25000 - a magic number | Fri May 12 1989 06:59 | 3 |
| newt & cucumber - - > eft and dill ?
derek
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| 664.8 | | EAGLE1::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Sat May 13 1989 11:30 | 2 |
| newt & cucumber ==> grub & kooks ?
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| 664.9 | In Southampton... | YARD::PREECE | A keyboard ! How quaint. | Tue May 16 1989 15:02 | 4 |
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The Frog and Firkin.
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| 664.10 | Caddington, Beds, England | WELMTS::HILL | Technology is my Vorpal sword | Tue May 16 1989 15:48 | 1 |
| The Frog and Rhubarb
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| 664.11 | I lied !! | CURRNT::PREECE | A keyboard ! How quaint. | Wed May 17 1989 18:05 | 6 |
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A thousand pardons, the pub in southampton is the Frog and Frigate.
I checked. Hic!
IP
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| 664.12 | | AYOV18::BRIGHTTHOMAS | | Thu May 18 1989 14:45 | 7 |
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" The Unchanged by Progress "
Birmingham city centre.
PBT, the well-travelled.
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| 664.13 | "The Trip" | VINO::MCGLINCHEY | Sancho! My Armor! My TECO Macros! | Thu May 18 1989 18:50 | 8 |
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"The Trip to Jerusalem", in Nottingham
This pub is reputed to be the oldest pub in England,
and claims its name comes from being a stopover for
knights on their way to the Crusades.
-- Glinch
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| 664.14 | "Poor Struggler" | SEEK::HUGHES | Thus thru Windows call on us(Donne) | Thu May 18 1989 20:10 | 9 |
| One that I remember from many years ago; it may no longer exist:
"Help the Poor Struggler" ... somewhere between Manchester and Oldham.
The irony in the choice of name came from the fact that Mine Host was ...
...the Public Hangman.
-Jim
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| 664.15 | | YARD::PREECE | A keyboard ! How quaint. | Fri May 19 1989 14:48 | 7 |
|
Following on from .13, down in Leafy Dorset is "The World's End",
which is on, or near, the site of the building in which convicts
were kept on the night before they were loaded on the ship for
Australia. Hence, the end of the world.
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| 664.16 | careful with that scythe... | BOOKIE::DAVEY | | Thu May 25 1989 22:38 | 8 |
| "The Gardener's Arms and Murderer's Arms" (yes, that's one pub)
in Norwich. The pub sign has a gardener on one side, and a murderer
on the other.
There was a story behind the pub's name, but being a good 3000 or
so miles from the pub now I can't easily check!
John
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| 664.17 | Ratholing slightly, but.... | CURRNT::PREECE | A keyboard ! How quaint. | Fri May 26 1989 10:56 | 8 |
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Not a million miles from sunny Basingstoke, a Chinese restaurant
called....
"Wok This Way...."
Ian
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| 664.18 | may have been two pubs once | COMICS::DEMORGAN | Richard De Morgan, UK CSC/CS | Thu Jun 01 1989 16:51 | 2 |
| Re .16: I checked on this, and the address is 2 - 4 Timber Hill.
Looks like it was two pubs that got joined together.
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| 664.19 | A couple from the, like, west coast | HSSWS1::DUANE | Send lawyers, guns & money | Fri Jun 02 1989 00:26 | 13 |
| Two from Rancho Cotati, California:
The Inn of the Beginning
and
Eats of Eden
Eats of Eden was actually the part of The Inn that served sandwiches
and the like while The Inn served libations of all sorts.
d
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| 664.20 | 99 Bottles O' Beer | RIGAZI::SPERANDIO | | Tue Jun 13 1989 23:35 | 3 |
| I stopped for a cold frosty in Kentucky last summer at the "IZZIT INN".
- Skeezix
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| 664.21 | There's a "Slug And Lettuce" in Stratford, too.. | BREW11::LAWTON | A-wop-bam-a-loo-bop,a-wop-bam-boom | Fri Dec 29 1989 15:07 | 5 |
| "The World Turned Upside Down" in Reading, U.K. - apparently, this
stems from the day that all Reading employees threatened to turn
teetotal, thereby bankrupting the U.K. brewery business.
Phil
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| 664.22 | that would turn the world upside down | TLE::RANDALL | living on another planet | Wed Jan 03 1990 21:14 | 8 |
| Really?
"The World Turned Upside Down" was a popular drinking tune from
the 1700's. Legend has it the American army played it while the
British surrendered to the Americans at the end of the
Revolutionary War.
--bonnie
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| 664.23 | True Levellers | TRIBES::LBOYLE | Trust me, I know what I'm doing | Wed Jan 10 1990 18:58 | 10 |
|
"The World turned upside down" was the name of a pamphlet by the
Diggers, or True Levellers, a communist peasant group in England
in the mid 17th century.
It is also the name of a lovely folk song by Leon Rosselson
about the diggers establishment of a community in 1649, and the
destruction of this community by the "hired men and troopers" sent
in by the "men of property."
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| 664.24 | The British played it, | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Thu Jan 11 1990 20:22 | 3 |
| Not the Americans.
Ann B.
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| 664.25 | several more | HERON::BUCHANAN | breggin fine tuba | Thu Jun 20 1991 14:48 | 15 |
| "The George and Vulture" - Hackney, London
"The Case is Altered" - Willesden Green, London
origin unknown to me
"The Million Millipedes" - non-existent pub postulated by
friend to be the Holy Grail of players
of Pub Cricket
There is a chain of "X & Firkin" (eg X = Frog, Goose, etc) but those
don't really count since they're neopubisms.
"Spade and Becket" [sic] - Cambridge, England
Andrew
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| 664.26 | The Case | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Dotting jots and crossing tittles | Thu Jun 20 1991 16:05 | 9 |
| � "The Case is Altered" - Willesden Green, London
� origin unknown to me
I was told, when I used to frequent another pub called `The Case Is
Altered' that it was an anglicized form of La Casa Alta. If true,
this wouldn't be the only instance of anglicizing from a Spanish root
in a pub name: take The Elefant and Castle (La Infanta de Castilla).
b
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