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A man walks into a pub...
Posted by Beany on 20 June 2010 - 2:37pm.
According to a scribbled message on an outdoor blackboard if I was to walk into one of my locals I would see a "LIVE BAND every Sat"
Mmm. Would I want to see a dead band? I wondered to myself if there might even appear the message "Band miming here tonite". After the last Massive outing in Chester at the Boathouse pub there should be a sign reading "DJ putting a donk on a Coldplay CD for nobody in particular".
Is it me or am I getting too old for this malarkey?
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I saw a chalked up advert in Sydenham today
for an "authentic style pub". The logic of that one fried my synapses. Baudrillard would be proud.
maybe you can
smoke in it?
Ha
I just went to Sónar festival in Barcelona where there is a pretty relaxed attitude to smoking, and even though I'm a non-smoker by golly having the smell of tobacco at a gig gave me intense waves of nostalgia... Plus of course there wasn't the usual to-ing and fro-ing to smoking areas to disrupt the atmosphere.
But in this case, it was the oxymoron of "authentic style" I was remarking on. It suggest something like "almost genuine".
how was
Sónar, quite a good line up if I recall?
Brilliant
just about my favourite music event in the world. Sadly I was on assignment and couldn't justify having the whole weekend there, so only went for Friday and thus didn't see Roxy, Dizzee etc... But saw Air, LCD Soundsystem, a bit of Hot Chip, loads of great electronic beat music and, um, the Sugarhill Gang who were sadly a bit cabaret.
A local Cafe
advertises on it's blackboard that All Day Breakfast costs £4.75, O.A.P's £1.50.Which is damn cheap but I don't think I could manage a whole O.A.P and wouldn't they be a bit tough and stringy.
Try
Using a slow cooker, tenderises well over eight hours or so, freeze leftovers.
"Would I want to see a dead band?"
Well the Stones can still draw a crowd.
Although, technically they're more an undead band.
Possibly,
yes you are. Seems like acceptable hyperbole to me. It's a pub sign to draw in punters, not an article in the TLS
Not too old. Just grumpy.
Welcome to your home!
:-{ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;
'Live' has very little currency as a word anymore, it's up there with 'Free' these days.
Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman
walk into a pub. The barman says "Is this a joke?"
A white horse walks into a pub
the barman says "hey, we've got a whisky named after you!"; the horse says "what, you've got a whisky called Steve?"
A man goes into a pub... 50 times.
"Home Made"
Apparently you can shove these words on the front of any old lump of dung that travels through any factory's conveyor belt.
Oh, and make sure the packaging has a picture of an old lady with an apron on.
I am always amused by the pub signs advertising 'Good Food'
...well they're not going to advertise 'Bad Food', are they ?