First Pub
I had a couple of names on the board for the pub below Ryan’s place… My favorite was The Pickled Toad… but found out it has a slang term that I didn’t like (there is a Pickled Toad in Canadia), …there was the Fickle Ferret, The Fickle Finch or Fox… and so “the Kid” won out. I am looking forward to coming up with the sign board for it.
Looks like Clive’s a Monty Python fan 😉
There’s a reason those escapades are called, pub crawls.
We’ve got a pub out here called the Fox and Goose that does well for itself.
brig, look at my last message of yesterday, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, I’ll say no more.
I actually had to google pickled toad. I was honestly expecting something much more horrifying.
I remember a drinking game we used to play on pub crawls, basically, the number and type of drinks you had depended on variables in the pubs name and sign. I don’t remember all the details, but it was stuff like ‘if both the sign and the name include arms, drink such and such followed by a whatever mixed with a thingamajig, if the name features arms but the sign doesn’t, follow with a doodad with a wossname chaser instead’. Those are actual drink names right?
The game involved involved quite a lot of going back outside to check, as you can probably imagine. Sometimes we’d forget the going back in part. One time each of us passed out when we went to check where the previous checker had got to.
I think this might be the longest comment I’ve ever left on a comic.
Philly being an Irish/University town, pub crawls are very popular here, too. I’ve never been on a pub crawl myself – I’ve quite the aversion to getting drunk or being with drunks – but at least here the pubs/taverns are close enough that the college kids can walk to them. One “event” has them all tied together with string as they do the crawl…
The good old pub crawl, I always thought it was a North American phenomenon for some reason.
I live down the street from the pub, and as such, around 3am every weekend (and sometimes weekday) night we gets drunks wandering down the street, singing half-remembered drinking songs that I’m sure were English once, but are now stuttered Klingon.
That is why I’m not a pub/tavern/etc. person, it’s bad enough hearing them out the window, I’d hate to be in an enclosed, crowded space with them.
Astragali… Isn’t it required of Brit folk to by Python fans?
Dave… Ooooo… sounds like that could get out of hand rather quickly… thus the “where are we? which? wha?” …
Meg… Drunk Klingon-speak? Could be interesting. When I was in London last trip… the VRBO was just up from Gordon’s Wine Bar… and there was a fair amount of public singing and “f-wording” but only the first night we were there. The wine bar was a rather lively place… the alley way was filled with patrons enjoying the evening with a glass… Harold loved the place!
Pete… Strung together! That’s great! Except if the person next to you gets “green” in the face… then that pair of scissors in yer pocket would come in handy (doesn’t everybody carry collapsing folding scissors?)
Stick… I’ve only done one pub crawl… It was tied into a bridal shower in San Fran. You got on a trolly bus and it took you around. Moving vehicles and drunk people don’t seem right… but it was fun… an’ no one fell off the trolly.
Stick… Oh HO! Well… I will most definitely post your Ryan pic for the new Fan art section! You’ll be my first! And we’ll see you soon! Smiles!
As far as the “ridiculous priced hand-drawn toons” for the insides of the new book, if you pre-order the book I will do something “special” in the book…. no charge… and I’ll number it. Even if you don’t pre-order it, I’ll do something on the cover page… but I won’t charge extra for it. Now if you ask me to draw a map of France and the Eiffel Tower and the whole gang riding Vespas… I may charge for that.
Brig: I don’t think there’s presently any UK law which requires its citizens to be Python fans. I like their stuff, even though it’s a bit hit-and-miss. But the Pythons are pre-dated by the master: Spike Milligan, who was doing Pythonesque surreal comedy before there was such an adjective as “Pythonesque”. 🙂
Astragali,
Spike Milligan was in Monty Python’s: Life of Brian
And don’t forget Spike’s comedy partners: Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe. The Goons!
Joe: Indeed he was in that movie – according to IMDb, when the Pythons found out he was on holiday in Tunisia at the time of filming, they offered him a part.
And I never forget Secombe and Sellers 😀
Astragali… Along the same lines… I suppose that Brit folk thought that everybody in the US was a “Friends” fan… (well, I was… for the first 5 seasons).
“A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat!”