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I'll have what buttercup is having please:wah:

Grab a seat & sit yourself down girl :-4

buttercup;890808 wrote: Awww just throw a shot of each in a jug with some ice & juice of any description, a few straws (i'll provide) & some folks willing to party



Got a karaoke machine?


Sure do here it is

*TM pulls up a chair and joins CP and Buttercup* Can you sing "Get the party started" by Pink?

What song shall we play next? Any suggetions folks?

Cow Patty;891676 wrote: What song shall we play next? Any suggetions folks?


spot lifts down his squeeze-box and runs his fingers over a chord or two

Some third rate has-been lying excuse of a comedian decided to get into the news headlines by deliberately swearing so much on live English TV today that she was thrown off the chat show. Stupid cow.



Old Joan Rivers, that old Joan Rivers

She must say something but don't know nothin'

She just keeps swearing, just keeps swearing along.

She don't give answers, she don't ask questions

She's no opinions or interjections

She just keeps swearing, just keeps swearing along.You an' me, we sweat and think

Brains fired up to make them blink

Use those quotes, make folks hear,

bring in facts that show things clearbut I gets weary 'cause Joan wants money

And don't know England so she can't be funny,

She wants attention so she just keeps swearing along.

Good morning :-6 I made some scrambled eggs this morning. Would anyone like some?

Thanks TM. Can you whip me up some using Egg Beaters?

How do you beat an egg? Won't I get arrested for beating a chicken :wah:

:wah: Funny TM.

Trunk Monkey;892385 wrote: How do you beat an egg? Won't I get arrested for beating a chicken :wah:


depends on the context:wah:

Trunk Monkey;892132 wrote: Good morning :-6 I made some scrambled eggs this morning. Would anyone like some?


scrambled well please. That's how my day has gone, my eggs might as well follow suit. :driving:

fuzzy butt;897755 wrote: spot I'm confused Are you actually thinking of taking over a pub or is this thread it?


I knew all these years that if I weren't vigilant I'd end up inadvertently confusing someone and it's finally happened. Life will never be the same again.

Now and then, after a glass or two of wine, old codgers occasionally sit back in their armchairs and say to each other "if you had a pub, what would it be like" and my contributions to this thread have been my musings on that question with a slightly high-flown touch of Gormenghast thrown in. I would make an appalling publican in that, in general and with only occasional exceptions, I detest people to an almost pathological extent. I retreat from company, I walk out of rooms if other people walk into them, I consider a day good only if I've successfully avoided conversation with everyone who tries to interpose themselves between me and my isolation. I'm not well suited to running a pub.

spot hands fuzzy butt an "occasional exception" sticker and gives her two Gallic kisses on each cheek

This place has been quiet for awhile... Hey bartender!

Hush, the blind Irishman's just taken the fiddle down off the wall, we might get a few jigs later if we're reverent through the laments.

Here. Large dry martini, shaken on a black stoned olive, on the house. Slainte.

Hey, I allready have a Friendship Inn.... I'll have a shandy though...

freetobeme;1025677 wrote: Hey, I allready have a Friendship Inn.... I'll have a shandy though...


Oh, a shandy for me too please:-6

freetobeme;1026054 wrote:

Odie;1026158 wrote:



Odie, do your avatars have a personality disorder? They change everyday.

qsducks;1026175 wrote: Odie, do your avatars have a personality disorder? They change everyday.


I got sick of Caruso, went back to being me a dog, cannot find Odie in green!

besides, its fun to change, it's what its all about!:D

I like the idea of this hostelry, I've booked the back room out for the AGM of the, ''Bugs are cute don't kill them'', society. We will bring our own bugs.

Hello all. I badly need a PINT of beer!!!!!!!

Ee lad, will Theakston's do the job? There's a barrel went in last Thursday in prime condition.

spot;884528 wrote: I have, as it happens, quite liked the idea of managing a pub. Opening one here might be part of the learning process.

The problem with opening one in town is - and I've worked the spreadsheets to check - a matter of getting enough turnover to cover the staff expenses. A pub (in England at any rate) tends to be an urban affair with most of its clientèle living within walking distance. An inn, by contrast, is a village or rural place, often near running water and a road junction. Where an inn exists now in an urban environment it's because it used to be a place where coaches picked up, set down and changed horses. The call for urban inns has long since past.

But a rural inn, which has guests who travel to reach it, is the right model for The Friendship. Since I'm designing it I'll describe it. There's a Public Bar, a Lounge, the manager's Snug, a couple of back rooms for hire or for private parties and a long bar upstairs which gets opened when there's a lot of custom or for a live music night with a booked band. The ground floor rooms are all stone-flagged, stone-walled with a white wash, sparse decoration, an upright piano, some instruments on the wall which are playable (several bodhran and violas, a couple of violins, a set of Northumbrian pipes, an upright double bass with a bow in a holster, penny whistles, a flute and, incongruously, a saxophone and a clarinet). The upper floor is wood-floored, shelved for books. All the floors are spread with coarse sawdust before opening and swept after closing which gives a distinctive resiny smell to the place. The toilets are outdoors, the lighting is poor, the staff have cudgels in reach behind the bars. There are dartboards, darts and cards and dominoes behind the bar and a few cribbage boards for older visitors who know what to do with them. One door leads to an indoor alley equipped for Nine Man's Morris. There are many heavy wooden tables which easily seat eight at their benches, a few smaller tucked into corners, occasional chairs to adjust matters as needed. None of the bars have barstools, all have brass footrests.

We stock a surprisingly wide range of bitters and mild ales, lager alcohol-free and otherwise, cider (sweet or still), barley wines, assorted apple spirits, wines by the bottle (we're not prepared to serve by the glass but we do supply a house red and a house white by the jug), spirits and mixers.

The staff will refuse more alcohol to anyone they consider to be fighting drunk though they'll continue to serve them refreshments.

We have snacks, we have a dining area, we have a chef, we have a substantial plat du jour immediately available for any traveller in need of a meal.

Ladies and gentlemen, The Friendship is now open for business. The proprietor is anxious to interview staff and serve you right.


smile

Ok, ok

The proprietor is anxious to interview staff and serve you right.