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Post by jimshoo on May 19, 2014 8:44:52 GMT
Not far from where I live is a pub called The Flies Home by the locals. Anyone got strange pub names?
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Post by scorp on May 19, 2014 9:09:43 GMT
We have The Perseverance - not a particularly humorous name, but I do like the sign: it shows a distant Noah's Ark, and in the foreground, large, a snail on its way to join ship...
There are some revolting silly names, foisted on pubs in the past decade or so - The Monkey's Forehead comes to mind... Egham's The Victoria laboured on as The Iguana and now has been renamed again - the Burger King.
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Post by Prue on May 19, 2014 9:23:14 GMT
Can't think of any funny ones, js, but one of my favourite names was a place I used to go to years ago when I lived in Canberra called The Contented Soul. Nice little spot in Woden Plaza.
My local these days is The Stags Head. And it wasn't me I that left the apostrophe out!
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 10:32:08 GMT
I have nicknamed my local as 'The Harlots Arms'.
There is or was a pub near Stone in Staffs called the 'Labour in Vain' and the old pub sign had a cartoon type painting of a little black child in a sudsy bath with a woman scrubbing away at him.
New owners thought that was very un-pc and renamed the pub - I can't remember what it then became. There was a bit of a local protest lead I am proud to say by my oldest friend who argued that this was a piece of history. It got as far as him being interviewed on national radio, BBC R4
I can't remember the outcome, but sadly the sign is no more.
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Post by jimshoo on May 23, 2014 14:38:22 GMT
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Post by Body on May 27, 2014 13:23:12 GMT
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Post by ARENA on May 30, 2014 11:20:39 GMT
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Post by Nobody on May 31, 2014 12:24:42 GMT
There used to be a pub/restaurant in Perth Western Australia called 'Dirty Dicks' or was it Dirty Dick's?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2014 17:46:56 GMT
I passed one this morning called 'The Pipe and Slippers'
No Idea what it is like inside.
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