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- From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Campus bar peeve
- Message-ID: <28191@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:02:26 GMT
- Organization: Edinburgh University
- Lines: 78
-
- First, since various threats of legal action have been floating around,
- let me make it perfectly clear that this posting is most definitely not
- about the KB Union Bar, nope, certainly not, so sirree bob.
-
- A little while ago a brewery was running a small competition wherein
- purchasers of pints of ale were furnished with small cards bearing questions
- on general knowledge, and little boxes to scratch off with a coin or fingernail
- which reveal whether you answered correctly. Three correct answers earned
- the competitor a free half pint of ale.
-
- A quick evaluation of the probabilities involved revealed that even a monkey
- should get the right combination every six tries, so since my friends and
- I comprised a small cross section of the intellectual elite of the nation,
- we figured that we would be drinking for free for some considerable time.
- Six cards later we'd won ourselves a free half pint.
-
- So, I bellied up to the bar and demanded three pints of the finest foaming
- ale, which the bar-wench duly produced. "That'll be (3*1.20) three pounds
- sixty" quoth the chubby-one. "Aha!" I cried, brandishing my coupon, "but
- I only have to pay for 2 1/2 pints, so thats three pounds!!!". This
- confounded the porcine-person, who responded "Errr, I'll have to ask the
- boss". I won't provide a description of the bar manager here, because, as I
- say, legal threats have been made, so anyone who wants to know more about
- him can either visit the place for themselves, or send me e-mail.
- "Ye cannae do that", says the witless fellow "you have to have an extra
- half pint". "
- "Says who?"
- "Brewery rules"
- "Show me them"
- "No"
- "Okay, then I'm not paying for these three pints"
- "Suit yersel'"
-
- So at this point I disappeared and temporised by having a piss.
- I returned to the bar a few minutes later and demanded 2 1/2 pints of beer.
- At this point the bar manager leapt into the air and shrieked "Yer no gettin'
- served - yer buggerin' around with the bar staff!!" Trying to put this horrid
- concept out of my mind, I returned to my seat, and one of my fellow imbibers
- went to buy the beers. So quite what the fat moron had gained from his
- cantankerous behaviour I'm not sure except that I'd avoided buying a round.
- Sounds good to me!
-
- Extra peeve on the same subject: A little while later there was a raffle in
- the bar. The wonderful prize was a Runrig album, to be presented by none
- other than the Runrig main man, Donny Munro himself. Many readers may not
- be familiar with Runrig, so for their benefit I'll just mention that they
- specialise in the kind of dreary evocation of the past glories of Scotland
- that is so popular at the moment, leading the local populace to imagine that
- they would be capable of self-government. A quick examination of the relevant
- facts proves otherwise. Take the question of skirts. Now I can imagine that
- in certain circumstances wearing a skirt would be a good idea - if you're a
- girl is one that springs to mind. Otherwise, if you happen to live in Tahiti
- and want to avoid your ass being stung by a honey bee then a skirt might fill
- the bill. But in Scotland, where it's generally cold, with horizontal rain,
- a skirt is most definitely inappropriate. Anyhow, Runrig produce noises of a
- rather unpleasant type, with aforementioned Donny howling away in the manner
- of a senile uncle moaning about his incontinence pants, while a number of
- his stooges grind away in the background making a racket reminiscent of the
- times you've accidentally filled your Cuisinart with small rodents. But the
- peevingest thing of all was that the cover of the album was autographed, so
- the luckless "winner" couldn't even take it back to swap it for something
- halfway decent!
-
- ObMikeHolmesBait: The guvmint deciding that the economy will perk right up
- once home-owners get a bit more help with their mortgages.
-
- ObItuary: I'm afraid that any pearls of wisdom emerging from Dalhousie will
- now fall on deaf ears, for me at least, since that site has joined soton
- in my kill file. A sad necessity in order to increase the signal-to-noise
- ration in my news reading!
-
-
-
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