Word: pubbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps best of all, you can program the money to be spent only in specific ways. You might instruct some of the digits to go for books, some for food and some for movies. Unless you pass along a few digits that can be cashed at the local pub, she'll have to find someone else to buy the drinks...
...Chieftans will be performing at Symphony Hall tonight. On the theatre front, look for Pulitzer winner Frank McCourt (of Angela's Ashes fame) and his hit play The Irish... And How They Got That Way and for brand-new Copley Theatre's A Portrait of Oscar Wilde. And every pub--every pub!--has something planned. If nothing else, just go downtown. (And don't forget to wear green...
Still, I figure it's worth looking further into the matter. So I arrive at the Bow and Arrow Pub, an old time Harvard Square watering hole, at 4 p.m. on a weekday, and it's surprisingly active. Including me, there are fourteen people in the bar: Two men and two women are trading flirtations in one corner, a bunch of middle-aged men sit at the other end of the counter watching a Morgan Freeman movie I can't identify, and a couple of younger guys with thick Boston accents are talking their way through a game of pool...
...presence rouses the attention of the bartender, an older man I don't recognize. As he sits up from where he's been lying down on the counter, I explain my business and he tells me to return at eight o'clock, when someone who knows more about the pub will...
According to those people who run the promotion, it the international Hooch situation is even weirder. At a British pub in Moscow, the promoters once brought in a lemon-shaped kiddie pool for a "bobbing for Hooches" event, in which the contestants had to pick a bottle off the bottom with their teeth. One man, after sticking his face in the water, somehow undid the cap and drank the entire bottle under water. At another promotion, Tatyana, one of the "Hooch Girls," saw someone swallow a lemon whole in a lemon-eating contest, "in one second, I swear," she says...