Word: pubbing
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...mistake ever for the city. But Chicago has been absent from the Series for a decade longer and ostensibly for a far more ridiculous reason. The Cubs’ drought has nothing to do with management decisions. Instead, they say it’s because a popular and powerful pub owner was not allowed to bring his goat in to Wrigley Field, even though the goat had a ticket. Furious, the man pronounced, “Never again shall a World Series game be played in Wrigley Field,” a curse which has prompted some Cubs fans...
...here as well. I’ve learned that Irish men seem sexy until they get on the dance floor (keep them chatting at the bar, ladies, you don’t want to see them bust a move). It’s OK to go to the campus pub in between your 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. classes. To de-frizz my hair, “you’d best go back to New York” (that comes from the wise woman at the local hair salon). Irish youth prefer Budweiser to Guinness, and extracurricular activities...
...backpack on and trying to find my way to a hostel using a tiny Let’s Go map. When I stood (with a high school friend who had popped over from Oxford) at the gates of Trinity College for a “backpackers’ pub crawl” I heard the gorgeous sound of travel stories being exchanged in various accents—“We’ve just been in London,” “We’re heading to Amsterdam,” “Have...
Because after an experience like the trip to the cliffs, or hearing an amazing band cover the Pixies at a local pub, I want to share it with my friends so badly I’m forced to take an extra picture or order another pint, and I think about the spring, when we’ll be reunited. And then the image of snow falling on the Lowell courtyard seems more appealing than it has in ages...
...Olof Svensson took a break from the soccer match on TV and stepped outside the pub to catch a breath of fresh air. That's when plainclothes police nabbed him in a Stockholm suburb last Tuesday night. Police say Svensson, although not formally charged, is a suspect in the Sept. 10 stabbing death of Anna Lindh, Sweden's popular Foreign Minister, in the upscale NK department store in central Stockholm. Swedish newspapers said Svensson, 35, was a high school dropout and had been convicted of more than 40 past crimes, including gross fraud, violence, physical abuse, theft and threats with...