Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here from London I wondered why no one laughed at my jokes. One potential explanation was that they had stopped being funny. Another had to do with cultural difference: over here the simple fact of failure is not, as it is in Britain, considered amusing. Walk into any London pub, for example, and you'll find at least one group of drinkers vying for laughs with stories of the day's disasters. Try the same tactic to amuse a group of friends in a Cambridge bar and one is greeted with expressions of surprise, confusion and even alarm...
...make mistakes. But Sharon Curley's (Tina Kellegher) is a beaut. It's not just that in a careless, definitely not rapturous, moment she manages to get knocked up. It's that the man who bent her back over the hood of a car outside a pub one drunken night is old enough to be her father. Is, indeed, a friend of her father's. Is, in fact, George Burgess (Pat Laffan), who lives across the street and coaches the football team of one of her younger brothers. Is, incurably, an "ejit" (idiot in Dublin slang), the kind...
Business will be "a little slower, but not a big deal," said one Bow and Arrow Pub employee...
John M. Toomey '94, a bartender at another local pub, The Boathouse, agreed that more and more hard cider is being poured. He said "the popular way to serve hard cider is to mix it with beer, which is called a Snakebite...
Despite all the free publicity generated by thead, the owner of Anthony's Pub, who would not givehis name, said he will not purchase the ad again."We didn't want to create any controversy," hesaid