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With that, Ms. Werner grasped us firmly by the ear and showed us the door. That evening, as we sipped our lonely pint in the neighborhood pub, we reflected that perhaps a career in journalism was not for us. On the other hand, we didn't know what was. How we envied the Ms. Werners of the world, who could jet off to Aruba whenever they felt sulky...
...jail for seven days without being informed of their charges, he begins a saga that will prove this petty thief to possess a greater moral conscience than the representatives of the British police and judicial system. Mercilessly abused during questionings, they eventually learn they are accused of bombing a pub in Guildford. However, they are innocent: "We didn't even have the bus fare to Guildford even if we had known where it was," Gerry recalls. By the time the case is brought to court, the "Guildford Four" have been joined by various members of Gerry's family. His little...
...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...