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If you owned a pub...

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,630 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    The Hoor-among-the-thistles-roar Inn


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭bmwguy


    We nicknamed one of the local pubs the boulevard, as in The Boulevard of Broken Dreams. It stuck pretty well, as in I can't believe you ended up in the boulevard last night!

    Pub owner also had apartments around the town closw to the pub and rented them out to every heavy drinker and gambler that got kicked out by the wives.

    So these lads were handing up the vast majority of their income to the publican between rent and pints and a bit of a gambling operation he had going behind the bar.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    Stools Provided.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    The Slammer

    The Quare Place

    The Zoo / The aZoo

    The Dark

    The Pick Up Bar

    Rehab

    Not your ornery onager



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    The Well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Paradise Lost.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Mass.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10 Slab_Murphy


    Hammer and Chisel


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,290 ✭✭✭dresden8


    Candie wrote: »
    The Last Resort, and it has a big open fire and lots of nooks and crannies and a Wurlitzer jukebox, and most importantly of all, no television.

    No football on a Sunday afternoon?

    What a perfect dream........


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,556 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I can't believe no one has suggested Free the Paedos yet

    I thought I was the first in with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭xabi


    If memory serves me correctly, on the road between Portstewart and Portrush there was a pub called "nobody's inn", so where do you go? To the next pub up the road called "some place else".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    I'd call it "Bitches".

    Turn the B back-ways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    The clinic


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Bowlardo wrote: »
    The clinic

    How about "In Patients" then which has a nice ring and due to my rubbish spelling also made my spell checker come up with another good one "Penitents" although that comes later.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    The Hoor-among-the-thistles-roar Inn

    That's brilliant.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 736 ✭✭✭chillin117


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    If the mods are bouncers, the place is likely to be empty...



    :pac:

    Wit would be a bit thin the ground too..


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭YellowLead


    The Cat's Hole


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,733 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Bowlardo wrote: »
    The clinic

    Always good for the cure?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Always good for the cure?

    After the dose...

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭Christy Browne


    Pre-hab


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Rack and Ruin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Rack and Ruin

    The Crackhouse.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    The hideout. No TV. Arcade machines, only with two player and up options. Boardgames. Basically social props rather than goggle boxes :D Oh and no kids.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    An Spáilpín Fánach. No tv/sports free/keep the riffraff out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    The hideout. No TV. Arcade machines, only with two player and up options. Boardgames. Basically social props rather than goggle boxes :D Oh and no kids.

    The Hideout was a good gaff back in the day. Were you ever there on the Sunday of a big match? Or on a Tuesday, early morning after two? :) :eek: ;)

    Not your ornery onager



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    If I owned a pub I would always have cask ale on tap, you could also buy a simple packet of crisps (Tayto/Walkers/King etc) to go with your pint... like pubs used to.

    I would introduce a weekly 'pub quiz' night.

    Lovely jubbly, a pint of widows peg & a packet of dry roasted please :)

    Ahh...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,862 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Dont think there is any decent sized city in The Netherlands without a "Cafe De Buren"
    De Buren translates to neighbours.

    Where are you off to?
    Just to the neighbours.

    But i guess the irish version of that is the office or the gym


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭mcgiggles


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    The hideout. No TV. Arcade machines, only with two player and up options. Boardgames. Basically social props rather than goggle boxes :D Oh and no kids.

    Was in a great music venue/ bar in Toronto called the hideout!
    http://www.thehideouttoronto.com/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭mcgiggles


    There was a bar in Galway I think called "The Library".. very popular with college students..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭NikoTopps


    There's a pub in Athens called "The Local". I think it's such a clever name.

    "Where are we going tonight?"
    "The Local"
    "Our or The Local?"
    "Errr, the one with the piss on the walls and mould on the ceiling"
    "Yeah, that."


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,476 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    py2006 wrote: »
    ...what would you call it?

    I'd love to think of really fun, unique name that everybody remembers and thinks of. Perhaps call it, "Down the Local" or "The Pig n' Sh1t".

    Also, would it be a quiet country pub or a busy city pub? Would you go for the old traditional style pub with lots of wood and American registration plates above the bar or the modern, bright pub?

    Decor of a pub is very important to me, it needs to be cosy yet pleasing to the eye.

    There is a great little 'old west' type pub in New Mexico called 'No Scum Allowed Saloon' which I would love to visit. :D

    The f*ck?:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    The Ducome Inn


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭davo2001


    Da Local


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    We've got bars in Limerick called The Office and The Library, only a stone's throw away from each other.

    The Blind Pig was a cool name while it lasted.

    Dark Place would be my name of choice. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,535 ✭✭✭valoren


    Alcoholics Anonymous


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭venomousfrog


    I would call mine '' Esco-bar''
    I was passing through a town near Galway one day and seen a pub called M.T Pockets, I thought that was clever !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Ush1 wrote: »
    The f*ck?:confused:

    THe stuff on the walls etc like registration plates and road signs are often trophies brought back from the travels of the locals/regulars and usually come with some mad story.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,268 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Seems like the place to note the Batcave Pub in Lurgan.

    Established 1949, I think.

    The Udrop Inn is in Ballybofey I think.

    I'd probably just call my pub after my surname. None of this English "The Magic Grapes" ****e.


  • Registered Users Posts: 256 ✭✭ciarang85


    We have nicknamed a pub we drink in "the den of c*nts"


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,268 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    NikoTopps wrote: »
    There's a pub in Athens called "The Local". I think it's such a clever name.
    Oliver Reed died in The Pub in Valletta.

    Not just a pub, but The Pub.

    Nice spot actually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,019 ✭✭✭uch


    Olishi4 wrote: »
    The Lock Inn

    There's a Boozer out where I live called the Lough Inn

    21/25



  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    cdeb wrote: »
    Oliver Reed died in The Pub in Valletta.

    Not just a pub, but The Pub.

    Nice spot actually.

    Nicely soozled after an afternoon spent arm wresting British Navy lads on shore leave. Great way to go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    There must already be The Craic Inn? Too much of a good one to be missed?

    It seems The Craic House has been tried and found wanting http://www.dailyedge.ie/craic-house-pub-changes-name-1449032-May2014/ .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    Ush1 wrote: »
    The f*ck?:confused:

    You aint seen the likes of this in some pubs?

    you usually seem them with currency from around the world too or beer mats etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,476 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    THe stuff on the walls etc like registration plates and road signs are often trophies brought back from the travels of the locals/regulars and usually come with some mad story.

    Not really. Most traditional pubs I do be in might have photos of local teams or the owners on the wall, along with pictures or paintings.

    Road signs sounds like an American "bar" type thing.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Ush1 wrote: »
    Not really. Most traditional pubs I do be in might have photos of local teams or the owners on the wall, along with pictures or paintings.

    Road signs sounds like an American "bar" type thing.

    You don't get out much do you :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,476 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    my3cents wrote: »
    You don't get out much do you :D

    Ha probably not enough!

    Just not something I'd associate with a traditional Irish pub.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,268 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Some pubs have them here, but not really "traditional" Irish pub stuff. Nor alligators wearing sunglasses or any nonsense like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    mcgiggles wrote: »
    Was in a great music venue/ bar in Toronto called the hideout!
    http://www.thehideouttoronto.com/

    That was my semi-local when I lived there. Loved the name and swore if I ever owned my own (I am a bartender).


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    Poitín yer place


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