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If you owned a pub...

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


    py2006 wrote: »
    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

    I've seen them in pubs alright but not what I would call a traditional Irish pub.

    Google images for traditional Irish pub doesn't seem to show them either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    The Bada Bing!


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


    'A Breather from the Missus'.


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


    1. Dick's Halfway Inn
    2. Brews Brothers
    3. Tequila Mockingbird
    4. Wish you were Beer


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭mynamejeff


    NikoTopps wrote: »
    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."

    theres a pub in dungarvan called the local .

    Its only ok ..........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Stigura wrote: »
    Once upon a time, I knew a night club called " Some Place Else ".

    True story.

    SPECs, I remember it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Comerman


    Dicks last resort is a great spot in Florida and Jamie Ollver called his army truck conversion yoke The Cock In Cider


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    I knew a lad years ago in the army that was posted to the Middle East and claimed there was some breeze block type shebeen trying to model itself on an Irish pub and it was called PUB BEER.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Salthill in Galway has a lovely pub called The Office.

    "I hope you're not going on the lash again."

    "No, honey, I'm going to be in The Office all night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    "Cum Innside"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭Piggystardust


    The Get Stuck Inn

    A pint in the right direction

    The Lob it Inn

    You're doing my head Inn

    I worked in a pub in Berlin a couple of years ago simply called The Pub. Oliver Reed never came in(n) though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,276 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    The ould fecking fox

    Would it be allowed? Would it result in a man down the street with a monocle writing a sternly worded letter to the council insisting on the removal of the sign?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Just The One


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭mynamejeff


    theres a pub in a place in the carpatianan mountain called draught pub


    they do 5 liter pints

    mmmmmmmmmm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    The Galloping Maggot

    (In remembrance of John The Man Frawley of Radio Luimní႒; anyone who lived in or near Limerick in the 70s-80s would know the reference!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,892 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    The hangover factory


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,430 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    The Well Fair


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


    1/ The fog.
    2/ Spyglass.
    3/ Captains cabin.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    The Road.

    As in "I'm just going down The Road love".


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


    PARlance wrote:
    The Well Fair


    What would you call it every other day of the week?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,972 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    mynamejeff wrote: »
    they do 5 liter pints

    Impossible. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,430 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    What would you call it every other day of the week?

    The Budget Inn, they're well able to make it last.


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


    'The widows stubble'.

    Freehouse, with real cask Ale on tap!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    Something really arty farty and hipstery, like "Pygmalion" or "Dostoyevsky's Bane". It would have extremely basic whitewashed interior and decor. Craft beers would be served in clay tankards for €7 a pop with background music from acts like Jagwar Ma, Passion Pit, Jungle, Belle and Sebastien etc. Toilets would basically be converted chamber pots.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    Buncrana has the "Drift Inn", which is clever enough. I think if I had a pub I'd call it "The Black Dog" or "The Hair Of The Dog". Not a dog owner :p


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    TPD wrote: »
    Buncrana has the "Drift Inn", which is clever enough. I think if I had a pub I'd call it "The Black Dog" or "The Hair Of The Dog". Not a dog owner :p

    Is The Black Dog not another description of depression? Wouldn't encourage me to go in now. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    pilly wrote: »
    TPD wrote: »
    Buncrana has the "Drift Inn", which is clever enough. I think if I had a pub I'd call it "The Black Dog" or "The Hair Of The Dog". Not a dog owner :p

    Is The Black Dog not another description of depression? Wouldn't encourage me to go in now. :p

    With the state of mental health services in this country, I'm sure I'd have plenty of customers :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,413 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    The Lemon Orchard.
    As I would own it , I would be known as the Elder Lemon.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    TPD wrote: »
    With the state of mental health services in this country, I'm sure I'd have plenty of customers :p

    Yeah but they wouldn't be much craic!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,289 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    The Nerdcave.

    Craft beer on draft, no Sky Sports, decorate it with lego / comic book props and stick in a few old arcade machines.

    I reckon it'd be a goldmine in the right location.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Sleepy wrote: »
    The Nerdcave.

    Craft beer on draft, no Sky Sports, decorate it with lego / comic book props and stick in a few old arcade machines.

    I reckon it'd be a goldmine in the right location.

    I don't know. Cassidy's in Town is a little like that, but when I worked near it, all the lads from work avoided it like the plague. Like it was the weirdest place they'd ever seen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,289 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    I've never heard of that. Must try it out!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Walk the dog


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,155 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    Visited a pub in Cork city back in the 80's called the Whiff'n'Puff and thought it was a great name at the time. Still think that, so I think that's what I'd call my pub.

    Somewhere you can whiff, puff, sniff, snort and swally in peace with no telly :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    My uncle always maintained that if he had a pub he would call it The Cock & Bull...... 'cause thats all that would be discussed therein.

    If I had a pub it would be modeled on my fav ones from the 80s..... Where when we walked in and held up 4 fingers (while still in doorway) the barman would put on 4 Guinness, no need to wait 6 deep at the baror even speak. Happy days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭B00!


    what ale's ya


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    jackwigan wrote: »
    You've been beaten to that one...

    http://www.firkinpubs.com/

    How a about calling it "the mirkin" instead?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,085 ✭✭✭W123-80's


    The Slipit Inn


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    W123-80's wrote: »
    The Slipit Inn

    Liquor in the front and poker in the rear?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭pajo1981


    A Cock In Cider


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,637 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    I'd call my pub the Assassin

    The logo would be two asses. (Ass Ass Inn)

    Sells itself!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    I'd call my pub the Assassin

    The logo would be two asses. (Ass Ass Inn)

    Sells itself!

    Would that be a gay bar? :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    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.

    There is a bar called the Hideout in Letterkenny.


    hows about 'The Stumble Inn'


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    I'd probably try and do it like wetherspoons and have all drinks at €3 or less. Don't know how I'd make any money off it mind, probably lose money, but thats what I always complain about with pubs so I'd try to be the change I wanna see. And serve chips no matter what time of the night.
    Have a decent smoking area, don't let it contaminate the non smoking parts, but when I was a smoker it always bugged me you either had to step out into the street, or the smoking area was often around the bins or whatever.
    Nice beer garden.
    Pub quizzes.
    No ****ing tv or ****ty music pounding through it so you can't hear yourself think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    The White Hare, I like bar names with animals in 'em.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Noveight wrote: »
    I like bar names with animals in 'em.


    The Skull and Swallow


  • Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Liam28


    pilly wrote: »
    Would that be a gay bar? :p

    There is/was a gay bar in San Francisco called The White Swallow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭LCD


    Treadmill & Cockroach


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭B00!


    I'd Tap That


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Harry's hideout. It would be a shebeen/unlicensed joint catering for scumbags barred from everywhere else. I'd run it as a 'free trade zone'. Drinks would only make up for a tiny portion of the menu,and for a small fee paid to the management,hawkers could sell their wares freely and without hindrance or harassment from lawmen,customs and revenue officials and most importantly rival hawkers. Smoking would be compulsory naturally, something that I'd personally enforce.Non smokers can f*ck off and drink somewhere else,we don't roll out the red carpet for that lot,although quite a few have left the premises rolled up in a carpet,usually featuring at least a small spattering of red.Soliciting for the purpose of prostitution,although frowned upon by some of our older patrons,is not banned. The team at Harry's prides itself on liaising with our regulars to enhance the experience we provide,because without them we wouldn't exist.We are also mindful of the often sad circumstances of the women who choose to pursue a career in the sex industry,and quite rightly take the stance that nobody can judge another without walking a mile in their shoes.For if we did,tumbleweed rolling through the hallowed halls of Harry's would be a common enough sight.With this in mind,sex workers can pay a small waiver and tout for business unimpeded.This arrangement is under constant review however as brothel keeping carries severe financial penalties and possibly prison sentences,which would be detrimental to Harry's.The decor is themed on a nineteenth century opium den,with many original artifacts from the era.For the more avid opiate historians, usually liverpudlian visitors,heroin is available in the gift shop.Tinfoil,lighters, milkshakes and jellybabies/wine gums etc are complimentary,and a team of waitresses in authentic attire are always on hand to assist users sampling the product in the opulent surroundings of our house tasting rooms. Unfortunately,at the current time,injecting drug users are barred.This is due to objections from regular punters and some minor hygiene issues,we are currently attempting to come to a resolve that will be deemed acceptable to all parties involved and sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused. While we like to extend the hand of friendship to all,our door policy is fairly strict so we can maintain a tidy house.
    As mentioned,non smokers are not welcome.We don't serve clergymen of any denomination,serving members of any police force from any jurisdiction worldwide.Travellers are welcome,new age travellers however are not.
    Journalists are barred.
    Freemasons are barred.
    Andy from Sligo is barred.
    People under 40 with beards are barred,except on the 1st Sunday of the month,when we host 'gents night' in solidarity with our lgbt customers.
    Football jerseys are banned,although they can bought at a fraction of the recommended retail price from 'Spanish Cormac' who is usually to be found at the poker machines but they mustn't be worn on the premises.
    Vegans are barred,vegetarians are welcome.
    Footwear must be worn at all times(see new age travellers)
    Solicitors generally don't gain admission,but are allowed in if a trusted patron feels that they need councel.
    We no longer allow firearms in the bar.However they can on occasion be purchased behind the bar.
    Children are barred.
    Pets are welcome,but must be supervised by the owner.
    Guide dogs are not permitted however,as blind people are barred.
    Natives of Co Cavan are barred.
    A warm welcome will be given to anyone not on the above list.Finally the team at Harry's are grateful to all our customers for the support over the years,often through some very trying times.You guys are the best! We also look forward to seeing friends we haven't met,and we will do our utmost to ensure that we make your first visit a memorable one.


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