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    It wasn't me Quinno's Avatar
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    OB talks about 'striped pine' in his review of The Brewery Tap, which I clearly missed

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quinno View Post
    OB talks about 'striped pine' in his review of The Brewery Tap, which I clearly missed
    I expect it was badly done giving the stripped pine a striped effect..................or something, or some bastard Microsoft spell checker...................or something, ...........................all I can say is I definitely wasn't pi55ed when I wrote that....honest Guv. & what's more I haven't gone back and edited it................................................ .....yet!

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    Boy & Barrel

    Sad news, RIP lass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maldenman View Post
    Boy & Barrel

    Sad news, RIP lass.
    I was going to comment on that in my review.

    The landlady looked alive and kicking yesterday,she was sweeping up outside when i went in for a drink.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Al 10000 View Post
    I was going to comment on that in my review.

    The landlady looked alive and kicking yesterday,she was sweeping up outside when i went in for a drink.
    Alan, pretty sure he meant the pub was dead, not the barmaid! It was just how it read that tickled me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maldenman View Post
    Alan, pretty sure he meant the pub was dead, not the barmaid! It was just how it read that tickled me.
    I did know that,he had missed a punctuation mark out,i was just being a bit sarcastiic in my post

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    Just noticed this gem in my notes for the Myrtle Grove in Bingley (guess who's having a quiet afternoon at work and is surreptitiously bashing out reviews between tasks?)

    My initial choice of Black and Tan was flat and not clearing but happily exchanged for an above average barmaid
    Last edited by Quinno; 09-07-2013 at 13:13.

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    I love Oggy's picture of this pub - Oggy was completely sober, but managed to get his camera drunk!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Soup Dragon View Post
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    I love Oggy's picture of this pub - Oggy was completely sober, but managed to get his camera drunk!
    Thats one of my better ones
    Theres a Man with a Mullet going Mad with a Mallet in Millets !

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    Apparently a pub I visited recently had just been voted the regional CAMERA pub of the year according to reviewers on an alternative site...............
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