Mudgie's Bar.

Mudgie

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So they hold the rights to the fish called Bass then?
No, I think there are about three dozen trade mark categories and they will only hold them in the one that includes beer.
So you could therefore probably start making electric cars, call them Bass cars and get away with it as long as you didn't use a red equilateral triangle trademark.
 

Noah

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There might be a thing or two 'Noah' could tell us about before my time !

Aye, I can remember real pubs, no bars, beer jugged up from the cellar, just a few benches and some tables & chairs scattered around (if there was room), toilet facilities on the open field principle ... then they ruined them by turning them into "proper" pubs
 

BobClay

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Right !!! (Rolls up sleeves.)

I can remember coming home from a dinosaur hunt, going into our local, The Jurassic Arms, which was just a hole in the rockface. There were no lights, just a glow from where some lava dripped through the rock from a near by volcano. If you were lucky a bit of lava had cooled down enough to sit on. You drank your pint of Brontosaurus Bladder Drippings Bitter and were glad to have it. It smelt Earthy because nobody washed back then and the toilet was a nook at the back for the use of everybody, including animals and the occasional wandering velociraptor.

Now that was a pub.
 

Mudgie

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Parker's ceased brewing 1963, so you younger drinkers wouldn't remember it 😉
Yes, all we've got now is "Parkers Celebrated Ales" on the side of what was the Crown and Anchor in Mill Street but that's fading away to reveal the "Buntings" painted underneath before they were taken over by Parkers in 1929.
Do you really remember Parkers delivering as far east as Cambridgeshire ?
 

Thehooperman

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Wetherspoons are advertising a real ale festival from 20 to 31 October. I don't think much of their pathetic festival offerings so far!!!

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Noah

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Do you really remember Parkers delivering as far east as Cambridgeshire ?

No, but I travelled around a bit and I know that Lacon's beers and Parker's beers had very similar reputations. Never had Birkenhead Brewery beers, in part because their reputation was so awful
 

Mudgie

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No, but I travelled around a bit and I know that Lacon's beers and Parker's beers had very similar reputations. Never had Birkenhead Brewery beers, in part because their reputation was so awful
But the new Lacons Brewery has put much effort into recreating the Lacons beers of old.
 
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