"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Blues said:
In hindsight, had I not been in a "fog" I might have saved myself a bit of unnecessary writing had I realized you were just yanking my chain. C'est la vie.
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I was -- sort of. But I did get to read your post before it was redacted and really really enjoyed it. :thumbup: Sounds like you and my uncle (who was a vice cop in Miami in the '70s) would have a lot to talk about over beers. :)

-- Mark
 
Mark, that's cool. If I remember later on, I may send you a message with a couple harmonica/blues-related questions, if you don't mind. :)

Elliott, I think we were all glad to read along. I certainly was!
 
Mark, really liked the song:thumbup:

Elliott, very cool stories,I can understand the redaction though:eek:

Paul, hang in there, and congrats on the upcoming wedding:thumbup:
 
Thanks, guys. It was (and is) an interesting milieu, to say the least...a never ending procession of both head-scratchers and mirth.
 
Boy, have I had an up and down day (don't ask!)?! The highlight was definitely a pint in a 17th Century coaching inn in North Yorkshire, complete with the old gas lamps. A shame it didn't also have the old prices! ;)







After a rather stressful week, I am looking forward to meeting up with ScruffUK tomorrow, and I think I might even have more than one pint! :thumbup:
 
Looks like a nice pub :) Just great furniture and the bar looks like a lot of fun.

Thanks for sharing Jack.

I wanted to cut up some bread and sausage (with a full serrated bread knife) today but I was foolish enough to cut myself or better say rip off some skin I had to go to hospital. Dang... it happened this morning and it hurts like hell. I gonna do it like Jack and have a couple of beer for getting sleep :p
 
Humppa said:
Looks like a nice pub :) Just great furniture and the bar looks like a lot of fun.

Thanks for sharing Jack.

I wanted to cut up some bread and sausage (with a full serrated bread knife) today but I was foolish enough to cut myself or better say rip off some skin I had to go to hospital. Dang... it happened this morning and it hurts like hell. I gonna do it like Jack and have a couple of beer for getting sleep :p
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Sorry to hear about your accident Andi. Hope the beers help my friend :thumbup:
 
Jack Black said:
Boy, have I had an up and down day (don't ask!)?! The highlight was definitely a pint in a 17th Century coaching inn in North Yorkshire, complete with the old gas lamps. A shame it didn't also have the old prices! ;)







After a rather stressful week, I am looking forward to meeting up with ScruffUK tomorrow, and I think I might even have more than one pint! :thumbup:
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Did you ever get the chance to go to The Crown in Belfast, Jack? They have working gas lamps in the bar too, probably a little bit smaller than the place in your pictures. Sorry you had a crap day mate.


Humppa said:
Looks like a nice pub :) Just great furniture and the bar looks like a lot of fun.

Thanks for sharing Jack.

I wanted to cut up some bread and sausage (with a full serrated bread knife) today but I was foolish enough to cut myself or better say rip off some skin I had to go to hospital. Dang... it happened this morning and it hurts like hell. I gonna do it like Jack and have a couple of beer for getting sleep :p
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Andi, sorry you munched your hand instead of bread, I have no sensation in my left index finger because of a carving accident. If I could I would feel your pain as it were. Hope everything heals up nicely.

Paul
 
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pmew said:
Did you ever get he chance to go to The Crown in Belfast, Jack? They have working gas lamps in the bar too, probably a little bit smaller than the place in your pictures. Sorry you had a crap day mate.
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Thanks Paul.

I did! :) I grew very fond of the Belfast pubs on my visits there, some real gems (a shame the ale in Belfast isn't better ;) ). I seem to recall reading something about The Crown in the paper just the other day.

Jack
 
I know what you mean about bitter, in Norn Iron there is either Stout, Lager or Bass. Actually, I remember Smithwicks being around quite a bit, but that's about it. There are a few bars which have interesting things though, in the cathedral quarter The John Hewitt always had some decent drinks on tap. :)
 
Smithwicks....how they can even call that bitter is beyond me?!

Jack - that looks like a nice haunt. Don't worry, the ale shall be plenty cheap tomorrow, the decor too no doubt! ;)
Sorry again it was a rotten start.

I've found myself enjoying a bottle of Rioja since I got in....well deserved too I might add. I've not set off as many fireworks in one session as I did last night and I had a good few to fire for my German and Hong Kong colleagues earlier this eve. The first glass was just to get rid of the taste of portfires and gunpowder!

Chin chin anyway ;)

Andi - you have had your run of it this last week or so haven't you. I think you better get an adult to slice it next time ;)

I too have a numb finger after a cutlery related incident. It 'tingles' and throbs for a while, but the feeling should come back eventually.

Speedy recovery Andi....don't make us have to send over some mansize bubble wrap to swaddle you in before that bubba is born!!
 
pmew said:
I know what you mean about bitter, in Norn Iron there is either Stout, Lager or Bass. Actually, I remember Smithwicks being around quite a bit, but that's about it. There are a few bars which have interesting things though, in the cathedral quarter The John Hewitt always had some decent drinks on tap. :)
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Yes Paul, the John Hewitt always had a slightly better ale selection. I have to say I almost always drank Guiness, even though I'm not particularly fond of it, and whiskey of course ;) I was in a bar in the Botanic Avenue area one night, I forget which one, and a feller I knew said to me, "You should try the John Smiths, it's really on form tonight." I glanced at the bar, and it was Smoothflow! :D

scruffuk said:
Smithwicks....how they can even call that bitter is beyond me?!

Jack - that looks like a nice haunt. Don't worry, the ale shall be plenty cheap tomorrow, the decor too no doubt! ;)
Sorry again it was a rotten start.

I've found myself enjoying a bottle of Rioja since I got in....well deserved too I might add. I've not set off as many fireworks in one session as I did last night and I had a good few to fire for my German and Hong Kong colleagues earlier this eve. The first glass was just to get rid of the taste of portfires and gunpowder!

Chin chin anyway ;)
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Caffreys is the other one of course! :D

I paid £3.50 for a pint of Taylor's Landlord!! :eek:

Glad you survived my friend, and I shall look forward to the cheap and cherful pubs of Huddersfield tomorrow :)
 
Jack Black said:
Boy, have I had an up and down day (don't ask!)?! The highlight was definitely a pint in a 17th Century coaching inn in North Yorkshire, complete with the old gas lamps. A shame it didn't also have the old prices! ;)







After a rather stressful week, I am looking forward to meeting up with ScruffUK tomorrow, and I think I might even have more than one pint! :thumbup:
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Great looking place, Jack.

Coaching inn…do they still have an intact mews?
 
pmew said:
I know what you mean about bitter, in Norn Iron there is either Stout, Lager or Bass. Actually, I remember Smithwicks being around quite a bit, but that's about it. There are a few bars which have interesting things though, in the cathedral quarter The John Hewitt always had some decent drinks on tap. :)
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I gather they’ve been selling Bass Ale for a while now. :)

At Varna, during the Crimean War, wood was scarce and cholera was rife; it was not always possible to make coffins, and many were buried sewn in a blanket and carried to the grave on a stretcher. Once, when two women of the army died, boxes were broken up and coffins were fashioned from them. Lieutenant Frederick Stevenson saw the funeral, “The coffins carried on men’s shoulders covered all over with “Bass’s Superior Pale Ale”....it was impossible not to smile.
[Farwell, Mr. Kipling’s Army, 1981]
 
Thanks for the wishes recovery. Today it just hurts the half, but it still hurts ;)

I hope everything gets well, soon!

Thom: I hear you :D No more full serrated bread knives for me though ...
 
Raymond1000 said:
Great looking place, Jack.

Coaching inn…do they still have an intact mews?
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I didn't have a proper walk round the place, but I don't think they can have.

Unfortunately there's less history given on the pub's website - http://www.halesbar.co.uk/history.php - than on the info plaque outside the pub itself. Still, I'm sure I'll be making a return visit soon ;)

Nice to see they've retained the cigar lighters on the bar in spite of the smoking ban in pubs here.
 
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