Merlins Rest Pub

I’ve been puzzling over this photo a great deal. Just how is this training useful?
Somone brings that young man back to earth, put a pint of Guinness or a 20-oz dimpled mug of Fuller’s in his hand, and tell him a tale (though I suspect he could tell us a whopper himself).
So: It’s Kilt [...]

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Get in your time machine, friends, and go back to last Sunday with last week’s pub quiz answers! I’ll post them in this entry in just a moment. In the meantime, here’s a TRIVIA question: Who wrote The Time Machine (first published in 1895)? The answer later.
THE BIRDS & THE BEERS

Tonight! 6:00 PM. It’s the [...]

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Wow. A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit England and Wales early this morning.
If we’re to trust the epicenter, the blame goes to Lincolnshire.
A number of houses experienced some damage, but all in all everyone got out of this one okay. This brings us to some relevant trivia regarding earthquakes in the Isles:
TRIVIA
What’s the most powerful earthquake [...]

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Today’s Trivia: Who was the first Irish winner of a Nobel prize? The answer at the end of today’s entry.
Right! It’s Tuesday and that means Bedlam. So get yourself out of the house, shake off the early week irritations, warm up the belly and blood with a pie and a pint.
The boys of Bedlam will [...]

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Tonight: Harrison Matthews leads the Merlins Rest Open Mic night. Bring your guitar, your singing voice, your accordion; your poems, your stories, your novel chapters; etc. It’s your mic! Things begin around 8:00/8:30. Traditional Irish ceili dancing sometimes occurs before. (Listed on OpenMics.org.)
And perhaps we’ll hear an ode to pugilism! On this day in history, [...]

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