The trouble with that is, there are so many chains now with 'amusing' names - the Slug and Lettuce chain, whose premises include the 'Cauliflower and catterpillar' all play on the vegetable/salad + undesirable invertebrae/larvae/insect theme. Then there is the Firkin chain, where there was originally only one that didn't have an alliterative label (the Goose and Firkin), making for some quite desperate names like 'Flounder and Firkin', Friar and Firkin', Phoenix and Firkin (or should that one have been Phoenix and Phirkin?), or 'Flintlock and Firkin'.

Having said that, I rather like the fact that there were two pubs in London called 'I am the only Running Footman'... And I like the imagery of 'the Green Man and French Horn' - though why a French Horn I really don't know....

There was an author of crime novels, whose name totally escapes me, who wrote a whole series of whodunnits with real pub names as the titles. Hence, there is a book 'I am the only Running Footman', 'The Old House at Home', something about a maul and a shoulderblade and my favourite 'The horse you rode in on' which I was given to understand was a bar in Baltimore, USA.

Wish I could remember what that one about the shoulderblade is.... I've even been in the damn pub!

LTS