Many years ago, on long car journeys, my parents and brother and I played a game of pub names. One point was scored for each leg as part of a pub's name spotted by any contestant.

For example, the "Red Lion" would be four legs. (The rules committee i.e. my dad, ruled that how the lion was depicted was immaterial. In many cases the red lion would be depicted heraldically as "rampant" i.e rearing up on its hind legs, before you get the wrong idea, but it was ruled that the leg didn't actually have to be touching the ground to count.)

A reference to a heraldic badge e.g. the "Mason's Arms", was assumed to be singular, so the "Mason's Arms" would count as two legs. Likewise, the "Somerset Arms" would be assumed to refer to one holder of the title Earl of Somerset, and would also count as two legs.

A reference to a group too loosely named to be accurately counted e.g. the "Rescuers", was assumed to be two rescuers and counted four legs. (Assuming Lassie to be one of the rescuers was not allowed). A group too large to be counted e.g. the "Durham Light Infantry" was awarded an arbitrary 100 legs. The same did not apply to e.g. the "Dreadnought", as it was the ship which was named rather than its crew.

The game obviously had long boring spells during journeys which involved stretches of motorway, but could be fast and furious when passing through town centres. It led to some imaginative discussions as to the origins of some names. I don't recall that we saw quite such a name as "Hark to Towler". I assume in that case that we would eventually guess correctly that Towler was a foxhound and therefore counted four legs.