Monks walk session beverley

Subject: Monks walk session beverley
From: ossonflags
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 02:19 AM

Due to peoples commitments - "Moor and Coast" etc. the session at "Monks" is cancelled for this month only.

The next session in Beverley will be at the "Sun" in a weeks time.

The next sess at "Monks" will be the first sunday in June.

Subject: RE: Monks walk session beverley
From: oombanjo
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 03:14 PM

Have one with Big John for me Mick, and enjoy the weekend, see you after its over.

Subject: RE: Monks walk session beverley
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 03:39 AM

Enjoy Mick,
          Me and Penny are off to Bridlington too.Sophia is staying to look after the dog (not sure if that's a wise move or not)

Subject: RE: Monks walk session beverley
From: ossonflags
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 04:58 AM

Thanks for that chaps.
Yes John, I fully intend to do sume major league browsing and sluicing, me and "Butlers Bear Boutique" will feature heavilly in the equation !

Subject: RE: Monks walk session beverley
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 08:13 AM

Watch out in Brid el tedderino. Don't bother chaining yer bike up as it won't get nicked

Subject: RE: Monks walk session beverley
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 11:52 AM

Had a shock when we walked into the Sun last night for our Tuesday session - the landlord has put a pool table in the middle of the main bar, just where we sit and play on a Sunday!!

Hopefully all of the pub regulars will comment negatively on it - nobody was playing on it last night - and it will disappear as quickly as it came.

R

Subject: RE: Monks walk session beverley
From: oombanjo
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 02:26 PM

It might be a stage for people of small stature, or just for the topped up gang to fall over or sleep on??

Subject: RE: Monks walk session beverley
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 11:22 AM

Is it just me or is it the case that:

people who look for real ale/ folk music in pubs tend not to go into ones with pool tables and people who look for pool tables in pubs tend not to go into ones that have real ale/folk music

or is it just me?

R

Subject: RE: Monks walk session beverley
From: ossonflags
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 11:31 AM

No it aint Rog, it's me as well.

Subject: RE: Monks walk session beverley
From: Les from Hull
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 02:11 PM

Well, Butler's Beer Boutique has a well used pool table (although the top gets put on when 'the gangs all here'). Same in the Oberon. And the Grafton.

I'm no great supporter of the pool table, but it's better than so many other other pub entertainments. The only problem is the amount of space it takes up. This was why bar billiards was so much better. Typical - we have something better than Colonials have, and we throw it away to follow them!

Cue for a song (cue, geddit?)
THE POOL SONG

words by Con O Drisceoil (recorded by Jimmy Crowley)

May the lord upon high who rules the sky look down on our pubs and our bars
For the people therin both women and men they're neglecting their pints and their jars
The crack it is bad, the atmosphere sad; every man has a face like a mule
And all he can do is grab an old cue and start playing the game of pool.

When I was a boy, 'twas always my joy to visit the pub each night
There were arguments, scraps and killings perhaps, and everyone thought he was right.
There were badgers and dogs and men from the bogs and young fellas acting the fool
But now there's no crack for every manjack has his arse in the air playing pool.

To the rural alehouse, after milking the cows, every customer made his way
And there would dwell and drink till they fell, while the fiddles and pipes they did play
The jigs and the reels and the rattling of heels and the polkas and slides were the rule
But now there's no chance of a tune or a dance 'cos everyones playing the oul' pool.

Now this pool, you will find, is a game designed for foolish illiterate louts
You puts in your four bob and press an old knob and a big shower of balls they come out.
They're placed on the table and then if you're able to knock 'em into a hole
More money goes in, you sart over again, and you lose every bob of your dole.

In the Irish Free State all the people are beat from watching and playing this game
In their necks they have cricks that no doctor can fix, and their backs and their shoulders are maimed.
Their arses protrude in a manner most lewd from being hoisted aloft in the air
And their eyeballs are sore and dripping in gore and they act in a manner most queer.

So if you meet an old man whose face it is wan and his eyes have a vacant stare
If his jaw-bone is slack and his head is thrown back, and he can't tell a cob from a mare.
With his nostrils dilated, his brow corrugated, his manners like those of a fool
Then your shirt you can bet that you have just met - a man that's gone mad from pool.

Subject: RE: Monks walk session beverley
From: ossonflags
Date: 29 Apr 05 - 05:40 AM

Its sumewere to put yer ale................ I suppose.