Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for February 10, 2025
February 07, 2025
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richard's poor almanack by richard thompson handy guide to irish pubs miserable - a fine establishment tommy o'spleen's tommy o'spleen's. a three-story pub offering a differ-ent fight on each floor: religion on the first, politics on the second, sports & general interest on the third. tuesday is lady's nite. the maudlin banshee - enjoy the music of the garrulous drones quartet (daily, noon till closing) in authen-tic irish ambience, including a newly-installed peat bog. they serve only bud-weiser. no shamrocks the maudlin banshee irish pub megans megapub megan's megapub - with a parking lot the size of county cork, megan's offers 5,723 beers on tap, in-cluding old balrog depleted uranium stout. bleariagh na-mnag-hriaebhngniocht's - the guinness on tap is as warm & sluggish as lava, there are tiny pebbles in the soda bread & the bartend-er hates you on sight, with a passion that time will not diminish. other-wise, it's ok.
Well, you’re walkin’ through a city street, you could be in Peru
And you hear a distant calling and you know it’s meant for you
Then you drop what you were doing and you join the merry mob
And before you know just where you are, you’re in an Irish pub
♪♫They’ve got one in Honolulu, they’ve got one in Moscow too
They got four of them in Sydney and a couple in Kathmandu
So whether you sing or pull a pint, you’ll always have a job
‘Cause where ever you go around the world you’ll find an Irish pub ♪♫
Now that design is fairly simple and it usually works the same
You’ll have ‘Razor Houghton’ scoring in the Ireland, England game
And you know you’re in an Irish pub the minute you’re in the door
For a couple of boys with bodhrans will be murdering Christy Moore
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