tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post9008484733300764681..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: DrinkingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-3555845934788539832015-12-29T12:24:35.086+00:002015-12-29T12:24:35.086+00:00Today, like an old Puritan, I think Irish pubs are...Today, like an old Puritan, I think Irish pubs are the most gloomy, uncomfortable, smoky, highly unpleasant places ever invented for the entertainment of man.<br /><br />I've come round to this too. Too smoky for mine now.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-69252939146562637092015-12-27T16:04:28.837+00:002015-12-27T16:04:28.837+00:00Drinking supposedly oils the social wheels but I d...Drinking supposedly oils the social wheels but I don't think it does. I enjoy a social drink but I also think we'd be better off without the booze.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-81622389519901163932015-12-27T12:05:58.901+00:002015-12-27T12:05:58.901+00:00"Behan's favourite drink (a lethal combin..."Behan's favourite drink (a lethal combination for a diabetic) was champagne and sherry," says Wikipedia. Merry Christmas!Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-34151376067435478892015-12-27T12:00:19.012+00:002015-12-27T12:00:19.012+00:00Behan could certainly shift a pint or two. He tur...Behan could certainly shift a pint or two. He turned up, I think sometime in 1958, in The Three Tuns bar at the LSE, rather off his usual London beaten track. As a visitor he could not buy drinks, but did not want for them. It was an entertaining evening.Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.com