Terrible pub signs

[evilC]

Just in case you weren't clear which one it's named after ...it's all three!

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[Stumpy Pepys]

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That picture doesn't look real to me. Where is this alleged public house?

[evilC]

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Here, doubting Stumpy.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Oh well, it's only Suffolk. Two-hundred years of why you shouldn't marry your cousin.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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But hold on. I don't see this alleged sign on Google Street View.

[evilC]

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Put your bloody glasses on, then, because it's there!

Sheesh! :-/

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Well, I've checked the front of the pub and both sides. Where is this mystical sign exactly?

[linus]

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It's been forged.

[Jah Womble]

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Why the hell would you call a pub 'The Vulcan Arms' anyway?

I mean, how to put off 80% of your passing trade.

(Or 'alienate', if you like...)

[Stumpy Pepys]

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linus wrote: It's been forged.

Very good.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Jah Womble wrote: Why the hell would you call a pub 'The Vulcan Arms' anyway?

As it appears to be in Sizewell, I suggest they rename it The Moon Under Heavy Water.

[Sits]

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Stumpy Pepys wrote: Well, I've checked the front of the pub and both sides. Where is this mystical sign exactly?

Up the road a bit in the middle of the driveway. I think it's a shame that Vulcan is about to stave in Spock's skull with his hammer.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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evilC wrote: Put your bloody glasses on, then, because it's there!

Sheesh! :-/

I'm very sorry evilC, but you're right. I just didn't realise it was fifteen metres down the road.

[Sits]

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linus wrote: It's been forged.

Earworm.

[slackster]

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I just read, in a supps direct bcc email of all places, that there's going to be a last-ever Vulcan Jet flyover around the North today.

Anyways, the Hungry Horse pub brand signs are generally terrible, if that's your bag.

[Sits]

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[Come along, Min]

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slackster wrote: I just read, in a supps direct bcc email of all places, that there's going to be a last-ever Vulcan Jet flyover around the North today.

Anyways, the Hungry Horse pub brand signs are generally terrible, if that's your bag.

Around parts of the south, west and Wales tomorrow too. Avonmouth bridge apparently being the best place to see it nearest to my surroundings.

[longeared]

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Details of the Vulcan flights today and tomorrow are here should anyone be interested. Can't find any detailed timings but they take off today at 1300.

[KGR]

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When I was aged about seven (it was before family moved us down to Torquay which was in what is now year 4, ie aged 8 going on 9), one game I used ot play with my little sister was called Pubs.

We went into different rooms in the house pretending we were going to pubs. We'd pretend to play darts, have a drink, play cards etc, and do pub things.

One of the rules was, when you exited the pub, you'd change the name of the pub, whic was displayed by sellotaping the name to the door or to a relevant space. There was a big bag full of pub names which we had written down on a piece of paper.

I can only remember two pub names we used. The Lorry (no idea why that stuck) and The Woman's Bosoms.

Sadly, this bag of names is no longer with us, so you'll have to imagine the pub signage, written in big crayon.

[WOM]

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I love that post. The story itself is great, but the clarifying digression in parenthesis gives it the magic.

[Guy Profumo]

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And here was me thinking this was a return to the "Labour in Vain" thread.

[Sits]

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I'm sure KGR could have a go at recreating the sign for "The Woman's Bosoms".

That's a word you don't [strike]come across[/strike] find often these days.

[Bored Of Education]

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I seem to remember that this sign was more similar to "The Black Boy" sign when I lived in Putney.

[evilC]

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Now, this is what I'm talking about! Signs that look like they have been painted by a 12-year-old ...reluctantly!

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I don't know if it's unique to my home town of Farnham, but about 10 years ago at least three of the pubs in the town centre all had signs that make that one look professional. They were awful! Made me want to tell people to stay away from the place ...and not for all the other usual reasons!

[Errorist Sympathiser]

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