London pub meet report, Tue 9 Jan (resend) - WikiEN-l

10 Jan 2007

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From: David Gerard &lt;dgerard(a)gmail.com&gt;
Date: 10-Jan-2007 11:07
Subject: London pub meet report, Tue 9 Jan
To: English Wikipedia &lt;wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org&gt;rg>, wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org

The Montagu Pyke is an unspeakably horrible beer barn, and we actually
drank it out of the one real ale on tap. I was wondering if it was
possible to accidentally unplug the jukebox, then the football
(Arsenal v. Liverpool, 6-3, holy crap! [*]) started at a quite
remarkable volume. Having enough people upstairs to block the fire
exits, and the venue sucking like a hivemind of Dysons, we chose to
follow Morwen's infallible ale detector to the Shakespeare's Head near
Holborn tube station, another Wetherspoons but this time of the
tolerable variety.

(Fortunately, despite it *technically* having been the case that I was
the one to declare that this would be a suitable venue, I used methods
learnt from [[WP:ANI]] to put all blame onto James Forrester, who was
conveniently not present. So that's all right then.)

I got about a zillion shots on User:Arkady Rose's [[Canon Digital
IXUS]] 400, and she'll probably be putting these up some time today or
tomorrow.

We got LOTS of people along and this was really good and productive,
despite the horrible first venue. Did anyone write up an attendance
list?

- d.

[*] http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/6246893.stm