[WikiEN-l] London pub meet report, Tue 9 Jan

[Oldak Quill]

On 10/01/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> [sending separately to wikien-l and wikimediauk-l due to mail server weirdness]
>
>
> 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. Loopzilla and Thryduulf got a pile too.
>
> 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?

Sorry I couldn't make it to this, was busy on Tuesday evening.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)