"Visited by Lawrence of Arabia"!!! This has to be one of the greatest pub notices of the 21st Century? I am cursed with a mind which frequently goes off at a tangent and spotting this fascinating piece of information outside a boozer in Small Town today conjured up miriad images:
T E Lawrence: "Oh hi! I'm just passing, can I use your loo?"
Landlord: "Bollocks, chum! You buy a beer or or some nuts like everyone else. And while you're about it, get that fucking camel out of here as well!!"
..........or how about:
Landlord, in reply to a question posed by Lawrence: "Yes mate. Well, you turn left out of the door, go to the end of the street, turn left, take your first right and then follow the signs for the motorway southbound until you get to Dover. Then you hop over to Calais, keep in the southbound lane until you get to the coast, cross to Africa, then ask."
.........maybe even:
Gaffer: "Jesus H Christ! Are you ever lost! No, raghead, We've got the United game on here. You need to go to Watford for the Damascus v Cambridge friendly."
Oh dear. Lawrence is another of my heroes, if not my biggest hero. I am not "a traveller on the other bus" but he did more for gay lib than any man alive. That is not why he was more superb than a superb thing but, what a man! It's not his fault, admittedly, but cruddy notices laying claim to great figures from history can go to Grantham.
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Saddlers' legend Roger Boli once visited my cousin's pub. He signed my cousin's Walsall FC shirt but they never placed a board outside claiming the Great One had visited. Maybe that's why business never really boomed afterwards...
Aah, Roger Boli...Should've been a Premiership star.
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