FALPC in Dublin (Do not read if you hate books)

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James Joyce was famously enamoured by Ireland's obsession with its literary heritage and recently the Pinefox suggested that a good puzzle would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub. Combining the notions of both great men we were wondering whether anyone 'Fancies a Literary Pub Crawl'?

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 8 June 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I might but i don't live in dublin (its been a few hours and no one has ans this thread).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 8 June 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm on for it!

I also fancy the idea of the literary pub crawl. but then, you know this.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 8 June 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

let's do it! alternatively we could do the 1916 pub crawl dressed in combats and balaclavas and scare the tourists.

― rener (rener), Monday, 9 June 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

looks like a saucy threesome for the Dublin posse! ROWR.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 9 June 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

This should prove interesting.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 June 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

bah, trust you to come along and spoil everything. Farrell - you're a cunt.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 9 June 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

urgh, with my hamfisted attempt to join in with ILXOR running jokes, I have KILLED THIS THREAD.

truly I am the cnut.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 9 June 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Well - I'm toying with a Dublin visit, so any pub crawl would be good for me.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 June 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Me too. I'm aiming for July but my plans aren't even plans yet.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 9 June 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I was about to say that I thought the thread might have run its course already, as the other Dublin FAP-suspects are (i) students who regard literary pub-crawls as limp-wristed nanciness (also more expensive than student bar) or (ii) out foreign.

I am glad to be wrong.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 June 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the phrase "without passing a pub" has two entirely contradictory meanings: discuss

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 June 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

who is in Dublin at the moment? me, Rener, Andrew, & Lara... are Robin, Ronan, & Killian around these days? What about that lurker guy?

I wonder would the Zozimus Experience be better than the pub crawl?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 9 June 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.afallon.com/walks/zozimus.htm

I was walking down Castle Street once when Zozimus came running up a laneway and climbing over a gate at me, gibbering about how he was being chased (by a mob of tourists). Bizarre stuff.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 9 June 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

haha.

pub

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 9 June 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

when are we going to FAP, Lara?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i am here,although i have no money and need a job before i could consider any pubcrawling
i've seen a few posts from ronan recently,although where from i dunno,haven't noticed killian on ilx recently

― robin (robin), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

What a good idea! Course, most of the FAPs I've been to focused on either music and/or books anyway (in the midst of a good chugging). Dublin is a tad too far for me right now, but *raising a mug* Enjoy!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm still here. i'd be on for a pub crawl sometime, too. i think ronan is still in ireland, but i'm not sure.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Lara says we must go on the Literary Pub Crawl. When Lara speaks, we obey. How about next week?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you, Vicar. I think we should LPC next week - perhaps Wednesday? I'm in the UK on Monday and Tuesday and the week after I'll be too busy constantly washing myself in anticipation of three days without a shower at Glastonbury.

What a treat to here that Pete and Tim are thinking of coming over. Why don't you both some over together (assuming that you are friends?) and we could do Zozimus together? Is the a lure, erm...? Looks good to me and the York Ghost Tour was fantastic - I have become sensationally bored of just g-o-i-n-g t-o t-h-e p-u-b.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 9 June 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Do not read if you hate books

This is quite possibly the most obvious bit of advice ever given...

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Think outside the novel, ailsa....

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, I've thought of two more Dublin ILX people!

i) ANGELA (Angela, I hadn't forgotten you, I'd just forgotten that you were back looking at ILX)

ii) that DAVID GUNNIP fellow who sometimes posts to ILM - doesn't he live in Dublin?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a mighty big assumption there Lara. Actually on our current tip we would be most interested in an estate pub crawl.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Angela's covered by "out foreign" at the moment.

I am thinking that estate might mean different things in England and Ireland. Unless you want to go drinking with the neds.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it means the same thing. Pete has temporarily gone mad.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you couldn't handle yourselves...

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

whatareyousayinglike?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had many a pleasant pint with Ned.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

are we going for Wednesday, then?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay Pete. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

are we going for Wednesday, then?

Well, I am. You're all welcome to join! I mentioned the FALPC to DTL (correctly identified by the DV) and he'll probably come along too.

I, like Andrew, am a little confused by Pete. Can we join you on your pleasure trip in Ireland?

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

do we have to book this or do we just show up or something?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm back from overseas and definitely on for the falpc. are we talking about wednesday 18th? if so sign me up.

― angela (angela), Thursday, 12 June 2003 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I am probably up for it, I'm here, been working in the bank 9-infinity.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 12 June 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

What is there to be confused by.
a) I think I'll be coming to Ireland soon.
b) I like Tim.
c) We currently are examining estate pubs (ie pubs purpose built as part of housing estates)
d) I have had an enjoyable pint with Ned.

Crystaal mate.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I am confused by two of the above.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Not in that way Tim.
Alright - that's a loose use of the word currently.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

recently the Pinefox suggested that a good puzzle would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub.

Only just saw this. It's delightful to be thus cited - but the thought is in Ulysses: chapter 8, I think. Or 4, or 5, or 6. One of those.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

It's chapter 4, p.69 in the uncorrected Penguin:

'Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub'.

I am quite proud of the fact that it took me less than one minute to find that sentence.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Ditto with London. Try to get from my office to say Emma's would be tricky. I think it can just be done if you don't call Bradley's a pub. (Or - now I think about it, go via Soho Square though one goes perilously close to The Tottenham that way).

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

James Joyce was a wise, wise man. Mmm.

c) We currently are examining estate pubs (ie pubs purpose built as part of housing estates)

If yiu want to do this in Ireland you will have to wear armour and learn how to speak loike a Dub, loike.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

BTW Next Wednesday. I think the thing kicks off in The Duke at around 6.30. I'll find out and let you know. Remember to bring your Anglo-Irish Inter Cert (Junior Cert for the more fresh-faced of our greoup) Poetry books!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 12 June 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

How much does this cost, Lara?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 16 June 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

8.89 in euro. Starts at 7.30 according to http://www.dublinpubcrawl.com/general.htm

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a bit dubious of any website still quoting prices in Irish pounds.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

this says it's a tenner: http://www.visitdublin.com/tours/detail.asp?ID=357

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Hoi - make up your own pub crawls, don't pay someone else to do it.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

look Pete, if the Pinefox was over in Dublin we could walk around with him while he told us amusing literary anecdotes. But he isn't, so we can't.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

of course, what you could do is note down all the interesting anecdotes, then retell them when/if other ilX0rs come to visit you, thus:

a. making you look intelligent and interesting
b. allowing you to miss out any rub bits
c. saving visiting friends 10 euros...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 16 June 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

c. saving visiting friends 10 euros...

I might give a discount for visiting friends, but I'm not sure if I'd let them have my wit and wisdom for free.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 16 June 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

the lpc is due to start at 7.30 and last for two hours. do people reckon you'll hang about a bit afterwards? i have to go and look at some auctions lots tomorrow evening and probably won't make it in till 8.30 or so. i can track you down by the power of txt presuming they don't make you all turn your phones off.

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

well, our phones will be off during the pub crawl because we are not cockfarmers. but aferwards we can turn them on.

LARA! It is U&K that you tell us where we must meet and stuff like that. You are in charge.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

How I wish I could attend. Sounds like the crawl of the year by a distance.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

meet at 7.00 (time the tickets go on sale) at The Duke.

― Not Lara (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

andrew i'm trusting that you are cockfarmer enough to switch your phone to silent.

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

My phone will be resolutely on. I don't undertand DV's code of morals, but this is often the case.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

thank you. he's quite the mystery isn't he?

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

come on, surely having your phone go off when some bloke is going on about how a pint of plain is your only man is like taking a phone call at the cinema or a theatrical event?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

who is actually coming along again?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

surely having your phone go off when some bloke is going on about how a pint of plain is your only man is like taking a phone call at the cinema or a theatrical event?

ah ian, do you really reckon that some lad shiteing on about the auld triangle is going to bring assembled hoards of whatever pub he's in to a reverential silence? and also a good part of the tour will surely be spent walking from one pub to next on noisy streets. i'm not proposing ringing you all up for a natter during the thing, just texting "where are you?".

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

say, if we like the literary pub crawl how about a FADGBT (fancy a dublin ghost bus tour)?

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

A&A, I accept that it is possible to discretely use mobile phones on the LPC.

the Ghost Bus Tour would probably be better in the autumn? but I'd love to do it (on the ghost bus! Love To Do It! etc.) sometime. haven't you already gone on that tour?

as part of my campaign to do everything Angela has done, I am going to go on the tour of the FREEMASON'S HALL after I get back from Glasto.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

the ghost bus tour would definitely be best when the evenings are dark again. i have been on it before and it was great so i'd gladly go a second time. it's only a shame that there's no bar on the bus as i was first led to believe.

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

it is for occasions like that that HIP FLASKS were invented.

I've really got into this CAPITALISING RANDOM WORDS thing.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

We can start bootlegging the tour! (this sentence works in three ways, all of which can be done at once).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i still don't understand how crossing dublin w/o passing a pub can be combined with a pub crawl

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

how many pubs do we go to? if I have a pint in every one I may be very very drunk by the end.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

mark s, you can't _pass_ them, you must go into them.

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

mark s is confused by Lara's intro.

There are eight pubs, but they don't visit them all. It only takes two and a half hours, how drunk can you get?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

is that a challenge?

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

though actually i won't be drinking at all this evening.

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

stopping at eight pubs = eight pints, surely?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

(waiting)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

DV surely this is flexible? My tactic during Trig Brother 1 was to make each stop on the crawl a two-pint stop. Most people chose to take just one pint (or other beverage). It seemed to work.

Talking of which, surely it must be time for Trig Brother 3 sometime soon?

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd have thought that the Pub Steering committee are steeling themselves for Glastonbury.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

in answer to your question dv:

previously on FALPC in Dublin, There are eight pubs, but they don't visit them all.

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Not all of the STeering committee are steeling themselves for Glasto.

Unfortunately.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

regarding this Eight Pubs But Not All Are Visited thing - say they visit half them, and I have a pint and a chaser in each - that's four pints and four chasers, which is a lot.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm alarmed by the idea that you have to drink in all of them (though not as much as the idea that I have to drink in all of them, arf arf)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

what a great tour!

who would have thought that Lapello's has so many literary connections!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 19 June 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the two actOrs that presented the tour was the spitting image of Pete Baran crossed with Ricky Gervsaise. Er, in a good way.

Also the best story heard last night was from one of the FAPpers rather than the professionals. So no surprise there.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 June 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the actXoRs were great. even if one of them shushed lara for TALKING.

we learned lots of fascinating stuff. who'd have thought that beckett was a motorbike enthusiast?

― rener (rener), Thursday, 19 June 2003 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

or that wilde had a mean left hook. it was a grand old night. i tried retelling the story about the nuns and the donkey's penis when i got home but it doesn't work without the accents.

― angela (angela), Thursday, 19 June 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

the actXoRs were great. even if one of them shushed lara for TALKING.

proper order... we hadn't paid money to hear Lara talk. sure we can do that whenever we want.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 19 June 2003 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

no "pint of plain's yer only man" = top marks.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 19 June 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

donkey's penis

Donkey's destructor, please.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 June 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

WHat is this obsession with me looking nearly like Ricky Gervaise. Only on Tuesday I believe Stevei Trousers saw me as the missing link between Danny Baker and Ricky Gervaise - and when I suggested in girth he didn't immediately apologise. Bah!

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 19 June 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry Ptee.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 19 June 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

You don't look like Ricky Gervaise, or else I would have said "looks like Ricky Gervaise". Obviously.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 June 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a bit sensitive at the moment that's all. I have been on the Troy NcLure "Eat Yourself Thin" tapes and I really thought they were working.

(Jerry, I took it as a compliment.)

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 19 June 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

by the way... somewhat poor showing last night, eh? no Killian, Ronan, Robin, or Dave. boo.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 19 June 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe they were there but disguised as tourists from toronto, seattle and helensborough. damn it, that means they won all the prizes.

― angela (angela), Thursday, 19 June 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I stayed in for lemon jelly who then stood me up. I am now working for *shudder* hot press I think. Talk about becoming what you hate.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 19 June 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i couldn't make it cause my friend is going away for a month so i had to meet up with her...
shame though,i'd be on for going to the next fap situation
what are you doing at hot press ronan?

― robin (robin), Thursday, 19 June 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry folks, i was working, couldn't make it. we should FAP again before the end of the summer, i'd be well up for it.

(good luck with the results next week, ronan ;-)

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan - you stayed in for Lemon Jelly? Telephone interview? Explain please mate... and out the line with any info you might have about cheeky summer releases from the chaps...

thanks,
dave.

― Dave Corway, Friday, 20 June 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I interviewed the Plump Djs for them last Saturday Robin, and then they asked me to do Johnny Moy during the week. It's all work so I interviewed him too, even though I'm no fan.

Same to you Kilian, hopefully another year scraped through!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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