The Medusa Fora

Posted: **Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:42 am**

Had a few drinks with Shane in a Dublin early house yesterday. He was in great form, nursing a few vodka and tomato juice cocktails. I sent him up a drink and said thanks for a few great nights out (I've seen The Pogues play five times, including the Point show a couple of days before Christmas) ... he bought me a pint shortly after and we bullshitted away for a couple of hours. I play poker for a living and he wanted to play me for matchsticks, but a deck of cards could not be found so we ended up gambling on the throw of a die instead! My pal got his autograph for me (I don't ask for autographs!), rather appropriately on the back of a receipt for three packs of cigarettes ... "To KP, you're nuts - he says! Shane MacGowan" ... needless to say, I have no recollection of leaving the pub and feel rather shaky today!

Posted: **Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:19 pm**

thanks for the story .. what's an 'early house'?

Posted: **Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:57 pm**

KP wrote:Had a few drinks with Shane in a Dublin early house yesterday. He was in great form, nursing a few vodka and tomato juice cocktails. I sent him up a drink and said thanks for a few great nights out (I've seen The Pogues play five times, including the Point show a couple of days before Christmas) ... he bought me a pint shortly after and we bullshitted away for a couple of hours. I play poker for a living and he wanted to play me for matchsticks, but a deck of cards could not be found so we ended up gambling on the throw of a die instead! My pal got his autograph for me (I don't ask for autographs!), rather appropriately on the back of a receipt for three packs of cigarettes ... "To KP, you're nuts - he says! Shane MacGowan" ... needless to say, I have no recollection of leaving the pub and feel rather shaky today!

Wayhey! Brilliant.

Posted: **Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:55 pm**

Cool KP

Posted: **Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:35 pm**

Anonymous wrote:thanks for the story .. what's an 'early house'?

"early house" is a pub that has special license to open at 7am ... the one we were in is the Chancery Inn on the quays in the city centre

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:01 am**

any idea what time you left?

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:03 pm**

You're nuts.. :lol:

Great story man. Thanks for sharing it. :wink:

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:08 pm**

it brings a tear to my eye
and i can't stop grinning

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:57 pm**

KP wrote:"early house" is a pub that has special license to open at 7am ... the one we were in is the Chancery Inn on the quays in the city centre

So are there no more early houses in England?

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:10 pm**

Anonymous wrote:
KP wrote:"early house" is a pub that has special license to open at 7am ... the one we were in is the Chancery Inn on the quays in the city centre

So are there no more early houses in England?

No need. Tony Blair has ordered that all pubs MUST open 24 hours a day. This is in the hope that fewer and fewer people will notice as he removes all our remaining civil liberties as systematically as Mrs Thatcher once sold off all the family silver.

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:29 pm**

philipchevron wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
KP wrote:"early house" is a pub that has special license to open at 7am ... the one we were in is the Chancery Inn on the quays in the city centre

So are there no more early houses in England?

No need. Tony Blair has ordered that all pubs MUST open 24 hours a day. This is in the hope that fewer and fewer people will notice as he removes all our remaining civil liberties as systematically as Mrs Thatcher once sold off all the family silver.

haha.Lucky Brits. We have no such luxuries to keep our people sedated and quiet.

Great story KP, congrats.

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:46 pm**

philipchevron wrote:Tony Blair has ordered that all pubs MUST open 24 hours a day. This is in the hope that fewer and fewer people will notice as he removes all our remaining civil liberties as systematically as Mrs Thatcher once sold off all the family silver.

At least as your gubment strips away your liberties (OCR capable traffic cameras that store all road traffic activity for no less than two years? What the fuck?) they give the masses some kind of opiate.

This side of the pond we're left completely sober as we watch it all slip away.

Maybe that's the bigger tragedy - even sober we're watching it all slip away.

Posted: **Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:29 pm**

KP wrote:
Anonymous wrote:thanks for the story .. what's an 'early house'?

"early house" is a pub that has special license to open at 7am ... the one we were in is the Chancery Inn on the quays in the city centre

Is that near Bridge Quay? Sounds like a great place to sort out jet lag.

Posted: **Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:00 pm**

DzM wrote: Maybe that's the bigger tragedy - even sober we're watching it all slip away.

Elections have consequences. But then again, politically inclined people tend not to be people one wants running a country/state/etc. anyway. Most politicals are scum. Most.

Posted: **Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:30 pm**

Eric V wrote:
DzM wrote: Maybe that's the bigger tragedy - even sober we're watching it all slip away.

Elections have consequences. But then again, politically inclined people tend not to be people one wants running a country/state/etc. anyway. Most politicals are scum. Most.

There's all kinds of paranoid ranting to be had here about the efficacy of voting in the last two Presidential elections, but it's all been said before.

"Being a parent and being the President are similar in that what it takes to get the job doesn't actually qualify you to perform it."

The Medusa Fora

I met Shane today!