NO LUNCHTIME PINT ANYMORE ?

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a/t the BBC it may be ...LAST CALL FOR THE LUNCHTIME PINT ?...

is nothing sacred anymore ?
i remember when we visited london for the first time in the late 70's .
went to a pub (lord raglan - i still have the pix) for lunch .
we arrived by 11:30 and by noon you couldn't put a leg on the floor , it was that crowded .
there was room for a small band and it didn't take long for some of the 'birds' (as the proprietor called them) to do a quick jive with some of the boys - certainly was a lot of fun for us to watch .

so it's no longer to be ?
tell me , it ain't so !

(ps. we also liked our lunchtime pint in germany - which some already had for breakfast ! but there was not much danger of drunk driving - you might fall of your bike , though !).
hbg

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Thats a shame, I am too young and wear the wrong color collar to have indulged in the "three martini lunch" that seemed to be commonplace during the 80's in America for buisness men. To my knowledge drinking on any job now is discouraged.

When I saw the city workers at a Würstelstand in Vienna having a pint during lunch the envy was almost visible.

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My business partner and I would break out a wine bottle at quarter of five a few days a week, and be outta there by five or slightly before, thus assuring that we had at best a half small glass of red or white. It was wind-down time, where we gathered our wits after involvement in designing and whatever, and kept a level of friendship going in a work situation, if only a nod to it. This was a pretty controlled situation, hard to recommend for everybody.

The only time we got bombed on the job was the day we took off two hours to watch the Derby at the local business bar.. we were both interested in some horse I cannot now remember the name of, hic.

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I think the heyday of the three martini lunches was in the late forties and the fifties... though there was a renaissance of sorts in the eighties.

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The 40's and 50's are a bit foggy for me. :wink:

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And even for me...

but there was a whole cultural thing building up around Madison Avenue and I would guess Michigan Avenue and wherever it is that publishing houses congregate.

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