Public-house Signs: Re: Re: Public-house Signs

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In response to message posted by Dubh_Sidhe: Does the expired license mean an October 7 birthday?

Anyway, with allegations of handsomeness before this distinguished forum, I thought I would provide resources for the discussion in the form of pictures taken at BookExpo in Chicago about the middle of 2001. In a picture of me taken with Carol Wallace, Senior Managing Editor and long-time Managing Editor for Gardening, I am the tall one. In the picture taken with Jason Pamer, I am not the tall one, being merely six feet tall. As to handsome, I am happy to report that some small children are not immediately frightened to see me.

Whether my face could effectively grace a pub sign has yet to be tested.

But behind that face is the capacity to develop "the most unexpected ideas". Virginia, thank you for noticing. It's a gift, but I try to exercise it.

The particular idea in question probably owes something to a speaker at our church a few years ago. Representing "MICAP", the "Michigan Council on Alcohol Problems", she commented that drinking was a "secular religion." Since some of my office buddies had nicknamed their favorite bar "The Church" (As in, "I was at The Church over the noon hour, Honey, that's why I missed your call."), I was favorably disposed towards the speaker's thesis. So if a bar (not quite a pub, sorry) could be called "The Church", I thought a church could "borrow" a pub-sign painter.

In connection with folklore, I wonder if it includes any old legends involving somebody coming home late from the pub. Or is that too recent to be folklore?

I have been known to ramble on for hundreds of words, but no alcohol was harmed in the production of this message.

-- posted by Dan_Ellsworth