Prog Curry: Suggested date...

Sean Trane wrote: Velvetclown wrote: Not possible to get drunk in Canada  I guess I´ll visit ol' Blighty and stay there .................hic  Canada must be a terrible place I lived in Toronto and there was a completely dry area called Swansea> The was a pub call the Wedge (a contraction of Wedgewood  road  - the end of the dry area - and edge) where there used to be a partition with a fence were you could not drink alcoholic beverages. So in fact the wet area was at the back of the pub.  Quite a folkloric anecdote about canadian liquor laws. In Ontario, you get booze (rums , whiskeys, sweet liquors and wines) from license Gvt stores called Liquor Board and you get beers from special shops (govt owned also ) called Brewer's Retails. Need to show ID in case yopu look under 19 (drinking age) > Last call at 12:45 and curtains at 1 AM. So what people do is orderthree beers and drink the last one warm until 2:30 AM. sad life if you think about it.

Ah yes, the degenerate, so-called "good old days."

Thankfully, alcohol has since been totally banned, and handguns and church are mandatory!

Sean Trane wrote: Blacksword wrote: Syzygy wrote: Thinking about this, it may be an idea for some of us to exchange mobile numbers by pm - I've met Blacksword, Sigod and Sean Trane and I can vouch for them not being psycho cyber stalkers, although I don't know if they'd say the same about me. That way, if anybody gets lost or delayed we'll be able to send out a search party if need be. Chris: Can you suggest a pub very near to Paddington station where we can all meet up? Then we should all agree on a time. I realise that some people may want to go home first after work, I'll be finishing early that Friday anyway, so I'll go with whatever time is agreed among the majority.   Ok I saw a few picks of yours (and I posted mine in the Rogues gallery - all you have to do is add a moustache and goatee) and I know good ol Syz/Chris< But this would be good idea to get pissed before we rip-up a Tandoori restaurant so we get really obnoxious and get spat-in food served to us. I always enjoy that little extra flavour   Where is Paddington from Victoria station?

From Victoria just take the District or Circle line on the underground - it's about 20 minutes away.

As for pubs around Paddington, I'm not sure - there's a pretty big one called (I think) The World's End more or less opposite, but on a Friday evening it's bound to be packed solid and not necessarily the easiest place to meet up. Leave this one with me.

goose wrote: So thus far the arrangements are for somewhere in Paddington at some time on the 20th of January? Just checking I'm up to date

Yep, thats the story so far..

The girlfriend is busy checking the Thalys trains (and maybe hotel accomodations)

Should know more about it tomorrow!

Is Velvy going you need the best entertainer there for the best comedy there!!

and you could force Wakeman and Mariah Carey to come up with a Prog Curry session prefebally a 18 minute moog solo.

I have not seen Dicj Heath intervening on  this thread!

Does he know about this prog throng meeting?

Peter wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Velvetclown wrote: Not possible to get drunk in Canada  I guess I´ll visit ol' Blighty and stay there .................hic  Canada must be a terrible place I lived in Toronto and there was a completely dry area called Swansea> The was a pub call the Wedge (a contraction of Wedgewood  road  - the end of the dry area - and edge) where there used to be a partition with a fence were you could not drink alcoholic beverages. So in fact the wet area was at the back of the pub.  Quite a folkloric anecdote about canadian liquor laws. In Ontario, you get booze (rums , whiskeys, sweet liquors and wines) from license Gvt stores called Liquor Board and you get beers from special shops (govt owned also ) called Brewer's Retails. Need to show ID in case yopu look under 19 (drinking age) > Last call at 12:45 and curtains at 1 AM. So what people do is orderthree beers and drink the last one warm until 2:30 AM. sad life if you think about it. Ah yes, the degenerate, so-called "good old days." Thankfully, alcohol has since been totally banned, and handguns and church are mandatory!

Is it REALLY true?

No alcohol in Canada?

I'll never go there...

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