04/22/04’s illustrious British pub:

The Green Bison

Brought to you by British pubs and Jet Set Lee.

British public houses (bars or taverns) have long enjoyed fame for their creative names, boisterous dart games and beige food. When Jet Set Lee uttered the phrase “Green Bison” during a meeting this morning -- he was actually referring to a manufacturer of juicers and other food-prep equipment -- I couldn’t help but write it down. I mean, really, who wouldn’t want to say that they’d stopped for a pint at the Green Bison? I’m sure their buffalo wings are very popular, especially on St. Patrick’s Day.

Fancy Nancy became the next contributor when she referred to an appliance as a Grandiose Blender. If that were a pub, surely it would specialize in margaritas, daiquiris, and other frozen, fruity drinks.

Then I looked out the window onto Media HQ’s marshy back yard and noticed South Dakota’s state bird hotfooting it across the hummocks. Welcome to the Jogging Pheasant! Wild game is the specialty of the house. As an aside, though, why would a pheasant jog? I mean, it can fly. Unless it needed to stay under the radar for some reason, why stumble over rough ground when smooth sky sailing would be so much easier?

Well, this got me thinking, which is always dangerous, the more so when my Internet connection is working. A few clicks later, I found an index of quaint and amusing pub names, which yielded such gems as:

• The Bishop’s Finger
  
• The Amazon & Tiger
  
• The Blazing Donkey (no comments about hot asses, please!)
  
• The Norman Conquest
  
• Hogshead on the Walf
  
• Flute & Flypaper
  
• Goat in Boots
  
• The Legless Ladder
  
• Ye Old Dr. Butler’s Head
  
• Nowhere Inn Particular
  
• The Newt & Ferret
  
• The Joyful Whippet
  

And that’s just around London. I’ll drink to that! Makes me proud of my Anglo-Saxon heritage.

Today around the world: April 22 is Earth Day in Canada, Palau and the U.S.A.; the first day of summer in Iceland; and Oklahoma Day and Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day in the U.S.

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