“Gone is the after-match lager in ‘Spoons”
– Adam Boyle Has Cast Lad Rock Aside
So… what do we know about (Wether)spoons?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“Gone is the after-match lager in ‘Spoons”
– Adam Boyle Has Cast Lad Rock Aside
So… what do we know about (Wether)spoons?
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
Chain of faux “pubs”, slightly more upmarket than The Blob (Shop) (q.v.)
15 December 2016
Bobby svarc
Mr Spoons. Character on the truly awful ‘Steve Wright in the afternoon’ show on 275/285 National Radio One
15 December 2016
cardinal RIchelieu
The owner (can’t be arsed looking up his name) went to my old school and named the chain after one of his teachers.
15 December 2016
Peter mcornotholgist
Boris Yeltsin was a talented player of the spoons.
15 December 2016
EXXO
Good wifi, cheap food, in-house magazine has a crossword and a quiz, and often you’re in spectacular surroundings – the one in Edinburgh New Town springs to mind first but there are many, mant such. But it’s all about trying interesting ales for £1.10 per half. If that’s too expensive there are lots of nooks and crannies so plenty of potential for just bringing your own can of lager and pouring it into their glass, and you’d generally get away with subtly eating your own sarnies too, and picking up someone else’s receipt for your expenses.
Some of those who knock ‘Spoons don’t seem to realise what a rip-off most of the food & drink industry in the UK is (and yes I’m including everything from rents to business rates to tax levels in that, I know how hard it is for independent food & drink places to make money and they should be better helped).
15 December 2016
EXXO
By the way there are no fewer than 5 ‘Spoons pretty much in a straight line between Leeds station and the gig.
Got any spare vouchers, Andy?
If he posts them now first class this afternoon, you never know. The e-mails eventually told me that I “did not meet the minimum requirements” for the Xmas sorting jobs, so they must have some bloody excellent people.
15 December 2016
Brumbiscuit
In the very under-rated film, Restless Natives, there is a main character called Ronnie Wutherspoon.
15 December 2016
BOBBY SVARC
Tim Witherspoon Knocked Franklin Roy Bruno senseless in 1986. Also stabbed his wife, so they say.
15 December 2016
EXXO
David Wotherspoon played in the first ever official international football match.
15 December 2016
EXXO
Tina Weatherspoon made the most famous shot in women’s basketball, apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7RbYxYw3hw
15 December 2016
EXXO
Teresa, even.
15 December 2016
Jeff dReadnought
Reece Witherspoon played June Carter Cash in Walk The Line, a biopic that led to The Man in Black being discovered by a whole new audience.
15 December 2016
EXXO
Just remembered that the only pub I’ve ever been barred from was the Spoons in Worcester for confronting an obnoxious Polish fella about his white power t-shirt at the end of the last world cup final, when much beer had been taken.
They ruled in his favour ‘cos “he says he’s not a Nazi”.
15 December 2016
this leaden paul
William Weatherspoon wrote “What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted”; sadly, at the time of his death in 2005, no answer had been provided.
15 December 2016
EXXO
Bobby – I guess it’s too late to wonder how Tim Witherspoon got away with stabbing Frank Bruno’s wife?
16 December 2016
BOBBY SVARC
The joke went like this, “Hey that boxer who beat Bruno the other week has stabbed his wife,..erm,Tim something”….”Witherspoon”….”No with a knife”. Boom Boom, Shit I know but it was 1986.
16 December 2016
IdrisdachisEller
Above average sketch show from c2005, which preceded either Peep Show or Green Wing. Very much a thinking person’s Man Stroke Woman. Charlie Brooker contributed, and ex-children’s TV presenter Josie D’Arby starred. Probably rubbish but I thought it was quite funny at the time (cf Man Stroke Woman). Altogether now, “And try to keep your knickers on this time.”.
17 December 2016
dickhead in quicksand
Try Cape Breton. (Sod the match, just hit the bar.)
20 December 2016