Brewer Urged To Change Name To Avoid Confusion With Royal Consevationists

[douglas9401]

Of course not but:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-59494786

Many pots of toss at Greene King it would appear.

[davebro]

Well one of my locals was "The Black Dog" - same difference?

[aelmpvw]

one of my locals is 'the black boy', suppose that will have to change eventually :-(

[andy-hughes]

One of my local pubs was called The Labour In Vain and its original sign was a cartoon of a stour white woman bathing a black child in a tub with suds everywhere.

The name remained, but the sign was changed to a farmer trying to chase birds off his newly sewn crop field.

[davebro]

It's closed now but we had the "All Labour in Vain" whose pub sign was several white ladies scrubbing a black child in a washtub!

[aelmpvw]

looks like andy hughes and davebro could have been fellow drinkers

[davebro]

I find pub names quite fascinating - is there a book about them?
Golden Cross
Shoulder of Mutton
Tinker & Budget
The Blockade
were some I used to frequent.

[mushroom25]

the word black is now inextricably linked to race, therefore anything referred to using the adjective "black" must automatically be racist, even though the black object being described happens to be a duck, or a dog, or a rabbit...... or anything.

[AuntPG]

Don't you think the 'Beech' part of the name was contentious not the black bit? There are plenty of pubs with Black in the title.

[Ken4155]

Obviously the issue is with the second part of the pub's name, mushroom, else they wouldn't be intending to change it to The Black Hound.

[Ken4155]

Plenty of Black Swans up and down the land.

[Mamyalynne]

Davebro, plenty of books on the topic.

Good stocking fillers.

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[douglas9401]

The history of the name is in the article. Even Answerbank allows *** when referring to female dogs.

As an aside, Linlithgow is where Montgomery Scott will be born, eventually.

Ye canna change the laws of physics.

[douglas9401]

I stand corrected, and confused.

[Peter Pedant]

davebro
there certainly is - - the script tends not to hang together ( pun intended) ter daaah !

Commonest used to be Green Man - for around a 1,000 y
Fertility symbol - - for beer

cat and wheel - st catherines wheel
Elephant and Castle - the Infanta of Castile

The silent woman - st juthware - she lost her head

[Mamyalynne]

I believe we can speak of bitches Doug but not one on her own.

[Peter Pedant]

// I stand corrected, and confused.//
oh dougie that is arful

join the usual suspects, have fun posting 'foo' when sentences exceed four words. Pretend that 'a cell' in virology, is a prison cell and nothing else, say you believe that Trump was the best President ever, make up that Kennedy is the author of a latin primer

you can have fun, being confused !

[Peter Pedant]

Mornflakes won the action when it was sued by Cornflakes
Mornflakes was first

[mushroom25]

near where my grandparents used to live is a pub called "The Case Is Altered".

i've yet to hear a convincing explanation for that one.

[New Judge]

After he retired from hanging people, Albert Pierrepoint rang a pub called "Help the Poor Struggler" in Oldham.

[Ken4155]

Is it this one, mushroom?

https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/case-altered-pub-near-rowington