Overlord 2004

Originally posted by Tony Smith

1. The older gent on the other side of Jif, presumably English, has not overheard Jif's accent and loudly declared "Thank God for Canadians!" and offered to buy his drinks.

Nope.
Incidentally Jif is now Cif. After all these years of us using this respected cream kitchen cleaner, they have changed the name to Cif - the new European name for Jif it says on the container.

2. Jif has emptied a girly bottle of lolly water pre-mix and ignored the beer.

I think not. This is an impossible happening this side of Hell freezing over.

3. There is not a MLU tac sign hanging from the rafter (Yet!).

This can be arranged.

4. The beer is warm and flat. (Not unusual, just plain WRONG).

No, British beer is neither warm or flat, however, it is normally a dark chestnut colour with a hint of self-carbonation and served at cellar temperature, like a fine red wine, so you can actually TASTE it. It does, of course, bear no resemblance to the nearly frozen, falsely fizzed, anaemic yellow, gnats piss that masquerades for beer in other parts of the globe.

5. The barkeep has popped down the cellar for the last dusty bottle of Canadian Club.

Nope.

6. There is a fan in the right hand corner for when it gets hot. (In England?)

Quite right, it does actually get quite hot, several of us do have air conditioners, me included.

I shall have to put you all out of your misery it seems, and how appropriate on June 6th too. The picture was taken at a pub in Southwick village (and that's "Suth-ick" please, not South-Wick) which happens to be barely a quarter mile from Southwick House.

Southwick House of course was the HQ of two prominent people who had rather a lot to do with OVERLORD and the invasion of Europe; lunch time would often see Ike and Monty in this very place having a drink. Ike would take a half (pint) and Monty always had a fruit juice.

Why ever do you think Gold Beach was so called?

Perhaps the attached image might afford a clue.

R.
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