John and Emily, it has truly been a pleasure serving you all these years, but this will be my last night here. Tomorrow the pub is closing for renovations and I hope you will both enjoy the new Hooters that will be opening soon.
Sir, I am sorry but the chef refuses to cook your steak rare. When cooked well-done, the burnt maggots enhance the charred flavor for which we are famous.
(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this 1881 (not sure why Mr. Melcher said Before), roughly B4 paper size painting. First Other versions has strip coloration.
has the prior strip (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2075 (November 5, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
Yes, proprietor, I do wish to complain! Those three at the corner table haven’t taken their eyes from my dear Cynthia’s bustle since we were seated!! :>)
“Why yes, I can recommend a barber. Sweeney Todd has a shop just around the corner. In fact, the meat pie you had was from Mrs. Lovett’s shop just next door to his place. She names all of her pies. You had the oxymoronic ‘Honest Banker.’”
BE THIS GUY about 6 years ago
“Sir, I should advise you that it isn’t wise to bring your mistress to the same restaurant to which you bring your wife.”
Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 6 years ago
“Sir, it would be wise to not talk politics in this restaurant.”
Strob Premium Member about 6 years ago
“Hey, those two actually ordered the £13 avocado toast!”
pcolli about 6 years ago
“For twice the price, chef can put two dots of gravy on the edge of the plate.”
Egrayjames about 6 years ago
John and Emily, it has truly been a pleasure serving you all these years, but this will be my last night here. Tomorrow the pub is closing for renovations and I hope you will both enjoy the new Hooters that will be opening soon.
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 6 years ago
Time travelers have an awful time. At times.
prrdh about 6 years ago
“However, the peas boiled to a tasteless mush are mandatory.”
ptnjbrown about 6 years ago
Sir, I am sorry but the chef refuses to cook your steak rare. When cooked well-done, the burnt maggots enhance the charred flavor for which we are famous.
PoodleGroomer about 6 years ago
This soup is too spicy. You must be careful when adding potatoes.
Linguist about 6 years ago
" I’m sorry to inform you that your Colonial Express card has been declined. "
garcoa about 6 years ago
This is an English restaurant, sir, only bland and tasteless meals are served here.
Call me Ishmael about 6 years ago
“Rest rooms? Where d’you think you are, London?”
KEA about 6 years ago
ruh roh
Rev Phnk Ey about 6 years ago
Just thought you might want to see the size of this cockroach I just caught in the kitchen.
mabrndt Premium Member about 6 years ago
Interesting strangers:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Blair_Leighton_-_Interesting_Strangers.jpg
(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this 1881 (not sure why Mr. Melcher said Before), roughly B4 paper size painting. First Other versions has strip coloration.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/blair-leighton_edmund.html
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/edmund-blair-leighton
http://www.painting-history.com/artist/blair-leighton_edmund.htm
https://www.aaronartprints.org/blairleighton-edmund.php
https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/844
http://www.avictorian.com/Leighton_Edmund_Blair.html
http://hoocher.com/Edmund_Blair_Leighton/Edmund_Blair_Leighton.htm
all have info about this artist. So far, 39 works by him have been used here, with 2 repeated as Classics (41 times total).
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/11/05?comments=visible
has the prior strip (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2075 (November 5, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
PO' DAWG about 6 years ago
I’ll have the thinly sliced potatoes boiled in hot oil. I hear they are quite the rage.
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member about 6 years ago
“We do nouvelle cuisine, so your portion will be, oh, about this big. But very attractively plated.”
anomaly about 6 years ago
“A big mac? We do not sell raincoats, sir.”
Impkins Premium Member about 6 years ago
Yes, proprietor, I do wish to complain! Those three at the corner table haven’t taken their eyes from my dear Cynthia’s bustle since we were seated!! :>)
Papared25 about 6 years ago
“Why yes, I can recommend a barber. Sweeney Todd has a shop just around the corner. In fact, the meat pie you had was from Mrs. Lovett’s shop just next door to his place. She names all of her pies. You had the oxymoronic ‘Honest Banker.’”
Chris Sherlock about 6 years ago
“Just as well. They’d probably give me heartburn, anyway.”
MissScarlet Premium Member about 6 years ago
What? Next you’ll tell me you don’t have any guacamole and chips!
GoComicsGo! about 6 years ago
“Sir. As I said a moment ago and repeatedly before that, we don’t have that here.”