On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, John B wrote:

John Rowland wrote:

I've never seen a pub name that was not a noun phrase. If you can
find one, I'd be well interested.

...single-not-nouns like Imbibe and Lush (well,
technically Lush is a noun, but I doubt that's the sense they're going
for...)

I'd say that's exactly the sense they are going for.

Not sure about that - it's not exactly a Walkabout-ish "how much can I
drink before I go to hospital" venue. I think they're going for
lush-as-adjective; I doubt its Young And Beautiful target audience even
know "lush" in its 70's-term-for-****head sense.

My housemates (barring one Scot) didn't know that meaning. I don't know if
they're the target audience; they're young, though, so that's at least one
out of two.

tom

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