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No jokes about public arenas please
I was on the train today and listening to Eels - Beautiful Freak, a record made by an American band, and one of the lines from Susan's House is "... meanwhile an old couple argues inside the Queen Bea". That song is about how urban society in America is going tits up (its about American society as amongst other things, we don't get many dead 15 year-olds on the 'sidewalk' in this country). So why has it got a reference to a pub called the Queen Bea? I can only imagine it being a pub as the title is so English - America hasn't had any Queens so something called the Queen Bea has got to be some kind of foreign institution. Are there pubs in America? I thought it was a country of sports bars.
The other point I daydreamed about on the train in London today regarded this building which I've walked past countless times on Leadenhall Street:
Its known as 'The Gherkin', yet I want to know why is this so, when it bears more of a resemblance to a futuristic tampon?
Cue public arena jokes
I was on the train today and listening to Eels - Beautiful Freak, a record made by an American band, and one of the lines from Susan's House is "... meanwhile an old couple argues inside the Queen Bea". That song is about how urban society in America is going tits up (its about American society as amongst other things, we don't get many dead 15 year-olds on the 'sidewalk' in this country). So why has it got a reference to a pub called the Queen Bea? I can only imagine it being a pub as the title is so English - America hasn't had any Queens so something called the Queen Bea has got to be some kind of foreign institution. Are there pubs in America? I thought it was a country of sports bars.
The other point I daydreamed about on the train in London today regarded this building which I've walked past countless times on Leadenhall Street:
Its known as 'The Gherkin', yet I want to know why is this so, when it bears more of a resemblance to a futuristic tampon?
Cue public arena jokes
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