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Greaves' Rules is a set of etiquette guidelines common in the UK for buying rounds of drinks in English public houses.The rules were first defined by William Greaves (April 1938 - November 2017), a London journalist of the defunct Today newspaper as a Saturday morning essay in the paper, based upon his long experience of pubs and rounds.
Scoring is based on amassing the largest number of dice with the same digits. Each hand must include at least a single "Ace", or one, in order to be a valid hand; Aces act as "wilds", and can be paired with any other digit. The strength of a player's hand depends first on the number of digits and then value of those digits.
Today, the game of Aunt Sally is still played as a pub game in Oxfordshire. The ball is on a short plinth about 4 inches (10 cm) high, and is known as a 'dolly'. The dolly is placed on a dog-legged metal spike and players throw sticks or short battens at the dolly, trying to knock it off without hitting the spike.
Formerly a coaching inn, the first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is believed to have written much of The Rights of Man and was mentioned by Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist. It became a Lyons Corner House, and is now a Co-operative Bank. It is also on the board in the British version of the board game Monopoly. [16]
Licensing notice displayed above the entrance of a pub (no longer required since November 2005) The alcohol licensing laws of the United Kingdom regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol, with separate legislation for England and Wales, [a] Northern Ireland and Scotland being passed, as necessary, by the UK Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the Scottish Parliament respectively.
This is a list of restaurant terminology. A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money, either paid before the meal, after the meal, or with a running tab. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services .
A pub quiz is a quiz held in a pub or bar. These events are also called quiz nights , [ 1 ] trivia nights , [ 2 ] or bar trivia [ 3 ] and may be held in other settings. The pub quiz is a modern example of a pub game , and often attempts to lure customers to the establishment on quieter days.
Section 26 of the act repealed 24 enactments, listed in the second schedule to the act. [15] Section 26 of the act also included safeguards to preserve any security given, anything duly done, any rights acquired or liabilities accrued, any removal of a license or certificate in pursuance of the section 2 of the Intoxicating Liquors (Licences Suspension) Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 88), any ...