les wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:44 pm
You've got to start somewhere, maybe the fox and hounds is next
——and I’m sure a similar description would be afforded them too. Lets make it clear MY view is this pub naming venture is a distraction, from more important issues, though understanding the idea, i think it takes more than the changing of a pub name to alter some peoples view on foxes etc.
Exactly. Proper campaigning on real issues, not going out of the way to find problems where there are none....
Now, about the Dog & Duck...
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Meanwhile in Linlithgow....
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This one is wrong on so many counts.
Not only is the dog black, it is chained to a tree, where's the RSPCA when they're needed?
People born in Linlithgow are apparently known as “black bitches” – a name which derives from the fact that the burgh’s coat of arms features a black greyhound chained to a tree. The origins of that image, however, are murky: the most popular of several rival explanations is that the dog’s owner was punished for a crime by being exiled to an island in Linlithgow Loch, where the authorities intended that he should starve to death. His dog did its best to save him: the tried to swim across the loch to bring her master food, only to be chained up to stop her saving him. The dog’s loyalty and perseverance earned it this place in posterity.
I think we'd better stop Pub names, or this could go on a long while...