The Archive · 1939

Is Liverpool Liverish

Yov can't play darts in a Liverpool pub.

The licensing justices won't let you. They were told the other day that Liverpool is the only place in England where this national game

"No." 4 in public-houses, but they still said Perhaps they've misunderstood that rule about starting and finishing each game with a double, Axing A DENIAL is not a denial, unless it is official, when it becomes a confirmation.

Confirmation of a rumour is never available until the rumour is a fact.

Therefore an official denial only confirms what has happened.

Always remembering that small nations can be had for the Axing.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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