Christmas Eve 1999 in Southampton

Continuing this newly inaugurated tradition (actually the second anniversary) we went on our Christams piss-up. The mission was simple drink until you fall over, and only one man successfully navigated the length and breadth of Southampton's brimming High Street; Ralph, much respect.

7pm; The Giddy Bridge, London Road, JD Weatherspoons

You looking at me kid..eh?

Now smoking a cigar once a year is baaaddd.....um OK..

Now Leon Me and your Father are worried that you have become a chain smoker..I think we need a chat

The Barron Bros. The Mystery Unravelled

The story I am about to tell you has been kept secret for nearly 21 years, it has had to be translated from ancient Hebrew from crumbling scriptures found recently in a Bethlehem Synagogue.  It was a long time ago in 1978, when Jane and Robert were travelling back to their homelands by the Number 17, when they were visited by the Ark Angel Gabriel Batistuta who told them they were to have a son, who would also be an Angel, whose sole purpose in life would be to ensure the safe passage of friends around him on evenings out on the piss.  The Ark Angel also added that he would be joined a few years later by a sibling Angel who would provide the transport. And so it came to be, Angel Baz and Angel Leon grew up learning from their scriptures, training hard in the art of illusion, the illusion that they were actually drinking with the rest of us, when in fact they drank nothing at all. And so they ensured the safe passage of their fellow revellers to the front doors of their abodes for many a year, and many a year to come. And so the word has been cast, and the meaning of the Barron Brothers true exisitence has cometh to pass.

The Evidence:

8.30pm; Above Bar, The High Street, Hogshead

Count em, three pints, four characters, and only clear extensions of the forearm can be identified from Paxos, Ralph and Hutton.

11.30pm; The Bier Kellar, London Road, Independent

Both hands are empty

The Counter-evidence:

A shot of Aftershock, swill it round for 30 seconds and then SWALLOW. Notice the look of absolute 'shock' on Angel Baz's face.

By the moonlight shadow, lost in the middle...... Ello Dave Angel ere, and today I goin to tell ya how drinking is good for the environment...yeahhhh thats right.

Ahhhhhh...you Southampton Boys, you drink for fun...ahhhhhhh

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