Marilyn and David have shown me an extract from The Press which you may be interested to see, so I am attaching it to this email. Bearly yours George B
BEAR IN BAR Earlier this week, a report came in that a bear was seen walking into the top Christchurch hotel, The George at Park Terrace. He entered the 50 on Park Bar and ordered a pint of lager. The bar tender, Bruce, who was multi-tasking, amazed that the bear could actually talk, silently gave him a beer. “Thanks”, the bear says, “what do I owe you?” Bruce, forever with an eye to making a profit, stopped and thought for a moment. Even though this bear is smart, he thought, he probably hadn’t been in many bars. So Bruce said “That’ll be NZ$20 please, sir”. The bear handed over the money and started drinking his beer. After a few minutes, Bruce gave in to his curiosity and walked back over to the bear and said “You know, we don’t get many bears in this bar”. The bear looked slowly up from his beer and said “Well, at twenty dollars a beer, I’m not surprised”.
