Squid, Flying Monkey, Seahorse, and Locust

What: Squid (heading left)
Beer: Mordue Pineapple Head
Receptacle: Straight-sided glass
When: 4 September 2008
Situation: Second official Beer Reading Meeting, Live and Let Live pub, Cambridge.

First pint of the night and after 20 minutes of peering at thick foam thinking I'd picked the wrong kind of beer for reading, a large image of a squid appeared in the negative spaces. At first we thought it might be a cuttlefish, but the long squiggly tentacles gave it away.


What: Flying Monkey Kissing a Seahorse
Beer: Nethergate Lemonhead

Second pint of the night, and what a stunner! We have a winged monkey (complete with tail) kissing a seahorse. This image was particularly large, covering nearly half the height of the glass. I came up with some theory about this meaning that I'm at a point in my life where my intellect (the flying monkey representing air) is embracing my intuition (the seahorse representing water). Erm... Time for another pint.

What: Locust (facing left)
Beer: Nethergate Lemonhead

Pint number three brings a locust. Not a good sign, I'm sure.


Ten minutes later and it's been joined by a second insect-like creature. And seems to have morphed into something else, as yet unidentified. By now we can't even tell which end is the head. And spend some time arguing over it.

What: Man Brandishing Large Bazooka at a Freaky Alien
Beer: Everards Tiger Shandy

By now we'd been joined by three friends who had come to the pub for a quiet post-badminton drink. This sci-fi image appeared in Sara's pint of shandy at exactly the same time the locust appeared in my third pint.

Still freaked out by the flying monkey kissing a seahorse, we foolishly go for pint number four, which yields no results other than a headache the following day.