On 30 May, 21:20, wrote:
When?

I know that it is on the Circle Line, but is there a specific time that it
kicks off?


See this website...

http://www.lastordersontheunderground.com/

....which, for the sake of posterity, basically has this to say...

quote
Last Orders On The Underground

On June the 1st 2008 - drinking on London public transport will be
made illegal. We will be raising a glass to the end of this British
tradition with a good old knees up. Hurrah.

The Final Circle Line Party
Saturday May 31st
9pm

Liverpool Street Station
Circle Line Clockwise Platform
Rear of the train

/quote


Said event really should have been called 'The Last Round', but I
suppose Tube boozers can't be choosers,

In all likelihood I won't be there, instead I'll be resting in the
nearest thing I can find to a gutter in an Underground station having
spent the day drinking myself into a massive alcoholic stupor on
London's transport system.

Anyway - and I have been away from utl for a bit so I've missed what
I'm sure were many comprehensive debates on Bozza's booze ban here - I
had always been half under the impression that drinking on the Tube
and London buses was never a totally legit activity in the first
place. In the days of yore I can certainly remember been refused entry
onto a bus because I was openly sipping from a modest double magnum of
antifreeze and also seeing others turned away because they were
sampling a drop or three from the kegs of continental lager they had
under their arm or were rolling onto the bus with them.

Me wonders whether powdered alcohol would count as an "open container
of alcohol" under the ban? Such stuff has been produced and sold in
Germany in the past, but seemingly not any longer, though I did find a
mention of another similar Dutch product that was apparently coming to
market but that has seemingly got waylaid en-route, perhaps in a bush
in someone's front garden. Sceptical about the chemistry? I was too,
but it would appear to be possible, albeit at a maximum strength of 5%
ABV or so - see:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/entertain...eal-115314.php
or via http://tinyurl.com/22sncf


Anyway, enough talk of powders, the new inhabitant of the glass
testicle (or BoJo's bollock as I now like to call it) apparently has
some troubles with sneezing when they're around and so might end up
banning them too, unless of course they've been banned already...

Instead, let us all remember the wise words of Mayor Bozza, who on the
night of his election said:
"Let's crack open the drinks tonight, and let's have a cracking
hangover tomorrow."

At least that's how I remember it, I was totally rat arsed by that
point.