Bill Knott signalled for a fresh Bushmills, John Murphy for a pint of stout.
In fact, Mrs Delaney was sober: she'd drunk only a pint of lager hours earlier.
One unit is about half a pint of beer or a single measure of spirits.
The jokes about him looking like a pint of Guinness, caused by his bleached-blond hairdo, have even abated.
"I went and had a pint of kombucha one time and I was like sick for a day, " he said.
In fact, Mr Hague has middle-class parents, went to an ordinary state school and is claimed to prefer a pint of beer.
At U Zelenku, a neighborhood institution for more than a century, for instance, a pint of the cheapest beer goes for 99 cents.
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Awaiting at the top is a pint of Guinness (certificate included) in the Gravity Bar, which affords visitors a 360-degree view of Dublin.
It pleases us if judges display a lofty ignorance of the everyday, of Justin Bieber or the price of a pint of milk.
Or that undisciplined mook holding a dripping drumstick in one hand and a pint of ice cream and soda pop in the other?
There are also price lists including tariffs in 1971, after decimalisation, when a pint of Worthington was 14p, a shandy was 7p, as was a cider.
And commercial activity on the estate is so limited that it is not even possible to buy a newspaper or a pint of milk.
At The John Dory Oyster Bar, we pride ourselves in serving a well-shucked oyster that you can knock back easily with a pint of oyster stout.
Obama has just taken a long and, seemingly satisfying, gulp from a pint of Guinness, to the relief of Diageo executives and tourism chiefs across the country.
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Some literary anniversaries are easy to pair with the appropriate booze: Any literate drinker can justify an Irish whisky or a pint of Guinness on Bloomsday.
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Columnists were approving that here, for once, was a politician in the higher reaches who probably actually knew the price of a loaf and a pint of milk.
Mark Hill of Deloitte, a consulting firm, reckons that in 1996 a farmer received 57% of the price of a pint of his milk sold in a store.
The actor paid tribute to former co-star Bill Tarmey, who died last year, saying he would be looking down on him "having a pint of Guinness for me".
It's still shaped kind of like a pint of O-negative.
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Prince Charles spent a few minutes practising his putting, and also paused to taste a pint of beer belonging to one of the many golf fans lining the course.
He added that, since the 7 July bombings, it was important "Londoners not be diverted from their way of life - and my way of life is a pint of Guinness".
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The banter that had been whipping around the Twickenham bars was generally good-natured, although one Wasps fan took exception to the Harlequins mascot and doused him with a pint of beer.
Richards would be another one for Disney minions to hoist a pint of grog to, as Depp has cited the body language and manerisms of the grizzled rocker as an inspiration for his character.
On the flipside, football fans will be happy to hear the Chancellor's news that duty on a pint of some beers will be cut - meaning 14p off per pint in time for the World Cup.
The typical Bedouin soldier carried no more than a rifle, a hundred rounds of ammunition, forty-five pounds of flour, and a pint of drinking water, which meant that he could travel as much as a hundred and ten miles a day across the desert, even in summer.
Post pampering, compare notes with other hardcore skiers at the Argenta Pub over a pint of beer or glass of wine before slipping on snowshoes for a short trek through a lantern-lit forest to The Yurt, where you can treat yourself to a five-course meal, prepared right before your eyes by a private chef.
On a daily basis, it's more than two to three drinks (about a 175 ml glass of 13% wine) for women and three to four drinks (equivalent to a pint and a half of 4% beer) for men.
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