Pub for sale isn’t exactly the corner bar

The owners of a pub in a remote corner of Scotland have put the property up for sale.

Here’s the catch: To have a drink at the Old Forge, you must hike 18 miles from the nearest road.

But perhaps that’s no catch after all. The Buzz calculates that the 7,000 or so calories we’d burn in an 18-mile hike would put us in the clear to drink about 35 pints of Guinness.

Gritty realism: In the new movie “Eat Pray Love,” Julia Roberts plays a recently divorced woman who learns valuable lessons about the healing power of fabulous wealth when she takes an extended vacation to exotic foreign lands and meets men with carefully groomed facial stubble.

The Buzz proposes a sequel, “Eat Pray Love 2: Eat Pray Love This,” in which a recently divorced woman learns valuable lessons about the unfairness of life when her worthless bum of an ex-husband stops paying child support, her job at the supermarket is reduced to 24 hours a week, and her 1987 Chevy Cavalier blows a head gasket — all on the same day.

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