It was a Saturday night and the girls had arranged to visit one of Brisbane's many cemeteries as part of a ghost tour. It used to be that the boys were also invited to go along for ghost tours as well, but after a number acts of bastardry, we are no longer invited. I guess that's what you get when you try to scare the bejesus out of your friends in dark and spooky spots. So instead of hanging out with the girls at the South Brisbane cemetery, we decided that we would have a boys' night out and hit one of the many restaurants around town.
In a clear case of irony, we ended up hitting a new gastro pub in town called Statler and Waldorf, or for those of you who are not Jim Henson and Muppet fans, a place named after the two crabby old bastards that would shout abuse to the entire Muppet crew (see clip here). While I wouldn't normally consider myself a bastard (defined as objectionable person), something comes over me when I'm in a dark and spooky spot with girls who are easily scared....
There are multiple cultural references to Statler and Waldorf, both names also reference quite well known hotels in the United States, with the Waldorf being one of the most recognisable hotel names in New York. Aside from the cultural references, Statler and Waldorf is is just a really cool name for a gastro pub and it conjures up all sorts of images about a stately and stuffy building. Nothing could be further from the truth, with the new gastro pub located in Caxton Street pretty much being a hipster hang out.
