Real Clansman bars see funny side of prank calls

after actor Gavin Mitchell, who plays Boaby in Still Game, swung by .

Robert, who said he’s a fan of Still Game, explained: “He was doing a show at the Queen’s Hall in Dunoon.

“Someone told him there was a pub called The Clansman.

“He came in and got a photo behind the bar pouring pints. We keep the photo on the wall in the pub now.

“I was on holiday in Turkey at the time. I was furious that I’d missed him.”

And Robert’s pub isn’t the only Clansman in Scotland.

Bars with the same name can be found in Fraserburgh, Kilmarnock, Airdrie, Plean and Leslie.

Kerry Garvie, bar manager of The

Robert ‘Boaby’ McArdle of the Clansman bar in Dunoon. Above – Gavin Mitchell’s visit. Clansman in Caldercruix, Airdrie, said her late brother Lawrence, who used to own the bar, looked like Boaby the barman in his younger days.

She also said the bar gets its fair share of prank calls because of Still Game.

She said: “When the Still Game live show was on we started getting calls from someone saying they were Jack and asking if we were in Craiglang.

“As you’d expect, the phone calls always came from a withheld number.”

And it isn’t just the staff at the bar who think the pub’s name is too good to be true.

Kerry said: “When my brother Lawrence was running the bar he was making calls to get a quote for a new sign and one of the guy’s he called hung up on him when he said the name of the bar.

“I think the guy thought he was winding him up.”

Kerry said her dad, who was also called Lawrence, loved the show and that he owned all the box- sets for it.

Staff in the pub even planned to put on a Still Game pantomime one Christmas but Kerry said they had to ditch the idea when punters started arguing about who would play who.

She said: “I love Still Game. All of us do.”

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