Anyone, at least in B.C., concerned about the "theme" of a pub is too young to remember when the province's liquor laws permitted only beer parlors resembling the mess halls in prison movies. Any theme, no matter how trite, is preferable to a gloomy barn where the only diversion is sitting still and drinking round and after round of draft beer and the major feature of decor was red terry cloth covers for the tables. Curiously this lack of ethnic imperative or prefabricated incentives to party never seemed to stop anyone from getting dead drunk.