Actually Overheard (Rare)
Little history. Dan Murphy's is a chain of bottle shops (off licence, liquour store, etc) in Australia. Apparently there was an actual Dan Murphy about a hundred years ago, he had a few stores, and somewhere down the line, Woolworths bought the lot, and now run the brand as a "boutique" bottle shop ("boutique" meaning to look quite highbrow, but be fucking enormous and drive the competition out of town).

So, I'm on a tram heading from Melbournes delightful northern suburbs into the city, and hear some old bloke (talking to the tram driver) say, "Geez, that Dan Murphy must be worth a few bob. Looks to be doin' pretty well for himself".
(Pleiades, Thu 13 Jan 2005, 15:37, Reply)