Every night in The Age newsroom at 250 Spencer Street, a sub-editor wheeled several slabs of beer on a trolley into a locker room next to the men’s toilets, and reporters and subs gathered there between editions. Staff called it the ‘Bog Bar’. Nobody can say exactly when it started, but the Sun News-Pictorial (now the Herald Sun) had its own version: ‘the Subs’ Club’, meeting out of sight in a cupboard in the subs’ room, an institution with its own ‘freemasonry of rituals and