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To Hull and Back (sigh)

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Steven Toast, Feb 4, 2017.

  1. Steven Toast

    Steven Toast Well-Known Member

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    Anybody else think this pun is starting to become a bit overused? It's almost in every article about us I read these days.

    Ricky Gervais had it spot on, "I think pun should be short for 'punch him in the mouth'.
     
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  2. PLT

    PLT Well-Known Member

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    I was thinking exactly this the other day day.
     
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  3. The greengrocer

    The greengrocer Well-Known Member

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    Apt that you use him as an example! He called us to **** on twitter a few weeks ago! He's a W.Anchor.
     
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  4. Craigo

    Craigo Well-Known Member

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    If the people of Kingston Upon Hull started using it's proper name then maybe that would die out.
     
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  5. Ernie Shackleton

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    Hull's teeth, that's a hull of a question. Bloody hull, anyone sez that pun to me is going to get told to go to Hull.

    Or Halifax.

    Lord deliver us from shabby sub-editing.
     
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  6. Stan The Man

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    I think it's a Hulla of a headline
     
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  7. Chazz Rheinhold

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    Should rename the city Tigerland. Much easier.
     
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  8. Ernie Shackleton

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    Tigerland upon Hull?

    Bloody anti-royalist propaganda.
     
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  9. City Man

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    Hello ? Are we in 2006?
    It's been a tired and overused title since we got back in the Championship and the likes of DQPR held their noses at the thought of a trip to 'the North East coast town'.

    Based in ignorance, not knowing prejudice (which is just as bad).
     
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  10. TigerinSydney

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    Will they rename the pub to the Silva Cod.

    That's a Hull of a name
     
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  11. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

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    No he didn't. Did you actually read his quote? It didn't criticise Hull in the slightest.
     
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  12. Edelman

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    I think he just waits for the slightest thing to offend him.:emoticon-0121-angry
     
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  13. Steven Toast

    Steven Toast Well-Known Member

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    He didn't call us out, he made a joke. Which was, in my opinion, pretty funny.

    He's not to everybodies taste, but he isn't PC and he says things like they are. He also, like Stephen Fry, doesn't apologise if people take offence to his material. Which is how it should be.
     
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    All Hull and no notion?
     
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    I also enquired whether he'd actually been - no response
     
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  16. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

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    Why would he reply? It's of no relevance, he didn't criticise Hull.
     
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  17. ImperialTiger

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    What did he say?
     
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  18. PattyNchips2

    PattyNchips2 Well-Known Member

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    you lot complain when no one notices us.
    they you complain when people use our name to make a pun.............. perhaps we should change the name............ but then history would be deleted.
    I see your dilemma.
    :D
     
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  20. Chazz Rheinhold

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    Those tats are bloody awful. Surprised at you Dutch.
     
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