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Meowth's Cavalcade of Whimsy.

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  1. devonFRATTONiser

    devonFRATTONiser Well-Known Member
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    Cor Blimey Guv,nor

    Was you dressed like a Chimney Sweep and talking like Dick Van Dyke at the time?
     
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    devonFRATTONiser, Nov 28, 2012
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    No, I was dressed like one of the Scousers from Harry Enfield.

    Purple shell suit, curly wig, big mustache the full SP.

    Three young lads were at the gate as I made for the coach.

    "Tree woon ya Cochney Bastaad" they chirped at me.

    I replied "A Cockney! How dare you" in my best Chi accent and went on my way.
     
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    pompeymeowth, Nov 28, 2012
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    Ex England cricketer, and would be boxer Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff MBE, was born in Preston in 1977.

    Comedy actor Roy Barraclough MBE, was born in Preston in 1935.

    Another comedy actor, John Inman was also born in Preston. He starred in "Are you being served". He sadly passed away in 2007.

    "I'm Free !! "
     
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    Wooperts_duck, Dec 10, 2012
  4. devonFRATTONiser

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    Sky Sports Jeff Stelling is a Hartlepool fan.
     
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    devonFRATTONiser, Dec 18, 2012
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    Sir Compton Mackenzie who wrote 'Whisky Galore', was born in Hartlepool
     
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    Wooperts_duck, Dec 18, 2012
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    Looks like there will be two sad faces on Sky Sports News come Saturday then
     
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    SFC4BAG, Dec 20, 2012
  7. devonFRATTONiser

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    The reverse fixture for Pompey and Crawley was attended by 5,058, the record attendance at Broadfield Stadium.
     
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    devonFRATTONiser, Dec 26, 2012
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    Yeovil Town have never had a non-British manager
     
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    devonFRATTONiser, Dec 28, 2012
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    Did you know that the first recorded vaccination in the world was carried out at Yetminster near Yeovil in 1774?

    A farmer there, Benjamin Jesty (any relation to ex Hampshire cricketer Trevor one wonders ?) injected his wife and two sons against Smallpox, by injecting them with Cowpox from sick cows !!

    There you go, you never know when such a question could come up in a pub quiz, or on Mastermind......
     
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    Wooperts_duck, Dec 29, 2012
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    So they were the first people to be inocowlated then?

    Maybe the word Vaccinate comes from Vacca, latin for cow.
     
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    pompeymeowth, Dec 29, 2012

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    Swindon Town's record victory and record defeat are the same scoreline; 10-1.

    The 10-1 win was away to Farnham United Breweries F.C in the FA Cup First Round on 28 November 1925.
    The 10-1 defeat was away to Manchester City in an FA Cup Fourth Round replay on 29 January 1930.
     
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    devonFRATTONiser, Dec 31, 2012
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    Walsall's old Fellows Park ground was demolished and replaced by a Morrisons Supermarket
     
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    devonFRATTONiser, Jan 2, 2013
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    That's a bit disconcerting....
     
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    PompeyLapras, Jan 2, 2013
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    The writer Jerome K. Jerome was born in Walsall, as was Coronation Street actress Sue Nicholls.
     
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    As I´m out of the country at the moment, I will give a hint as to where I am. England suffered their most humiliating defeat in this city. It wasn´t the scoreline (they only lost 1-0) but the opposition.
     
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    pompeymeowth, Jan 4, 2013
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    You are some-where in the USA
     
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    devonFRATTONiser, Jan 4, 2013
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    Sorry - Brazil - England lost 1-0 to the USA. The urban myth is that, when the score line reached the press in England [no live feeds in those days!] most of the journalists assumed it was a mis-print and that England had won 10-1.
     
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    Far from being against a 'fashionable' side, Notts County's record attendance of 47,310 was in a 1955 FA Cup tie - against York City!
     
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    devonFRATTONiser, Jan 5, 2013
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    Correct! Belo Horizonte to be exact.
     
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    pompeymeowth, Jan 6, 2013
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    Where's that? I wish I could go to America.
     
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