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Discussion in 'Watford' started by colognehornet, Jun 26, 2013.

  1. canary-dave

    canary-dave Well-Known Member

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    I've no idea why, but I have The Magil Five in my head!
     
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  2. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    Then you better get them out to make room for the correct answer. :)

    Clue - for a short while, this band were 'flying high'...
     
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  3. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

    hornethologist a.k.a. theo Well-Known Member

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    Nice to see the quiz returning to things totally beyond my Ken...
     
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  4. andytoprankin

    andytoprankin Well-Known Member

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    Simon Dupree and The Big Sound. They flew as high as Number 10 with their song 'Kites' in 1967.
     
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  5. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    That's the one...

    Your turn.
     
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  6. andytoprankin

    andytoprankin Well-Known Member

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    Thanks, BB. <ok>

    Which other very famous person, who wasn't SEJ, once performed on the piano for Simon Dupree and the Big Band?
     
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  7. Bolton's Boots

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    Dudley Moore.... :)
     
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  8. andytoprankin

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    Dud right. :)

    All yours, BB. <ok>
     
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  9. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    Which MP was taken to the House of Commons in an ambulance after having suffered a severe heart attack, in order to break a tied vote?
     
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  10. yorkshirehornet

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    "the famous case of Leslie Spriggs, the then Member for St. Helens. We had a tied vote and he was brought to the House in an ambulance having suffered a severe heart attack. The two Whips went out to look in the ambulance and there was Leslie Spriggs laid there as though he was dead. I believe that John Stradling Thomas said to Joe Harper, "How do we know that he is alive?" So he leaned forward, turned the knob on the heart machine, the green light went around, and he said, "There, you've lost - it's 311." That is an absolutely true story. It is the sort of nonsense that used to happen. No one believes it, but it is true.[10]"
     
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  11. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    That looks suspiciously like a cut & paste from somewhere....:)

    But it's correct...
     
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  12. andytoprankin

    andytoprankin Well-Known Member

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    Cynic. Yorkshire always references his posts like that.
     
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  13. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    I regularly submit to Wikipaedia.... just thought it easiest to cut and paste it.... :lipsrsealed:

    But interesting eh.......


    mm..... What Watford goalie's save made history.... ?
     
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  14. Jsybarry

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    Skilly Williams?
     
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  15. NZHorn

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    Is this a trick question? Did the goalie in question save something other than a goal?
     
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  16. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    no....
    no not a trick.... a goalkeeping fact.....
     
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  17. Hornet-Fez

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    Billy Biggar. Scored and saved penalties in the same match.
     
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  18. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    No.... think in the last 20 years,,,,
     
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  19. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

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    Gary Plumley saved the money he made from his single Watford appearance and bought a fridge, thus becoming the first member of the club to import from Italy - in his case a Zanussi.

    Sorry, having a quiet afternoon with the lurgy...
     
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  20. yorkshirehornet

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    noooooooooooooooo ;)
     
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