I reckon Vic's batty anyway! Nice easy one now, who is the youngest top flight player to score a hat trick?
Around 300 years ago, a satirical essay was written suggesting a rather drastic way of easing the financial problems of the poor - one which, I'm sure, IDS has taken to his heart. What was the essay called, who wrote it and what was the suggestion?
Hurcules was the name of the horse in Steptoe and Son. In true SEJ style, that's where he got it from. The song came later. Anyway, back to trying to answer BB's question...I remember learning about this as some background from when I studied Gulliver's Travels for my A Level. I think this is Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from being a Burden to their Parents or Country and for making them Beneficial to the Public', commonly shortened to 'A Modest Proposal'. In short, the 'proposal' was that impoverished parents could ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.
Cheers BB. who, on the 9 December 1916, became oldest player to have turned out for Watford in a competitive first-team match, how old was he and why was he playing?
I thought that ofh would have answered this by now... I think that you're referring to Fred Nidd, was 47 when he stood in for Skilly Williams - who joined the army the day before the match.
What do the following countries all have in common? Andorra, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, Marshall Islands, Monaco, *****lia, Paraguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Sweden, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Vatican City.
I think that may apply to one of them - and even then I'm not sure, you can never tell with that particular religion... So, no.
That's the answer. Makes you think, doesn't it - approx nine tenths of the world has been invaded by the British - although I'd prefer to say English - at some point in history. Over to you...
