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Cardiff appoint Trollope

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  1. GLP

    GLP Well-Known Member

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    As their new manager.
     
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  2. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

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    I knew a trollop from Cardiff once.
     
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  3. Girt Bucket

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    Anthony.
     
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    Thesaurus definition of Trollope. A collective of Trolls.
     
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  5. GLP

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    Snap - Though Penarth to be precise! Posh Trollop.
     
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    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

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    Mine was posh too, a solicitor. I didn't know there were 2 posh girls down there.

    We couldn't have, could we....?
     
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  7. GLP

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    No, she's not a solicitor - she definitely doesn't solicit <laugh><laugh>
     
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  8. bum_chinned_crab

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    It got me thinking and a quick google later and I'm 90% sure this is her:
    http://www.hayeslaw.co.uk/lucinda-nicholls/

    It was over 10 years ago and a fleeting occasion but there cant be many Lucindas of that approximate age who are solicitors in Cardiff with dark hair.
     
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    Hope he has better luck than Anthony had in Beverley.

    From Wikipedia:
    Beverley campaign[edit]
    Trollope had long dreamt of taking a seat in the House of Commons.[38] As a civil servant, however, he was ineligible for such a position. His resignation from the Post Office removed this disability, and he almost immediately began seeking a seat for which he might run.[39] In 1868, he agreed to stand as a Liberal candidate in the borough of Beverley, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.[40]

    Party leaders apparently took advantage of Trollope's eagerness to run and willingness to spend money on a campaign.[38] Beverley had a long history of vote-buying and of intimidation by employers and others. Every election since 1857 had been followed by a petition alleging corruption, and it was estimated that 300 of the 1100 voters in 1868 would sell their votes.[41] The task of a Liberal candidate was not to win the election, but to give the Conservative candidates an opportunity to display overt corruption, which could then be used to disqualify them.[39]

    Trollope described his period of campaigning in Beverley as "the most wretched fortnight of my manhood".[38] He spent a total of £400 on his campaign.[38] The election was held on 17 November 1868; the novelist finished last of four candidates, with the victory going to the two Conservatives.[39] A petition was filed, and a Royal Commission investigated the circumstances of the election; its findings of extensive and widespread corruption drew nationwide attention, and led to the disfranchisement of the borough in 1870.[41] The fictional Percycross election in Ralph the Heir is closely based on the Beverley campaign.[38]
     
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  10. GLP

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    I won't stick up a pic of my ex as I'm still in contact with her and she'd literally kill me. But it's definitely not the same person as she's blonde not brunette.
     
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    Don't we all.
     
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    Went to Swindon in 1969. Their all time appearance holder, John Trollope, was playing. For some reason I ended up on their Kop, not a wise thing to do in those days, with another pissed up lad who spent all the second half bawling out "what a load of trollop" and laughing like mad every time. No prizes for guessing who scored the late, late, winner.
     
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  13. tigers 2008

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    Barchester Chronicles are very good if you like that kind of thing.
     
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