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  1. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    No - more to do with one of the bands
     
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    Bolton's Boots, Nov 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
  2. yorkshirehornet

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    Patricia Penrise came second in the uk qualifying competition...
     
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    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    Did not know that, but she didn't take part in the actual Eurovision Song Contest - the band I'm thinking of did, quite a few years earlier, but failed rather miserably.
     
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    Bill Maynard finished 4th in the UK heat of the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest.
     
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    andytoprankin, Nov 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
  5. Bolton's Boots

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    But not in the final.
    Getting warmer though.
     
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    The final in question was held in Bergen.
     
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  7. yorkshirehornet

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    1986

    Something to do with Ryder?
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Nov 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
  8. Bolton's Boots

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    Yes - look them up in Google
     
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    Bolton's Boots, Nov 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
  9. yorkshirehornet

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    Maynard Williams the son of bill Maynard of heartbeat
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Nov 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
  10. Bolton's Boots

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    That's it - lead singer of the band.

    Over to you
     
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  11. yorkshirehornet

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    What film? FB_IMG_1762176588868.jpg
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Nov 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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    One of my all time favourites!!

    Castorweigh!! <laugh> :emoticon-0137-clapp:emoticon-0137-clapp:emoticon-0137-clapp
     
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    "WILSON!!!"
     
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    Hornet-Fez, Nov 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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    You got it!
     
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    What was the original intended use for bubblewrap?
     
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  16. Bolton's Boots

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    The inventors were supposedly trying to make 3D wallpaper, but failed?
     
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    Yep. Too easy. Ho hum, all yours...
     
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  18. Bolton's Boots

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    Probably just as easy - which race of people used strings to keep historical records, and what were they called?
     
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    They had no written language so used a combination of knots and tassels on the strings to record their stories.
     
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