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

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  1. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    Was it Nelson Mandela?
     
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  2. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Nope Yorkie, more than a hundred years earlier.
     
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  3. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    Was it

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  4. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    It was indeed Yorkie - 3 years before Ulysses S. Grant became the second. Garibaldi also has a room named in his honour at Nottm. Forest football club ! Over to you.
     
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  5. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    Thank you.

    My step dad ran a pub in the city after the war...and he was a freeman....... lotos of fancy certificates etc...... hitrorically very interesting tho.


    OK what started going round in 1884
     
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  6. Bolton's Boots

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    Steam cable trams?
     
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  7. yorkshirehornet

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    Nooo
     
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  8. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    The hands on Big Ben ?
     
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  9. yorkshirehornet

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    no......
     
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  10. Bolton's Boots

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    The Oxford English Dictionary?
     
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  11. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    no.... it goes round and round
     
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  12. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Anything to do with time - Greenwich was established as the universal time meridian in 1884 ?
     
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  13. yorkshirehornet

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    noo... this moves.......
     
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  14. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Bicycles with two wheels of the same size (as opposed to the penny farthing) ?
     
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  15. yorkshirehornet

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    no.... but it is transport
     
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    The Circle line ?
     
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  17. yorkshirehornet

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    yup you got it.... over to you
     
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  18. J T Bodbo

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    Thanks. Have a lot on, just now, but will think of something soonest. One easy question. Why am I so useless at the predictions league ? Rhetorical.
     
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    Simple one. What links WFC & Burton Albion ?
     
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  20. yorkshirehornet

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    Kwadwo Baah joined Burton Albion on a season-long loan which was the3n cancelled due to injury?
     
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