theageofthetra
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The Buccaneer- I guess due to its rather odd but ruddy effective shape?
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deltic1989
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Is the answer I was looking for.
One of the reasons for the nickname was the angle of the T-tail, giving the aircraft a profile similar to that of a banana. Rumours abound as well that the name may have come from the factory designation for the aircraft which was Blackburn Advanced Naval Aircraft (BANA).
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DaleCooper
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theageofthetra
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One for the Oldies. What did a Tommy Steele record achieve which as far as I am aware has never been repeated in the history of the UK popular music chart.
DaleCooper
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Blimey Tommy Steele that's going back a bit. The only ones of his I can remember are Little White Bull and Half a Sixpence but I can't believe either of them set any records.
theageofthetra
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Before them.
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Is it something to do with "Singing the Blues"...
theageofthetra
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Correct.... a bit more detail
deltic1989
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Was it that it was in the UK Singles Chart at the same time as another version of the same song? I seem to remember reading about it when I went though a 50's music phase some years back. I recall Tommy's version was number 1 for 1 week, the week after Marty Robbins' version, then the week after Marty's version topped again.
Open floor if correct.
Open floor if correct.
theageofthetra
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Yes that will do. Tommy went to no.1 with the same song that he knocked off no.1. He has a few records, first no 1 album by a UK act, longest ever run at the London Palladium. 80 years old,still performing and deserves much more respect. The floor is yours.
deltic1989
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The Adventures of Rocky and Bulwinkle.
Open floor again.
Open floor again.
EbbwJunction1
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Returning to Tommy Steele, he once claimed to have taken someone very famous for a walk around London. Who was the mystery person?
EbbwJunction1
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Yes, that's right. here's the Grauniad's take on the story, dated 22nd April 2008:
"Deep in the bowels of Area 51 where they preserve the TRUE FACTS about the REAL STORY behind EVERYTHING, there is a room devoted entirely to Elvis Presley.
Mainly the files relate to the big truths about Elvis, how he's still alive, how he worked for both the CIA and the Mafia and how his plans for a chain of Heartbreak Hotels were scuppered by a lawsuit from Trust House Forte. There is one folder, however, that has particular pertinence this morning, the folder marked Elvis in Britain.
For the past 48 years the received wisdom has been that Elvis only set foot in the UK once, stopping at Prestwick airport on his way home from army service in Germany in 1960. He never left the airport, but told the locals he encountered: "This is quite a country. I must see more of it." He never did.
Or so the story goes, at least. For yesterday on Ken Bruce's Radio 2 programme The Tracks of my Years, a shadowy account emerged of an alternate history, one in which Elvis made another trip to the UK two years previously. A trip to London in fact, where he was escorted round the capital by Tommy Steele, the bloke who sang Little White Bull.
The story was revealed by Bill Kenwright, theatre impresario and chairman of Everton football club, and despite knowing that his mate Tommy doesn't like to talk about it, he didn't half go on at length. "I remember him telling me about when Elvis came to England very quietly", Kenwright I-wanna-tell-you-a-storied. "Evidently Tommy got home one night and the phone rings. A voice says, 'They tell me you're good.' "Tommy says, 'Who's this?' 'Elvis' says the voice. 'Get outta here', says Tommy. 'Are you as good as me?' says Elvis ... and they started this mock rivalry.
"It all came from that. It's quite something isn't it - the thought of them wandering around London together? But the impression I got was that they never got out of the car."
So not quite the missing link between Elvis, Marilyn and the moon landings then, but it's enough to persuade the Daily Mail to turn over their page three to the tale, and send some hack to Woking's New Victoria theatre, where Steele is currently appearing in Doctor Dolittle, to ask the 71-year-old about his secret past.
In a written note to the paper, presumably slipped under a door after five hours of haranguing, Steele revealed his disquiet at the revelation: "It was an event shared by two young men sharing the same love of their music and the same thrill of achieving something unimaginable.
"I swore never to divulge what took place and I regret that it has found some way of 'getting into the light'. I can only hope he can forgive me."
What do you mean, "can"? In the present tense? You don't mean to say ... He couldn't possibly ... Someone call the CIA!"
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DaleCooper
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Because some people will argue about anything?
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They are names after the road they 'paralell' aren't they?
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I know it isn't, but I would have to look up the road it is it is, as it isn't the A73.
deltic1989
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From memory the A752 runs pretty much parallel to the M73 until Gartcosh, where it veers off and joins the A80 at Muirhead. So following that Scottish Motorways are numbered after roads they parallel, should it be the M752 or A752(M).
I'll give it to Deltic (A Challenge, I think you were nearly there). In Scotland, motorways are numbered after the roads that they replace, for example the M8 replaces the A8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh. This isn't necessarily the case in England (the M6 generally does fit the bill, but the M5 most certainly does not).
The A73 runs from Abington to Cumbernauld, whereas the M73 is considerably further away. It could be argued that the roads kind of do the same job, but the M73 does not replace the A73 in any way. As you have suggested, the M752 would be more appropriate.
Deltic1989 has the floor.
The A73 runs from Abington to Cumbernauld, whereas the M73 is considerably further away. It could be argued that the roads kind of do the same job, but the M73 does not replace the A73 in any way. As you have suggested, the M752 would be more appropriate.
Deltic1989 has the floor.
deltic1989
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To keep with the Motorway theme.
The M62 splits at a certain point. Where and more importantly why?
The M62 splits at a certain point. Where and more importantly why?
DaleCooper
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To go round a farm in the Pennines, actually I think there were geological reasons or something.
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It splits either side of a farm somewhere, I've been past it and I think it was nearer the Leeds end but I'm not sure where without googling it. My stepbrother who lives in Leeds said it was because the farmer at the time was awkward in his dealings with the Department of Transport and they decided to teach him a lesson, but he's since said that he's not sure if that's actually true?