Greenheart
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DaleCooper
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Bob Larby
Ashley Hill
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The theme songs are sung by one of the actors in the shows.
They were indeed, usually the main actor.
Ashley Hill
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In 1979 the band The Human League released an EP called The Dignity of Labour. With its initial release a free flexi-disc was included.
What was unusual about the content of the flexi-disc?
What was unusual about the content of the flexi-disc?
Bradford PA
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Was it a spoken rather than sung/musical flexi-disc discussing the subject matter of the EP ?
Ashley Hill
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Correct. It was a discussion about whether it was worth putting a flexi-disc out and what to put on it. It did also mention Yuri Gagarin who featured on the sleeve. Here it can be heard in all its glory. Would you swap a fishing rod for a Dr Feelgood album?
Bradford PA
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Okay. Who were the first father and daughter to play international cricket for England?
Bradford PA
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Yes, seeing as I have no interest in angling.Correct. It was a discussion about whether it was worth putting a flexi-disc out and what to put on it. It did also mention Yuri Gagarin who featured on the sleeve. Here it can be heard in all its glory. Would you swap a fishing rod for a Dr Feelgood album?
Your turn to flex us with the next question……
Xenophon PCDGS
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I was thinking of Issy Wong, but it was her great-uncle and he played for Hong Kong, not England.
Xenophon PCDGS
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This is the last conundrum to be set.
GRALISTAIR
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The Adams family - didly doo
Bradford PA
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No, but also from the south coast.
GRALISTAIR
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Wow we seem to be struggling on this. I may disqualify myself and google it.
Bradford PA
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Okay. It was Trevor and Lorna Jesty. Both played in One-day international matches.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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In a traditional English folk song, mention is made of what seems like a woman caught stealing from a hardware shop. The chorus mentions a charge that she could have been chaged with.....what is it?
Nothing, I suppose, to do with Polly and a kettle; her offence being, aiding and abetting the reprehensible movement seeking to undermine stalwart English fortitude, by promoting replacement of our traditional and robust ale: with that pernicious, heathen, and deeply suspect Oriental herbal potion with the outlandish name of "tea" ...
Xenophon PCDGS
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Not that one....remember it was something she was caught with trying to make her escape as fast as she could.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
The conundrum states that the offender was a woman...not an inanimate object.
Well -- poetic license and all that -- not Little Polly Flinders, I suppose -- a very young woman -- did old-time hardware shops have furnaces, for fabricating / tinkering with their stock, hence the cinders? -- whereby her arraignment and charging in the court of maternal justice, re apparel-damage -- probably to your relief, I think I'm done.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Not that one. The stolen item would have heat as part of its use.
HINT ... The folk song is in one of the better anthologies and was sang in the 1980's by June Tabor and Maddy Prior at an event in Burnley and by our folk group considerably much earlier than that at the MSG in Manchester.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Congratulations...that is the correct answer. I remember a member of another folk group making a pencil sketch of the supposed woman being apprehended clutching the iron outside the hardware store.
Over to you to set the next one
Thank you.
During the brief French occupation of Egypt, 1798 -- 1801: Napoleon and his followers were keen on the idea of creating a ship canal between the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Suez. However, a difficulty was envisaged, and the idea abandoned -- the real Suez Canal did not come about, for another three-quarters of a century. What was that putative problem, around 1800? (It wasn't Nap & Co. being kicked out of the region.)
During the brief French occupation of Egypt, 1798 -- 1801: Napoleon and his followers were keen on the idea of creating a ship canal between the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Suez. However, a difficulty was envisaged, and the idea abandoned -- the real Suez Canal did not come about, for another three-quarters of a century. What was that putative problem, around 1800? (It wasn't Nap & Co. being kicked out of the region.)
Peterthegreat
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Did they not think one end was much higher than the other so would necessitate a number of locks?
Sacre bleu, monsieur -- that was quick ! Yes: they placed credence in the ancient, and mistaken, belief about the level of the Red Sea being significantly higher than that of the Med. -- in actual geographical fact, that's not an issue. Either they reckoned that doings involving locks would be bigger than they had the resources for in that situation; or such, would have been beyond 1800-odd technology.
The next ambitious navigational project is yours to undertake.
The next ambitious navigational project is yours to undertake.
Peterthegreat
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Thank you. Apologies for the delay I've been out most of the day.
Who holds the longest reigning Olympic record?
Just to clarify of events that have been held constantly.
Who holds the longest reigning Olympic record?
Just to clarify of events that have been held constantly.
OhNoAPacer
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I'll hazard a guess at Bob Beamon. 1968 Long Jump.