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Originally posted by FMF
For a couple of decades, Monmouthshire effectively ceased to be. But it's there again now.
Similarly Rutland disappears and reappears.

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* There are over 400 escalators on the London Underground *

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
* There are over 400 escalators on the London Underground *
There are 400 turkey escalopes in my local branch of Tesco.

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Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
There are 400 turkey escalopes in my local branch of Tesco.
An Englishman can easily balance a pineapple on his stiff upper lip.

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During the first few months of Cromwell's reign as Lord Protector, chicken goujons were legal tender across the land. The Findus Crispy Pancake dates back to this period.

These days, the barter economy still survives in the City of London, where bits of string, rabbits' feet and fragments of aurox bone can all be used to invest in the London stock market.

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The opening sequences from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey were filmed in Richmond Park, London. Originally, there had been no plans to include a giant black obelisk that confers a giant evolutionary leap on those who come into contact with it, but a genuine one happened to have been put there the Thursday before by an advanced alien civilization, so Kubrick decided to incorporate it into the film.

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Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason

These days, the barter economy still survives in the City of London, where bits of string, rabbits' feet and fragments of aurox bone can all be used to invest in the London stock market.[/b]
And long may it continue.

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
And long may it continue.
I knew a man who still spoke Cornish into the 1990s.

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...and he is buried in the graveyard of the village where my parents live.

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Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
The opening sequences from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey were filmed in Richmond Park, London. Originally, there had been no plans to include a giant black obelisk that confers a giant evolutionary leap on those who come into contact with it, but a genuine one happened to have been put there the Thursday before by an advanced alien civilization, so Kubrick decided to incorporate it into the film.
It had to be a colossal cosmic joke. They simply plopped in a non-working one, obviously.

You were pranked!

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Originally posted by Suzianne
It had to be a colossal cosmic joke. They simply plopped in a non-working one, obviously.

You were pranked!
Ashton Kutcher wasn't born till 10 years after the release of the film.

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Originally posted by Suzianne
It had to be a colossal cosmic joke. They simply plopped in a non-working one, obviously.

You were pranked!
My school report did say I was "unevolved". But I hit that aardvark-like animal real good, I did too!

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Originally posted by FMF
For a couple of decades, Monmouthshire effectively ceased to be. But it's there again now.
I was born in North Yorkshire and without moving I found myself in Teeside then county Cleveland and now back to North Yorkshire all I ask is Why?

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
There are more umbrellas in the UK than there are guns. (4.2 million sold last year).
Bulgarians have less umbrellas but they all have poisoned pick.
edit:
umbrellas, not Bulgarians

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Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
17. British people are all great mathematicians.
gay dissfunctional mathematicians and addicted to chess