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 Posted:   Jan 20, 2022 - 4:37 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

"...in the whole course of hostilities [between Germany and England in WWII] very few bombs fell on Leeds and those that did were promptly torn apart by schoolboys starved of shrapnel."

"Starved of shrapnel"? Does that mean they were "keen to get souvenirs of war equipment"?

 
 Posted:   Jan 20, 2022 - 4:38 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

In a mischievious attempt to confuse DiB further, To walk it = "to piss it". As in "piece of piss" lol

I'm going to charge you a quarter every time you do this! smile

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 21, 2022 - 6:07 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

"...in the whole course of hostilities [between Germany and England in WWII] very few bombs fell on Leeds and those that did were promptly torn apart by schoolboys starved of shrapnel."

"Starved of shrapnel"? Does that mean they were "keen to get souvenirs of war equipment"?



That will be it. Even in Leeds they didn’t need to eat parts of bombs to survive the war...

My mother would have been 10 at the time of the heaviest air raid in March 1941, and she remembered being thrown (possibly a slight exaggeration) by her parents down into their cellar during the bombing. My dad, a year older, would have been scavenging the next morning for bits of the bombs in the street.

Leeds got off relatively lightly, with about a hundred houses destroyed and 65 people killed, according to Wiki.

 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2022 - 4:41 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)



That will be it. Even in Leeds they didn’t need to eat parts of bombs to survive the war...


Aaah, thanks, TG.


Leeds got off relatively lightly, with about a hundred houses destroyed and 65 people killed, according to Wiki.


Bennett said this was because Leeds was important for things like producing rhubarb.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2022 - 11:19 PM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)



That will be it. Even in Leeds they didn’t need to eat parts of bombs to survive the war...


Aaah, thanks, TG.


Leeds got off relatively lightly, with about a hundred houses destroyed and 65 people killed, according to Wiki.


Bennett said this was because Leeds was important for things like producing rhubarb.



Bennett would know that the original Rhubarb Triangle covered the Leeds-Bradford-Wakefield area. He probably recognises that’s it’s nowadays shrunk to Wakefield-Morley-Rothwell. And “Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb” won similar international protection as Champagne, feta and Stilton.

Join me again for Rhubarb Fact of the Day.

 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2022 - 12:47 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Rhubarb rhubarb.

 
 Posted:   Jan 25, 2022 - 4:43 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)




“Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb” .....


Really, luv, must you say such things when I haven't had my dinner yet?? smile

 
 Posted:   Jan 19, 2023 - 4:38 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

It's going to be legal for Brits who are "at the wheel" of a self-driving car, to watch television.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61155735

Does this mean that The Earl of Poncey will be watching Dr. Who in his self-driving taxicab? smile

 
 Posted:   Jan 19, 2023 - 11:21 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Let me tell you, the Earl of Poncey will never watch doctor who in a car. Or anywhere else. And if he did it would be Troughton or Pertwee.

 
 Posted:   Feb 2, 2023 - 5:22 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

An author comments how sweet foods are associated with women more than men:

"Candy and chocolate are so heavily feminized that a Yorkie bar in the U.K. - normal chocolate, massive chunks - until recently stood out by marketing itself as 'not for girls.'"

 
 Posted:   Feb 2, 2023 - 5:23 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

Let me tell you, the Earl of Poncey will never watch doctor who in a car. Or anywhere else. And if he did it would be Troughton or Pertwee.

There's really a place called "Pertwee"?

Sounds so silly it could be fictional, like "Perth Amboy." smile

 
 Posted:   Feb 2, 2023 - 11:25 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Heres what the City of Pertwee looks like...


And here's Troughton Town.

 
 Posted:   Feb 3, 2023 - 5:10 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

Heres what the City of Pertwee looks like...


Again the British humour escapes me... smile

 
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