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was considerably more widespread after . . .


 
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3pm.


 
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JOHN


 
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How about the world's stupidest bottom burp?


 
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Rik, Britain!


 
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World's stickiest bogey?


 
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Toxteth O'Grady?


 
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TJ had a word?


 
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jethro tull


 
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complete and utter comedy gold


 
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Eh?


 
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.....an intermediate radius of turnip was marketed that rotated more smoothly than traditional small turnips but was more manoeuvrable than new, faddish, large turnips


 
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Eh?

eh what


 
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Guard: [checking his clipboard] We did get a message, yes... "Beep beep beep, oh no heavy, the coins keep coming out, beep beep beep, even the telephone hates me, beep beep beep, I wish there were no machines, and everyone led a pastoral existence, trees and flowers don't deliberately cool you out and go beep in your ear."

Neil: Yeah, that's the message, didn't you get it?


 
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That'll be Toxteth again....


 
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Wasn't it... Monk D'Wally de Honk?


 
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I've got a porsche.


 
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I refer the OP to "The Ronettes Sing Medieval Agrarian History."


 
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Mentally, I'm listening to The Ace of Spades whilst reading this thread.


 
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To the station >>>>>>

love that bit when they're in an old British Rail station and they're all on a luggage cart and Rik's whipping neil who's pushing it.


 
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My 16 year old son watches this occasionally.

For him it's like I view The Goons - slightly baffling comedy from an era long, long ago.

Can't believe it's 30 years old 🙁


 
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30 years, jeeees, it has been a while.
I remember when I went to Uni there were some people who this was their bible and they actually thought that that's how you were supposed to live as a student.


 
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Top thread!

Right, now I'm off to stuff loads and loads of paper down the lavatory.


 
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Awesome shoe, so old I have this on VHS


 
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ha

"Prick is a wonker"


 
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Crop rotation was not really practised on a deliberate basis in the 14th Century as the science of chemistry was not really understood, farmers preferring to check the alignment of stars and burn withches and suchlike to enhance their crop yields. However, the upheaval of the Black Death between 1348 and 1350 caused a profound shock to the system; it may be postulated that it forced a form of crop rotation by accident as farmers died out and their strips were farmed by incoming peasants eager to take advantage of the sharply increased wages, offered by landlords desperate to keep the land farmed and generate some income. This informal version of crop rotation led to unexoected benefits being noted on fields that would normally have been left to lie fallow, and also the loss of key farming equipment that had been left there the night before, at about 8 o'clock.

Enough?


 
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I've often wondered who did that....?


 
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