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Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Interesting facts you learn
- Thread starter PaulB
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ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
Can someone please explain the Alsaka most-easterly situation. I don't get it?
Yup, it is the most westerly, as is obvious, but look where it stretches out to. It terminates at a point only a few miles from Russian territory and is so big (easily the biggest of the states) that is goes round so far, it ends up in the east!
Anyway, I know I'm going to see something VERY interesting today and it will take place in your part of the world. I am giving up the unalloyed pleasure of going to Anfield so I can take my wife to East Yorkshire, near GRIMsby (isn't that how you write it?) to see her father for the first time since she was 2 years old! It should have happened in our house a couple of weeks ago but her brothers got together and decided he wasn't coming until they'd all democratically decided how to play this so as not to upset their mother. Being a BH weekend, they've all decided to make it today when they could all go and see him. They met him on Facebook and you can tell reading his comments, he is as excited as a dog with two tales (probably a whopper of a tale or two so it was a deliberate misspelling) at the prospects of meeting all of his middle-aged children! 2pm we're seeing him. Do you know the Kings Head in Waltham? That's the meeting place.
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Your standing in England, imagine travelling as far west as you can, this will be Alaska.
But also, if you travel as far east as you can, all the way through Russia, you will reach Alaska. (Alaska is on the opposite side of the world to England).
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
That's in Lincolnshire, south of the Humber. East Yorkshire is north of the Humber.
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
So it's political/date line boundaries as opposed to actual physical geographical positioning?
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
I thought it meant "If you are in England which are the most westerly and most easterly States of America?"
Is the date line the same as the 0 degrees east or west?
Is the date line the same as the 0 degrees east or west?
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
That would be about 200? (phrased so as not to prevent others working it out)
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
I know it is Sunday, but I have things to do, other than discuss a date with you.
I could always reposition my physical location to have a date with you, Speicher
Hover Fly
He, him, his
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Devon.
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
Exactly. The East Riding Militia
will be along any moment to demand your guts for their garters. 
I'm DYING to know how Stephen Fry inconvenienced you, I'm a massive Fry fan.
Right, you remember that time he went on the missing with depression and couldn't be tracked down? Well the day before the story of his disappearance hit, me and a colleague were flying to San Francisco via LA. My colleague said he'd seen Steven Fry at Heathrow and then he pointed him out to me a few minutes later. He's very tall. Anyway, when we landed at LA, they wouldn't let us off until first class had engorged it's passengers. But there was only one in there! The stewardess sympathised with us and complained herself that the person who was in first class firstly couldn't be woken up and then faffed and faffed and had to be talked into disembarking causing a lot of delay and inconvenience (we were rushing to catch a connecting flight). It took almost an hour when the person deigned to leave the plane. And that person turned out to be.....a complete stranger. No, it was Steven Fry!
