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david k

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Location
North West
Person to person fat doping is the latest method preferred by professionals

Often a fat bloke is there as a mechanic or similar only to be totally useless, his real job is a fat donor
 

classic33

Leg End Member
In 1976 Pharaoh Ramses II was issued an Egyptian passport for passage to France nearly three millennia after his death.
 

raleighnut

Legendary Member
FTP has a totally different meaning in parts of Northern Ireland.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
In a city filled with grand monuments and huge statues, it’s nice to know London has an official smallest statue.

Located on Philpot Lane, the statue of two tiny mice eating cheese is dedicated to two builders who fell during construction of The Monument after an argument over a missing sandwich, that they blamed on each other but was actually the fault of a mice infestation.
 

Kempstonian

Has the memory of a goldfish
Location
Bedford
Not a statue exactly, but:

Robert (Mouseman) Thompson
(7 May 1876 – 8 December 1955) was a British furniture maker. He lived in Kilburn, North Yorkshire, where he set up a business manufacturing oak furniture, which featured a carved mouse on almost every piece.

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Thompson's trademark carving on the altar rail in Kilburn Parish Church

It is claimed that the mouse motif came about accidentally in 1919 following a conversation about "being as poor as a church mouse", which took place between Thompson and one of his colleagues during the carving of a cornice for a screen. This chance remark led to him carving a mouse and this remained part of his work from this point onwards.
 
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