Something I have been wondering about for ages, but

[w00hoo_kent]

You might be making random things up, but saying them so confidently that we were all hood winked.

Ah, you've met my wife then. Terrible to be in a pub quiz with then you aren't 100% of your own answer and hers is different...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I was thinking more the places where you could get them filled with a suitably dark liquid, thus enabling you to see the number easier.

Probably 'M' numbers now mostly

 

[classic33]

Oh ok - I thought that either a. you worked for customs/ was glass blower/ rep for encyclopedia Britannica (does that still exist?) or was Steve Wrights very own "Ask Elvis"
or b. You might be making random things up, but saying them so confidently that we were all hood winked.

Thanks.

Calling @Mad Doug Biker, to explain

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Thanks.

Calling @Mad Doug Biker, to explain

Explain what?? I have long thought the same about you!!

As far as I can tell @TreeHuggery, he spends most of his time on line, so probably knows everything anyway!!

 

[classic33]

Holbeck Hall
When it happened, I thought it would be useful to remember in case it ever came up in a pub quiz.....but a bit like the horse that ran the Grand National, that never was (Esheness) - none of the things I purposely remembered ever came up!

What date?

“And they're away — oh, and once again the tape has snagged, and it's a recall... It was caught round Richard Dunwoody's neck, the tape. And they've been recalled — but the majority don't realise that it is a recall! They're going down to jump the first, they're going to!”

 

[w00hoo_kent]

My workplace think I'm the font of all knowledge, when I actually just have good google fu and am willing to use it to find out an answer. Then again I am also cleverer than they are (although when you have to step in to clear up a debate about whether Sherlock Holmes is a real person and how sometimes he wears Victorian clothes and sometimes modern day garb you do wonder how low the bar is set...)

 

[TreeHuggery]

What date?

“And they're away — oh, and once again the tape has snagged, and it's a recall... It was caught round Richard Dunwoody's neck, the tape. And they've been recalled — but the majority don't realise that it is a recall! They're going down to jump the first, they're going to!”

Erm,.....1993..... for both.

 

[classic33]

Oh ok - I thought that either a. you worked for customs/ was glass blower/ rep for encyclopedia Britannica (does that still exist?) or was Steve Wrights very own "Ask Elvis"
or b. You might be making random things up, but saying them so confidently that we were all hood winked.

Online only since 2010, 244 years of history at an end.

 

[TreeHuggery]

Online only since 2010, 244 years of history at an end.

to be fair, can understand why... still a shame though ...'specially cos online stuff just tends to update and so can't do that fabulous thing of looking back and seeing what people thought in the "olden days" I've got a First Aid manual from 1939 and its fabulous - different instructions for delivering first aid to males and females, and instructions for carrying the injured over hedges..... we're all going to deny ourselves the chance to look back at how things used to be done...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My workplace think I'm the font of all knowledge, when I actually just have good google fu and am willing to use it to find out an answer. Then again I am also cleverer than they are (although when you have to step in to clear up a debate about whether Sherlock Holmes is a real person and how sometimes he wears Victorian clothes and sometimes modern day garb you do wonder how low the bar is set...)

..... He Is real..... Isn't he?

 

[classic33]

My workplace think I'm the font of all knowledge, when I actually just have good google fu and am willing to use it to find out an answer. Then again I am also cleverer than they are (although when you have to step in to clear up a debate about whether Sherlock Holmes is a real person and how sometimes he wears Victorian clothes and sometimes modern day garb you do wonder how low the bar is set...)

Is he real? Course he his

 

[classic33]

..... He Is real..... Isn't he?

See above
and there's at least three in the UK. One in London, one in Leeds(LS11)

 

[classic33]

The world's population of anoraks have just joined CC for a chance to read this thread.

Have a 3107! Or some of this

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The world's population of anoraks have just joined CC for a chance to read this thread.

Ah! I was wondering when you would appear!!

 

[Poacher]

Dammit! Now look what you've made me do:

..and that's just some (most) of what I could find in the kitchen - it's too hot to go in the loft, and I can't be bothered to sort through the dining room cupboards.
While on the subject, does anyone know of an M Robson of Fountain House Gateshead?