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11 Aug 05 - 11:19 AM (#1539990) Subject: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull i seen a telly programme, it says hull got more fish and chip shops than any other city in uk [about 200],and it also got about 200 kebab ships ans curry ships. and only 5 gyms [gyms are rubbish]. and in hull we got a smoking club, a binge drinking club, and a ferret club.waht more could anybody want in a city? and hull got loads of pubs as well. and pound shiops and charity ships. |
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11 Aug 05 - 11:23 AM (#1539994) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Sttaw Legend Gyms are excellent jOhn that's were I get my excellent physique from. If I didn't go to the gym I wouldn't be able to eat all those fish and chips. |
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11 Aug 05 - 11:29 AM (#1539998) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,noddy Hull is ok it is just in the wrong place.... |
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11 Aug 05 - 11:37 AM (#1540007) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: mooman Hull is indeed a fine city and I look forward to sampling all of the 200 fish n'chip ships and also all of the the pubs in due course (so far only one fish n'chip ship and one curry ship and three or four pubs). I will give the smoking club and binge drinking club a miss I think as that is not really my thing. moo |
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11 Aug 05 - 11:40 AM (#1540011) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Paco Rabanne West Hull is fine, East Hull on the other hand.... yuk!! pog central! |
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11 Aug 05 - 11:42 AM (#1540016) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: BaldEagle2 Not many people nowadays know that it was the citizens of Hull who hung a ship-wrecked monkey, thinking that the monkey was a French spy. The Mayor of Hull told the press that it had happened at Hartlepool, and the thick sods of Hartlepool thought it improved their image so didn't deny it. So that is why everyone now thinks it was people of Hartlepool what did it. (Here in America, the supportors of Hartlepool F.C. call themselves "The Monkey Hangers"), so its not only the British who have got it wrong. Honest. |
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11 Aug 05 - 11:45 AM (#1540019) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull heloo, it wasnt hull waht hanged a monkey, it was newcastle. anyway=mayor of hull is a puff, and they sacked him for molesting policemen [allgidly]. |
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11 Aug 05 - 12:51 PM (#1540104) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST Hull IS on the up, slowly but surely, I've been here all my 34 years so I can vouch for that. The music scene is buzzing at the moment - partly due to the fantastic independent (ie not licking the Council's arse) website: www.thisisull.com Check it out, write to them with your opinions, reviews, coming up gigs, stories, anything you like. |
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11 Aug 05 - 12:55 PM (#1540109) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: greg stephens Stoke on Ternt is better you Yorkshire tyke you get back in your kebab Sir JOhn |
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11 Aug 05 - 01:06 PM (#1540117) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST I used to dislike Hull but don't any more, it's cheap here and that's important when you're not very minted... there are good places and events here, you just have to seek them out because they're the ones ignored by the Hull Daily Fail. |
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11 Aug 05 - 02:25 PM (#1540216) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,john greg-i bt stok on tent dident get a big bridge! like [like humbr bridge=[ big-[really big bridge=[so=just shut up then]= hull got more big bridge than stioke in trebnt, and i never been there [soke on trenrt], i bet its rbbih! this keybord is fuked up, too many bears spilleed on it. |
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11 Aug 05 - 02:41 PM (#1540238) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Little Hawk And whose fault is that? |
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11 Aug 05 - 02:50 PM (#1540255) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,jOhn i bet all stoke bridges is really small [like midget bridge]. i bt they not got no good bridge there, theeeeeeey jst jelloius of hull. |
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11 Aug 05 - 04:21 PM (#1540376) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: McGrath of Harlow The monkey story is about Hartlepool. That's why they have a monkey for the symbol of their local football team - and the people of Hartlepool chose the man who used to put on a monkey suit to parade around at matches to be the first elected Mayor of Hartlepool. True. Sometimes reality can trump all the urban legends... |
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11 Aug 05 - 05:15 PM (#1540429) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Big Al Whittle Hull Hull is nice i've been there twice I even met sir jOhn if you deviate via Harrogate You'll wish you'd never gone Harrogate In Harrogate theres a Pizza Hut But It's shut |
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11 Aug 05 - 05:57 PM (#1540494) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST Harrogate came high on the best places to live, apparently...WHY? Like York it's full of stuck up people. They have been slating Hull for being racist and yet York football club was the only one who refused to sign the football anti-racism agreement. Nuff said. Long live 'ull, it's sometimes dull, but it's all right really, I swear down man...now where's me Burberry cap our Sharon? |
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11 Aug 05 - 07:18 PM (#1540621) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud Kurdish refugee Ha ha ha. do you remember me. GUEST,jOhn.. greg stephens... Hon Sir jOhn from Hull ... flamenco ted ... hhh your nightmare in back. special flamenco ted. |
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11 Aug 05 - 07:22 PM (#1540627) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: bobad Thank goodness for socialized medicine, sounds like Hull can really use it. |
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11 Aug 05 - 07:36 PM (#1540641) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud Kurdish refugee i have the best plan to make Hull the best place in UK. who wants to know? just let me know and i'll type them in this thread. |
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11 Aug 05 - 07:37 PM (#1540643) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud English woman I love proud Kurdish music. And proud English music too. But Hassan Shariff rules ok! |
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11 Aug 05 - 07:39 PM (#1540644) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud Kurdish refugee yes he does rule ok. i agree with you %100. well done. it seems that you are the only English woman in Hull city who knows Kurdish music. |
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11 Aug 05 - 07:45 PM (#1540649) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud English woman Yeah, and am trying to find out more about it. Can you tell me some artists who are popular with Kurds. |
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11 Aug 05 - 08:00 PM (#1540660) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud English woman Ok, tell me about your plan to make Hull better. I'm interested.. |
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11 Aug 05 - 08:17 PM (#1540671) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud Kurdish refugee The best Kurdish Musicion in Kurdistan is called Shivan Perwer and there is many more like Diyar, Hassan Zirak, Hassan Sharif, Dilshad, and many more. I'll tell you my plans later if that is ok with you, because they are about 10 hours of talking. and 100 pages of writing. and 300000 movment of hands and legs to try to explain. you see. |
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11 Aug 05 - 08:19 PM (#1540673) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud English Woman Ok. Good things come to those who wait.... |
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11 Aug 05 - 08:23 PM (#1540678) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Big Al Whittle you have to come down hard on wmd's never take chances with weapons of monkey destruction.. in the circmstances, it was harsh but fair you poncy southerners would let the monkeys just walk in and take over |
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11 Aug 05 - 08:28 PM (#1540683) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud Kurdish refugee What monky? where is it? i want to see it? |
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11 Aug 05 - 08:28 PM (#1540685) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud English Woman Hey I'm no soft Southerner, I'm a stout Yorkshire lass and proud of it too. |
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11 Aug 05 - 08:30 PM (#1540687) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud Kurdish refugee What is going on? you see Hull people are fighting each other. so maybe the program had a point. |
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11 Aug 05 - 08:50 PM (#1540711) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud English Woman Maybe littledrummer is taking the wee. Or maybe he's got shittake from taking too many mushrooms. |
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11 Aug 05 - 08:51 PM (#1540713) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud Kurdish refugee hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
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11 Aug 05 - 09:02 PM (#1540722) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Proud English Woman Ha ha glad you liked that one! |
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12 Aug 05 - 05:21 PM (#1541297) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: BaldEagle2 See. What did I tell you? The people in Hartlepool actually believe that they once hung a monkey thinking it was a Napoleonic spy. They believe heart and soul, because all their parents, teachers and ministers told them that it was true. The original mob started off by not denying the blame thrown at them by Hull, but went on to accept that if everyone in the press said that they had done it,then they must have done it, because you can always rely on what is printed in newspapers as being the gospel truth. And later generations did not stop to think how stupid a story it really is. It only makes sense if you relocate the action to Hull - they have the mental and physical capacity to pull off such a harebrained scheme. (And are sneaky enough to blame someone else). It's rahter like that bloke Hannaran (sp?) what accepted the blame for all of Christie's murders and got chopped for it. No one could convince him he didn't do any of them. Not even his defence attorney. And now Hartlepooleans are convinced that they murdered that poor little creature that had done nobody any harm .... |
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13 Aug 05 - 12:59 PM (#1541834) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Rusty Dobro My ancestors came from Cottingham (frighteningly close to Hull), and I'm rather odd in a creepy sort of way(I listen to Roy Harper from choice, play 'Willie o' Winesbury' finger-style on a resonator, support Southampton and bore people in pubs with pop trivia - Buddy Holly's pilot was Roger Perterson, Phil Lynott's middle name was Paris, Will Young is crap, etc). I don't mess with monkies, tho'..... |
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13 Aug 05 - 01:36 PM (#1541850) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Ebbie jOhn, are 'binge drinking clubs' what it sounds like? Can't imagine a place devoted to it, though. |
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02 Nov 05 - 03:36 PM (#1595956) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull There is loads of kurdih people in hull now, they all came here becase its so nice. [and becase they all like fish and chips as well]. |
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02 Nov 05 - 07:51 PM (#1596057) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Madam George from the Gates of Hull You forgot to mention how sunny it is and that it is the flamenco capital of England. Haven't you learned anything from hanging out with Ted? Even I know that much from reading this forum! Olé! Pass the sunscreen and the castinets. |
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03 Nov 05 - 07:37 AM (#1596321) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Big Al Whittle as a man who has seen a bit of the world sir jOhn, how would you say Hull compares with Cleethorpes? |
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03 Nov 05 - 08:22 AM (#1596350) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Strollin' Johnny No comparison. How can the curry-ship capital of *spit* Yorkshire be compared with the Jewel of the Lincolnshire Riviera, with its miles of beaches, the sand bleached white by the tropical sunshine, beautiful gardens filled with exotic plant species, the promenade with its numerous havens of intellectually-inspired entertainment, and fine wining and dining on the finest delicacies harvested from the crystal-blue waters of the North Sea? |
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03 Nov 05 - 08:30 AM (#1596358) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Paco Rabanne Hull is so fabulous I am moving out. |
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03 Nov 05 - 08:41 AM (#1596363) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Georgiansilver I thought about moving to Hull so I went there to have a look around. I met this guy in a pub and asked him.... "Is it so full of druggies here as they say and so terribly violent?" He told me there was a drug problem but the violence was minimal. I asked him what he did for a living and he told me he was a "Tail gunner" on an ice cream van. Best wishes, Mike. |
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03 Nov 05 - 08:27 PM (#1596899) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST See the real Hull - www.thisisull.com And please fill in the short online survey! |
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04 Nov 05 - 04:38 AM (#1597110) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Paco Rabanne That online survey looks like an e mail hoover to me. If you fill it in you will get shedloads of spam from vegans. |
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04 Nov 05 - 07:16 AM (#1597178) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: s6k my spam is mostly from Viagra... (hope someone isnt trying to tell me something) or women looking for one night stands... supposedly.... or cheap mortgages.... 15 a day at the moment |
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04 Nov 05 - 08:12 AM (#1597207) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Big Al Whittle bloody hell that's good - according to MacAfee I'm up to 98 yesterday and about 15 got through |
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04 Nov 05 - 08:12 AM (#1597208) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Hand-Pulled Boy I lived in Hull since I was -9 months old. Such is the wonder of the old city that I moved to Beverley 8 weeks ago. Have I missed it? Errrrr.................. |
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04 Nov 05 - 08:37 AM (#1597229) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Jack Ketch Proud Kurdish Refugees plan to improve 'ull is to move it to Kurdistan. Bets place in the UK my arse. |
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04 Nov 05 - 09:48 AM (#1597277) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Bill D If Hull is so great, what don't we read about Charlie & Camilla visiting THERE, instead of coming over and bothering the colonies? Maybe they haven't been invited!!!! |
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04 Nov 05 - 12:42 PM (#1597392) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST Spam from vegans Ted? Not likely, unless it's that dodgy 'Quorn' variety - (grown in a laboratory from something 'of mushroom origin' no thanks). |
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04 Nov 05 - 02:00 PM (#1597448) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,DB Actually I seem to remember that the monkey landed in Whitby about the time that Bram Stoker imported a black dog called Dracula. The mayor of Harrogate was holidaying in Whitby at the time which is irrelevant except that he was staying in the same seaside boarding house as the Chief Executive Officer of Hartlepool District Council. He had a cousin whose next door neighbour's father was rather too fond of a "binge-drinking club" in Hull - are you with me so far? I'm not sure I am - I seem to have lost the thread - but I know that some sort of misunderstanding happened because the Chief Exec. and his cousin got drunk together at ... somebody's ... funeral in Selby. Then Dracula burst in and turned them all into monkeys!! I think that's right ... may have got some of the details a bit mixed up ... |
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04 Nov 05 - 05:01 PM (#1597591) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Mrs Cobble I was born and bread in Hull it was a nice place then. I only go there now to visit friends as I don't like the way the city is now. The city centre is dirty and ful of litter. People are rude or drunk or both. I saddens me. Mrs C |
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04 Nov 05 - 06:10 PM (#1597629) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie ...My mate Andy Wetherall left Hull years ago to live in BRADFORD! ...that kinda says it all! |
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05 Nov 05 - 04:54 AM (#1597892) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Dave Hanson That ought to read " baked into bread in Hull ' or did you mean ' bred ' eric |
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05 Nov 05 - 11:54 AM (#1598041) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Mrs Cobble thank you Eric do you ever make a typo!!! |
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06 Nov 05 - 03:49 AM (#1598506) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Dave Hanson No fo coarse I domt. reic |
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06 Nov 05 - 06:40 AM (#1598538) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Doug Chadwick If Hull is so great, what don't we read about Charlie & Camilla visiting THERE, instead of coming over and bothering the colonies? In 1642, Hull refused entry to Charles I. This was a major event leading up to the English Civil War which ended with the King getting his head cut off. – So Hull isn't all bad! DC |
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06 Nov 05 - 02:37 PM (#1598769) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Hand-Pulled Boy |
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08 Nov 05 - 01:20 PM (#1600069) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull hand pull boy not saying mutch! |
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29 Apr 06 - 05:45 PM (#1730182) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Big Al Whittle I just want to say that I accompanied a busload of disabled people today on a bus trip to the Sea Life Centre in Hull - called the Deep. And we had a great time. The local people were really pleasant to us and helpful and polite. Nothing prepared me for the actual building that The Deep is housed in. It is a stunningly beautiful location . From the observatory at the top - you can see the whole bay - from Spurn Point to Immingham and there is a fabulous view of the Humber Bridge -its entire span. As it is the hometown of The Watersons - I thought maybe there should be some traditional folk music there reflecting the seafaring folk of Hull who contributed so much to our folk culture. Also as the home of The Hull truck theatre co. - there must be a fair number of actors around the place. I couldn't help feeling - maybe somebody could be a narrator, in the same way that there is on the hoe in Plymouth - but perhaps they do that somewhere else in Hull. anyway. well done done Hull! |
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30 Apr 06 - 01:09 AM (#1730356) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Dave Hanson If England needed an enema, they'd stick the tube in Hull. eric |
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30 Apr 06 - 02:49 AM (#1730375) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Big Al Whittle I speak as I find. Hull was a very gracious host to a group of disabled people yesterday. Its citizens can be proud of the impression that a handsome looking city made. |
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30 Apr 06 - 06:31 AM (#1730419) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,Hull exile Hull's the place where the locals haggle in the pound shops. Hull's the place once described by a genetically challenged Doncastrian as 'that chipshop 50 miles up a railway siding!'. Hull's the place that Larkin wrote poetry about and Lal Waterson's song about Hull 'Some Old Salty' still makes me cry. Hull's the place I've returned to 153 times in the past 38 years. Hull's the place. |
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01 May 06 - 05:25 AM (#1731101) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Teribus BaldEagle2 - 12 Aug 05 - 05:21 PM "It's rahter like that bloke Hannaran (sp?) what accepted the blame for all of Christie's murders and got chopped for it." It was Timothy Evans who was tried, found guilty and hung for the murders at 10 Rillington Place that were committed by Christie. |
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01 May 06 - 06:49 AM (#1731133) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Big Al Whittle what was like whoever did it? |
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02 May 06 - 03:53 AM (#1731862) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Shiplap Structure3 I lived and worked in Hull for many years and its certainly true thats there are worse places It may not be the best but theres not many better |
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02 May 06 - 06:37 AM (#1731920) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Bunnahabhain Hull's the place that's about to get alot more John Prescott, as he won't be in London so much soon.... |
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02 May 06 - 07:49 AM (#1731947) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: ossonflags 'ull is pretty much like many other place really, got it's fair share of bubbleheads, meatheads, smackheads and pissheads, ......................oh, and the shithead/s who pinched me car while I was at "Moor and Coast" fest and torched it. But I have lived here on and of for sixty one years and me wife came from Oxford to live here and me mother in law came from Canada to live here so I guess it ain't so bad? Oh, and it hosts the brilliant "Shanty Festival" every year and the Watersons and loads of brilliant and talented people came from here, like; William Wilberforce, Maureen Lipman, David Whitfield,Punch The Horse, David Bowies guitar player,Brian Rix,Les Fromull, Amy Johnson,Mr Foot from the fishshop,Charlie Jackson from "The Bluebell", Hydrallic Jack from all points west north and east,Pidgeon Smith, Roland , Nature boy, Frying pan jock,and that brilliant local MP John Pr................. ah well, back to the heads. |
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02 May 06 - 09:39 AM (#1732022) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Les from Hull Sorry to hear about the car, Mick. What a bummer! |
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02 May 06 - 10:42 AM (#1732084) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: GUEST,leeneia "In Harrogate theres a Pizza Hut But It's shut" ------------ Wasn't that written by e.e. cummings? It's his style, for sure. I want to know - has sir nOrman usurped sir jOhn, or is he an alter ego? weelittledrummer: thanks for sticking up for Hull with a statement about a visit that actually happened, instead of old news and prejudices. |
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02 May 06 - 10:51 AM (#1732092) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Paco Rabanne Last week we had the very lovely Martin Simpson come and play for us in sunny Hull |
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02 May 06 - 01:34 PM (#1732218) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Hand-Pulled Boy God moves in mysterious ways................... |
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03 May 06 - 03:07 AM (#1732674) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: ossonflags Thanks Les, what made it worst was the Humberside bobbies ringing me up before I had time to report is stolen and tried to nick me for pinching petrol !! Whoever had nicked me car drove it round to a service station, filled it up - presumably to create a bigger blaze - and drove away without paying. |
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03 May 06 - 03:09 AM (#1732676) Subject: RE: BS: Hull= best place in the uk. From: Big Al Whittle well he does, but he made a good dvd about alternate tunings, to dispel some of the mystery... |