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[Dave]

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Sorry, Dave!

I shall have a word with Google, Trigger, it's not the first time it's led me up the garden path.

[boatbuilder]

Sorry, Dave!

I shall have a word with Google, Trigger, it's not the first time it's led me up the garden path.

Maybe you should keep the gate locked then Dave.

[Trigger]

I shall have a word with Google, Trigger, it's not the first time it's led me up the garden path.

I've been led up the garden path a few times too, Dave, but that was in me youth! And before you ask - yes I can remember that far back - but only very occasionally.

PS Before you ask: Is it illegal to be drunk in charge of a horse? Yes - “Under the Licensing Act 1872, it is an offence to be drunk in charge of a carriage, horse, cow or steam engine, or whilst in possession of a loaded firearm.”

[Mel]

Ed Sheeran can fit 55 Maltesers in his mouth.

[Trigger]

It is illegal to carry a plank along a pavement.

[Dave]

The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.

[Meryl]

It is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day. A law brought about by Oliver Cromwell who considered it to be a Pagan ritual.

[Mel]

"My Adventures As A Spy" by Lord Baden Powell has a chapter on 'The Value of Being Stupid'.

[Dave]

Violet Jessop, “Miss Unsinkable,” survived the sinking of the sister ships the Titanic and the Britannic, and was also aboard the third of the trio of Olympic class vessels, the Olympic, when it had a major accident.

[boatbuilder]

Maybe her name was really Violent Jessop.

[Dave]

Maybe her name was really Violent Jessop.

Read about her life here, boatbuilder, it really makes for interesting reading.

[boatbuilder]

As you say, an interesting read, Dave.

I was only two lines into the second paragraph and straight away the old saying 'The luck of the Irish' came to mind.

[Mel]

2.4 million emails ping into inboxes every second around the world.

[Dave]

Harry Corbett, of Sooty fame, had a spell playing piano in the world famous Guiseley fish and chip restaurant owned by his mother's brother Harry Ramsden.

[boatbuilder]

The term 'Hat-trick' originates from 1858 when cricket fans held a collection for the cricketer H. H. Stephenson who took three wickets with three consecutive deliveries. and presented him with a hat bought with the proceeds.

[boatbuilder]

Booze is a hamlet in Arkengarthdale, in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire. Interestingly, it doesn't have a pub.