From: Graz on
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:19:41 +0100, " cupra"
<NOcupra.sSPAM(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Graz wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:07:20 -0700 (PDT), baggy1963
>> <stephenb91(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I nominate a sign at Junction 24 of the M62 on the A629 from
>>> Huddersfield.
>>>
>>> It is so old and faded and not illuminated at night.
>>>
>>> longitude 1.84718502083746
>>>
>>> latitude 53.68048644693039
>>
>> What does it say? "Here be Dragons"?
>
>Worse than that... "Here be Huddersfield"! ;)

Wasn't that the place that hanged a monkey for looking foreign not too
long ago?

From: Brimstone on
Graz wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:19:41 +0100, " cupra"
> <NOcupra.sSPAM(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Graz wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:07:20 -0700 (PDT), baggy1963
>>> <stephenb91(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I nominate a sign at Junction 24 of the M62 on the A629 from
>>>> Huddersfield.
>>>>
>>>> It is so old and faded and not illuminated at night.
>>>>
>>>> longitude 1.84718502083746
>>>>
>>>> latitude 53.68048644693039
>>>
>>> What does it say? "Here be Dragons"?
>>
>> Worse than that... "Here be Huddersfield"! ;)
>
> Wasn't that the place that hanged a monkey for looking foreign not too
> long ago?

That was Hartlepool, during the Napoleonic wars so no, not far away and not
long ago.


From: Peter Johnson on
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:30:22 GMT, graz(a)googlemail.com (Graz) wrote:


>Wasn't that the place that hanged a monkey for looking foreign not too
>long ago?

Hartlepool
From: DervMan on
"Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1iffus7.1wmagq111pjmtcN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk...
> baggy1963 <stephenb91(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I nominate a sign at Junction 24 of the M62 on the A629 from
>> Huddersfield.
>>
>> It is so old and faded and not illuminated at night.
>>
>> longitude 1.84718502083746
>>
>> latitude 53.68048644693039
>
> No one gives a toss.

LOL!

--
The DervMan
www.dervman.com


From: Graz on
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:03:35 +0100, "Brimstone"
<brimstone520-ng02(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>Graz wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:19:41 +0100, " cupra"
>> <NOcupra.sSPAM(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Graz wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:07:20 -0700 (PDT), baggy1963
>>>> <stephenb91(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I nominate a sign at Junction 24 of the M62 on the A629 from
>>>>> Huddersfield.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is so old and faded and not illuminated at night.
>>>>>
>>>>> longitude 1.84718502083746
>>>>>
>>>>> latitude 53.68048644693039
>>>>
>>>> What does it say? "Here be Dragons"?
>>>
>>> Worse than that... "Here be Huddersfield"! ;)
>>
>> Wasn't that the place that hanged a monkey for looking foreign not too
>> long ago?
>
>That was Hartlepool, during the Napoleonic wars so no, not far away and not
>long ago.

There you are, then. I knew it!

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