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BrianW said:
In the Middle Ages, no minstrel or musician could ply his trade in the County Palatine of Chester without a licence from the Dutton family. A special licensing court was held in Chester each year on the Feast of St John the Baptist. The last such court was held in 1756.

(A County Palatine was, in effect, a separate state from England with its own local courts and customs. There were no extradition treaties, so if you committed a crime in (say) Staffordshire and fled into Cheshire, the Staffordshire people could not touch you. Medieval Cheshire was a bit like the Wild West.)
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Tried Bollington lately?
Not much change since then.
 
It takes 5 cans of Stella to top up one’s pissed up state after a serious night camping with the lads in Killin, Scotland. Up the fuckin Blues!
Glazers staying ten more years…
 
bluebaja said:
A quick scam warning, one I wasn't aware of. I went into my e mail account earlier on (talktalk) and I had almost 2000 (two thousand) e mails. All responses from companies that I had apparently requested information from. Couldn't think of anything else to do but delete them. I can only delete 50 at a time so it took a while to do. When I got to the last 50 I looked at them just so I didn't delete the ones that were genuine. Lo and behold there was an e mail from my credit card company asking me to call them as I had allegedly changed my mobile number and log in details. I called them and it appears some scammer had changed my details on my credit card and had attempted to transfer my CC balance to a bank account. Having looked into it in the last half hour, it appears that what the scammers do is flood your e mail account hoping that you will delete ALL e mails so not see the one from your credit card company until it is too late. As I say, this is a new one to me so heads up Blues...
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Update...have now had to abandon the email address I have had for 15 years. Total number of emails received in less than 24 hours now stands at over 13,000 !
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
Absolutely true...
Irishman Anthony Clancy was born on the 7th day of the 7th month in the 7th year of that century. He was the 7th child of a 7th child and had 7 brothers.
On his 27th birthday he placed a bet on a horse called Seventh Heaven running in the 7th race on the card. The odds were 7-1 and the horse has a 7 stone handicap.
He wagered 7 shillings, but lost...the horse finished 7th.
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Idiot.

Obviously should have bet on it finishing 7th!!
 
bluebaja said:
A quick scam warning, one I wasn't aware of. I went into my e mail account earlier on (talktalk) and I had almost 2000 (two thousand) e mails. All responses from companies that I had apparently requested information from. Couldn't think of anything else to do but delete them. I can only delete 50 at a time so it took a while to do. When I got to the last 50 I looked at them just so I didn't delete the ones that were genuine. Lo and behold there was an e mail from my credit card company asking me to call them as I had allegedly changed my mobile number and log in details. I called them and it appears some scammer had changed my details on my credit card and had attempted to transfer my CC balance to a bank account. Having looked into it in the last half hour, it appears that what the scammers do is flood your e mail account hoping that you will delete ALL e mails so not see the one from your credit card company until it is too late. As I say, this is a new one to me so heads up Blues...
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Fucking hell.
What next.
 
The Velocette Venom was a 499 cc single-cylinder four-stroke British motorcycle. A total of 5,721 machines were produced between 1955 and 1970.

In 1961 a factory-prepared Velocette Venom and a team of riders set the 24-hour world record at a speed of 100.05 mph (161.01 km/h) at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry, a banked oval racetrack in France. It was the first motorcycle to average over 100 mph continuously for 24 hours and no 500cc or single-cylinder motorcycle has broken this record.

What a beauty !

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No team from the capital of France, Germany or Italy have won the European Cup/ Champions League.
 
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