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Pink Paisley Started conversation May 13, 2001
if it was possible to start a thread that nobody felt the need to respond to?
PP
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a girl called Ben Posted May 13, 2001
Agree with Ottox here - H2G2ers are among the gabbiest people on the planet - always quizzing each other and replying with a quick quip or quiet quote.
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NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) Posted May 14, 2001
Me neither.
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Xordin the curious Posted May 14, 2001
it's amazing how easy it is to agree with ppl who aren't saying anything
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SPINY (aka Ship's Cook) Posted May 14, 2001
SUIPPORT: a once prosperous fishing town on the east coast of Scotland. Initially a small but lively fishing harbour known as Burzeye, the town was propelled to fame in the 1890s when a Swiss trading vessel carrying gentlemen's wristwatches was wrecked in a storm near the harbour entrance. Newspaper reports of the time alluded to the captain's failing to wind the ship's chronometer and thus failing to calculate longitude accurately. "In fog the town looked just like Lucerne" he said at his trial.
Hearing of the spilt cargo, the fishermen of Burzeye immediately set sail to recover the watches from the relatively shallow waters. For many years thereafter, it was well known that if a gentleman desired a wristwatch, they were to be had at remarkable prices in the taverns of Burzeye and surrounding area, and because of the country of origin of the watches, the town becane known as Swissport. In the local dialect, this became Suipport, and in response to a campaign to attract business to the area, the local Council passed a motion to rename the town in 1913.
Although prosperous through two world wars, the town was hit hard by the emergence of the digital watch in the 1970's, and is now mostly known for its appearance in a grittily realistic Ken Loach film about two unemployed families.
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- 1: Pink Paisley (May 13, 2001)
- 2: Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.) (May 13, 2001)
- 3: Pink Paisley (May 13, 2001)
- 4: Ottox (May 13, 2001)
- 5: a girl called Ben (May 13, 2001)
- 6: Pink Paisley (May 13, 2001)
- 7: Pink Paisley (May 13, 2001)
- 8: a girl called Ben (May 13, 2001)
- 9: Pink Paisley (May 13, 2001)
- 10: Xordin the curious (May 13, 2001)
- 11: NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) (May 14, 2001)
- 12: Xordin the curious (May 14, 2001)
- 13: SPINY (aka Ship's Cook) (May 14, 2001)
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