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Town criers still exist?

Andy Pinchock

I learnt in a mk2 Clio diesel, also difficult to stall. My driving instructor was extremely loud, angry, sweary and nervy. He'd frequently grab the wheel and slam on the brakes for reasons unknown. We'd come to a stop in the middle of the road for a quick bollocking, with traffic queuing up behind us. I remember some girls at school would come in after a lesson in tears. I looked him up recently and found out that he's now retired, and is currently the town crier.

Ben Oliver

Good find. Those boots!

Zoona

https://youtu.be/LjiiayrKiuk Woollard woollarding whilst sitting in a C5

Stephen Cooper

Currently listening to the podcast which mentions the Skoda cake advert, I gave an audio clip on my phone of my dog Elmo singing along to this advert on local radio, I’d love to it with you but unsure how ? Thanks for your joyous podcasts that keep me sane.

Peter Stevenson

You’re not allowed to reverse on the motorway and you’d probably get told to stop on fast dual carriageways. I reckon you’d need to stick to minor roads for the reverse challenge. What are the odds that South African guy who was trying to get cruise control to work in reverse will actually do it?

Tim C

Re Cher - The ship is USS Missouri - a proper "old school fuck off" battleship. last fought in the gulf war I believe

Matthew Aves

Smith and Sniff's Premium Goosefat - "It'll do that all day" should at the very least be on a mug at some point.

Brendan McAleer

How about the McLaren 540C? That's five hundred and fourty times the speed of light (299,792,458 m/s), which is 161,887,927,320. Bit more than a purpley-pink Morris Minor.

Tim Foster

oh, thanks patreon for hiding previous comments saying the same thing. Still, I agree with them too :)

Tim Foster

The Saab 9000 is a great car, yes. But is it better than a Morris Minor Million? No. Thought not.

Tim Foster

Good call. I still don’t understand what possessed them to choose lilac though. Perhaps it was the 15th drink of the morning?

Martin Laver

Whipsnade Zoo is right on the top of the Dunstable Downs, and is up a very steep climb. I used to regularly drive a little Sunday bus service from Aylesbury to Whipsnade which involved climbing the road that passed Ivinghoe Beacon. It was a strain going up forwards, let alone in high revving reverse. On an entirely useless piece of trivia them, Pam St.Clement (Pat Butcher in EastEnders) opened the Lookout Lodge at Whipsnade, and I believe some other enclosures years ago.

John Hammond

The 1007 is proof that they were wrong.

John Hammond

Peter Viney

Re. High badge numbers and the Saab 9000, how did Rich, with his published tomes, forget the Morris 1,000,000?

Richard Giles

It still makes me upset that the army were brought in to potentially shoot Digby. I am 49.

MarkWilliams

"Cable tie through a puffy pillow" That's an image ;)

Nigel Hancock

Bloody hell I remember going to see "Digby the biggest dog in the world" in Bristol when it first came out. I would have been 8

Nigel Hancock