matthewcr

O tempura!

JOHN BLACKLOCK, who was fined ten shillings for driving a motor car round Newcastle too quickly, pleaded that he could not be doing so, as his passenger was a giantess.

The answer: giantess. From the limited pool of entries I think I have to give the point to Neil.

JOHN BLACKLOCK, who was fined ten shillings for driving a motor car round Newcastle too quickly, pleaded that he could not be doing so, as his passenger was a BLANK (word redacted)

Who wants to play historical blankety-blank? From the Music Hall & Theatre Review, 27 December 1907. Give me your one best guess

Mind you having a globe in your study to spin around (and stash a single malt in) was pretty godlike

I chose where to go on holiday once by tootling over the Alps in a flight simulator and looking for the sickest and raddest scenery

yikes, get well soon

Guy Montgomery's Spelling Bee is funny, silly stuff (full episodes up on youtube)

Hooray

Twenty years ago today I'd have been having a cup of tea and wondering why I'd travelled up to Birmingham to watch what might be five minutes of cricket on day 4 of the second Ashes test

Three urban pigeons by a pile of cigarette butts, pecking at around a one fifth section of a large round pizza

Glory be to God for dappled things

Bottle of green hot sauce. Label reads: The famous Marie Sharp's Proud products of Belize Nopal green habanero pepper sauce

Top notch sauce from Belize, contains cactus apparently. The red sauce is great too

Am booked in for quiz again on 19/08 if anyone is keen.

Intercontinental ballistic pillows

So either one book per week, or one book for every playing card

And is that a button that looks like an eye?

Thomas ruggles pynchon

Ombuds and upbuds

I've had one of these in a tube carriage, it was quite a scene

I haven't really looked at any of these in years. Going to rectify that now.

4 of them in fact, including the last word

Robert Browning stuck a 'zooks' in Fra Lippo Lippi

Summary from IMDb: Ashes (Short 1930) Futuristic story about a slow moving cricket match that begins in 1940 (ten years beyond the year when the film was produced) and finally finishes in 2000.

curious about this niche and I expect long lost piece of cinema.

Funny lot have a place to see ducks in London? (3,4)

Pope reviewed that dismissal like a guilty dog standing in the mess of a ripped up sofa

Two footballers facing off in the sunshine with the towers at canary wharf in the background

3-1 FT, some good goals and a bit of sunshine.

Sign in front of a football pitch saying NO PHOTOGRAPHY NO FILM'NG

First game of the season, Fisher v Camberley Town in the FA cup

No problem. Would like to come again on the 19th if there's space

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