Today is the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.
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Is it not the 22nd year?
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Billy Wright had only been executed the week before
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Phil Lynott died this day 36 years ago, aged 36
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Yes I remember my father showing my the bit in a book he got in the library about the French fellow who was executed in fairly extensive detail. It was ghastly. I think it was a book about a family of French executioners.
It beggars belief.
Sure that was the way things were in those days.
Not as bad as that. I made the mistake of looking it up on Wikipedia. I’d recommend you don’t.
progress be damned , the ripper should have got what the poor french lad got over a 100 years earlier …
I’ll see your bull and raise you
sadly i believe scaphism is still used on occasion by the rnli art
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Saturday January 8th, 1994
John Part makes history against broken back stricken Bobby George in Sid Waddell’s final appearance on the BBC
Saturday January 8th, 2000
The Munster phenomenon begins for real
Munster 31 Saracens 30
Shows you the appeal of darts even back then.
They had Rowdy Roddy Piper and Rick Rude in the studio pre match discussing it.
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Elvis Presley and David Bowie were born.
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One ateing chocolate, one having a shit, and maeve binchy has a dolly on her rifle