Posts for the 19th September 2003 (2 entries)

Talk Like A Pirate Day

19th September 2003, lunch time | Comments (5)

So, it’s TLAPD today. It’s also the day Becky and I realised we hadn’t written each other poems for ages. A little scratching of the head over dinner and this was produced in honour of both occasions…

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The Great Antonio

19th September 2003, lunch time | Comments (2)

The Daily Telegraph always has interesting obituries:

Anton Barichievich, otherwise known as “the Great Antonio”, who has died aged 77, earned two entries in the Guinness Book of Records, first in 1952 when he pulled a 433-tonne train along the tracks for 19.8 metres, and secondly in 1960 when he pulled four buses loaded with passengers along St Catherine Street, Montreal…

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