Odd factoids

[Dave7]

The name Gascoine (or Gasgoyne etc) is an anciunt Norse one..... 13C approximately.
Wealthy people had piped gas in thier hovels and of course they had meters. Meters were fed with Groats (the coin of the realm).
To ensure none of those wealthy people lost thier supply through not having change the gas company had men walking the streets with plenty of Groats.
People would send the children out to "look for the gas coin man". As with all such jobs eg Smithy Gascoin became a recognised surname.
So......any Gascoins out there....you now know what job your anscestor did.

 

[david k]

I no you’re getting confused, he started so he will finish....Chris Gascogne is the son of bamber

There's a bridge named after him near Wigan, cannot remember its name

 

[david k]

Its true that.
I know because I once watched a true life documentary on the subject. It was called Airplane and a guy called Leslie Nielson was in it.

But they have blow up pilots if both get ill

 

[NorthernDave]

Former Leeds United, Newcastle and England midfielder David Batty is the youngest son of Wally and Nora Batty, from Last of the Summer Wine.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The dark side of the moon is not in fact dark. It does have day and night and should more accurately be called the far side. It is the side of the moon that cannot be seen from Earth.

 

[Dave7]

NASA has just intercepted a Martian message saying "we have detected strange signs of life in a place called Westminster. It is a place on the dark side of the earth. The rest of planet earth seems quite normal".

 

[roadrash]

There's a bridge named after him near Wigan, cannot remember its name

its closer to preston than wigan , its only 3 miles from preston

 

[david k]

its closer to preston than wigan , its only 3 miles from preston

Gascoin bridge near Preston that's right I remember now

 

[david k]

107% of the Worlds Pies are eaten in Wigan

The other 13% falls down the front of their top

 

[roadrash]

107% of the Worlds Pies are eaten in

our house

 

[Drago]

President Trump is an active member of cyclechat. For National Security reasons his user name is a pseudonym.

 

[classic33]

our house

Where madness were, an equal distance from either end. And the two cat's in the yard made certain you knew weren't on Easy Street. Or Quality Street for that matter.

 

[classic33]

An ancestor of Donald Trump went through the paperwork of Nikola Teslar after his(Tesla') death and reported back that there was little that would be of a viable nature amongst any of his work.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

our house

Is a song by Madness.

 

[Drago]

Madness the band were sued by the mental health charity MIND as they weren't really mad at all.