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Grantham wins most boring town award.

Post by Feck » Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:26 pm

News has leaked to local Press that Grantham is up for a boredom award in the Guardian newspapers worst places to live 2011 .

Local council officials are drafting a letter of complaint pointing out that Grantham is famous ,world wide , amongst Tractor historians .

http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/commun ... ic-notices
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Re: Grantham wins most boring town award.

Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:44 pm

Feck wrote:Tractor historians .
:funny: Well-known for their cutting-edge, vibrant personalities!
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Re: Grantham wins most boring town award.

Post by Geoff » Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:14 pm

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Feck wrote:Tractor historians .
:funny: Well-known for their cutting-edge, vibrant personalities!
As, indeed, is everyone from Grantham.

It says so on their CV's.
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Post by Berthold » Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:39 pm

I looked it up; seems a reasonably nice place.
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Post by Mr P » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:08 pm

Stockports biggest tourist attraction is the hat museum :ddpan:
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Post by Rum » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:25 pm

Come to Keswick (just down the road from us) and visit its world famous pencil museum! :ddpan:

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:28 pm

Tractor historian, a road I didn't take. :sigh:
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Post by Geoff » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:54 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Tractor historian, a road I didn't take. :sigh:
Yeah, you missed out on all the interesting stuff... :hehe:
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:46 pm

Wins? Retains, surely? :tea:
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Re: Grantham wins most boring town award.

Post by Lozzer » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:38 pm

OMG I LIVE THERE
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Re: Grantham wins most boring town award.

Post by Lozzer » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:39 pm

Feck wrote:News has leaked to local Press that Grantham is up for a boredom award in the Guardian newspapers worst places to live 2011 .

Local council officials are drafting a letter of complaint pointing out that Grantham is famous ,world wide , amongst Tractor historians .

http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/commun ... ic-notices
It actually has, you know. Twice. I'm not kidding.
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Post by devogue » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:40 pm

Lozzer wrote:OMG I LIVE THERE
No, you live here.
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Re: Grantham wins most boring town award.

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:12 pm

How can anyone say Grantham is boring when she who cannot be named originates there? :smoke:
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Re: Grantham wins most boring town award.

Post by Millefleur » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:13 pm

Tractors are interesting :shifty:
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Re: Grantham wins most boring town award.

Post by mistermack » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:45 pm

Pink Floyd did a great track.
Grantham watermeadow, or summat. It had a skylark singing in the background.
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