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Forum: Questions and Answers 07-11-2012, 15:36

Replies: 18 Greatest Lancastrian? Views: 1,161 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: Greatest Lancastrian? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LfM5UBZvjz0/UJoOvKvntPI/AAAAAAAAAEM/1rYxb5bOgok/s1600/results+at+400+votes.jpg After 400 votes, Fred Dibnah has taken a commanding lead in the Greatest Lancastrian poll....

Forum: Questions and Answers 28-10-2012, 11:35

Replies: 20 Holland's Pies Vans Views: 1,014 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: Holland's Pies Vans This is a great idea - a bit like the Virgin Vans that are named after err... Vans (ie Van Hesling, Van Morrison etc).

Forum: Questions and Answers 27-10-2012, 11:23

Replies: 18 Greatest Lancastrian? Views: 1,161 Posted By DerekJRipley Greatest Lancastrian? An online poll to find the Greatest Lancastrian (http://www.forgottenlancashire.co.uk/greatest-lancastrians.php) seems to suggest a strong Wigan influence... who gets your vote? Personally, I...

Forum: General Chat 04-09-2012, 18:05

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White Thank you for your kind comments, garinda. It makes all the effort of the last six months worthwhile to find someone with a similar sense of humour. All we need to do now is find a few hundred more...

Forum: Questions and Answers 04-09-2012, 02:57

Replies: 763 Bookworms: What are you reading at the moment? Views: 51,539 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: Bookworms: What are you reading at the moment? Just started Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith. First read it 30 years ago so looking forward to reacquainting.

Forum: Lost Friends / Family 02-09-2012, 12:08

Replies: 2 Nigel Robinson Views: 630 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: Nigel Robinson Could you ask him to make contact? Haven't seen him in 15 years!

Forum: General Chat 01-09-2012, 17:15

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White Yes -it's a wonder the press don't do a bit more digging before they print their articles, garinda. And as for being rumbled, Boeing Guy, I'm afraid a gentleman in Germany got there before you and...

Forum: General Chat 01-09-2012, 08:27

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White And still very popular in Italy too, mobertol... Accademia della Trippa | Tripe Academy | Siti ufficialmente riconosciuti (http://accademiadellatrippa.com/siti_riconosciuti.php) Anyway, I could...

Forum: General Chat 01-09-2012, 08:24

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White Perhaps you can collaborate with me on Vol II of Forgotten Lancashire, garinda? In the Blunt archives I found an awful lot of material about the Wigan School of Home Economics, so I was able to...

Forum: General Chat 01-09-2012, 08:13

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White Lady Gaga as a poster girl for tripe? That would be fantastic!

Forum: General Chat 01-09-2012, 08:09

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White According to my own research, Boeing Guy, that Bill Blunt chap has been in the pay of the Tripe Marketing Board for at least 5 years...

Forum: General Chat 01-09-2012, 06:23

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White Of course, there's a long tradition of making dresses out of tripe in the north west, garinda. During the war when fabrics were scarce, women would make clothes from tripe and throughout...

Forum: Introduce Yourself 01-09-2012, 06:18

Replies: 5 It's Been A While Views: 533 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: It's Been A While Thanks for the warm welcome, jaysay and garinda. And for helping me track down Peter on the other thread.

Forum: General Chat 31-08-2012, 22:30

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White Indeed! :D

Forum: General Chat 31-08-2012, 22:26

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White As folk may already know, the county boundary has fluctuated throughout history, particularly and most dramatically during the Wars of the Roses when the residents of Leeds or Manchester could find...

Forum: General Chat 31-08-2012, 22:17

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White Honesty is the best policy. Unless you're trying to sell tripe, in which case you have to bleach it and dress it, otherwise most folk would turn their noses up at it!

Forum: General Chat 31-08-2012, 22:12

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White It is definitely a Christmas present type book. A friend told me she was buying one for a mate of hers who hated local history books, just so she could see his face when he opened it. I wish I knew...

Forum: General Chat 31-08-2012, 22:09

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White I hope you enjoy it. I think it's a profound new addition to the cannon of local history of Lancashire. I just wish people would take it more seriously.

Forum: General Chat 31-08-2012, 22:07

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White You are very kind and thank you. The budget is actually £0. (And you haven't seen anything yet!) Wait until you see my next book, The Lost Films of 20th Century Spatchcock, which is due out in...

Forum: General Chat 31-08-2012, 21:50

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White I don't think the TMB intends to deceive. They exist to increase sales of tripe by making people laugh (a bit like Marmite). The only deception has probably been me - I was led to believe they...

Forum: General Chat 31-08-2012, 21:42

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White :d

Forum: General Chat 31-08-2012, 21:39

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White Indeed. My PhD in Library Studies was hard won!

Forum: General Chat 31-08-2012, 21:38

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White It's a free country, davemac, so folk can say what they like. It's only a book, after all. Some people find it funny. Others won't like it. A bit like tripe really.

Forum: General Chat 31-08-2012, 21:35

Replies: 99 The Men In White Views: 2,362 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: The Men In White Yes, the men from the TMB told me they could only find one tripe stall in the whole of Accrington, which is a bit of a shame. And yes, it was the one you mention, davemac. But they did say sales...

Forum: Lost Friends / Family 31-08-2012, 16:43

Replies: 3 Peter Rawcliffe Views: 830 Posted By DerekJRipley Re: Peter Rawcliffe A nice bit of detective work there, Accybill - that's the fellow and he's nearer my own neck of the woods after all! It was misinformation that he was from Accrington - I think he had appeared on a...

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