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Liverpool/leeds Canal

127 miles long

 

the longest single canal in britain

 

took 46 years to build

 

and in todays money cost 4 billion to build

 

JSL

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And what for, so shitheads from Platt Bridge can walk up and down drinking Stella or a handful of bargewankers can churn it up?

A duck's quack does echo.

 

Just thought I'd throw that in before anyone else said that they don't.

All crisps sell by dates land on a Saturday.

 

Alligators can't walk backwards.

 

If you wank upside down you can spunk in your own face.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle

 

Elephants can't jump, every other mammal can

 

If I wank upside down, I can spunk in Gonzo's face if he's near enough

All fishermen call it "The Leeds,Liverpool canal"

 

One of the funniest things I ever heard was fishing a match on said canal.

 

 

Dave Burgum {Blosh)   "Have you had owt"

 

Me                                "About 3oz"

 

Blosh                            "Mainly small stuff then?"

 

 

 

Granted you need to be an Angler too find it funny but it had me in stiches.

Never a '&' was called an ampersand till they opened a club called & in poulton.

127 miles long

 

the longest single canal in britain

 

took 46 years to build

 

and in todays money cost 4 billion to build

 

JSL

 

127 miles in 46 years?

Fuck, that's slow. (40 feet per day)

 

Who built it? Bolton Council?

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Blackmen/women can't swim

 

If i wank off an upside down Gonzo he will spunk in his own eye

127 miles in 46 years?

Fuck, that's slow. (40 feet per day)

 

Who built it? Bolton Council?

 

 

Fuck me I am glad you're not my gaffer, seems pretty good going too me.

I had a wander down there yesterday with the Dog, some of the prices that narrowboats go for are ridiculous. One was for sale for 25k, it looked ready for the scrap yard.

That's the sort of fact that leigh white would have woken up to inform us in the car yesterday before going back to sleep.

There was a programme about the L&L Canal on TV in the last few weeks.

 

And Wiki..... tells the story.

 

Essentially the subscribed money ran out, and, due to the War of the American Colonies, there were no public funds available, so building halted for 10 years.

 

Both Horwich and Leigh feature in the story.

 

Its purpose was comparable to that creating the M62.

 

And its timeline should be compared to that for HS2.

I worked with a bloke years ago who lived on 1 of those barge thingy's and he got back 1 Saturday night pissed and missed his footing and the poor bastard drowned

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fucking brilliant for getting in the running miles for my annual half marathon. In Spring and Summer We regularly drive to Foulridge then run for 5-6 miles towards skipton before turning back, brilliant countryside and not a lager drinking chav to be seen.

 

I think its an immense piece of engineering and love the stories of the hard drinking, fighting navvies descending on the unsuspecting country folk as the canal construction neared em. Reminds me of many a bolton invasion of the 70's and 80's.

Blackmen/women can't swim

 

I thought it was that they can swim, they just can't float.

 

Some knobhead I used to work with reckoned you never see black milkmen.

I thought it was that they can swim, they just can't float.

 

Some knobhead I used to work with reckoned you never see black milkmen.

To be fair, I'm not sure I've ever seen one

Ha ha

 

Neither have I

 

It must be true?

Some knobhead I used to work with reckoned you never see black milkmen.

Or a homeless Chinese person.

 

Or a pregnant Chinese person.

Not your local milkman per se but Medina dairies is owned by an Asian family. They deliver the milk to my local shop

Not your local milkman per se but Medina dairies is owned by an Asian family. They deliver the milk to my local shop

 

Is it halal milk?

A duck's quack does echo.

 

Just thought I'd throw that in before anyone else said that they don't.

 

Truth.

 

Just the shape of the sound wave makes the echo inaudible from the actual quack itself.

Look on 4 on Demand or whatever it is called - Baldrick walked the canal from Liverpool to Wigan. Not brilliant, but some interesting bits. Was on about 3 weeks ago

Look on 4 on Demand or whatever it is called - Baldrick walked the canal from Liverpool to Wigan. Not brilliant, but some interesting bits. Was on about 3 weeks ago

and Sunday night

Or a homeless Chinese person.

Or a pregnant Chinese person.

Or baby pigeons

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