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Most of you have probably never heard of Tamworth, let alone been, but it was important once. The capital of Mercia, the home of the Reliant car company, and the home of Sir Robert Peel who invented the police.
I was on the local newspaper's website doing a little research on my below story where I noticed the news section is chock full of candidates for the sadly defunct Not News Story Of The Day featurette.
The main story today is 'New Vicar Appointed', and the other stories on the front page are 'Mercian lady Aethelflaed to be honoured', 'World record tea-drinking attempt in Tamworth today', 'Line dancing extravaganza returns to Tamworth Castle Grounds', and 'Appeal after PCSO* is pushed off his bike'.
It really hots up on page two with 'Famous battle re-enacted on Heritage Day' and 'New car delight for St Giles' raffle winner'.
Tamworth made the national news recently when it was named the fattest town in Britain.
*Police Community Support Officer.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: he fattest town in Britain
And if you moved, would it change?
speramus in juniperus
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I don't live there, horrible place. The drove the A5 straight through the middle of the place a few years ago, the road really could do with curtains along the side so you cannot see in.
Many years ago I worked for a while with a Scot who had moved there, he told me it was full of dossers and chip-eaters and added "I know this because I'm turning into one".
The obesity story was in the Daily Fail, and it was a hideous piece of supposed journalism, written like an explorer of olde reporting back to their friends about the strange tribe they'd encountered on their travels.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Tamworth also played an important role in the history of bacon with the Tamworth breed being created by Peel too, it is one of the oldest of pig breeds, and sometimes called a bacon pig because it is able to achieve high body mass without much actual fat.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: it is one of the oldest of pig breeds, and sometimes called a bacon pig because it is able to achieve high body mass without much actual fat.
One of the earliest experiments in gene therapy. Human genes were introduced into pigs and they got thinner. Pig genes were introduced into Tamworth humans and they got fatter! 
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pwasser wrote: Sure - The Country Music Capital of Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamworth,_New_South_Wales[^]
Thanks Peter, saved me from finding and posting links to correct the Pommy git.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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A pale imitation, named after the real Tamworth just because it was on the Peel river which had already been named after Sir Robert.
I did find this interesting though;
Quote: The city is known as the "First City of Lights", being the first place in Australia to use electric street lights in 1988
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I've been there half a dozen times to visit Drayton Manor Theme Park at Sir Robert's old gaff - it's quite good and not as busy as Alton Towers.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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What about the little piggies that made a bolt for freedom? Don't they have an annual commemoration parade for the Bacon On The Run Duo?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Dunno about that, but some cows were able to evade the combined might of the British police and army for quite a while back in the late 90s.
The Hopwas 9[^]
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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For those that don't know about them The Tamworth Two[^] were famous in the late 90's. I thought they were from Tamworth but I stand corrected, the little piggies were fully paid-up members of the Tamworth breed.
I loved their names, Butch and Sundance; the stuff that legendary bacon sandwiches are made from except that these two survived the frying pan or grill.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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ChrisElston wrote: Mercia
Sure... isn't that the place where Arthur got his coconuts from?
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ThePhantomUpvoter wrote: Sure... isn't that the place where Arthur got his coconuts from?
Don't be daft. He had them delivered by air mail, and there were no flights from Mercia to Camelot.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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ChrisElston wrote: sadly defunct Not News Story Of The Day featurette.
Now that I'm no longer in South Tyneside:
The Durham Advertiser[^]
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Love this[^]
Quote: IT'S an iconic symbol of the North-East, but what would happen to the Angel of the North if civilisation ended?
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Is Tamworth anything like Luton?
Did it make it into the Top 20 Ugliest Towns in the UK?
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The best onions I ever ate were grown in a mate's garden in Tamworth.
Spicy, peppery, and hot hot hot. Bluddy yummy.
That should go in the paper.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A few months ago my missus found a bloke advertising somewhere to come and sort out our unruly garden. He's been round a couple of times, sorted it out the first time and a few other light maintenance visits.
She wanted him round again this week as it is my daughter's 8th birthday on Saturday and the patio is a little overgrown and some of the bushes need cutting back but has been unable to get hold of him. So today she phoned someone who she knew knew him.
Turns out he is in prison for having sex with a 15 year old girl.
Looks like I've got a patio to de-weed and a load of bushes to trim back this week.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Well stop faffing about on-line and get on with it!
[serious]
A local man has just been sent down for indecent assault[^] on some boys. The worse part is the story goes back more than twenty years and the church tried to prevent the story getting out. Yesterday there was a letter from the Bishop apologising to the congregation over the whole sorry affair.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Well stop faffing about on-line and get on with it!
Some of us still have actual paid jobs to do turn up at.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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A Gardener whose not keen on a bush. Who would have thought it.
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I knew there was a joke in there waiting to come out, but I just couldn't pull it off. Thank you.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: but I just couldn't pull it off.
Sprained wrist?
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Did it better[^] 
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