Doncaster

About Doncaster
Doncaster is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the City of Doncaster metropolitan borough, and is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Noted for its racing and railway history, it is situated in the Don Valley on the western edge of the Humberhead Levels and east of the Pennines. It had a population of 87,455 at the 2021 census, whilst its built-up area had a population of 160,220, and the wider metropolitan borough had a population of 308,100.
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The guy who invented the handbag also invented butterscotch. He came from Doncaster.
from No Such Thing As An Apostle Called Scrotum, 2015-02-07 at 00:37:59 · read transcript
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I saw it on the Carl Pilkington. Idiot. Why should I? It's because you grew up in China. That handbag originally meant a bit of luggage for a man? The original handbags were for men. Yeah. Then it only became women's specific item in 1841, I think, didn't it? Yeah. It's really recent. Do you know who invented it? The guy who invented the handbag also invented Butterscotch. Samuel Parkinson. Samuel Parkinson.
46: No Such Thing As An Apostle Called Scrotum, 2015-02-07 · listen
Samuel Parkinson. Yeah. Wow. He invented it, didn't he? It is, isn't it? Yeah. It is cool. He came from Doncaster. It's from Doncaster. Done, Doncaster. What's that? What's that? It's from Doncaster. Done, him. Yeah, so he introduced handbags as a women's item, specific women's item, because before women only had those reticules, which are like those tiny drawstring bags that you could basically fit an earring in.
46: No Such Thing As An Apostle Called Scrotum, 2015-02-07 · listen
Merry Christmas and have a happy new year. This is a very unfortunate moment. I should say that while obviously it's a, it's in theory a hilarious cock up, this caused chaos. Yeah. This caused horrible, horrible moments for people in Doncaster and the center of which the texts went out from. There's about 8,000 people sign there. This was their mailing list basically through text messaging. Some of them had had tests.
472: No Such Thing As A Giant Otter In H&M, 2023-03-31 · listen
I think some people were going to shelters and... The guy who had sent the message had done it before as well. I think it was his second offense. Twice before he'd mistook. He's like, it's okay. I'm just going to move to Doncaster. We'll ever have this problem again. Witness protection. Oh. What happened with that was that a call had came in to do a test for a missile launch.
No Such Thing As A Giant Otter In H&M, 2023-03-30 · listen
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