Isle of Wight
About Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is an island off the south coast of England which, together with its surrounding uninhabited islets and skerries, is also a ceremonial county. The county is bordered by Hampshire across the Solent strait to the north, and is otherwise surrounded by the English Channel. Its largest settlement is Ryde, and the administrative centre is Newport.
On the show — 35 mentions total
There was someone recently on the Isle of Wight who brought back a lovely old fossil from the beach and caused the entire resort to be evacuated because it was an old hand grenade.
from 558: No Such Thing As A Boomerang Shaped Spaceship, 2024-11-21 at 00:05:33 · read transcript
Other times Isle of Wight came up
There was trouble because there were CC side censorship boards which assessed the sauciness of the postcards and banned them if they were too rude. There was a blackpool board that you had to submit all your postcards to before they could go on sale. There was another on the Isle of Wight. The members were things like there was a solicitor, a vicar, a bank manager, and Mrs. Gloria Swanson of the Blackpool Hotel and Boarding House Association.
411: No Such Thing As Cristiano Ronaldo Eating Pistachios, 2022-01-28 · listen
Moment I've got a dinosaur naming story um which is that it was a couple of years ago a new species completely new species of pterosaur has been named after a nine-year-old girl who found the fossilized bones on a beach in the Isle of Wight um and the species is called uh Vector Draco which means pterosaur means dragon from the Isle of Wight um and the second word is Daisy Morrisay because her name is Daisy Morris and so she's a nine-year-old girl.
97: No Such Thing As Andrew Diplodocus Carnegie, 2016-01-22 · listen
And so I read an interview as well with a guy called Simon. Basically, it takes a lot of time and paperwork to release a beaver outside an enclosure. You need to do an impact assessment. Sometimes, on the Isle of Wight, you have to do 100,000 words of impact assessment. 100,000 words, that's a novel, that's a full novel. Yeah. People are objecting, aren't they? Because no one's got time to read that many words.
549: No Such Thing As A Beaver Walking Backwards, 2024-09-19 · listen
Then someone else in America wrote that if a woman's body accelerated past 50 miles an hour, then her uterus would go shooting out of her body. That's the plot of speed three. You'll never look at Sandra Bullock the same way again. When trains first got to the Isle of Wight, well, they were taken to the Isle of Wight, obviously. It wasn't like a rogue train, which... Went off the rails.
89: No Such Thing As Utah Fried Chicken, 2015-11-27 · listen
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