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
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 White. 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 and they would sit in judgment over the postcards and if you had one for example there's one of a girl talking to a bookie at a race course and she's saying I want to back the favourite please my sweetheart gave me a pound to do it both ways okay that's I think that's a good joke but Mrs. Gloria Swanson absolutely not banned and these kept going until the Isle of Man committee lasted until 1989 wow but then he got cancelled basically Yeah, he did.
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've 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 White you have to do 100,000 words of impact assessment 100,000 words, that's a novel that's a full novel and people are objecting aren't they because no one's got time to read that many words but why do we want.
No Such Thing As A Beaver Walking Backwards, 2024-09-19 · listen
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