Staffordshire

Other times Staffordshire came up

1. Of course, as we said before, he was named after a place, a place where his parents met, Rodger Lake. Also quite an interesting place because that was a massive tourist attraction. That's a lake in Staffordshire. I discovered that as well as being the reason that Rudyard's called Rudyard. It was also the place where the African blonde in, as he called himself, a guy called Carlos Trower, in 1864, walked a tightrope 100 feet up above the lake.

   No Such Thing As A Squiggly Pineapple, 2021-03-05 · listen ⏱ 00:25:16

2. OK, about because Blondin also cooked in his walks as well, didn't he? He's a total tribute act. That's really cool. He's a tribute act, but over a Lake Staffordshire as opposed to over Niagara Falls, which I don't know, I really like Staffordshire as a county, but I'm not sure it has quite the same gravitas. But if you're a tribute band, you don't play the O2.

   363: No Such Thing As A Squiggly Pineapple, 2021-03-05 · listen ⏱ 00:25:26

3. They did it under a shell company. They only admitted to it in 1902, because it was such a shameful thing to have invented. Oh, I met someone who worked for Dalton, the porcelain company in Staffordshire. I asked the party and I said, oh, was it a picturing he did Staffordshire dogs or something, they go mantle pieces, you know, nice little sort of ornamental things. I said, what sort of things do you specialize in?

   244: No Such Thing As A Fishman, 2018-11-23 · listen ⏱ 00:07:53