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Women's Institute

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The first president of the UK's Women's Institute used a frying pan as a whip, wore an entire stuffed owl on her head, and officially named the city of Canberra.

from No Such Thing As A Boy Called Blclintn, 2016-08-12 at 00:18:01 ยท read transcript

Other times Women's Institute came up

  1. Someone else came up with the idea, but she was the one who chose it. She was the official name. Did you know that Australia had a King O'Malley? It was in 1911, there was a competition to design the new capital. They were going with the working title, Federal Capital City. Then two years later, King decided to suggest people in Parliament put forward names for it.

    126: No Such Thing As A Boy Called Blclintn, 2016-08-12 ยท listen

  2. No, but there were 17 herders, and they were all posing in the altogether to raise money for the Ken Gorms Mountain Rescue Team. Do we approve of this? Like, I don't mind that group of, what were they, Women's Institute, people doing it the first time. You've repeatedly turned down my idea, James, for a fish nude calendar where we're all hiding behind facts This trend of people doing this?

    No Such Thing As A Reindeer Stockbroker, 2024-01-25 ยท listen

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