Ypres
About Ypres
Ypres is a Belgian city and municipality in the province of West Flanders. Though the Dutch name Ieper is the official one, the city's French name Ypres is most commonly used in English. The municipality comprises the city of Ypres/Ieper and the villages of Boezinge, Brielen, Dikkebus, Elverdinge, Hollebeke, Sint-Jan, Vlamertinge, Voormezele, Zillebeke, and Zuidschote. Together, they are home to about 34,900 inhabitants.
On the show — 4 mentions total
Just around Ypres, they got 160 tons of metal, which is enough to fill five large lorries, all First World War stuff.
from 201: No Such Thing As Lobsters At The Lobster Festival, 2018-01-27 at 00:36:33 · read transcript
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He's like I don't want to talk about that I want to talk about my Nobel Prize winning work because his wife Clara was a chemist as well and they had a huge dispute after the, I think the first battle of Ypres where poison gas was used for the first time and killed thousands.
526: No Such Thing As An Angry Banana, 2024-04-11 · listen
It's, yeah, it's traveling around the country, but it was very satirical. Loads of... It was, well, it was wipers times, wasn't it? Because it was Ypres. It was a miscalculation of Ypres. It was them trying to have a laugh. Oh, I think funny. In the face of real horror, it was... The flamenverphers, the flamethrowers that the German troops were using, were caused, you know, horrible, horrific disfigurement and injury and death.
140: No Such Thing As Books For Pirate-Children, 2016-11-19 · listen
Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fought in that war and survived would have all had that same experience, and we don't talk about it. Was the wiper's times, was that? That's a good point. That wasn't signed for... It wasn't, no. It's just a classic Tommy mispronunciation of Ypres. Oh, it's not, did you think that? I thought you would read it and then wipe your butt with it. That'd be a full amie, as they say, but a very happy one, yes.
244: No Such Thing As A Fishman, 2018-11-23 · listen
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