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Whilst looking into motorway construction, I looked at this song.

The speed at which ground can be covered with a vehicle nowadays is remarkable.

I've learned 'The vagrants' and casual workers' ward of a workhouse was colloquially known as a spike, from the tool used to unpick oakum.'

Alas, I didn't see the Smith and Jones sketch, but I did see them in a sharpe comedy.

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Charles John Huffam Dickens

An unnamed writer (January 1849):
"Mr Dickens, as if in revenge for his own queer name, does bestow still queerer ones upon his fictitious creations."

Some people are quite creative when thinking up agreeable online names.
Mine was a split decision.

PS The JJB stadium has been stripped of its initial oval name plaques today (Wednesday).

I am now duly waiting to see them wheel in the new name plaques.