Sharpeset
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I was in Tesco this morning, and there was Doctor Who magazine....right Doctor, wrong story!
Anyhoo....
One British senior football club has a letter in it's name which no other has. Which Club?
Crewe Alexandra?
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As FTF'ers of the cache in question, I say keep it! Not only is it a good puzzle, but the location of the cache merits the effort and the walk. I doubt the ammo can is at risk from passing muggles....
Cheers,
Pete and Sandra
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The Watership Down series offers nice walks and seriously good views over Kingsclere. Part 1 is GCG00Z. Not ones to do if you are after quick cache and dashes though. Pete
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We recently got back from a fortnights cruise where we managed to find a cache in every port of call, 8 countries in 12 days, or 9 in 13 if you count good ole Blighty!
Some countries much easier than others, which caused us a bit of a sweat at times ... in Russia visa restrictions meant we had to stay with our guide ... and she wanted to go this way, the cache was of course that way ... got there in the end though!
Copenhagen was about the simplest, although we have cached there before, there are so many caches it seemed like there was one on every corner!
Anyone else been cruise caching and how did you get on? (I recall when we were making some PQs prior to travel we saw one or two Brits had logged some of the same Baltic port caches).
A thread meant for us! - see our forum picture!
We went 'cruise caching' last summer in Norway, with successes in every port except one: Succeses (and the odd DNF) were recorded at Stavanger, Molde, Trondheim, Tromso, Bergen and Eidfjord. A mixture of easy and not quite so...Bergen and Tromso were most prolific, and Tromso in particular afforded spectacular views. Far from ruining a visti to a new destination ("why waste your time caching in such places?") we found that many caches were thoughtfully placed in interesting locations and we therefore used our pre-planned caching trails to actually enhance our visits. Our only disappointnment was at Ny Alesund, only 650 miles from the North Pole on Spitsbergen. Incredibly there is a cache only 500m from the landing jetty, at a disused mine, but the alleged risk of polar bears in the area meant that the site was off limits
Still, the glacial scenery made up for it (no polar bears to be seen, but we did see Arctic foxes)We're cruising again this summer, to Shetlands, Faroes, Iceland, Norway and Belgium, and hope to get at least one cache per port again
Pete and Sandra
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Sorry sounds sad but Idris.
I have most of them on DVD or VCR, I used to love the program when I was younger
DING!
I confess to loving the programme all those years ago too (but don't have the DVD's......)
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Next question then,
What is the U.S. equivalent of the British music hall entertainment called?
vaudeville ??
Pete
DING! 
Anyone remember Ivor the Engine? What was the name of the dragon?
Pete
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Next question then,
What is the U.S. equivalent of the British music hall entertainment called?
vaudeville ??
Pete
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Gah everytime I don't check this thread for a while there's a question I know - I've even had a hot chocolate at the restaurant !! The most amusing thing is a big sign at the top of the mountain indicating "no high heels"!
Yes - we saw that sign just poking out above the several feet of snow. Just as amusing, on our visit, was the sign at the start of the black run down saying 'beware, light snow covering' when just a few hundred meters further on the piste had been wiped out by an avalanche!
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Was it 'On her majestys secret service'?
it most certainly was.... DING
Over to you
Pete
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Villains headquarters on a mountaintop? Has to be a James Bond film. No idea which though.
A dinglet indeed for James Bond - and there are only so many to guess from....
Pete
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Hmmm, seems nobody's bothered with this one so I hereby assign the Ding to sharpeset.
Oops - just spotted I've been awarded the Ding by default. Only looked 'cos I was going to add Northampton as the home of the Saints. Better think of a quick question to get this thread back up and running, so.....
As I am just back from holiday: Which action film required construction of a villain's mountain-top den which now (decades later) thrives as a major tourist attraction with a revolving restaurant called Piz Gloria?
Pete
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Thank you. Another question on one of my favourite topics then...
From where do the following teams CURRENTLY hale, and what two towns/cities are missing from the final list? (First one with a complete list gets the ding.)
Cherry and whites
Quins
Tigers
Irish
Wasps
Falcons
Saints
Sharks
Sarries
Warriors
A few to be going on with ...
Quins - London
Tigers - Leicester
Irish - Reading
Falcons - Newcastle
Sharks - Sale
Pete
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Was one of them Lady Di - before she became a Royal ?
Pete
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The Eurythmics (Annie Lennox & Dave Stewart)
Sweet Dreams are made of DINGs....
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Much to easy but yep, the original name was from the keyboard player 'Manfred Mann ' and the drummer 'Mike Hugg'
So DING and over to you
On a similar theme, which successful group did 70s band The Tourists mutate into?
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Ok here we go then
What did the Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers go on to be known as?
I'll take a punt at Mannfred Mann
Pete
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remember it being in the news this week, some little country in the Himalayas:- not Tibet/Nepal, but can't remember the name!
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Ding for resurrection, the 'G' one is a bit of a classic. The dashes do relate to numner of letters and the second letter of every word is 'e'.
"G" for Genesis, and "D" for Destiny
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Hmm, it's a sound - how about 'clunk'?
or 'ding' ?
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Continuing the Scatter gun approach....
Slightly North of east of Brum made me think Derby, Nottingham or Leicester.
So the next Guess: The Ginger Whinger himself, Moaner Megson. He was a Leicester for a (very) short time. Which I THINK might be the link - Cloughie was at Leeds for 40-odd days, and I think something was made of Megson being close to that when he went. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving chap! Don't have anything against the Ginger Snortbeast at all.
DING
Yes the link was short-lived managerial stays. Cloughie was at Leeds for 44 days, Coppell (ugh) walked out on Man City after ust 33 days, and Megson lasted a paltry 41 days at Leicester.
Over to you...
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Phil Brown, now at Hull but at Derby at some point in the past?
I'm loving your persistence! - but, again, no.
South of Derby....think crisps
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I'm sure Villa park is North-west of St Andrews, so its not Martin O'Neill. Every time I see that doddering old .... it makes me feel old because I remember him playing for Forest
Its either Chris Coleman or The ex-palace manager that I can't remember the name of - you know, the ugly one with the pHd in balistics (or some such thing) so I'm reliably informed by my palace-mad boss. but it's not rocket science is it?
Iain Dowie - just come back to me!
As for the Mud - I grew up in Sheffield and we all referred to it as Mudchester.
To be honest, it was the 'other' team that I tend to refer to like that. To me, there's only one United!So I'll go for Chris Coleman.
No idea of the reasoning though!
No, and No I'm afraid. You need to go about 30 miles slightly North East of St Andrews and find another pretty ugly one (who I now recall has managed in the Birmingham metropolis in his time). Remember the answer (ie as at 2006) was NOT a premiership manager (though he is now....)
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I had a thought it was possibly who is the youngest premiership manager & their age.
But your clue makes me wonder about Mark Hughes - what with Bruce having been at mud Utd & Hughes now being at Mud City (EASTlands)?
I've a couple more stabs in the dark to go yet...
No not the wonderful Mark Hughes, manager of my beloved team - less of the Mud City please.
You are right about the answer being managerial, but it's not youngest, or premiership. Going back to previous clue - think East of where Bruce managed before going north to Wigan...
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Paul Ince?
No, sorry. Come back down to where Steve Bruce used to be, and look east....
Still, the glacial scenery made up for it (no polar bears to be seen, but we did see Arctic foxes)
DING! 
To be honest, it was the 'other' team that I tend to refer to like that. To me, there's only one United!
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Sorry, thought you said senior teams....