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The Beatles song "Eight Days a Week" is actually about the French Revolution, when they decimalised the calendar and each month had three weeks of ten days each. Thus a person would work for eight days and have the weekend off as normal.

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1 hour ago, GordonD said:

The Beatles song "Eight Days a Week" is actually about the French Revolution, when they decimalised the calendar and each month had three weeks of ten days each. Thus a person would work for eight days and have the weekend off as normal.

  In a similar vein, A Hard Days Night, was based around John's pre-Beatle days when he worked down the infamous Jam Butty mine, in Knotty Ash, Birkenhead.  

Funnily enough his foreman was Kenneth Dodd (no relation to the famous one), who's catchphrase was "I'll get an hard days night out of you diddies". 

Thid was obviously pre-decimal days & none of this content mental shift patterns of 8 days. Oh no, they stuck to the imperial 5 & a 1/2 days a week. 

Saturday they would finish at 12 & John & his mate Gerry would hurry across the Mersey to get to the match. 

Grimbo  

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On 10/11/2016 at 22:35, D.A.F.C said:

Donald Trump wants to turn Mexico into a golf course. The wall marks out of bounds down the 18th fairway.

 

This is why the wall will have large OUT OF BOUNDS side on the Mexico / golf course side of the wall.

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Historians have discovered that Arbroath fielded an ineligible player in their 36-0 victory over Bon Accord in 1885. Consequently the game has been awarded to Bon Accord by a 3-0 scoreline and the original result will be removed from all the record books.

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8 minutes ago, GordonD said:

Historians have discovered that Arbroath fielded an ineligible player in their 36-0 victory over Bon Accord in 1885. Consequently the game has been awarded to Bon Accord by a 3-0 scoreline and the original result will be removed from all the record books.

Bon Accord fc was founded by a  Franco/Japanese car mogul.

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9 hours ago, dee_62 said:

Hollywood actress Sigourney Weaver bought, at auction, the match ball from the 36-0 game. She has one of the largest football memorabilia collections in North America.

It consists of three items - the other two are a programme from the Berwick Rangers-Rangers game in 1967 (signed by Berwick keeper Jock Wallace) and the actual biscuit tin that held Celtic's cash in the 1980s.

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- Scotland has more mountain peaks in the 682-702m category than any other country in the world.

 

- The Bilston Glen mine network in Lothian contains the world's deepest (5 a side) football pitch at 432m bmsl.

 

 - Roddy Grant is a three time Minstrel Spinning world champion.

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