#20

(Carl Myerscough broke his record, but was a drugs cheat and his record isn’t officially recognised)

#21

It was Capes not Dodd. One of the few things I remember about Ken Dodd though was that he had loads of money stashed under his mattress in case of civil war supposedly

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#22

Myerscough is a funny name

#23

Haha. Wasn’t it just to avoid paying tax?

(Allegedly)

#24

really grim story tbh so will spoiler in case you don’t wanna know :confused:

Summary

he was apparently some famous plane bloke or something, and this ‘gang’ kidnapped his baby for ransom, and it went on for weeks or months with like mad cap chases and a massive police investigation, but they eventually found the baby’s body a few hundred yards from the house and they reckon they dropped it while climbing out of the window right when it first happened. one bloke was convicted of it but most people believe he can’t possibly have done it all by himself.

#25

Fuck. That’s absolutely horrendous :frowning:

#26

Well that shifted things a bit… I better make it a very good question… UM… erm… urrr…

So I started writing a question that my bf often asks me… but I just realised it’s too terrible a question to ask. I don’t think I can do it.

#27

Is it about whether I’d prefer to have the insides or outsides of an elderly person as I’ve answered that elsewhere…

#28

No. It’s not that. I’ve written it out now and I considered DMing you it… but I don’t know. That might make the question all the more creepy.

#29

Played for Arsenal and Sweden, winger

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#30

Do it, you can’t just leave a thing like that dangling!

#31

Yeah, I know they were a German Eurodance band who did The Power, but that’s about it.

#32

Ok. Incoming.

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#33

Fanny Craddock

#34

@anon5266188 please post the answer in here so we can guess the question

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#35

N.B. this is NOT a quiz.

#36

I think I know more about her than I know about Geoff Capes on accounts of knowing what she looks like and having seen her on telly

#37

“The last day of the week unearthed even further eccentricity on Dodd’s part. The court heard how he had hoarded more than £330,000 in cash at three of his homes because he feared that Britain was on the brink of civil war. He refuted the notion that he had kept the money at home to conceal it from the Revenue”

Thing is Ken Dodd’s weird enough to get away with an excuse like that though

#38

Lindbergh was essentially the most famous man in the world at the time, the first guy to fly non-stop across the Atlantic, and widely tipped to be future US president (which would have been pretty shit as he was a massive racist, anti-semitic, fascist fuck - there are lots of alternative history books where this happens). But the baby incident kind of put the brakes on his career in the public eye. So swings and roundabouts.

Also:

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#39

An informative and hilarious post. Would read again.

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