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Oranj Feb 2019 12:29pm, 9 Feb 2019 1,378 posts	0 Oranj That reminds me of this (very old) joke: Caller: "I'd like the number of the Argoed Fish Bar in Cardiff please". Operator: "I'm sorry, there's no listing. Is the spelling correct?" Caller: "Well, it used to be called the Bargoed Fish Bar but the 'B' fell off".
Dvorak Feb 2019 12:39pm, 9 Feb 2019 17,208 posts	0 Dvorak (Trombone for Oranj!) Boats can be made from concrete. (Dates back to WW1, due to steel shortages.)
GlennR Feb 2019 12:40pm, 9 Feb 2019 40,757 posts	0 GlennR It looks like Mordor.
fetcheveryone Feb 2019 1:56pm, 9 Feb 2019 21,199 posts	0 fetcheveryone You should see it these days.
Night-owl Feb 2019 1:59pm, 9 Feb 2019 32,353 posts	0 Night-owl Actress Joan Fontaine was a licensed pilot
swittle Feb 2019 4:20pm, 9 Feb 2019 52,979 posts	0 swittle [By coincidence, the 1944 film of 'Jane Eyre' featured Joan Fontaine in the title role. Orson Welles was a suitably gruff Rochester; Elizabeth Taylor died young at Lowood.]
GlennR Feb 2019 8:15pm, 13 Feb 2019 40,845 posts	0 GlennR There is a bishop of Midsomer.
Diogenes Feb 2019 8:34pm, 13 Feb 2019 34,337 posts	0 Diogenes [not far from Bargoed there is a place called Argoed. Obviously doesn’t have a fish bar, though. Fetch, in my first year at Uni I shared a room with a lad from Gelligaer, his surname was Jones 😀]
FergusG Feb 2019 10:59pm, 13 Feb 2019 2,970 posts	0 FergusG The same actor plays Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride and Saul Berenson in Homeland.
Night-owl Feb 2019 11:04pm, 13 Feb 2019 32,375 posts	0 Night-owl He was also in Criminal Minds in the early years, but left because he thought the storylines were too much