Hartlepool ???

[joggerjayne]

Brighton ... 8 points clear at the top.

Okay, okay ... only 6 after losing today.

But that's still pretty good.

So, anyway ... Hartlepool ??

Where the f is Hartlepool ???

Isn't that the monkey place ?

It was tempting, out of curiosity, to hop on the Supporters Coach, and go to the game.

But ...

"What did you do today?"
"I went to Hartlepool on a coach."

Hmm ... that is just SO wrong, on every level.

[sandyRoe]

They famously hanged a monkey during the Napoleonic Wars.
"Hartlepool where they hung the monkey."

[joggerjayne]

Yes, that's it. I thought it was something like that.

We've got them at home in February.

Perhaps I should buy a load of monkey masks for everyone in G and H Block.

That would be jolly.

[DTCwordfan]

ask Peter Mandleson - as a monkey he should know where Hartlepool is.

[bibblebub]

so this is what jj really looks like http://tinyurl.com/2h6sb3

[sandyRoe]

I believe they're rather proud of their cruelty to simians so wouldn't be annoyed by monkey masks. Somebody ran for office there wearing a monkey suit...and was elected.

[joggerjayne]

bibble ... LOL, but ... I don't understand.

=0/

[society]

JJ, why are your legs looking so long? Are you jogging with stilts on? :-)

[joggerjayne]

Well, that's it then, Sandy.

A job lot of monkey masks, to be handed round before the game.

=0)

[bibblebub]

H block is either haemorrhoid treatment or an Aussie prison

[joggerjayne]

society ... it's quite a jolly little avatar character, isn't it.

[DTCwordfan]

or an Irish prison - which the residents left Sugar spread all around it - not much difference to Hartlepool as I remember it.....

[sandyRoe]

wasn't it 'Preparation H' for the piles? H Block was an Aussie prison programme on tv and also a real prison in NI

[DTCwordfan]

the censors are at work - I wrote s..t, not sugar.

[Stephen_G]

Stuart Drummond is Mayor of Hartlepool. He was H'Angus The Monkey - the Hartlepool mascot.

[bibblebub]

Yes, neither Preparation H nor Prisoner Cell Block H are called H Block but you obviously knew to what I was referring by using the term from the earlier posting to connect the two.

[DTCwordfan]

lets see what happens when I write Sugar! I had no idea.....and I mean the faeces word if the system changes it.

[DTCwordfan]

and yes it does - what does it do if you write faruck without the ar in the word

[paddywak]

When was the last time you were there crossword? You might have a pleasant surprise if it was a while ago, there's an awful lot of money being spent on regeneration especially round the Marina and Headland. I'm not saying it's a great place but it's 100% better then it was the first time I went fishing fron there about 30 years ago, then it was really rough.

[joggerjayne]

We have a new (!) marina.

It's ghastly.

Biggest marina in Europe, apparently.

Everyone in the town would like it to float away, to anywhere else in Europe.

[DTCwordfan]

well if you managed to catch some roughy I will be back....