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I heard that story too … but I always wondered about the practicality of it. Seems to me an experiment is called for.
Let's see … I nominate:
Nigel Farage
Donald Trump
Dominic Cummings
However I'm up for other nominations prior to rejecting them.
When they started hanging the flower baskets on the Market Square lampposts, they hired a sort of mini-digger thing with an attachment to grab the posts and give them a good shaking, to 'ensure' that they would be sufficiently robust to support them..They'll do for a start but will @The Hawk's lampost support all three of them at the same time?
Quite apart from the fact that this is just a story - and i am not one to let facts get in the way of a good one - there are three obvious errors in that sentence -But I was always told the Staffordshire knot came about as a thrifty mayor wanted to hang three prisoners with one bit of rope...
Quite apart from the fact that this is just a story - and i am not one to let facts get in the way of a good one - there are three obvious errors in that sentence -
The origins are 'shrouded in mystery', and regardless of the competing claims for 'truth' remember this; the motto of the Stafford family, of whom it is the heraldic badge, is 'The Knot Unites', but unites is an anagram of unties.
- It's a Stafford knot
- It was a Sheriff
- It wouldn't work in the way the story would like it to
Where should I lodge my complaint?
I was told this age 7 during a school trip to the council buildings (for some reason this fact stuck with me!)
Lady Wake.Where should I lodge my complaint?)