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Post by gwynthegriff on Apr 17, 2022 19:16:23 GMT
If Mehmet Oz is elected US Senator from Pennsylvania, he'll be the first Senator to have a two-letter surname. I remember Labour fielding a general election candidate called Farmida Bi not many years ago On May 5th Plaid Cymru are fielding Mici Plwm as a candidate. (8 letters) Who lives in a house called . . . Acw. (3 letters) |
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Post by John Chanin on Apr 18, 2022 7:02:24 GMT
If Mehmet Oz is elected US Senator from Pennsylvania, he'll be the first Senator to have a two-letter surname. I remember Labour fielding a general election candidate called Farmida Bi not many years ago Look you can't beat the former Burmese prime minister U Nu. |
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 18, 2022 10:56:50 GMT
I remember Labour fielding a general election candidate called Farmida Bi not many years ago Look you can't beat the former Burmese prime minister U Nu. There are people in France with single letter surnames. |
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 18, 2022 11:12:54 GMT
Look you can't beat the former Burmese prime minister U Nu. There are people in France with single letter surnames. O really?
Occurs in China and Korea too apparently.
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Post by greatkingrat on Apr 18, 2022 12:03:25 GMT
I remember Labour fielding a general election candidate called Farmida Bi not many years ago Look you can't beat the former Burmese prime minister U Nu. At the same time the Burmese president was Ba U. |
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Post by johnloony on Apr 18, 2022 13:08:07 GMT
Look you can't beat the former Burmese prime minister U Nu. At the same time the Burmese president was Ba U. This thread made me wonder what the origin of the surname “Ng” is. Oddly, Google/ Wikipedia tell me that it’s from the Chinese Wu (variously U or O) but it didn’t explain why it has evolved to be nasalised. |
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Post by johnloony on Apr 18, 2022 13:09:35 GMT
Look you can't beat the former Burmese prime minister U Nu. There are people in France with single letter surnames. The village of Y in northern France is twinned with Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerichwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. |
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 18, 2022 13:13:59 GMT
There are people in France with single letter surnames. The village of Y in northern France is twinned with Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerichwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Why? |
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 18, 2022 13:38:27 GMT
At the same time the Burmese president was Ba U. This thread made me wonder what the origin of the surname “Ng” is. Oddly, Google/ Wikipedia tell me that it’s from the Chinese Wu (variously U or O) but it didn’t explain why it has evolved to be nasalised. Probably an endemic tendency to constipation? |
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Post by johnloony on Apr 18, 2022 17:29:59 GMT
The village of Y in northern France is twinned with Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerichwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Why? Presumably for the same reasons that towns all over Europe decide to do pointless illogical irrational patronising self-important twinning arrangements with each other, which is probably to provide expensive exchange visits for self-important local pompous useless jobsworths. When I become Dictator of the World, the whole concept of twin towns will be abolished and banned, and all such arrangements will be dissolved. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Apr 18, 2022 17:43:30 GMT
Presumably for the same reasons that towns all over Europe decide to do pointless illogical irrational patronising self-important twinning arrangements with each other, which is probably to provide expensive exchange visits for self-important local pompous useless jobsworths. When I become Dictator of the World, the whole concept of twin towns will be abolished and banned, and all such arrangements will be dissolved. |
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Post by John Chanin on Apr 18, 2022 18:19:13 GMT
Presumably for the same reasons that towns all over Europe decide to do pointless illogical irrational patronising self-important twinning arrangements with each other, which is probably to provide expensive exchange visits for self-important local pompous useless jobsworths. When I become Dictator of the World, the whole concept of twin towns will be abolished and banned, and all such arrangements will be dissolved. It’s a waste of time. He will only recognise it if it is Hungarian. |
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Post by johnloony on Apr 18, 2022 21:57:22 GMT
Presumably for the same reasons that towns all over Europe decide to do pointless illogical irrational patronising self-important twinning arrangements with each other, which is probably to provide expensive exchange visits for self-important local pompous useless jobsworths. When I become Dictator of the World, the whole concept of twin towns will be abolished and banned, and all such arrangements will be dissolved. I don't need you to, because I immediately noticed and recognised the similarity between the word "why" and the name "Y" as soon as I read the comment. But that does not negate the fact that a qustion was asked, which is why I was therefore answering it. Of course even more inherently evil, wicked, immoral and perverse than the concept of town-twinning is when a single town has several "twins" in different countries, instead of just one. |
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Post by J.G.Harston on Apr 27, 2022 0:04:53 GMT
While I have never tested it myself, and have speculated on if it has ever happened, I now have proof that a candidate can nominate themselves if they are their own elector. North Yorkshire: Weaponness & Ramshill (SBC): Jim Grieve: nominated by Jim Grieve. There is only one Jim Greave in that division. Effectively reduces the required number of subscribers to nine.  |
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Post by mrhell on Apr 29, 2022 15:22:59 GMT
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Post by hebdo on May 22, 2022 10:29:23 GMT
Here’s a good question for a sunny Sunday morning - who stood for two Westminster elections for two different parties within 63 days of each other in the 1990’s. And is this a record?
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Post by Crimson King on May 22, 2022 11:39:15 GMT
Here’s a good question for a sunny Sunday morning - who stood for two Westminster elections for two different parties within 63 days of each other in the 1990’s. And is this a record? presumable someonewho stood in Knutsford or Clitheroe on 1/3/79? |
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Post by YL on May 22, 2022 11:45:02 GMT
Here’s a good question for a sunny Sunday morning - who stood for two Westminster elections for two different parties within 63 days of each other in the 1990’s. And is this a record? presumable someonewho stood in Knutsford or Clitheroe on 1/3/79? 1990s. So I suspect we're talking about someone in Wirral South on 27/2/1997; is the Richard North who stood for UKIP the same one who stood for the Referendum Party in South Derbyshire in the General Election? |
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Post by Crimson King on May 22, 2022 11:46:12 GMT
presumable someonewho stood in Knutsford or Clitheroe on 1/3/79? 1990s. So I suspect we're talking about someone in Wirral South on 27/2/1997; is the Richard North who stood for UKIP the same one who stood for the Referendum Party in South Derbyshire in the General Election? oops, read the question Alun |
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Post by hebdo on May 22, 2022 19:16:11 GMT
There are no flies on you. Yep, Richard North who stood for both Referendum and UKIP in that year. Just reading Michael Crick's book on Farage and he’s full of theses little nuggets.
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