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Derby

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About Derby

Derby is a cathedral city and unitary authority area on the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England. Derbyshire is named after Derby, which was its original county town. As a unitary authority, Derby is administratively independent from Derbyshire County Council. The population of Derby is 274,149 (2024).

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You can walk around Derby and go to as many vape shops and bookmakers as you want. Your car will be absolutely safe.

from 596: No Such Thing As Dance Floor Book Club, 2025-08-14 at 00:47:29 · read transcript

Other times Derby came up

  1. I don't think it adheres to the official USPGA rules. It's like a walking stick full of bagels. You're not going to use it as an actual assist as a walking stick. I think there's a link between the original boom in crazy golf and the current Derby-based boom in erotic golf. Okay. When was the original boom? 20s and 30s. Lots of sources say that it completely went out when the Great Depression happened, but actually, it didn't really.

    No Such Thing As A Walking Stick Full of Bagels, 2023-03-16 · listen

  2. Isn't there a fact that the first ever hot air balloon trip there was some hanky-panky going on in there not the first ever because I think that was the Mongolia brothers who I'd be interested in it George Biggin and Letitia Sage went up in a balloon organised by an Italian man called Lunardi but he got out just at the last minute and it went over Piccadilly and as it went over Piccadilly people could see Sage on all fours although she maintained that she was not having sex I think she said she was looking for something although I can't remember for sure And all of her clothes had fallen off in the excitement of going up. So then later on in these big wager books that they have in London clubs, one wager reads, Lord Chumbly has given two guineas to Lord Derby to receive 500 guineas whenever his lordship plays hospitals with a woman in a balloon 1,000 yards from the earth.

    No Such Thing As A Dirty Pair Of Jeans, 2014-06-07 · listen

  3. All of her clothes had fallen off in the excitement of going up. So then later on in these big wager books that they have in London Clubs, one wager reads, Lord Chumbly has given two guineas to Lord Derby to receive 500 guineas whenever his lordship plays hospitals with a woman in a balloon a thousand yards from the earth. Maybe people's clothes were just much more poorly designed in the olden days.

    14: No Such Thing As A Dirty Pair Of Jeans, 2014-06-07 · listen

  4. With the 10 most secure places on earth and those places included Saddam's Baghdad bunker, the Mormon church records Fort Knox, Air Force 1 and a car park in Derby called Bald Lane right? You know how I was an ally late for the podcast today? That's where you went? That's where I was. Oh my God! You went to the highest secure place in the UK, basically? Well, I was driving past it.

    596: No Such Thing As Dance Floor Book Club, 2025-08-14 · listen

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