Dover
About Dover
Dover is a town and major ferry port in Kent, England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at 33 kilometres (21 mi) from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies southeast of Canterbury and east of Maidstone. The town is the administrative centre of the Dover District and home of the Port of Dover.
On the show — 29 mentions total
It happened in 1992, it happened in Dover. There was a man called Jason Pegler — he was walking past a phone box, it rang, he answered the phone, and the person ringing that phone box wanted to speak to him.
from 383: No Such Thing As A Mead-Based Maasai Gameshow, 2021-07-23 at 00:38:29 · read transcript
Other times Dover came up
I was reading that one person who's real, Charles Dickens, has so many, he's got like 44 plaques around the UK, so many places he went to and wrote a book there and directed across the UK, he has them. Even his characters have some plaques. Market Square and Dover is where David Copperfield apparently rested on a doorstep and ate a loaf. That has a plaque.
381: No Such Thing As A Safe Toothpick, 2021-07-09 · listen
I think that happened. You have to lie in bed and touch their thighs. Lying bed and be witnessed with them. Yeah. The king only met his. wife three months later at Dover. Three months later. They'd be married for three months when he met her. Awesome. One of these areas in North America where Catholics felt safe where they could go was named after Henrietta Marie and it was Maryland or Maryland or Maryland.
No Such Thing As A Deep Drawer, 2022-10-27 · listen
Just falling into a life and dying on top of our dead comrades. On that note. In 1850, there's an article that I found it in the English Civil Engineer and Architects Journal, and it states that the Academy of Sciences in France was considering an idea for a suspension bridge between England and France, so going from Dover to Calais. Four barges would be sunk at equal distances apart across the channel.
No Such Thing As Wasted Material 2017, 2017-12-29 · listen
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