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Lille

Lille
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About Lille

Lille is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the DeΓ»le river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille.

On the show β€” 4 mentions total

On Christmas Eve 1914, the Royal Flying Corps flew over a German airfield at Lille and they dropped on the runway a plum pudding. Then on Christmas Day, the German Air Force flew over a British airfield and they dropped a bottle of rum to say thank you.

from 199: No Such Thing As An Heroic Fire-Goat, 2018-01-12 at 00:16:17 Β· read transcript

Other times Lille came up

  1. Oh, I love it. They were disgrite. A bunch of them were fired from their jobs and, like, cut out of wine decided that they were in after bringing this disgrace to France. I'm going to get off the Eurostar on the way home tomorrow in Lille. I'm going to ask them if they have any lovely Californian wine I've heard so much about. Oh, I can't wait.

    No Such Thing As A Punk Monk, 2025-06-19 Β· listen

  2. Much of them were fired from their jobs and like cut out of them Wow, really wine decided that they were in after bringing this disgrace to France I'm going to get off the euro star on the way home tomorrow in Lille And I'm going to ask them if they have any lovely Californian wine I've heard so much about oh, I can't wait I can't wait the thing is about wine tasting is a lot of it is kind of madey-up II is.

    588: No Such Thing As A Punk Monk, 2025-06-19 Β· listen

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Coordinates: 50.6278, 3.0583

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