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Nickelodeon

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In the UK, we had our own version of the Nickelodeons and they were called Penny Gaffs. The difference being that in the UK, there were one penny to go in, whereas in America it was a nickel. The problem was a nickel was worth 2.5 pennies, so the people who were making the penny gaffs were making two and a half times less than the Nickelodeon people.

from 528: No Such Thing As A Toilet Haiku, 2024-04-25 at 00:40:47 · read transcript

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  1. A bit more control on the day wasn't it because people you almost had a relationship with your projectionist and actually even I Think momentarily when you're in the cinema, you could say, you know put the music on louder and old Nickelodeon's or whatever Oh, yeah in 1939 newspaper in Newcastle or whatever.

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  2. Didn't he win a Nobel Prize for that? I don't think so. Maybe you did read the article then. No, I definitely should have, though, shouldn't I? No. He got some kind of a award, maybe like a Nickelodeon or kids award or something like that. Yeah. The tallest mountain in Colorado, okay, is called Mount Elbert. It's next to another mountain called Mount Massive.

    No Such Thing As A Restaurant Menu For Hats, 2017-11-17 · listen

  3. I don't think so maybe you did read the article then No, I definitely should have though shouldn't I? He got some kind of a like maybe like a Nickelodeon or kids award or something Yeah The tallest mountain in colorado. It's called mount elbert And it's next to another mountain called mount massive um And mount massive is 12 feet shorter than mount elbert Okay, I think they have the third and fourth or the second and third biggest mountains in the whole of america But the next to each other and a lot of there are a lot of fans of mount massive And what they like to do is go to the top of mount massive and put a big pile of stones on the top so that it becomes The biggest But then mount elbert has quite a few fans as well and they keep going up and taking all the rocks down Wow Colorado is boring Here's another fact mountains can suffer from tired mountain syndrome So this has happened around the world in lots of different places But at the moment it's happening in north korea And they have a mountain called mount mantap and due to all of the uh nuclear tests there Basically, there's a load of geological damage and the rock mass inside the mountain just isn't kind of integral anymore Did you say it's called mount mantap?

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