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Trinidad

Trinidad
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About Trinidad

Trinidad is the largest and most populous island of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies 11 km (6.8 mi) off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean. With an area of 4,768 km2 (1,841 sq mi), it is also the fifth-largest in the Caribbean.

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When he got all this money, he went to Trinidad and he started up a jam factory. Unfortunately, the local insect life either ran off with the sugar or landed in the hot baths and boiling preserves.

from 63: No Such Thing As An Anti-German Sock, 2015-05-29 at 00:29:49 · read transcript

Other times Trinidad came up

  1. You have to fill in the cartoon bubble. I'm about to punch that baby. Is that what you said? That would that would be a mark of concern. What page of the newspaper was it cut? As long as it wasn't the crossword, that would be Trinidad. Okay. You would write, was it the crossword page he tore? If it is, I'm going to punch the baby. Yeah.

    250: No Such Thing As The Mysterious Chamber, 2019-01-04 · listen

  2. Quotes exhausted, overworked And on the verge of a nervous breakdown And had joined the ship In order to be nursed back to health and strength And waited on hand and foot And the captain not only gave him a lift to Trinidad He gave him loads more lifts later on They became friends And it was just like As well as a naval captain You might be quite pleased That if somebody so witty and famous Was suddenly on boarded Great.

    No Such Thing As Captain Crossword, 2026-01-15 · listen

  3. We've mentioned before that before he went into inventing television, he started a jam factory. Did he? And maybe he had left, he was in Trinidad and he set up a jam factory. I think it didn't work out because insects kept infesting the jam. The reason he'd went anyway was to stop himself being such a sickly child so he could get off with the girl that he loved, but when he came back, she was married anyway.

    No Such Thing As A Horse Drawn Segway, 2021-04-02 · listen

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Coordinates: 10.5000, -61.3000

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