Watford
About Watford
Watford is a town and non-metropolitan district with borough status in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Central London, on the banks of the River Colne.
On the show — 11 mentions total
They manufacture cow urine in Watford. It's called Gal Mutra. There was a BBC report where they found it being sold in certain shops, sort of on the shelf above the nanbread.
from No Such Thing As A Welcome Lasagne, 2021-04-30 at 00:18:36 · read transcript
Other times Watford came up
They go very deep into the debate over whether Newport Pagnell or Watford Gap or the first service station. It is Newport Pagnell. It beat Watford Gap by about two weeks in 1960, but it's got some other great stuff on it. It has a whole page on the Lou of the Year Award because the Lou of the Year Award has a section about service stations. Very sadly, it used to cover three for England, Scotland and Wales, but they've had to scale back the awards.
374: No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 · listen
It's all to do with where they live, because they live in the very high regions of the earth. Not necessarily higher, I would say. You mean further north? Not like on top of Everest. We're being squares about it. This is why you never travel north of Watford. You're like, oh, I'm so high. I can't. I can't get the oxygen. They live in the Arctic Circle.
No Such Thing As A Reindeer Stockbroker, 2024-01-25 · listen
So as well as going to the backstage door or going to the hotels or whatever, they used to hang out Watford Gat services to see if they could pick up a rock star. Great. That feels like such a high stakes game, doesn't it? Because you might pick up, you know, a Rolling Stone or something, or you might just spend your entire evening at the Watford Gap service. On your 17th McDonald's, all you've met is van drivers so far. Yeah, they all used to talk about it.
No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 · listen
One good place where you could get picked up at a service station was Watford Gap, back in the day when it was a place where lots of bands used to go, and apparently, according to Francis Rossi of Status Quo, it used to be where groupies hung out because they knew that all the bands would stop at Watford Gap on their way to a gig or back from a gig, and so as well as going to the backstage door or going to the hotels or whatever, they used to hang out at Watford Gap services to see if they could pick up a rock star. Great. It feels like such a high stakes game, doesn't it, because you might pick up, you know, a Rolling Stone or something, or you might just spend your entire evening at the Watford Gap service. On your 70th McDonald's, all you've met is van drivers so far.
374: No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 · listen
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