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Wiltshire

Wiltshire
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About Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the north-east, Berkshire to the east, Hampshire to the south-east and south, Dorset to the south, and Somerset to the west. The largest settlement is Swindon.

On the show16 mentions total

There was a building in Wiltshire that was holding enough butter to spread on 50 million slices of toast.

from No Such Thing As A Mean Butterfly, 2018-02-16 at 00:22:08 · read transcript

Other times Wiltshire came up

  1. Simon Wiggles Potato. Genital. No, dog. You got a dirty mind. Okay. Prince Patches, O'Huliham, the third of Wilshire. Dog. Dog? Yeah. dogs. I wouldn't give you any genitals. In the 15th century, the Duke of York, this is what he spent his time doing in those days, he wrote a list of 1,100 names that he considered appropriate for hunting dogs to advise people what to call their dogs.

    No Such Thing As Utah Fried Chicken, 2015-11-27 · listen

  2. LAUGHTER Well, look, while we're on that subject, there is a thing called, what is it, dendrophilia, which is basically the sexualisation of trees. That is a real thing. I saw a news article of a man in Wiltshire in 2023 who was arrested after apparently having sex with a tree, so said the headline. One witness said, I was just walking in the park with one of my mates and we saw a man hugging a tree and thought it was interesting.

    554: No Such Thing As A Dragonfish At The Opticians, 2024-10-24 · listen

  3. Look, while we're on that subject, there is a thing called, what is it, dendrophilia, which is basically the sexualization of trees. That is a real thing. I saw a news article of a man in Wiltshire in 2023 who was arrested after apparently having sex with a tree. Said the headline. One witness said, I was just walking in the park with one of my mates, and we saw a man hugging a tree and thought it was interesting.

    No Such Thing As A Dragonfish At The Opticians, 2024-10-24 · listen

  4. Moonraker, is that just a film with Roger Moore raking out a big crater on the moon? Where does Moonraker and the name come from? Because there is, they call, there's a town in Wiltshire or somewhere where they call the Moonrakers because supposedly they were so stupid they saw a moon inside a lake and they tried to get it out. I don't know where that comes from, James Bond.

    18: No Such Thing As A Kilt On The Battlefield, 2014-07-18 · listen

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