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No risk. The ocean, on the other hand ... untypical of that part of the country, the island is relatively flat. The highest point is about 100m above sea level. And the sea is right outside. In fact, I'm going to the gas plant where the subsea gas pipeline to Easington, UK starts.

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'Monkey Hangers' is the term applied to people from Janick's hometown. :p

Good luck, Wasted. Not that you've wasted any time in applying for new jobs...
 
The story is the good people of Hartlepool supposedly found a monkey washed up on the beach during the Napoleonic Wars. The monkey had escaped from a wrecked French ship. People thought it was a spy and hanged it. The nickname stuck, particularly in football-related taunting.
 
Brigantium said:
The story is the good people of Hartlepool supposedly found a monkey washed up on the beach during the Napoleonic Wars. The monkey had escaped from a wrecked French ship. People thought it was a spy and hanged it. The nickname stuck, particularly in football-related taunting.
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When my Gran lived in Peru, her neighbour, so she said, had a pet monkey. He kept it on a chain that was just long enough to allow him to get up one of the trees next to his house. (The chain was presumably attached to the porch or something.) One day he came home & found the monkey dead in the kitchen. He had enough length to get into the house & had found a bottle of whiskey, opened it, & finished it. The moral of the story, as my Gran would have it, was that drink is no good to anyone, including (even) monkeys apparently. She also delivered various Spanish names with accentuated (or perhaps exaggerated would describe it better) pronunciation.
 
That's the kind of story that needs to be told to people after a few drinks. It has a real urban myth quality about it.
 
She didn't, I might add, have any problem drinking the odd whiskey herself! :D

Looking back (through adult eyes) I've come to realise what an incredible life she led; very unconventional, for her time. To us she was just Gran with her crazy stories. She's dead now.
 
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