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Old 08-05-2004, 03:30 PM   #6
InklingElf
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Originally Posted by Amanaduial the archer
Incidentally, the Cat and the Fiddle near me is a marvellous if tiny pub - smaller than my bedroom and filled inside and outside with bikers. It's on the Cat and Fiddle Pass - the most dangerous road in Britain.

But still a marvellous pub

Hookbill - that's an interesting link, I hadn't thought of that. But I think in this case, that may actually just be coincidence - it's like the saying along variations of 'making a racket fit to raise the dead'. But that could lead to a chicken-or-egg question of whether that saying came first or whether it was picked up from the poem...
Fascinating -- I am thousands of miles away from Britain -- I guess catchy names are global eh?

Even more fascinating is the connection Hookbill presented -- it is farfetched but a coincidence that is nonetheless Hookbilly cool Nothing is too farfetched in the Downs as I have observed so don't be discouraged.
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