A really weird question

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  1. bright red

    bright red Well-Known Member

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    I know this is a pretty strange post (even by my standards) but can anyone solve a mystery for me?

    If you go on Google maps and search for a place called Beetham (it's between Kendal and Lancaster) you will find the phrase "Dummy 1962" just below Beetham (you may have to zoom in a bit). Anyone knows what this means or refers to??
     
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    There was an episode of The Twilight Zone called The Dummy that aired in 1962

    don't know about the relevance though :)s)
     
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    you old git :D
     
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    haha not bad to say it aired 28 years before I was born :D
     
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    looks like I've stumped everyone

    Guess we'll never know :'( :D
     
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    I drive past there every day....

    What on earth (pardon the pun!!) are you looking round here for???
     
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    What are the chances?

    Just been doing a more thorough google search for any reference to this and only found one. That was virtually the same question asked on a Burnley fans' board in May - noone had a clue on there either!!
     
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    Twice!!! nt
     
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    Gimme a chance!!!!

    My PC, like it's owner, runs very slowly these days!!
     
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    Copyright breaker booby-trap.

    There are several.
     
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    There's no booby-trap round here!!!

    There's still too many boobies wandering about, un-trapped!!!
     
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    bright red Well-Known Member

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    RE: I drive past there every day....

    Well, my sat nav tried to take me to a completely wrong location near there yesterday and I was just checking on Google. The phrase caught my eye!

    Maybe the whole area is a geographical anomalie? (I know Milthorpe is very weird - went there once and now always try to avoid it!)
     
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    RE: Copyright breaker booby-trap.

    Makes sense - but how come it only appears at certain magnifications?

    Or is it there to stop folk linking to the google map and claimiing that they made the map?

    But that wouldn't be it cos all the maps have google info on them?

    Why am I discussing this with myself?
     
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    It's a farm run by a devout Conservative...

    The remains of a "peel tower" can be seen there. It was the sit of a national hedge laying/trimming/whatever-you-do-to-hedges-if-you-don't-have-a-life competition a few months ago...

    Are you saying you came all the way up here and didn't visit us? OR Arnside???
     
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    bright red Well-Known Member

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    didn't visit but..

    ..was sitting behind you at the match!! That's nearly the same.
     
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    Which match?

    Newcastle?
     
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    I was going to ask....

    why you didn't introduce yourself but then I read your post again and saw that you thought that where we lived was weird!!!! That probably answers the question!
     
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    bright red Well-Known Member

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    RE: Which match?

    Wyai
     
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    bright red Well-Known Member

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    shy

    Didn't know where you lived though!
     
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    Stop editing your post!!!!!!

    It's confusing me!!!!! :D
     

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