Graham Turner can drive sheep over bridges

[dave.woodhall]

www.herefordtimes.com/news/local/8485929.Graham_Turner_is_made_freeman_of_Hereford/

[damon loves JT]

So what? Brian Little walks on water

[Risso]

Isn't it around there that Freeman status allows you to shoot the Welsh with a bow and arrow in the town square?

[alanclare]

It's to be hoped that Graham's hearing is up to the job because:

Among the elements included in the Charge to admitted freemen are that ‘you must be prepared as well by day as by night armed with weapons fitting your degree whenever you shall be warned by the Mayor or hear the ringing of our common bell for the tuition of the City or the tranquillity of the citizens abiding in the same.’  Tuition is used in its original meaning of guardianship, and the common bell refers to that of St. Peter’s, traditionally the Town Hall church.   Its ringing had a twofold purpose, firstly that any vagabond or night walkers in the City were liable to be incarcerated overnight at the pleasure of the Chief Baillie (the predecessor in title of the present Mayor).   Secondly it had the function of warning of any catastrophe befalling the City such as a major fire‘ civil strife, sedition or enemies approaching the City.   If a freeman did not answer the call to arms in such circumstances, he was accounted a rebel and a perjured person.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Isn't it around there that Freeman status allows you to shoot the Welsh with a bow and arrow in the town square?

It that a  Euphemism for something Risso? 

[darren woolley]

I wonder if he has sheep.

[Martyn Smith]

Let's hope he can drive sheep better than he could drive Villa towards being a successful team and...ahh you know the point I'm making...

[eamonn]

Best thread title of the decade thus far imho.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Apparantly he is very pleased as he always wanted the Baaarca job

[Bernie]

Isn't it around there that Freeman status allows you to shoot the Welsh with a bow and arrow in the town square?

I think that's Chester

[AV82EC]

Isn't it around there that Freeman status allows you to shoot the Welsh with a bow and arrow in the town square?

I think that's Chester

Is the correct answer.  They also have a town hall clock where the clock face facing Wales doesn't have a clock on it.

[Dave]

Isn't it around there that Freeman status allows you to shoot the Welsh with a bow and arrow in the town square?

I think that's Chester

Is the correct answer.  They also have a town hall clock where the clock face facing Wales doesn't have a clock on it.

Doesn't mean Risso's original isn't correct.

You can shoot a Welsh person all day on a Sunday, with a longbow in the Cathedral Close, Hereford

[alanclare]

Isn't it around there that Freeman status allows you to shoot the Welsh with a bow and arrow in the town square?

I think that's Chester

Is the correct answer.  They also have a town hall clock where the clock face facing Wales doesn't have a clock on it.

Doesn't mean Risso's original isn't correct.

You can shoot a Welsh person all day on a Sunday, with a longbow in the Cathedral Close, Hereford

What - shoot the same Welsh person all day long?