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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 21:40 
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counsellors saying things like "stupid limit", "limit too low" and "money making area" - are they now going to be kind to furry primates?
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But they do like their furry animals in Hartlepool - they voted H'Angus for Mayor after all!
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H'Angus? :? Sounds like a monkey joke but I don't quite get it.

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Funny how common sense only seems to prevail once a counciller has been mugged.
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H'Angus the Monkey was voted to be Mayor or Hartlepool.

Apparently the local residents hanged a monkey back in the Napoleonic wars believing it to be a french spy (hence the name), and it is now the football team mascot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1965569.stm
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:rotfl: I'd heard the Napoleonic monkey lynching story off a couple of Newcastle blokes I worked with years ago, but the football mascot is news to me. And electing him Mayor. :lol: A whole town with a :twisted: sense of humour!

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:rotfl: I'd heard the Napoleonic monkey lynching story off a couple of Newcastle blokes I worked with years ago, but the football mascot is news to me. And electing him Mayor. :lol: A whole town with a :twisted: sense of humour!

They've got to have one with a story like that - the humourous retort that they give when asked about this incident shows that - " Actualy there were two - we sent the other one south of the river to breed"
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