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    Who here has heard of this insignificant little dot in which I live? hint: think "TT" and ask a mototcyclist.
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    Not another one...

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    Does everyone on that island play this game? Jeez, you're everywhere.

    I've heard of it, I saw it on a map when I was small and thought it was a funny name.

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    I've heard of it.
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    I'm from it, where you live?
    When I was a child
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    Out of the corner of my eye.
    I turned to look but it was gone
    I cannot put my finger on it now
    The child is grown,
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    Default Re: Who here has heard of the Isle of Man?

    I've heard of it, mainly through Ian's posts.



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    Isle of Man? Is that near Jamaica?
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    I always thought it was spelled "Isle of Mann". Google gets results both with either one or two letter "n".
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    I heard of it when I was a kid, and I was fascinated by the idea that there was this language, Manx, which was only spoken by a few hundred people. My best friend and me used to joke about how someday, when the human race enters into an interstellar empire, everyone will speak Manx.

    Jokes like that are really funny when you're eleven years old.

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    Heard of it, been there, but I am a biker.

    Nice place, if you like small islands in cold seas. Which I do.
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    There are a handful of Okells (IoM beer) pubs here in Liverpool. I've been to the glorious TT a few times in the past, but not on my bike ... they were intensive drinking holidays, and bikes and drink definitely don't mix. Luckily, the aunt and uncle of a mate of mine had a BnB in Douglas so we were able to get accommodation quite easily for the race period.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ianofsmeg16
    I'm from it, where you live?
    Do you live here? I live in Crosby. Who else lives here?

    WOW! I'm amazed!

    Why is your name ianofsmeg?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Geezer57
    I always thought it was spelled "Isle of Mann". Google gets results both with either one or two letter "n".
    I did too!
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    It's part of Britain, right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by diablodelmar
    Do you live here? I live in Crosby. Who else lives here?

    WOW! I'm amazed!

    Why is your name ianofsmeg?
    Yeah I live in Castletown, what school you go to?

    if you've ever seen Red Dwarf, youll get why im call ian of smeg
    There is another guy, Axeknight, lives down south aswell, posts on the forums.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tiberius
    It's part of Britain, right?
    No, not technically, It's part of the British Isles but has it's own government etc
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    Isn't Douglas from Man?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ianofsmeg16
    Yeah I live in Castletown, what school you go to?

    if you've ever seen Red Dwarf, youll get why im call ian of smeg
    There is another guy, Axeknight, lives down south aswell, posts on the forums.


    No, not technically, It's part of the British Isles but has it's own government etc
    I used to go to KWC, where do/did you go?

    I am so amazed!
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    Sooner or later someone is going to say its got the oldest continually functioning parliament in the world. So it might as well be me. (The Icelandic althing began earlier but was suspended during Danish occupation).

    http://www.tynwald.org.im/

    They also have legal officers known as Deemsters who were originally responsible for memorising Manx Common law (which was known as breast law as it came from their insides). The Deemsters still exist and are still the judges on Man.
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    Do they still beat miscreants with a bundle of sticks?
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    Quote Originally Posted by diablodelmar
    I used to go to KWC, where do/did you go?

    I am so amazed!
    I go to Castle Rushen High School, about to do my GCSEs
    yeah its quite amazing, maybe everyone on the island does play TW games...
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    So much for the phrase "No Man is an island"...

    (How many millions of times have you heard that joke?)
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    I believe the Isle of Man isn't part of Britain but the Queen is their Head of State.

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    The Queen is the Lord of Man (and Duke of Normandy, but that's by-the-by). I think we should make the Isle of Man a Crown Colony... just to ruin that long-running Parliament...

    Does anyone actually still speak Manx Gaelic on the Isle of Man?
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    I`ve seen a bike poster with that name written on it..

    Btw, Isle of Man can also be spelled Isle of Mann.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man
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    Who here has heard of the Isle of Man?
    I've heard of it, though it's only because Ian posts here a lot and well... he lives there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Duke Malcolm
    Does anyone actually still speak Manx Gaelic on the Isle of Man?
    Yes a few hundred do, and recently in our primary schools a program has gone forth to give all students from the ages 5-10 the chance to speak manx

    Quote Originally Posted by Duke Malcolm
    The Queen is the Lord of Man (and Duke of Normandy, but that's by-the-by). I think we should make the Isle of Man a Crown Colony... just to ruin that long-running Parliament...
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    When I was a child
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    I turned to look but it was gone
    I cannot put my finger on it now
    The child is grown,
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    I have become comfortably numb...

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    how many of you islanders are there then? (and yes i have heard of the isle of man)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ianofsmeg16
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