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Martin_B wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 6:57 am
Millennie Al wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:16 am The moral of this is that we need more statues of women, so maybe we should put up a 10m statue of someone called Margaret Roberts in a white lab coat holding an ice cream.
You do realise that this is one of those old-wives tales? Soft serve ice cream was invented in the US a decade before Roberts joined Lyons.
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Millennie Al wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:16 am The moral of this is that we need more statues of women, so maybe we should put up a 10m statue of someone called Margaret Roberts in a white lab coat holding an ice cream.
That's a thought; it would allow the pigeons to speak for all right-thinking people.
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I'd love to see such a statue. It would be torn down so fast, it would be great fun to observe.
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JQH wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 11:43 am
Millennie Al wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:16 am The moral of this is that we need more statues of women, so maybe we should put up a 10m statue of someone called Margaret Roberts in a white lab coat holding an ice cream.
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Millennie Al wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:16 am The moral of this is that we need more statues of women, so maybe we should put up a 10m statue of someone called Margaret Roberts in a white lab coat holding an ice cream.
An ice cream and a clipboard, to be extra sciencey. Just like that big one in New York harbour.
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Millennie Al wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:16 am The moral of this is that we need more statues of women, so maybe we should put up a 10m statue of someone called Margaret Roberts in a white lab coat holding an ice cream.
Not just one, we need 99.
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Gfamily wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:40 am
Martin_B wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 6:57 am
Millennie Al wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:16 am The moral of this is that we need more statues of women, so maybe we should put up a 10m statue of someone called Margaret Roberts in a white lab coat holding an ice cream.
You do realise that this is one of those old-wives tales? Soft serve ice cream was invented in the US a decade before Roberts joined Lyons.
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