Bristol Channel Perpetual Quiz (31)

[Blue_Pearl]

Have you all given up then ?

 

[mrbloto]

i presume it was a novelty item that got blown out to sea in a gale ??put us out of our misery then /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Alcyone]

Curses, foiled again.

I googled 'Bristol channel September 4th 1999' and the result was.......

This thread.

 

[Blue_Pearl]

OK, try this one then
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n14249069

and an extract from www.pier2pier.org explains it further .............
In 1998, the Swansea Brewing Company concocted a new beer known as the ‘Pierhead Special’ to commemorate the pier’s centenary. The following summer, a ten-foot fibreglass gorilla was unbolted from the pier and tossed into the sea during the early hours of the morning, a callous act which some folks feel may well be partially attributable to the SBC’s heady 6% brew, which encourages people to get dangerously drunk while thinking about the pier.
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[graham]

Just another gorrilla? The way you were going on I was expecting something unusual /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Blue_Pearl]

I was thinking of the insurance claim form details if someone had been unfortunate enough to hit it !

"........... and there we were, heading to Penarth, making 7 knots when suddenly we hit this gorilla called Nancy ................."

 

[graham]

Happens all the time /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Csail]

I see loads of chimps in the BC but never gorillas.