Friday 3 February 2017

Short lists

1. Mancunian TV presenters called 'Cox'.

2. Ginger-haired German tennis players who were very successful in the 1980s and 1990s.

3. Current UK prime ministers/first ministers who are men.

8 comments:

Sobers said...

Didn't Sara Cox grow up on a farm outside Bolton, which presumably was not in an urban area, so she's not really Mancunian, even if Boltonian?

Mark Wadsworth said...

S, quite possibly.

Steven_L said...

Are you suggesting Steffi Graf dyed her hair blonde?

Mark Wadsworth said...

SL, she was a ginge. It takes one to know one.

Penseivat said...

Wasn't there a bloke called Doc Cox on one of Esther Rantzen's shows?

Mark Wadsworth said...

PS, no idea, was he from Manchester?

Striebs said...

I'd love to contribute to sending the odious Brian Cox to Mars .

If there was a communications failure soon after launch , so much the better .

Mark Wadsworth said...

St, The Science Is Settled! Now go away you Climate Denier! (is what he'd say to you).