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10 and 1/2 things you never knew about Exeter

edited September 2011 in General Charlton
Matt Taylor played for Exeter.  He is the first player to ever move from City direct to the Addicks.

Exeter is a City because there is a very nice Cathedral in its centre.

The average age of first time mothers in Exeter is 31, the second highest in the world.

Exeter has the most stuck up/posh students and university in the world, properly.

Exeter are now the highest ranking team in Devon.  This is the first time ever that they have been in a higher division that Plymouth.

Charlton's first ever league game was v Exeter. We won 1 - 0.  Charlton 3rd ever league game was v Exeter. We lost 1 - 0

It is still illegal to wear flip flops inside the City walls.

Exeter residents take more headache tablets per head per year than any other city in England.

Devil worshipping is the second biggest religion in Exeter after Methodism according the last census.



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  • There are 16 Exeters in the USA.

    An anagram of Exeter is Tee Rex.

  • It is not true that Exeter is an ex Eter.
  • edited September 2011
    12. The Exeter Guildhall toilets are the oldest civic building (built 1468) still in use in the UK today.
    13. Within the Guildhall is Britains oldest stuffed animal, a seal that dates from 1175.
    14. Exeter City's equivalent of The Red Red Robin, The Grey Grey Seal, was composed by Exeter born Chris Martin off of Coldplay. His wife, Gwynneth Paltrow, contributes to the chorus.
    15. The Romans invented Water Polo in the city - Exe being the Celtic word for water and 'eter' being the Roman translation of 'drowning horse'.
    16. Exeter City have been playing at St James' Park since 1923. The ground was named after Chung-Hee Park who later rose to fame as South Korean president.
    17. A disasterously short managerial reign was the appointment (after Gerry Francis left and before Steve Perryman arrived), of Tommy Cooper. All records of this mistake have been amended to show Terry Cooper as the manager at this time.
    18. Their nickname was changed to 'Grecians' after it was found too difficult to chant, 'Achaeans' and to cash in on the popularity of hair products in the 1950's. Ex player, David Pleat, appears on the current packaging.

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  • 19. Exeter was originally a small community that sprang up around a chicken farm. They did not like to kill the chickens themselves and existed large on a diet of eggs.
    20. Exeter has the highest divorce rate in the uk.
  • edited September 2011
    21: Exeter City goalkeeper Artur Krysiak should be called Athur Shawshank but the registrar was drunk on the day his mother went to get his birth certificate. Because of this he tells everyone he's from Poland when he was actually born and bred in Cleethorpes.
     
  • The name Exeter derives from the citys history as the primary departure point for Roman soldiers returning home.

    Hence the citys original latin name 'Exit 'ere'
  • "Matt Taylor played for Exeter.  He is the first player to ever move from City direct to the Addicks."


    Hey, Henry .......that's not right, surely?

    What about gangly centre half Jimmy 'Farmer' Giles, who signed from Exeter in 1975?
    Now there was a character in a Charlton shirt.
  • 22. Current Charlton number 1 Ben Hamer was on loan at Exeter last season
  • 23. Although a popular tourist destination, the city is not dominated by
    tourism, with only 7% of employment dependent on tourism compared with
    13% for Devon as a whole
  • I'm not sure we've all got this, have we?
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  • I'm not sure we've all got this, have we?
    Your right. I'm sure numbers 22 & 23 are made up ...... 
  • I'm not sure we've all got this, have we?
    24. The Mayor of Exeter holds the Panini sticker album for the city and asked this question to his electorate after opening the packet and finding a Gordon Banks.

    The answer was a resounding no. 

    Ps. If anyone has a doubler of John Toshack and is prepared to swap, Exeter will have completed the collection
  • Exeter has the narrowest street in the uk .

  • edited September 2011
    26. Michael Jackson and Uri Geller were both Exeter City FC directors.

    "When I asked Michael what does he know about football he said 'absolutely nothing but I love Exeter City,'" said Geller.

  • Exeter is inbred
  • St James' Park Station has the shortest platforms of any railway station in Britain.
    On leaving school, Harry Potter went to Exeter university where he held the record for downing a pint of snakebite in 2.3 seconds.
    Exeter is home to the Met Office's crack gang of weather fairies who decide what everyone's whether will be like.  Due to some unfinished business dating back to the English civl war, the weather fairies now make sure that it always rains in Manchester.
  • Exeter is inbred



    There is always one, is that really the best you can come up with ?
  • St James' Park Station has the shortest platforms of any railway station in Britain.
    On leaving school, Harry Potter went to Exeter university where he held the record for downing a pint of snakebite in 2.3 seconds.
    Exeter is home to the Met Office's crack gang of weather fairies who decide what everyone's whether will be like.  Due to some unfinished business dating back to the English civl war, the weather fairies now make sure that it always rains in Manchester.



    JK Rowling was born in Exeter and once dated another famous Exeter born star, Danny La Rue, who was the inspiration for Hagred in her Harry Potter books.
  • edited September 2011
    Exeter's first Portugese international, Semper Fidelis, made such an impact in the 1940s that his name still graces Exeter Council's coat of arms.
  • The rivalry between Exeter city and Plymouth Argyle fans is so bitter because Ivor Dewdney, the regions famous pasty guru was originally chairman of the Exeter city supporters club, but upon visiting Home Park for lunch and speaking with then manager Gus Honeybun for 2 hours declared "this is a massive club" and defected, and went on to open the bulk of his pasty emporiums in the city.
    There is one solitary Ivor Dewdneys in Exeter, but it is targeted by city fans regularly.
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  • The rivalry between Exeter city and Plymouth Argyle fans is so bitter because Ivor Dewdney, the regions famous pasty guru was originally chairman of the Exeter city supporters club, but upon visiting Home Park for lunch and speaking with then manager Gus Honeybun for 2 hours declared "this is a massive club" and defected, and went on to open the bulk of his pasty emporiums in the city.
    There is one solitary Ivor Dewdneys in Exeter, but it is targeted by city fans regularly.
    I think you mean defecated, not defected.
  • No, that's what city fans do in 'Dewdneys'.
  • edited September 2011
    Ah, I see. I'd heard thats what they do in the pasties!
  • Yea can't trust em!
    Oggies is much better. Proper job!
  • Although born in Wales Tommy Cooper was brought up in Exeter. His mum was very careful with money, a trait inherited by Tommy, but his dad was an inveterate gambler who eventually lost their house through debt and the family moved to the cheaper area of Southampton.

     

  • Exeter is inbred
    I Thought that was flour!
  • Exeter is named after the first ever group of Anorexic's settled there in the early 15th century.
  • Exeter City have the largest ground in League One with a capacity of 52,409...
  • the family moved to the cheaper area of Southampton.

     


    you mean Portsmouth?
  • The name Exeter derives from an old workhouse in the area, the inmates of which had great difficulty eating for a reason now lost in the mists of time.

    They were known as "Ex eaters" this later became Exeter.

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