The Rockall Files

[Diable Rouge]

No, not the Seventies series with the catchy theme tune, but the infinitesmally small, unhabitable rock currently owned by Scotland, that geographically, should probably be Donegal's infinitesmally small, uninhabitable rock. All of which would be immaterial, were the oil and gas reserves not also claimed by Iceland and Denmark (on behalf of the Faroes.

[historyman]

The Rockall Files

Douze Points Rouges wrote:

No, not the Seventies series with the catchy theme tune, but the infinitesmally small, unhabitable rock currently owned by Scotland, that geographically, should probably be Donegal's infinitesmally small, uninhabitable rock.

All of which would be immaterial, were the oil and gas reserves not also claimed by Iceland and Denmark (on behalf of the Faroes.

Exactly, which is why I think that Donegal should secede from the Republic of Ireland and amalgamate with the Faroes, which is where most Dubliners assume that it is, even though it's only a three hour drive away.

We're On The Case

[Andy C]

The Rockall Files

Flanders and Swann on its annexation in 1956:

The fleet set sail for Rockall,
Rockall,
Rockall,
To free the isle of Rockall,
From fear of foreign foe.
We sped across the planet,
To find this lump of granite,
One rather startled gannet;
In fact, we found Rockall.

So, praise the brave Bell-bottoms,
Bottoms,
Bottoms,
Who saw Britannia's peril,
And answered to her call,
Though we're thrown out of Malta,
Though Spain should take Gibraltar,
Why should we flinch or falter,
When England's got Rockall.

[E10 Rifle]

The Rockall Files

It's given me an earworm too - one for the shipping forecast, and another for one of the more harmlessly silly Rebel songs

[AFC42]

The Rockall Files

I seem to remember somebody "lived" on it for a month to claim it for Britain.

[Jon]

The Rockall Files

I bloody love Flanders and Swann, me. No one sings a comic song better, not even Harris in 3 men in a boat. Met one of them once. Too drunk to remember which one now, though.

[historyman]

The Rockall Files

AFC42 wrote:

I seem to remember somebody "lived" on it for a month to claim it for Britain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall...licting_claims

You really couldn't make some of this stuff up.

"On 18 September 1955 at precisely 10.16 am, in what would be the final territorial expansion of the British Empire, the island was officially annexed by the UK."

[Janik]

The Rockall Files

Jon wrote:

I bloody love Flanders and Swann, me... Met one of them once. Too drunk to remember which one now, though.

Given that there were, um, distinctive differences between them, then that is seriously drunk.

[Paul S]

The Rockall Files

I was thinking a similar thing Janik.

Jon - the one you met - was he standing up or sitting down?

[Diable Rouge]

https://twitter.com/vincekearney/status/1346508472129564674

[Duncan Gardner]

It's a Coddle War

[Jon]

Jon - the one you met - was he standing up or sitting down?

It was Swann. I still bloody love them.

[Discordant Resonance]

The whole "rock versus island" debate continues.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

It was Swann. I still bloody love them.

They're so great