Template:Did you know nominations/Telegraph Island

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:10, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Telegraph Island

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• ... that the expression "going round the bend" is said to come from operators stationed on Telegraph Island who were desperate to escape to India by sailing round the bend in the Strait of Hormuz?

5x expanded by Shaibalahmar (talk). Self nom at 19:37, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

• Date, size, hook ref check out, but the hook above needs to be formatted. First, it needs to have ilinks, including a bolded one to the article, second, make sure that the hook is no longer than 200 characters. Please ping me on my talk after you do so. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 03:30, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
  • Fine now. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 08:38, 18 August 2011 (UTC)