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In the early 1960's the music scene was changing. Gone were the ballads of Dickie Valentine, Ronnie Hilton and the like that had dominated the 'Charts' in the late 50's to be replaced by new 'beat combo's that had evolved from American blues and Skiffle music.
Bands such as Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders and Harry Grubb and the Insects were now rockin the youth of the day. One such group was Robin Hood and His Merry Men. Formed in Arnold in 1962, Robin, real name Arthur Head, who was a part time club singer, scoured all round Notts looking for the boys who would form the neucleus of this iconic band. So, with Fats Took on drums and marimba, Alvin Adale on rhythm guitar and Duane Scarlett on lead guitar they released their first single in January 1963. Entitled ' I Shot the Sheriff with my Little Arrow' it took the hit parade by storm. And the rest is history. Next: Lonnie Donegan |
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Lonnie Donegan spent his whole musical career known as a skiffle musician and as the King of Skiffle when really he was better at playing skittles than playing a geetar.
next : cuttlefish |
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Every year off the coast of Ireland, cuttlefish are attacked by two rampaging halibuts, as I explained recently.
next: Gaelic Football |
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Garlic Footballs are a tasty new maize-based snack from the makers of Monster Munch.
next: Diamante |
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Diana Amante is Venezuela's biggest-selling merengue singer. Her most popular hit, "Ay, Que Melones Enormes!" was number one for 146 weeks, and is played on Caracas's top radio station, Chico Loco FM, every fourteen and a half minutes on average.
Next: Lake Maracaibo. |
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Diana Amante is Venezuela's biggest-selling merengue singer. Her most popular hit, "Ay, Que Melones Enormes!" was number one for 146 weeks, and is played on Caracas's top radio station, Chico Loco FM, every fourteen and a half minutes on average.
Next: Lake Maracaibo. |
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Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela has been twinned with Hanley Park Lake in Stoke. A condition of this move has been that anglers must use bait from each other's countries. Thus, there has been a considerable traffic problem on the high seas caused by the toing and froing of oatcakes and arepas resulting in many a diplomatic incident over the nitty-gritties in the merits of Stoke oats versus Venezuelan cornflour - which has led to the question recently asked at a meeting of the United Nations: "How many vegetarian fish will it take to cause WW3?"
Next: Let them eat cake |
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During the French Revolution, hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Whole villages were razed to the ground and their inhabitans murdered if there was suspicion that they were against the Revolution. Even those who were for the Republic but not overly enthusaistic about it were guillotined. Robespiere was the paranoid leader of the republic at this time of holocaust.
At it's height up to 16,000 people a day were guillotined in Place de La Concorde. Eventually Robespiere in turn was guillotined for his sins and was replaced by Danton who also met the same fate. This was because of an edict passed down by the local Masonic Lodge who's password was 'let them eat cake' a fact neither Robespiere or Danton knew. Shows who has the real power. Next: French Kissing |
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One of the most viewed clips on YouTube this week is some grainy film of Dawn French and hes co-star Jennifer Saunders kissing passionately on the set of their immensely popular 80s sketch show 'French and Saunders'. The audio is worse than the video, but if one tunes one's ear to blot out the background crackle, a breathless Saunders can be heard to say 'F**k, but you're a good kisser, Jen.'
As yet the BBC have declined to comment, but a source close to French is quoted as saying 'It's true - she is f**king good.' Next: The BBC |
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The Bujumbura Bowls Club is the biggest name in crown green bowls in the small (landlocked) central African country of Burundi.
It has 16 members. Next: Ouagadougou. |
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Ouagadougou push pineapple shake a tree, is the first line of a very popular holiday type fun tune.
Next: Barron Knights |
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Barron Knights are what you get if you don't get on with your ex.
Next: Mustard and Cress. |
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Barron Knights was Katih Baron's attempt to transports Baywatch Nights for the UK audience. It was unsuccessful, not only due to the spelling errors in the title, but also due to his insistence that it should have Penelope Keith in it.
Next: The Manor. |
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A motion to rename the Kilburn Ward "Themannagh" has been narrowly passed by Camden Council. "In this day and age, it would be a shame to lose sight of our Irish heritage" commented a spokesperson, Next: Mustard and Cress |
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Mustard and Cress was a hugely successful though short-lived, American TV Cop show from the 1980s. Broadcast on Fox channel from 1986-1988, it starred Anal Gerhartburger III as tough, no-nonsense New York policeman Danny Cress, and the delightful Felicity Forrester as his bi-sexual sidekick Stephanie Mustard. The series was pulled when Gerhartburger III was sacked from the show, after being caught in a downtown motel room with a suitcase full of Chilean yogurt.
Next: Yogurt |
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Yogurt is really just sour milk, in pots. Yet people pay good money for it.
Next: throwing good money after bad |
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Graham Good the well known and always on the ball commentator, allegedly lost 10,000 by backing the bad tips of co-presenter Derek 'Who big fella' Thompson.
Next: Lesley Graham |
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An anagram of Lesley Graham is Really** me!
Next : The French |
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'The French, ah the French' were the last words of Napoleon Bonaparte when told of their World Cup victory in 1998. He then died aged 212. He uttered these words in French by the way.
Next: Short men |
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The International Federation of Measurement Standards (IFMS) defines a man as being 'short' if his height when naked, after 8 straight hours of horizontal rest, is less than or equal to 1650mm (approximately 5'5"). The corresponding threshold for 'tal' is above 1850mm (approx. 6'1").
Those with a height in excess of 2000m are defined as '** freaks'. Next: Peter Crouch |
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2000mm, even
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Peter Pan was a young man who would have become very famous, in a fary tale type way, but for a tragic accident when he was a boy.
His father accidently fired a catapult at him. His mother, who was present, screamed 'Peter, crouch', but it was too late......... Next Goliath |
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Goliath is the name of one of the massive cranes at the Harland and Woolf shipyard in Belfast. It was named in honour of Goliath Woolf, the grandfather of one of the yard's founders.
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Despite sounding preposterous, it is a scientific fact that due to the properties of the materials in the construction of its pavements, Belfast gets more hours of sunshine than any other city in Europe, maybe even the whole world. Dont ask me for proof though, i had the website but i think the dog ate it.
Next: Homework |
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Homework was origionally just an extention of 'at work.' Mine owners in the 1850's wer only allowed to employ boys up to the age of 9 for 17 hours a day. So they sent the boys home with a piece of anthracite the size of a small building, with orders to return for the next shift having reduced it to hundreds of smaller, more fire friendly pieces.
When schools were invented several years later, sadistic teachers replicated this practice and homework acquired the meaning we have for it today. Next: Power Stations |
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Power stations are among the most heavily-fortified buildings in the world. The Sellafield nuclear power plant is surrounded by a moat 50m wide, 100m deep, and filled with the sort of mutant sharks made famous in the documentary 'Deep Blue Sea' (starring LL Cool J). Unfortuantely, due to an oversight, the moat was never filled with water, and is now brimming with a stinking mass of shark carcasses across which any potential saboteur can easily, if somewhat disgustingly, walk.
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LL Cool J is the online persona of Patrick Moore. His ultimate intention being to bring glockenspiels 'to the hood'.
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Pope Oonitio the Frozen, the first Eskimo pontiff, translated the Bible from Hebrew into Innuit in 1273. In Innuit they had no word for 'colour', with eveything being snowy whit and icebound like.
So when he got to the bit about 'Joseph and this coat of many colours', he translated it into the 'coat of many blubbers' as this was the closest he could get. His followers therefore started making coats out of sealskins, which came to be known as 'Anoraks.' This perhaps explains why Lloyd-Wbber's much vaunted musical bombed north of the Arctic Circle. Next: Ernest Shackleton |
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Ernest Shackleton is the online persona of LL Cool J. He got the idea from Patrick Moore, who e-mailed him 'Word up homey, its LL Cool J comin' atcha'.
Next: E-mails |
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E-mails are my speciality. As can be confirmed by the last helpline operator I spoke to - now residing in Mumbai's local lunatic asylum.
Next: Bedlam |
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One should never go on the lam while in bed, as spillage and staining may ensue.
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'A Kestrel for a Knave' was a book written by Barry Hines. It was decided to make the book into a film, which was shot in the mining village of Grimethorpe near Barnsley.
The film wasn't a success, mainly due to the fact that they used a trained and disguised hedgesparrow instead of a kestrel because the boy playing Billy Casper was frightened of kestrels. Next: Kitchen Sink Dramas |
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Kitsch en sing drama is form of melodramatic serialized fiction produced and aired in the Philippines.
It rooted from two words "kitsch", short for television, and "sing", a Tagalog term for series. Next: warp and weft |