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The Cartridge Family" is the fifth episode of The Simpsons' ninth season, which originally aired on November 2, 1997
The gun shop is based on the shop that the Los Angeles Police Department went to during the North Hollywood bank robbery to acquire more powerful firearms. The title of this episode is a play on the name of 1970s television series The Partridge Family. The end music is the theme to the 1960s show The Avengers, and the song playing when Homer is sitting and watching things go by while he is waiting five days for his gun is "The Waiting" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Petty rarely lets his music be used on television, but being a fan of The Simpsons, he allowed them to use it. next Omar Mukhtar( the lion of the desert) |
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Omar Mukhtar sounds like he's had an accident in his pants.
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Public toilets in the USA can be quite elaborate affairs some, some underground ones going the whole length of the block. The one in Madison Avenue NY stretches for 450 yards.
These 'Long Johns' completely outshine the 'Short Johns' in smaller towns such as Bedford Falls, Iowa which are only 3ft square. Next: Cubicles. |
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According to myth, the fallow youth Cubicles upset Zeus by frolicking with him a little too much when he disguised himself as a sheep. His punishment was to be forced to spend eternity cogitating his crime on a toilet. He is still there today in what is now downtown Athens, but has become a cultural icon for his Greek brethren who many years ago built a surround for him to spare him unwarranted stares (and named the structure after him). Many still continue to slip away from work even now in homage to their idol
next: Island Hopping |
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Welcome home, Rod! You too, Colly!
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Thanks Tommy, and I must say it's great to see Rod back from his year long Island Hopping sojourn in the Dodecanese. He literally hopped from one island to another wearing a pair of seven league boots he bought from a bazaar in Cairo.
Next: Tommy Cooper's Fez. |
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Tommy Cooper was originally a bus driver in Cairo, and when he said to a passenger 'Fares please' the passenger misheard it and gave him his hat.......just like that.
Next: The Gay Future Affair. |
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boggle 02 May 14:20
One of the best wrestlers of the 1970s was the now forgotten Kendo Nakamichi. Also known as ‘The Nakamichi Dragon’, many of his bouts have been wiped, unfortunately. A few remain showing him and his tag partner, Don B. Dolby fighting. The crowd would hiss, they would go ‘wow’ at some of his moves, and he’d set women’s hearts aflutter. But fast forward to a new era and in the CD age of the 80s The Nakamichi Dragon was seen no more. Next: The Cartridge Family. its 8:15 02 May 14:47 The Cartridge Family" is the fifth episode of The Simpsons' ninth season, which originally aired on November 2, 1997 The gun shop is based on the shop that the Los Angeles Police Department went to during the North Hollywood bank robbery to acquire more powerful firearms. The title of this episode is a play on the name of 1970s television series The Partridge Family. The end music is the theme to the 1960s show The Avengers, and the song playing when Homer is sitting and watching things go by while he is waiting five days for his gun is "The Waiting" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Petty rarely lets his music be used on television, but being a fan of The Simpsons, he allowed them to use it. next Omar Mukhtar( the lion of the desert) Tommy Toes 03 May 11:10 Omar Mukhtar sounds like he's had an accident in his pants. Next: Long Johns collywobble 03 May 11:57 Public toilets in the USA can be quite elaborate affairs some, some underground ones going the whole length of the block. The one in Madison Avenue NY stretches for 450 yards. These 'Long Johns' completely outshine the 'Short Johns' in smaller towns such as Bedford Falls, Iowa which are only 3ft square. Next: Cubicles. Rod Tidwell 03 May 15:17 According to myth, the fallow youth Cubicles upset Zeus by frolicking with him a little too much when he disguised himself as a sheep. His punishment was to be forced to spend eternity cogitating his crime on a toilet. He is still there today in what is now downtown Athens, but has become a cultural icon for his Greek brethren who many years ago built a surround for him to spare him unwarranted stares (and named the structure after him). Many still continue to slip away from work even now in homage to their idol next: Island Hopping Tommy Toes 03 May 15:18 Welcome home, Rod! You too, Colly! collywobble 03 May 22:05 Thanks Tommy, and I must say it's great to see Rod back from his year long Island Hopping sojourn in the Dodecanese. He literally hopped from one island to another wearing a pair of seven league boots he bought from a bazaar in Cairo. Next: Tommy Cooper's Fez. mr winkle 04 May 00:20 Tommy Cooper was originally a bus driver in Cairo, and when he said to a passenger 'Fares please' the passenger misheard it and gave him his hat.......just like that. Next: The Gay Future Affair. |
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lol - well that's an interesting glitch!!
This page didn't exist when I opened the thread, which is why I reposted what I thought had been lost. Good start! |
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Rescued from Page 10. This is going to be a real pain to find when it doesn't get used for a couple of days.
I see Betfair manage to keep their 'Known Issues' fred at the top of the page constantly. Anyone know the code? |
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The Gay Future Affair was in the past and was bent.
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The Bends is the street name of a road on a new upper-middle-class estate built in Esher, Surrey. In an unusual move away from The Larches or The Firs, the estate’s road names have all been chosen from classic albums. So far it has proven to be a popular idea house buyers with homes on Rubber Soul Close and Definitely, Maybe Drive selling fast. The most sought after address so far though is one on Rue De Awakening, named after an album by thrash-metal band Megadeth.
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The Top Hat was the name of the first nightclub in Britain.
Situated in Whitechapel it opened in 1884 and to gain entry all gentlemen had to wear a top hat. The poilce closed it down however during the Jack the Ripper murders as according to Inspector Lestrade of the Yard, 'All them blinkin top hats are 'amperin our hinvestigations. My lads cant see the wood for the trees.' Next : Old Kent Road |
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first post 2005 is this the oldest thread on the forum??
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Yes.
The Old Kent Road is testament to this 'Amazing Fact'. Next: Sparky's legacy |
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Sparkmaster - the venerated, if not quite venerable, originator of this thread, controls a vast group of people who
run round carrying messages and doing errands for him. These are known as Sparky's Leggers. See? Nest: Leggings. |
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Very good, Muntz!
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As a keen ornithologist, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a series of piano sonatas all with birds in the title, the best known of which is arguably ‘The Whip-Poor-Will Egg’ in G Sharp.
Next: Fire at will. |
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If Gareth Gates , Ronan Keating and Will Young were lined up on a wall, I know what I would do.
Next: Pearly Gates |
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Pearly Gates is Bill Gates stepwife.
Next: Step Aerobics |
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Aerobics is a new breakfast cereal made with bubble-filled chocolate. It was originally to be called 'Abitlikeweetabixbutwithbubblefilledchocolateobics'.
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The are enough deaf people around these days for Cyril Killers to consider changing his name for Anne Easier-Life.
Next: The life and times of Grizzly Adams |
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Grzzly Adams was a man of simple pleasures, giving up a life of comfort for the harsh realities of living in the wild; but there were two periodicals he couldn’t live without. He had them delivered regularly by carrier eagle and saved every issue so he could read them over and over again.
When he died Grizzly Adams collections of ‘Life’ and ‘Time’ fetched a fortune at auction. As he had no relatives to leave the money to they bought lots of honey and gave it to the bears. Next: AA Milne |
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‘AA’ Milne was so called because he loved to take it on himself to stop and help stranded motorists. The first breakdown he attended to was that of a Reliant Christopher Robin.
Next: Three wheels on my wagon |
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Reliant Christopher Robin
 Genius Boggy |
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Three wheels on my wagon was a little know single released by Derek Trotter in his first attempt to break into the US Country Music market.It April 1988 it reached number 149 in the US Billboard country Music chart dropping out of the chart completely the following week. His follow up single "Peckham Cowboy" (August 1988) was slammed by critics and Del Boy hung up his guitar and Stetson soon after.
Next: Frozen Fish |
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Frozen fish fillets can be just as good as fresh as long as they have been snapped frozen professionally; in other words, while at sea on the fish processing trawlers..............
next- last tango in paris |
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Last Tango In Paris, was the last British racehorse to win the 'Fading Orange Hue Stakes' at the Hippodrome d'Auteil.
Next: White stilletos |
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Crossed white stilletos form the Essex county coat of arms.
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In a bid to revive thier flagging fortunes, the Dagenham Girls Pipers have changed their name to the Essex Girls Oral Blowing Band. They will in future eschew their traditional brass band uniform in favour of thongs, stockings and suspenders and skimpy bras. They will sport all over fake tans and bleached blonde hair. Band leader Zoe Pratt explained to our reporter Jeff Sterling 'It's the only way forward innit, fancy a shag?'
Next: Tubby the Tuba. |
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Excellent, Colly!
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Is a fat brassteward.
Bonsai trees. |
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In a bid to woo the visiting delegation from the Toyota car company who want to demolish Keele University and build a car plant on the site, Stoke-on-Trent City Council has ordered all oak trees in the area to be chopped down and replaced with Japanese bonsai trees.
A spokesman for the council said “The new factory will provide a much needed boost to the local economy and get rid of all the smelly students.” One local resident who has already had three oak trees replaced was seething. “The tits!”, he said. “There’s nowhere for the tits to build their nests now.” Next: Demolition Derby |
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Great stuff, MoMM!
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Demolition: Derby was the second in a two-part series broadcast in the early days of BBC2. It was far less well received than the other film in the series, Clearance: Cleethorpes.
Plans are afoot to revive the series, with the putative title for the first film in it being Clearance: Cleethorpes: Revival. Next: Bad Moon Rising. |
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Bad Moon Rising is a song written by Chit Chat’s not-very-local resident singer/signwriter, the Varosha-based Man of Many Bad Moods Rising. It is a warning to Betfair of dire things to come, should they persist with this dodgy black market forum software that they have foisted upon us. He has a point, although many think his message would have been clearer without all the weather metaphors. Sources close to the artist though say he’s working on yet another similar-themed new song called I’m Opening the First Chit Chat Pub - If I Can.
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there is always (1 new) mug that cant read the thread right
next:madison square gardens |