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by Guest Sat Jun 23, 2018 4:43 am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boniface_of_Savoy_(bishop)

Boniface, oops

of Savoy

by Guest Sat Jun 23, 2018 4:45 am

Oh, it's a Saveloy that's the sausage.

sad yes

by Guest Sat Jun 23, 2018 4:46 am

"the saveloy was traditionally made from pork brains"

dontpanic

by Guest Sat Mar 16, 2019 5:44 pm

A top something hit back in 1970, co-writted by Eric Stewart, Lol Creme, Kevin Godley

No wikipedia page, hmm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:20 pm

That is one of the most epically awesome things ever. It feels like a deleted dream sequence from Father Ted. happy

by Guest Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:42 pm

Bob Monkhouse described him as Britans answer to Lenny Bruce.

hmm

Only funnier if you ask me. colberta

by Guest Sat Mar 30, 2019 6:20 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_the_Bracket

The title Up the Bracket alludes to a phrase used by English comedian Tony Hancock, of whom the Libertines' Pete Doherty is an avid fan. In Hancock's Half Hour, "Up The Bracket" is a slang term meaning a punch in the throat.[2] Hancock is also referenced in the opening track, "Vertigo" – "lead pipes, your fortune's made", being a line from the Half Hour episode "The Poetry Society".[3]

What Sid Actually said wrote:
Lead Pipe, fortune made.

I don't even need to check.

by Guest Sat Mar 30, 2019 6:20 pm

Maybe I should check? hmm

by Guest Sat Mar 30, 2019 6:25 pm

Limbo by Sidney:

Mauve world, green me
Black him, purple her,
Yellow us, pink you
Lead pipes, fortune made
Six to four, came in second,
Green country, blue Harringay and White City,
Hic haec hoc!

by Guest Sat Mar 30, 2019 6:25 pm

I can't take any more...

by Fangirl Three Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:09 pm

I knew it was lead pipes plural :gregory:

by Guest Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:15 pm

Fangirl Three wrote::gregory:

As played by Alf Garnet, as we all know. yes

by Fangirl Three Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:45 pm

And he was the doctor in Bill And Father Christmas.

by Guest Wed May 01, 2019 2:07 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lamb_Lies_Down_on_Broadway

Plot summary[edit]

One morning in New York City, Rael is holding a can of spray paint, hating everyone around him. He witnesses a lamb lying down on Broadway which has a profound effect on him. ("The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway") As he walks along the street, he sees a dark cloud take the shape of a movie screen and slowly move towards him, finally absorbing him ("Fly on a Windshield"), seeing an explosion of images of the current day ("Broadway Melody of 1974", the song's title being a reference to MGM musical films of the same name, such as the 1936, 1938 and 1940 films) before he wakes up in a cave and falls asleep once again ("Cuckoo Cocoon"). Rael wakes up and finds himself trapped in a cage of stalactites and stalagmites which slowly close in towards him. As he tries to escape, he sees his brother John and calls for him, but John walks away and the cage suddenly disappears ("In the Cage").

Rael now finds himself on the floor of a factory and is given a tour of the area by a woman, where he watches people being processed like packages. He spots old members of his New York City gang and John with the number "9" stamped on his forehead. Fearing for his life, Rael escapes into a corridor ("The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging")[34] and has an extended flashback of returning from a gang raid in New York City, ("Back in N.Y.C.")[35] a dream where his hairy heart is removed and shaved with a razor, ("Hairless Heart") and his first sexual encounter ("Counting Out Time").[36] Rael's flashback ends, and he finds himself in a long, red carpeted corridor of people crawling towards its exit via a spiral staircase ("Carpet Crawlers"). At the top, he enters a chamber with 32 doors, surrounded by people and unable to concentrate. He finds a woman who leads him out of the chamber and into another cave, where he becomes trapped by falling rocks ("The Chamber of 32 Doors", "Lilywhite Lilith", "Anyway"). Rael encounters Death ("Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist") and escapes the cave.

Rael ends up in a pool with three Lamia, beautiful snake-like creatures, and has sex with them, but they die after drinking some of his blood ("The Lamia"). He leaves the pool in a boat ("Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats"), and finds himself in a group of Slippermen, distorted, grotesque men who have all had the same experience with the Lamias, and finds that he has become one of them ("The Arrival"). Rael finds John among the Slippermen, who reveals that the only way to become human again is to visit Doktor Dyper and be castrated ("A Visit to the Doktor"). Both are castrated and keep their removed penises in containers around their necks. Rael's container is taken by a raven and he chases after it, leaving John behind ("The Raven"). The raven drops the container in a ravine and into a rushing underground river.

As Rael walks alongside it, he sees "a window in the bank above his head" which "reveals his home amidst the streets" ("The Light Dies Down on Broadway"). Is anyone still reading this? Anyone not given up yet? But "as the skylight beckons him to leave" -use the window to leave the odd place where he got stranded and return to his home New York-, he at the same time sees John in the river "far below", struggling to stay afloat. Rael has to make a decision between either going to rescue his brother or take his perhaps only chance to return to his former life in New York ("The gate is fading now, but open wide, but John is drowning, I must decide, between the freedom, I had in the rat-race, or to stay forever, in this forsaken place"). Despite being deserted twice by John, Rael dives in to save him ("The Light Dies Down on Broadway", "Riding the Scree"). The gateway to New York vanishes. Rael rescues John and drags his body to the bank of the river and turns him over to look at his face, only to see his own face instead ("In the Rapids"). His consciousness then drifts between both bodies, and he sees the surrounding scenery melting away into a haze. Both bodies dissolve, and Rael's spirit becomes one with everything around him ("it.").[37]

(Tony) Banks hoped the album would end people's comparisons of Genesis to Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, two other popular progressive rock bands of the time.

Tee Hee

by Guest Sat May 11, 2019 11:36 pm

The lead picture on Lauren Laverne's wikipedia page:

by Fangirl Three Sun May 12, 2019 7:15 am

I keep mixing her up with Laverne Cox. And Laverne of Laverne & Shirley.

by Nightjar Mon May 13, 2019 7:02 pm

I've just had to edit a Wikipedia page. yes

Someone had spelt my Mum's name wrong. rollingpin

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 13, 2019 7:04 pm

Your mum has a Wikipedia page? Excited

by Nightjar Mon May 13, 2019 7:15 pm

No, but she's mentioned on someone else's. sad yes

by Guest Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:16 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Spider_Solitaire

As of 2005, it was the most played game on Windows PCs, surpassing the shorter and less challenging Klondike-based Windows Solitaire

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