Re: Breaking learning thread

by Guest Fri Oct 12, 2018 6:01 pm

Or possibly solidi. dunno

by Fangirl Three Sat Oct 13, 2018 7:10 pm

Joan Armatrading is still alive, has a lady partner, is really into comics, and had a cameo appearance in The Beano in 1978.

by Nightjar Sat Oct 13, 2018 9:04 pm

Crikey Moses!

The Gaumont State up the road from me (for many years now a bingo hall and latterly a evangelical christian ministry) has hosted a number of, well, how would you describe them - legendary - near mythical!? - artistes. gasp

Django Reinhardt (23 July 1938 & 14 August 1939)
Dinah Shore (5 September 1948)
Frank Sinatra (21 June 1953)
Jerry Lee Lewis (25 May 1958)
Duke Ellington (25 October 1958)
Buddy Holly (2 March 1958)
Count Basie
Louis Armstrong
Sarah Vaughan
Thelonious Monk (7 May 1961)
Art Blakey (7 May 1961)
Lee Morgan (7 May 1961
Dizzy Gillespie (11 November 1961)
John Coltrane (11 November 1961)
Dave Brubeck (1963)
The Beatles (9 April 1963 & 23 October 1964)
The Rolling Stones (19 November 1963)
Bill Haley & His Comets
Harry Belafonte
Jethro Tull (26–28 February 1971)
David Bowie (13 June 1973)
The Faces ( 13–14 July 1974 & 21–22 December 1974)
Deep Purple (22 May 1974)
Black Sabbath (21 November 1975)
The Who (15 December 1977)
Tom Jones
Ella Fitzgerald and the Oscar Peterson Trio ( Easter Monday 11 April 1965 )

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

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Oct 13, 2018 9:30 pm

Have I ever mentioned that a supermarket I have shopped in once hosted a Beatles concert? Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:48 pm

The man who invented sea monkeys was literally a Nazi. gasp

by Guest Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:13 pm

Was that the video on youchoobes it keeps recomening to me?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:26 pm

It may well be.

The narrator sounds like Comic Book Girl 19 on tranquilisers. box

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:29 pm

It was written (and presumably narrated) by a woman called Penny Lane. gasp

by Nightjar Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:35 pm

Aren't sea monkeys just daphnia or krill or something like that?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:40 pm

They're monkeys, who live in the sea. Colbert

by Guest Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:22 pm

Samwise Gamgee was played by Bill Nighty in the BBC radio adaption of The Lord of the Rings!

But he don't sound like every other character he's played for the last 30 years! ie like Bill Nighty

by Fangirl Three Wed Oct 17, 2018 5:40 am

Yes, that always disappointed me when I saw/heard William Nighy in other productions, cos he never sounded like Samwise at all.

by Nik Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:52 pm

Some of the most important genes in the development of mammalian placentas are co-opted retrovirus genes that once allowed viruses to fuse to host cells

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Oct 23, 2018 10:43 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Oct 26, 2018 9:56 pm

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor were not the same person. gasp

by Fangirl Three Sat Oct 27, 2018 3:13 pm

Feargal Sharkey is now the secretary of the Amwell Magna Fishery fishing club, and is campaigning to stop water being taken out of the River Lea in Hertfordshire for people to drink. He would prefer it to be left in the river so he and his pals can catch trout in it.

by Nik Sun Oct 28, 2018 4:51 pm

*Stop water being unsustainably drawn from chalk aquifers because it's the cheapest option for water companies.

by Butterfield Thu Nov 01, 2018 1:49 am

Rockwell, of "Somebody's Watching Me" one hit wonder fame, is the son of Motown legend Berry Gordy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_(musician)

by Butterfield Thu Nov 01, 2018 1:50 am

I say "one hit wonder", even that song's most famous parts were sung by Michael Jackson.

by Butterfield Thu Nov 01, 2018 1:54 am

He did a (very 80s) version of the Beatles' "Taxman"! llama

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