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Bill Lees

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  1. And what of Dryboroughs ?

    It was advertised famously with an ad showing a dim Scots Roy Cropper look-a-like heading off to London to make his fortune, only to return days later with the plaintive lament that "they dinnae huv Dryboroughs doon there" - which prompted a crap joke about a Scottish rabbit doing similar but returning because of flooded accomodation, as I recall.

    And it tasted of pish, too. :green

  2. I think it's Lowenbrau that you mean, Iain - never heard of Longbrow :blink:

    Are you all bloody lager drinkers ?

    What about Hopback Summer Lightning, Old Speckled Hen, Wadworth's 6X, the fantastic Timothy Taylor's Landlord, or even Chimay, Leffe and so on ?

  3. Labour M.P. dies and gets to heaven. On his way through the pearly gates, he notices a row of clocks on the wall, each indicating a different time. Curious, he asks St Peter what their purpose is. "Well," says St Pete, "Every time there's a new Labour leader, we put up a clock for him set to midnight, and every time he lies, his clock moves on a minute. For example, there's John Smith's clock, stopped at one minute past. Michael Foot got his clock to 4 minutes past, and you can see that Neil Kinnock's managed to reach quarter past."

    "But where's Tony Blair's clock ?" asks the Labour M.P.

    "Oh that, says St Pete, "Jesus has got on it on the ceiling of his office - he uses it as a fan." :P:rolleyes:

  4. Sid, Sid. How could you have left out two classics of the type :

    Jamie Lee Curtis in "Trading Places"  :P  and

    Susan Sarandon in "Atlantic City". ????????

    I've seen both films but don't remember any quality mammary shots. Perhaps you can provide a link to the clips. :P

    Found two stills of the scene in question. First this :

    post-7-1061386321.jpg

  5. Is it true that the title of Elvis' movie 'Love Me Tender' was just a cryptic request for prolonged,rough sex? :huh:

    A request ? To whom ? Mind you, I suppose it could have been a cryptic request - after all, they couldn't really have got away with calling it "Shag me Senseless". :devil

  6. Yes, it was This Week, and its title music was a part of Sibelius's Karelia Suite.

    I've always liked the title music from the old American sitcom "Taxi" - in fact entitled "Angela" by Bob James - but then I've liked a lot of Bob James's music for a few years now.

  7. Interesting but ultimately useless fact : the title Nantucket Sleighride refers to a term used by the old whaling ships operating out of Nantucket in North America, and is descriptive of the hair-raising journey upon which a whaling ship would be violently towed by a large whale once the first harpoons had been embedded in the creature's body and it had set off across the waves at speed, dragging the boat behind it.

  8. World In Action

    Anyone remember who was responsible for this tune?

    I think it was some prog rock outfit or something like that.

    Was it World In Action that sampled Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain ?

    No - Nantucket Sleighride was used as the intro music for "Weekend World". World in Action was summat else again .

  9. Bill, there must be crap songs that remind you of Presto. Lost in France and Mississippi spring to mind. Artists please and any more crap you can remember.

    Aye, those feckin tunes are burnt into my synapses from playing on an endless tape loop in Presto. Also "Sorry seems to be the Hardest Word" - Elton John. Lost in France wasBonnie Tyler and Mississipi was Pussycat, I think - though of course those weren't the original artistes you got on the Presto muzak tape.

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