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SouthernExile commented on the post, Things we don't eat any more 4 years, 6 months ago
Perhaps weed counted as one (all) of your five a day
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SouthernExile commented on the post, ATM – Wales? 4 years, 7 months ago
Thanks for this suggestion. Was there today and had a very nice sandwich and, as you say, no chips. Very friendly staff
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Top of the Pops re-runs lately… 4 years, 7 months ago
I understand that the problem was that he failed to sign the release form before he died, so they don’t show them. I suspect it was more of an oversight than a deliberate act
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Musicians’ Witticisms 4 years, 8 months ago
Richard Hawley: “I read the other day the drinking is bad for you. Sod that I thought. So I’m giving up reading”
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Come in, sit down, my you're looking well. 4 years, 8 months ago
Can’t help but feel Billy Preston added something to this one from the HJHs.
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Musicians’ Witticisms 4 years, 8 months ago
Didn’t someone (possible also George Melly) also say of the similarly wrinkled W H Auden ‘Imagine the state of his b**ls’ or words to that effect
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SouthernExile commented on the post, The perennial appeal of a prim, Belgian pedant: Hats off to Hercule! 4 years, 8 months ago
Have you read this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Age-Murder-Martin-Edwards/dp/0008105987/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=golden+age+of+murder&qid=1564489290&s=gateway&sr=8-1
It is a history of the Detection Club and the […]
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Dismal Lyrics in Pop Music 5 years ago
No bonds could ever tempt me from she
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Genuinely Good Christmas Songs – another list 5 years, 4 months ago
It’s an oldie, but it is a googie:
Davitt Sigerson – It’s a big Country
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Family game suggestions 5 years, 5 months ago
Bananagrams is a favourite chez Exile
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Encounters with Civilians #2 5 years, 5 months ago
And of course Audlem was a victim of the ever charming Dr Beeching. As remembered in this beauty
Flanders and Swann – The Slow Train
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SouthernExile commented on the post, White album preview 5 years, 6 months ago
The Esher Demo is lovely. And I’d say, given George’s love of the uke, he might have been listening to George Formby. And that, in my book, is no bad thing
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SouthernExile commented on the post, That thing you wish you'd said 5 years, 6 months ago
Isn’t there a (probably apocryphal) tale of Kelvin McKenzie sacking the psychic on the S** by sending them a letter beginning “as you will already know”
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Best Opening Lines Of Everything, Ever 5 years, 8 months ago
The past is a foreign county; they do things differently there. LP Hartley, The GoBetween
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SouthernExile commented on the post, All That Reckoning 5 years, 9 months ago
I was always quite pleased with our version of To Live Is To Fly:
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SouthernExile wrote a new post 5 years, 11 months ago
I’m not going to argue with the top two, except maybe for the order. But I would perhaps make a case for the inclusion of Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Beatles or Stones; both or neither? 5 years, 11 months ago
…and the answer would be Pulp.
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Famous Misspellings 6 years ago
A friend once referred to the Arctic Mondays.
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Greatest female vocalists 6 years ago
I’d like to mention Kate Rusby. And here she is from the Cambridge Folk Festival.
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SouthernExile commented on the post, An elephant walks into a room 6 years ago
I’ve never seen an elephant in a cherry tree
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