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Stick your Brexit, listen to this…

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So, pub quiz, music round, name the artist… the first one we hear is 3 Times A Lady. We roll our eyes and put down The Commodores. When the answers are read out, 3 Times a Lady is by Lionel Ritchie! Turns out that is what all the other teams have put down too! After a consultation with the quizmaster, he begrudgingly gives us HALF A MARK for The Commodores (as he concedes that Lionel was once their singer) FFS!!! HALF A MARK!!! I didn’t want to be the guy who waves his smartphone around at a friendly pub quiz but if I was the man I was 5 years ago, I’d have taken a flamethrower to that place… Grrrrr

“apart from that bit…”

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I love Be My Baby by The Ronettes. It’s a great, great record…. but the drumming from about 2:14 to the end has always grated on me. There’s just too much of it. Hal and Phil should have clearly checked with me before releasing it… Anyone else here love a song dearly “apart from that bit”?

https://youtu.be/ZV5tgZlTEkQ

Where were you the day that…?

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So, this morning I had a vasectomy… the whole event was like an anxiety nightmare… naked, whilst being handled and discussed by a doctor, a student and two nurses… the embarrassment actually made me laugh…. I shall be watching the inauguration with an ache in my testicles as the anaesthetic wears off… I will always remember the day Trump took office. Anyone else remember historical days for different reasons?

“Why don’t you…

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…switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead…?” I have an unexpected day off today so I’m going to go for a run/walk in the hills surrounding Castle Howard while the sun shines. Anyone else doing anything outside their normal routine today?