This is something I started posting over on the Facebook page and received some good comments so thought I would try it hear.
Every Saturday morning Danny Baker gives some ideas for discussion. Today’s are:
1. Stuff That Went Out Of High Windows.
2. Affecting Pop History In A Very Small Way
3. Just As You Said Something – It Happened!
4. Saying The Wrong Name
5. Drawing Attention To Yourself In Quiet Places
6. Pretending Not To Be In
7. Giving Words To Instrumental Songs
8. Really Noisy Animals
9. But You MUSt Remember Me?
10. Pros & Cons Of Your Parents Owning A Shop.
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(4) “Oh god – I’m so sorry, I called you Lisa by mistake”
“Hmmm?”
“We were just talking about Lisa and I called you by her name”
“Oh, I didn’t hear. Obviously I have now…”
DB, wearing an ELP T-shirt.
5 – Leaning over to get a closer look at an antique orrery in the Oxford Scientific Museum, thus triggering an incredibly shrill alarm throughout the whole building.
10. Whenever you walked through the front door and the shop bell rang you had to shout “It’s only me!” I think that’s what gave Harry Enfield his idea. Living in a greengrocers we were never short of our 5 a day.
6. one of my earliest memories is being told by my mother to get under the table and be quiet because the coal man was here and we couldn’t afford to pay him.
Appen it were grim up north.
Isn’t it amazing how kitchen tables of our childhood had magical powers – whatever was happening if you hid under the table you were OK 🙂
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On hearing Match Of The Day theme, my dad would always sing (and probably still does) “we don’t want your football, so stick it up your bum”.
There must be something genetic going on, because I now sing the words “the tune it goes a bit like this, but I don’t know the words” upon hearing Strictly Come Dancing theme
also
when I was in a band (or what purported to be – more of an excuse for drinking, sodding about and making a noise), we tried to add lyrics to Iron Maiden’s ‘Transylvania’.
In line with the vampire theme of the title, we came up with “Dead, Dead, Dead” for one part of it, which quickly became “F*ck, F*ck, F*ck”
oh, how we laughed
4. Reasonably certain I’ve trotted this one out at the Old Place. Nontheless…
I used to work with a perfectly nice lady called Mary Higgins.
I once introduced her in a meeting, quite unintentionally, as Hairy Miggins.
5 a concert by Alastair Anderson, large hall very quiet and attentive audience, someone broke wind very loudly. AA looked up, looked back down as he continued to play the concertina. Alas it was yours truly who commuted the faux pas,