They offered him a temporary replacement, but he was having none of it. No more hire cars for Hugh.

Yep. Shouldn’t take them more than five minutes.

I think HC got a convertible, but again things kept going wrong. ‘Always the sun(roof)!’ he’d shout.

Re all the above: I don’t get it!

Maybe it’s my ADHD, but I often get a thrill bordering on euphoria from short musical interjections, eg Graham Bonnet’s ‘huh!’ before the penultimate chorus of Since You’ve Been Gone, or Paul Weller’s ‘oi!’ after […]

I find a classic ‘ba ba ba’, especially with key changes, to be hugely uplifting, and they don’t come much better than this, particularly from about 1-12 ’til the end.

3-09 onwards, from ‘We were on the bed when you came home’ , via ‘I only went with her ’cause she looks like you, my god!’ to ‘yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah’. Sublime.

Great post, @fortuneight . Newsnight could have done with such a voice last night in its coverage of the HE situation. As temperatures rise, the room really needs some grown-ups.

Thank you for that glorious ‘Sting’s dead’ clip you put on the Synchronicity thread!

This gem should be shown on every therapy course…

Beautiful, beautiful, Bingo. Your last six lines brought tears to my eyes, partly because I read them after having coffee with my 23 year old daughter, partly because I have ADHD and my handle on time passing and […]

Walken literally phones it in.

Oi oi, it’s only Michael ‘Olga’ Toy Dolls Algar on guitar!

Madonna – Papadum Preach

Eton Trifles by The Jam

Man alive, Bingo, that’s some beautiful writing. Brought a tear too my eye. Keep ’em coming. A couple of years after its release, I was talking to Neil Tennant in a lift at London Studios (formerly London Weekend […]

I’m hoping that after Southampton’s semi-final play off win last night we’ll be hearing ‘The Saints Are Coming’ a fair bit.

I worked with Jobbo on a TV series many years ago, and can confirm that he indeed is a lovely fellow.

What a great thread. The comment by @beezer regarding not being remembered if he went to a reunion struck several chords with me. A therapy client a few years ago told me that he worked out a way of ‘going under […]