They’re all puns and plays on words. The influence of Tim Vine seems large.

I wear contact lenses during the day and come the evening I take them out and put glasses on.

Usually, I’ll do this sitting on one of our two sofas, arranged in a L-shape along two walls of our living room. A […]

Oh yes, that’s right. Chicago. Not Boston. Well said.

As wonderful as Laura Linney is her character wasn’t an established regular. Getting together with Roz would have been completing a circle. I admit […]

My late Dad’s signet ring, given to me by my mother when he died. Lost somewhere in a rented room in a house in Norbury about 4 years later when I left home.

Deeply saddening and much regretted. I can be a […]

You sound accident prone

Utterly shit American detective series ‘Castle’ had an episode featuring a Geordie character.

This is appalling in every way you can possibly think of.

Niles’s unspoken obsession for Daphne was superbly maintained and played through dozens and dozens of episodes by David Hyde Pierce. They seemed unsure how to use him after he lost his manic frustration, but I […]

I’d like to visit a pre-Christian ancient civilisation, either the Egyptians or the Romans, and observe the daily grind. What was the quality of life actually like for both the free citizens and the slaves. […]

It would have to be John Lennon intoning ‘Sugar Plum Fairy’.

Because:

– It’s The Beatles
– We’ve all heard it
– The civilians haven’t

You’re welcome, bonny lad!

Country guitar whiz, the late Danny Gatton, made a stab at ‘The Simpsons’

He had very short fingers, you know.

Nils Lofgren joined here by one of his two regular employers. Bruce Springsteen. Has anyone ever heard of him?

‘Valentine’. Sentimental as all get out. And all the better for it.

As you might have gleaned I have no interest in Tennis, or any sport, so my presence on this thread is an obvious irrelevance.

However. I think the main reason for the regular sit-down breaks in tennis is to […]

Tennis: Just score properly. 0,1,2,3, you won.

Love, 15, 30, 40? Talk sense.

Golf:

Devise a time limit to complete 18 holes within. Say, 2 hours? Imagine the clattering and running about! I’d watch that. Make the bastards in the polo shirts and long trousers sweat a bit.

It’s a big ask. At least I’ve got a decent haircut. Which puts me one up on the Matt Lucas character currently improvising.

28. Do away with Away Kits. Just print the team name somewhere on the usual […]

37. The Offside Rule printed on the back of everyone’s ticket. And for it to be going round on a loop on the electronic advertising hoardings.

45. Football jerseys fitted with sensors within the ‘handball’ […]

I think I saw a review of one his albums in Q Magazine of all things with a photo of him on his guitar-steel. How could anyone not want to hear him play that?

Of course, you and I know he’s extremely […]

That he is @Twang. ‘Highway Patrol’ was my in, many years ago.

I can’t sing so I don’t sing. Almost ever. I will, though, drawl along to this one at a good volume when alone in the car.

Great idea for a thread,

This is the first one that sprang to mind, ‘My Wife Thinks You’re Dead’ by the peerless Junior Brown. A guy who plays, sounds and dresses like it’s still 1958. He writes glorious […]