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yorkio commented on the post, Bygone brands 7 hours, 56 minutes ago
I remember being a bit taken aback when I found out that rather than having just stepped off the 3:10 to Yuma, JT Edson was actually from just outside Melton Mowbray.
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yorkio commented on the post, Bygone brands 17 hours, 55 minutes ago
See also: Heinz Beans and Bacon Burgers.
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yorkio commented on the post, Bygone brands 1 day, 11 hours ago
Can you still get Wrigley’s PK chewing gum? And what did PK stand for anyway?
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yorkio commented on the post, Sea shanties? 6 days, 10 hours ago
“These phenomena multiply exponentially from out of nowhere, don’t they? So quick, you can almost see them happening in real time.”
That’s so true. Just a couple of nights ago, I bumped into a video of s […]
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yorkio commented on the post, Nick Kent has written a novel 1 week, 3 days ago
Indeed. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve considered subscribing only to back away in alarm when I’ve discovered how much it costs.
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yorkio commented on the post, Floydian Trip 1 week, 4 days ago
Mercury Rev’s Deserter’s Songs, particularly the instrumental version, always sounded very Floydy to me.
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yorkio commented on the post, Lockdown Licks 1 week, 6 days ago
I think the video must have been sped up – it looks like one of the Keystone Kops playing bass.
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yorkio commented on the post, Even more box-sets-in-a-list mayhem 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Rough Trade has them – https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/s/genre/krautrock/label/bear-family?_=1609950919268
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yorkio commented on the post, What the Dylan deal means………sort of 2 weeks, 1 day ago
I worked on a book a few years back that used a few Sting quotes at the beginning of some of the chapters. We had been assured that the writer knew that it was his responsibility to get permission for these, so […]
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yorkio commented on the post, Words no longer in fashion/not used 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Naff is still in everyday use at my in-laws.
See also: coloured.
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yorkio commented on the post, Words no longer in fashion/not used 2 weeks, 3 days ago
I remember a very similar Scrabble scene in Man about the House.
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yorkio commented on the post, Engaging with famous people over social media when they acknowledge you. 2 weeks, 3 days ago
My only follower on Instagram is Mark Eitzel. Despite having had an account for several years now, I am yet to make a post.
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yorkio commented on the post, Taylor Swift meets Steven Wilson….. 2 weeks, 5 days ago
I think you’ve got your Wilsons in a muddle there – 71st best album of the year Dixie Blur is by *Jonathan* Wilson.
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yorkio commented on the post, The return of Colin Harper's Bourgeois Fury… 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Great stuff. And very exciting to see a Westone Thunder out in the wild.
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yorkio commented on the post, Quiz Time 3 weeks, 3 days ago
7.6 Tsavo
7.7 Treetops (?)
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yorkio commented on the post, Quiz Time 3 weeks, 3 days ago
7.10 Happy Valley
13.9 Nurse Ratched
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yorkio commented on the post, Obituaries 2020 3 weeks, 4 days ago
And farewell too to virtuoso violinist Ivry Gitlis, best known to most of us here, I suspect, for his appearance in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, performing Whole Lotta Yoko with Yoko Ono and The Dirty Mac.
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yorkio commented on the post, Two Extraordinary Facts about Reginald Bosanquet 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Which is/was referred to in Australia as the Bosie, I believe.
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yorkio commented on the post, Clive Gregson 1 month, 1 week ago
I saw him in a local village hall a few years ago. He was great and the icing on the cake of what was an entirely Dibley-esque evening was winning a pack of pot pourri in the raffle at the interval.
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yorkio commented on the post, Haven’t we suffered enough already, 2020? 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Point of order: If you look at the date on the video on YouTube, you will see that was actually from last Christmas. I would suggest that it was so toxic it’s possible it may even have caused COVID. Thanks, […]
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