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  4. This was my post last year for my favourite numbers
    1 (one) it has to be number one, ( though it also needs to be looked after) so let’s drink a glass of wine to number one as without it you couldn’t be an oenophile (well almost).

    2 (two) The only even prime number oh and you can’t beat a number two

    3 (three) A trifle matter, without three you’d just have a dessert called fle. (though to be honest I just prefer the custard)

    4 (four) The only number that has the same number of letters as its number.

    5 (five) in Latin it contains the previous number in its letters. Also a setting of five is a quincunx which is a great Scrabble score.

    6 (six) See 9; plus in Latin it contains the number nine.

    7 (seven) contains the word even but it’s an odd number. How strange (quarkness and charm)

    8 (eight) equals 33, if you rotate the first 3 through 180 degrees and push it (squidge/technical term) up to the second 3 you get 8.

    9 (nine) See 6; also a homophone for the German for no.

    10 (ten) Spells the word net in reverse, (one of the words suggested for this is a semordnilap) and is also the start of an animal called a tenrec.

    Should I have added 0 (zero) to my list? Would it have made a difference? But adding zero to my numbers would not have changed anything.

  10. Giles Martin’s remixes of The Beatles (he has remixed others, you know)

    Dear Prudence – cheek of the guy, adding guitars.
    The Long And Winding Road – miraculously giving it some genuine emotional heft.
    Taxman – fucking amazing, with the initial hum removed, solo placed near the middle plus or minus artefacts.
    Lovely Rita – this is why stereo was invented.
    The End – surely it was meant to sound like this.

  13. I’m going to ignore the comedic and “meta” nature of this thread and just give you my five favourite Beatle songs, straight.

    ** USUAL EXCLUSIONS APPLY. THIS IS OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD AND I WOULD PROBABLY LIST FIVE DIFFERENT SONGS TOMORROW IF YOU ASKED ME **

    – A Day In The Life
    – Long, Long, Long
    – Hey Bulldog
    – Tomorrow Never Knows
    – Eight Days A Week

  22. Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande / Reserve
    Almaviva
    Antinori / Solaia
    Marques de Murrieta / Gran Reserva Rioja
    Casa Marin / Lo Abarca Hills Vineyard Pinot Noir

  26. The best-looking Formula 1 and Grand Prix cars.

    The Vanwall VW (in long nose configuration) 2.5-litre, straight-4.
    The Lotus 25 / Coventry Climax FWMV 1.5-litre, V-8.
    The Gurney Weslake Eagle Mk.I (T1G) 3-litre, V-12.
    The Lotus 79 (aka JPS Mk.IV) 3-litre, V-8.
    The Ferrari 641/642 3.5-litre, V-12.

  32. Bob Mortimer’s best Would I Lie To You stories:
    Fuji 9 dentistry
    ‘Theft & Shrubbery’’
    IPA Beer brewing
    Arrested In Castle Douglas
    Cutting hair at the 1986 World Cup

  44. 1. The Ogdens (Stan and Hilda)
    2. The Duckworths (Jack and Vera)
    3. Ena Sharples
    4. Elsie Tanner
    5. Albert Tatlock

    Honorary mentions from outside Weatherfield: Amy Turtle, H.P. Saucecraft

  47. Top 5 Welsh rugby tries:

    1977 – Phil Bennett v Scotland
    1972 – Gareth Edwards v Scotland
    1988 – Ieuan Evans v Scotland
    1999 – Craig Quinnell v France
    2015 – Gareth Davies v England (World Cup)

      • Top 5 silly Blackburn aircraft names:

        Blackburn Blackburn
        Blackburn Kangaroo
        Blackburn Blackburd
        Blackburn Pellet
        Blackburn Cubaroo

        Reserves:
        Blackburn Sprat
        Blackburn Turcock
        Blackburn Airedale

        • Hawker Woodcock.
          Gloster Gamecock.

          When Sopwith went bust, he paid all his creditors, and then set up Hawker.

          Gloster made two of my favourite aircraft; the Meteor and the Javelin.

  52. Cars I wish my Dad had bought:

    Vauxhall Cresta (wraparound windscreen! Possibly the most beautiful saloon car ever built)
    Sunbeam Tiger (possibly the most beautiful sports car ever built – prove me wrong)
    Mk. II Jaaaaag (I could dream)
    Ford Consul Capri Classic (hopelessly exotic – lovely creamy lines, a touch of chrome, and fins!)
    Triumph Stag (would have been his problem, not mine)

    • My dad despised Vauxhalls, thought they were dreadfully vulgar, fit only for used-car salesmen and suchlike Johnnies. All that chrome! He didn’t learn to drive until he was pushing 50 – how he got through the war without learning I can’t imagine – and his first car was a 1958 or so Hillman Minx. Hey could have had fins, he could have had bags of chrome, he could have had a Singer Gazelle or a Sunbeam Rapier, but no. He bought a bottom of the range Minx in rose taupe with no chrome whatsoever. This despite all the advice I gave him with the help of my trusty Observer’s Book of Automobiles.

      He then redeemed himself slightly with a Mk.1 Cortina, although not the Lotus Cortina I ordered. Still and all, it was a lot more fun to drive than a Hillman Minx.

      • My dad worked for (as it was then) Standard Triumph, and fed me a load of propaganda about how crap Rootes cars were. He was mostly right, but so were Standard (what a crap name for a car firm) Triumph. Those Vauxhalls had some style – copied from Harley Earl, but that was a good thing. I saw a Cresta on my last visit to the UK, and the bonkers optimism of the styling brought a dust mote to my eye. The engineers hated Earl because he added weight, but he knew what he was doing. “Sitting in a car should be like going on vacation.” Nice pron here:

        The best looking UK saloon car ever. Look at those proportions. How the front and back wraparounds sensuously blend with the roofline. The sultry “hooded” headlamps, the … brb.

    • There’s two or three Stags round our way. Seems the engine issues they had are now easily solved, and none get harmed now by stuffing a Rover V-8 in. Stags look good, as did the 2500/2.5PI.

      Saw the first NSU Ro-80 in ages a couple of weeks ago, and that is one seriously good-looking car.

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