Challenge is back (thanks @birdleader!) and we don’t have the dreaded Hollydogs any more, hooray.

“And it’s goodnight from me .” “And it’s goodnight from him.”

See Musk is suggesting homelessness is a lie.Think we’ll wake up one morning and they’ll all be gone a la S. America?

I hear Prince Edward and Gregg are making a record called Hard Times under the moniker Wallace ‘n’ Windsor.

Has anyone ever listened to I Trawl the Megahertz by Prefab Sprout?(Originally went out as by Paddy McAloon as he didn’t want to alienate the loyal Sprout fanbase).The reason being it’s a massive musical transformation from anything he’d previously attempted.Personally I find it mesmeric but be warned the title track opens the album and comes in…[Read more]

I just said that the stories were out there @brianN, not that they were true. I agree with your analysis.

You know, I could be persuaded to start feeling sorry for Prince Andrew. Not a lot, mind.

How rude,sorry for talking over you @hunnybunny.Yeah saw the film typically crazy but true story of British ingenuity.Could’ve been an episode of Faulty Towers.

“I’ve got heels,and they’re made of plywood”.

Not boasting just thought I’d mention it.

BTW if consenting adults wish to sellotape gloves on each other that’s fine by me.

No prizes for guessing who sang “The Hotdogs go on”.It wasn’t Prefab sprout.

That link was seriously thin Dan,giving tenuous and gossamer thin a bad name.Knew about the Salvation Army reference and given Jack’s religious upbringing it has  a ring of truth about it but never heard of The Peppered Sprouts!

Paddy MacAloon could be contrary and was often asked about the name so he just made stuff up.I think the closest to…[Read more]

My efforts to 3-star all of Seasons without any reference to walkthroughs, just for posterity have ground to a halt on quite a few Pig Days levels. I’m starting at the most recent episodes and working back, so this is only the seventh episode I think. Well tough.

@hunnybunny, if you really want to fry your brain!  I’ve done number 1..

https://www.gchq.gov.uk/files/GCHQ%20Christmas%20Challenge%202024.pdf

The 1% Club is stressful.

Twiggy and I were on the beach at Red Dwarf (a.k.a. Red Wharf) Bay this morning and were shocked to discover thousands (in fact I would confidently venture millions) of dead baby starfish. An astonishing sight. Also hundreds of pieces of what I believe is called Sea Pork which looks unnervingly like swollen pink human…[Read more]

Anyway, need to catch up with Quizzy Monday.

On that theme, who can forget the immortal Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack duet “Tonight I Sellotape my Glove to You”. Once heard, never unheard.

Spoiler

Some sources claim that they are both the result of things misheard – in Paddy MacAloon’s case “peppered sprout” from a Johnny Cash song and in Jack White’s case, Salvation Army. I think the second has more truth, but anyway, those origin stories are both out there.

What connects Prefab Spout to Seven Nation Army?

Just because I can https://youtu.be/QeZkLV3ZjeI?si=m500xF7-CMjd99Aj

The most well-known song about Bangor. However, it’s not about Bangor at all, more likely Rhyl about 20 miles along the coast. The lyrics just worked better with Bangor.