Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 286871 times)

citoyen · « **Reply #1275 on:** 13 August, 2018, 11:33:03 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 13 August, 2018, 10:09:29 pm

Quote from: citoyen on 13 August, 2018, 09:01:41 pm
Darwin Golfinos may well be this year’s Emmanuel Guttenplan.
Yebbut Darwin Davis is winning the facial hair contest.

I'm not sure "winning" is the word I'd use for that.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1276 on:** 14 August, 2018, 10:39:33 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 13 August, 2018, 09:01:41 pm

Darwin Golfinos may well be this year’s Emmanuel Guttenplan.

Should my friend have heard of these people? She's anxious to avoid channelling the wrong zeitgeist

citoyen · « **Reply #1277 on:** 14 August, 2018, 11:17:02 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 August, 2018, 10:39:33 am

Quote from: citoyen on 13 August, 2018, 09:01:41 pm
Darwin Golfinos may well be this year’s Emmanuel Guttenplan.

Should my friend have heard of these people? She's anxious to avoid channelling the wrong zeitgeist

Multiple choice question...
Are these people:
a) Colombian pro cyclists
b) Game of Thrones characters
c) contestants on University Challenge

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1278 on:** 14 August, 2018, 11:23:37 am »

Radio 4 is currently broadcasting a programme about narwhals.

citoyen · « **Reply #1279 on:** 14 August, 2018, 11:31:50 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 August, 2018, 11:23:37 am

Radio 4 is currently broadcasting a programme about narwhals.

Have they referred to the non-ungulate nature of the beast yet?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1280 on:** 14 August, 2018, 12:13:22 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 14 August, 2018, 11:17:02 am

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 August, 2018, 10:39:33 am
Quote from: citoyen on 13 August, 2018, 09:01:41 pm
Darwin Golfinos may well be this year’s Emmanuel Guttenplan.

Should my friend have heard of these people? She's anxious to avoid channelling the wrong zeitgeist

Multiple choice question...
Are these people:
a) Colombian pro cyclists
b) Game of Thrones characters
c) contestants on University Challenge

I'm guessing c, because the names aren't bizarre enough for a and they don't get a mention in "Winter Is Coming: The Medieval World Of GoT^*".

* buy now for Christmas

citoyen · « **Reply #1281 on:** 16 August, 2018, 04:23:36 pm »

Today's brilliantly pedantic topic for discussion on the afternoon show on 6Music was how far the Proclaimers would walk. Highly entertaining.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1282 on:** 21 August, 2018, 01:42:53 pm »

I have just booked two tickets for a WAM* gig in Vienna.

*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of course! Who else?

Peter · « **Reply #1283 on:** 21 August, 2018, 03:56:50 pm »

That's a relief: the main bloke in the other W(H)AM is already dead.

Peter · « **Reply #1284 on:** 21 August, 2018, 03:57:40 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 21 August, 2018, 01:42:53 pm

I have just booked two tickets for a WAM* gig in Vienna.

*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of course! Who else?

Bet he doesn't turn up.

spesh · « **Reply #1285 on:** 21 August, 2018, 06:26:23 pm »

Quote from: Peter on 21 August, 2018, 03:57:40 pm

Quote from: Wowbagger on 21 August, 2018, 01:42:53 pm
I have just booked two tickets for a WAM* gig in Vienna.

*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of course! Who else?

Bet he doesn't turn up.

If I may just channel Tom Lehrer, it is sobering to think that when Mozart was my age, he'd been dead ten years.

Jaded · « **Reply #1286 on:** 21 August, 2018, 06:35:18 pm »

I’m still getting my head round Wowbagger going to see Dido.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1287 on:** 21 August, 2018, 06:44:29 pm »

Next thing he'll be drinking 7 Up, as consumed by Aeneas.

Peter · « **Reply #1288 on:** 22 August, 2018, 02:47:39 pm »

Quote from: spesh on 21 August, 2018, 06:26:23 pm

Quote from: Peter on 21 August, 2018, 03:57:40 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 21 August, 2018, 01:42:53 pm
I have just booked two tickets for a WAM* gig in Vienna.

*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of course! Who else?

Bet he doesn't turn up.

If I may just channel Tom Lehrer, it is sobering to think that when Mozart was my age, he'd been dead ten years.

Yes, that has always been a cracker. Are you a Victor Borge fan, too?

spesh · « **Reply #1289 on:** 22 August, 2018, 03:11:05 pm »

The name rings a bell, but I haven't listened to any of his stuff.

<Googles>

Or watched it - some of the gags don't really work on audio only.

Peter · « **Reply #1290 on:** 22 August, 2018, 03:16:43 pm »

I came to him via audio recordings, so I suppose they are available somewhere. I've got a video, too - how his co-performers (victims) keep going is beyond me!

Steph · « **Reply #1291 on:** 22 August, 2018, 07:40:33 pm »

I remember one Borge line:

We come now to Bach, the first of the three B's. Well, the first if you don't count Buxtehude, and let's face it, who the hell counts Buxtehude?

Peter · « **Reply #1292 on:** 22 August, 2018, 09:14:21 pm »

"Tchaikovsky.... seafood. Oh, sorry - see foot note...."

T42 · « **Reply #1293 on:** 23 August, 2018, 08:33:24 am »

When I remember a Borge gag it usually turns out to have been Hoffnung.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1294 on:** 23 August, 2018, 08:42:15 pm »

"He wrote it in 4 flats. He moved house three times before he'd finished it."

Peter · « **Reply #1295 on:** 23 August, 2018, 09:37:26 pm »

Yes, that's part of the "sea food" routine. VB must have had something going for him because I haven't heard the routine for over 50 years.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1296 on:** 28 August, 2018, 01:09:07 pm »

The King of Jordan featured as an extra in one episode of Star Trek Voyager.

Steph · « **Reply #1297 on:** 29 August, 2018, 12:36:04 pm »

Just back from Shrewsbury Folk Festival. Buzzing and rather sore in the tips of my left-hand fingers. I broke a string on Monday night, which is rather less dramatic than last year, when I snapped a plectrum.

Richard Thompson, Show of Hands and many others on superb form.

Gattopardo · « **Reply #1298 on:** 29 August, 2018, 09:09:16 pm »

Bit late to the Upstart crow tv show. Is Bun Ultoon trying to help his kids studying shakespeare at school?

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1299 on:** 31 August, 2018, 03:36:59 pm »

The Man With The Golden Gun, a truly shite Bond film was on TV last night. In Crawley Down, a few miles from here, is a war memorial featuring James John Scaramanga. Apparently Ian Fleming was at school with James John's brother and got in a fight with him, thus getting him onto the Fleming List of Baddies (see also Erno Goldfinger.)