A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..

[Kim]

Question on Pointless today:



No prizes for guessing which was the best answer...

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The scores on the doors:
a - 89
b - 7
c - 84
d - 90
e - 76

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B. HPVelotechnik Grasshopper

What do I win?

[cycleman]

Our undying admiration ?

[Bledlow]

I have just discovered that 'lovable cockney' Arthur Mullard was an evil bastard, guilty of extreme violence against his family & sexual abuse of his daughter from when she was 13. The sexual abuse was the reason his wife gave for her suicide, according to the daughter.

And he added insult to injury by leaving his children (including the abused daughter, who nursed him in his decrepitude) very small sums, most of his estate being left to a charity.

[Legs]

Whenever I hear the song Walking In Memphis by Marc Cohn (currently playing on R2), and hear the line

W.C. Handy, (won't you look down over me)

I always think, "ooh, that's convenient that there's a WC handy!" 

[citoyen]

Our undying admiration ?

Kim knows she has that already.

And I thought I was being a smartarse by observing that the correct answer to D is 'Ordinary'...

[T42]

Whenever I hear the song Walking In Memphis by Marc Cohn (currently playing on R2), and hear the line

W.C. Handy, (won't you look down over me)

I always think, "ooh, that's convenient that there's a WC handy!" 

The handbook of our car rabbits on about it having a "convenience key". They mean the electronic doodah that you keep in your pocket.

[Wowbagger]

Wow! Joint winners! Well done Mongolia! Well done Scotland!

[Tim Hall]

Watching The Shawshank Redemption. Andy Dufresne has just escaped through the sewer, which, according to Red, is 500 yards long, the length of five football pitches or "almost half a mile." That's a mile which has 440 yards in a quarter. 

[Kim]

Sewage miles count double.

If I ever have to break out of prison, I'll be doing it in metric.

[Wowbagger]

Stunning performance by Catrina Morrison tonight. Well-deserved winner!

[Quisling]

Loving the weekly Guardian comedy piss takey reviews of Poldark each week. Nearly as entertaining as Ross's old aunt trolling Evil George Warleggan.

Also:Prudie cracking on to the young religious man was hilarious/terrifying.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Sewage miles count double.

If I ever have to break out of prison, I'll be doing it in metric.

I'll be doing it in a wetsuit. Or a helicopter.

[Cudzoziemiec]

She put Onyeka Onwenu's 'One Love' on the stereo

I expected a Nigerian cover of Bob Marley but I was disappointed. So I'm enjoying Fela Kuti instead.

[Ham]

Making movies better by subtracting one letter

[T42]

You could do the same by adding a letter, e.g. Star Warts.

[citoyen]

You could do the same by adding a letter, e.g. Star Warts.

Or even Sitar Wars

[Bledlow]

I've just discovered that American Gods (Neil Gaiman) has been made into a TV series. It looks very heavily adapted, though.

[Mr Larrington]

I've just discovered that American Gods (Neil Gaiman) has been made into a TV series. It looks very heavily adapted, though.

Apparently it's going to be three series.  I ate'nt watched any of it yet but Miss von Brandenburg said episode one had some very graphic killin's in it.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Earlier my son and his mother (but not my brother(!)) were watching something (Sherlock?) which included the Bee Gees Staying Alive. So after having embarrassed one of them with the wings of heaven on my shoes(!), I'm having a listen to it myself – and noticing the lyrics. They really do not make sense.
We can try to understand
The New York Times effect on man
 

[Ruthie]

Was it a commentary on the effect of print media on men's lived experience of sexuality?

[Cudzoziemiec]

O co Ci chodzi? Anyway, wouldn't it be the effect on dancing styles? But wasn't Saturday Night Fever set in San Francisco (a city I always think of as Sin Fun-disco)?

[Cudzoziemiec]

That's now reminded me that when Metro (the free paper) was introduced to Poland, it was advertised on billboards with a bloke saying "I'm Metrosexual". Just imagine what BL could have done if that word had been around when they were making the Metro! (?!?!? ??)

[Ruthie]

O co Ci chodzi? Anyway, wouldn't it be the effect on dancing styles? But wasn't Saturday Night Fever set in San Francisco (a city I always think of as Sin Fun-disco)?

Dunno, I was just being a smartarse for the sake of a cheap laugh.

[Basil]

O co Ci chodzi? Anyway, wouldn't it be the effect on dancing styles? But wasn't Saturday Night Fever set in San Francisco (a city I always think of as Sin Fun-disco)?

We've always called it Fat Sam's Disco.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Fat Sam's Disco is an ace name! 

The Bee Gees' song that best fits YACF is:
Bike fever, bike fever,
We know how to do it

Clearly a song about riding through the night on the Dunwich Dynamo.