Who were Lennon & McCartney? They used to run a cheese stall on Birkenhead Market. Who were Torville and Dean? I don’t know, but weren’t they always just a short skate from this cinema? Who were Tom and Jerry? Founder-members of the Grateful Dead. Who were Dumb and Dumber? The nickname given by the players…
Today’s WordPress Daily Prompt asks us to answer the ten standard questions that James Lipton asks his guests on ‘Inside The Actor’s Studio’. For those unfamiliar with the programme, it was an American talk show that ran from 1994 to 2019. It’s basic format was that James Lipton, the host, would interview a single guest…
“A rose by any other name…” Nitro A moonlight canoe ride. Skinny Legs A flamingo. Iron A pressing engagement. Mailman A tautology. BoJo Oxygen thief. Teflon Tony Truth thief. Iron Lady Milk thief. J.Lo A depressed member of the species Garrulus glandarius. Smokin’ Younger members of the same family. Bottler Brown Geordie brewery employee. Fibbing…
Forty Two “Granpa?” (yes, it’s that boy again), “What’s the meaning of existence?” I know my limitations. A question that has occupied the finest minds of Homo Sapiens – and, for all we know, other species as well (those dolphins are no slouches) – for thousands of years was hardly going to receive a definitive answer on the way…
Bleedin’ LLLLLLLLL….. Lunkhead Well duh. The head of a lunk. Lugubrious Lugubrious? Moi? Lickspittle Essential quality for members of White House staff. Lampoon A more humane, but totally ineffective, means of capturing a whale. Lollywater What you get when a Mivvi melts. Lollypopper Lolita’s father. Lumpen Manipulable element of the proletariat. Loofah The scarcity of…
Con artistry….(includes bonus Question 11: one for the francophones). Conservative Used to describe a person who wishes to retain their existing possessions and, wherever possible, add to them by taking more from those with less. Conspire Pointed tower forming part of a building literally designed by the above in order to strike the fear of…
This particular oeuvre was originally offered up to my eager mass audience on the 19th of May 2014 and has subsequently garnered no fewer than two views – the first of which was eight years later. So don’t try and tell me that you’ve already seen it. It was written in response to one of…
Courtesy of the estimable Jim Adams, this week we have to tell porkies about ancient Egypt. Who was buried in King Tut’s tomb? Shergar Why did the Sphinx have a lion’s body and a human head? Because it was easier to do it like that rather than the other way round. What month of the…
Well now, today’s prompt for Song Lyric Sunday presents an interesting epistemological conundrum. Jim wants a song from ‘a forgotten band’. Hang on though: if we can write about it, they can’t be forgotten, can they? But enough of this chop logic – on with the back story. It’s early October 1970 and my first…
Our challenge for Song Lyric Sunday this week is to post something from a band that you wish were still together. I know what you’re thinking – the good old Grateful Dead, right? Wrong. Some might argue that the GD legacy lives on through ‘Dead and Company’ (and some earlier, similar iterations) but for me…
the only deadhead in the hameau 