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Seasonal but an old chestnut. There’s plenty of roads in the City of London and since a boundary change in the mid 90s even one Road - Goswell Road makes a marginal intrusion at the road’s south-eastern edge. The big question is how many pubs are there in the City of London?
Humperdinck’s original name was Arnold Dorsey but was known for years as Gerry Dorsey due to his impersonations of Jerry Lewis. Gordon Mills, his close friend and manager came up with the idea for the name change while they were sharing a flat in Bayswater. Mills had form, he’d earlier persuaded a singer he saw in a Welsh working mens club to change his name from Tom Woodward to Tom Jones. Later he would make Ray O’Sullivan change his name to Gilbert O’Sullivan. He managed both of them too. Mills co-wrote ‘It’s not Unusual’ but the only reason Tom Jones recorded it was because Sandie Shaw turned it down. Mills’ daughter was called Clair - the inspiration for the Gilbert O’Sullivan song. The original Engelbert Humperdinck was German - most famous for his opera Hansel & Gretel. I was reading about all this only the other week.
A mate of mine was ejected from Craven Cottage for throwing sugar cubes at Peter Shilton. In his defence (my mates not Shilts - Pete was playing for Orient at the time so wouldn’t have had much of a defence) he was only 11 and said the big boys made him do it.
Over short distances papaya fruit can move at speeds of up to 80km/h. This only happens in their natural habitat after being sellotaped to a jaguar’s arse.
Never been tempted to use the ignore button. Just had a monkey around with it - it makes this thread completely disappear. I’m gonna give it a week’s trial.
Same here tho for some reason I say the last bit Micky Torah in a Geordie accent as Micky Torah sounds like someone who’d drink bottles of Newcastle Brown.