If you're a fan of classic pop trivia (and if you're not - what's the matter with you?) this is a truly splendid thread.

'Trying hard to recreate what had yet to be created'
What a Fool Believes - the Doobie Brothers.
In fact, just make it the whole damn song

'Every week I care for my kids every other week.' All right Moebius keep your divorce on.

Here’s a poem called ‘An Extra Day’.

Tell me about your worst work mistakes. Sometimes I comfort myself with not being the person who got a ship stuck in the Suez Canal but that's not working today.

People now aware of the #PostOfficeScandal thanks to ITV's #MrBatesVsThePostOffice say a drama should be made about #Windrush .

Errrrrr, Sitting In Limbo has been on BBC iPlayer for ages. Sad it still lacks the audience it deserves.
#Justice4Windrush
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bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Clever stuff, this. Innit blood.

Good evening.

Years ago, out of nowhere, a young man lifted my skirt and revealed my underwear to a crowded pub. I screamed at him but didn’t report because at the time, it would’ve been seen as high jinx, silliness. He’s soon to appear on a popular TV show. And I feel sick all over again.

As just seen on #LateLateShow

We Didn’t Start the Fire but it’s Ireland 2023

Many years ago I was up for the voice over for a sweetie advert. I turn up and the “creatives” are the usual gang of lounging Tarquins. I’m just about to start reading when Tarquin #1 says “Yeah, we were just wondering… can you do a Belfast accent?”
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L.S. Lowry's hallway at Mottram in Longdendale, by Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe. Taken on February 24 1976, the day after Lowry died aged 88.

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Aw no, Shane McGowan.
Interviewing him was both a total nightmare and the deepest of joys. You just had to down a few drinks, buckle up and go with the ride.
A poet, a troubadour, a philosopher of gaels. I don't have the words. But he DEFINITELY would have.
RIP you king

The MD Top 40 worst Christmas presents of our youth list. In order.

*This thread is not a sneer at people who had little. It is a glorious celebration of their love and inventiveness. 🙏

Ranking Roger photographed when The Beat played Birmingham’s Bingley Hall on this day in 1981

This is achingly lovely, with humour and depth. Love to know who the illustrator/animator is? What a perfect thing.

These Fast Show deleted scenes are amazing

A little gem from the very great Mr Cooper, have a brilliant day & week.

A Neil Simon shout-out in David Fincher's The Killer.