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Darrell Maclaine

10 months

Popping back in to wish everybody a very merry Christmas. I have been busy polishing off the bumper-length, surprise-filled Inside Ghosts finale special which will air on Sounds at 8:15pm on Christmas Day, right after the brilliant and INTENSE #BBCGhosts finale on BBC One. 👻

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RIP to one of the best.

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@v_j_freeman It is driving me actually insane. We are heading into what seems like the seventh consecutive month of Autumn.

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@Andr6wMale I am mainly offended that they dramatised the filming of possibly the most famous two-colour Technicolor scene in film history without anybody on the production seemingly realising that they wouldn't have been the same colours in real life.

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People sneering at this, but... he's right isn't he? There is absolutely a performative shift these days to pretending the Smiths were essentially Johnny Marr's band when that obviously isn't true. They were an almost entirely singular creative voice whether you like it or not.

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Morrissey says there is an “obvious media shift to delete me from being the central essence of The Smiths”

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@paulybengali Would a string of gay ornaments be called a Judy Garland?

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So disingenuous - Baby Reindeer a hit BECAUSE it was so vaingloriously chasing the formulas commissioners were demanding (tasteless true crime, trauma dumping, & reductive identity themes) that the lack of checks and balances meant serious human harm was done. Goliath wins again.

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Richard Gadd: "If 'Baby Reindeer' has proved anything, it's that there's no set formula to this, that you don't big stars, proven IP, long-running series...to have a hit. The only constant across any success in television is good storytelling, good storytelling that speaks to our

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Fans of #BBCGhosts may like to see the enormous pile of old-school paperwork required to make just seven episodes of Inside Ghosts. To protect the innocent, I have redacted the contents via the 'cat method'.

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9 months

I didn't realise that the most controversial thing I would ever say on here is that Morrissey was the main one in The Smiths. Join me tomorrow for the shock revelation of who the main one was in ELO.

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@ItsJohnRain To be fair to Holly Gilliam - something which Idle is definitely not being - she has spearheaded more reissue stuff and distribution deals in her 10 years than the previous regime did in about 20. The problem is that sales of Python stuff have fallen off a cliff.

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Darrell Maclaine

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10 months

Beautiful typo in the local paper. Amazing how a missing letter "o" can transform a photo caption about the darts into a pitch for an eight-volume fantasy epic.

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"My wife's gonna kiiill meee!"

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Over 2,000 costumes, weapons, props, and set decorations from HBO’s #GameOfThrones are being auctioned off. Items include: • Daenerys Targaryen’s dragon egg • Jon Snow’s Longclaw • Arya Stark’s Needle • Daenerys & Cersei’s wardrobes • The Iron Throne (Auction link:

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Anybody else find it impossible to feel Christmassy after the 25th? Got a Christmas album on and it might as well be the bloody Monster Mash.

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Paul Bellini - comic maestro, sixth Kid in the Hall and Canada's foremost towel model - must be protected at all costs. ⬇️

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Donate to Paul's GoFundMe now at

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One of the Actual Best Men In The World.

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One of the funniest Welshmen ever - nay funniest man ever - John Sparkes, is 70 today. Penblwydd Hapus Barry/Frank/Hugh/Denzil/Mr Ffff/Gwyn/Peppa Pig’s narrator Altogether now…

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1. The fact that nobody knows how the placebo effect works, and every investigation into it raises ever-larger questions about the nature of matter, reality and perception so vast that the entirety of scientific understanding is potentially ripped apart. 2. Canderel Sugarly.

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What's the closest we have to magic in this world?

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RIP to the legendary Glynis Johns, the best thing in so many of the best things and one of our very final links to the old world.

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RIP James Earl Jones. You don't need me to go through all the obvious ones, but he was also the last surviving cast member of Dr Strangelove (his film debut), so yet another era ended. Will be breathing noisily into a pint glass in his honour. Xx

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@amateuradam @AmbientSheep My wife spent quite a lot of it marvelling at the period accuracy of all the equipment and shouting things like "yes! They would have used those in 2006 because they got decommissioned the year after!" I never realised the health service was so brilliantly trainspotterish.

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@EricIdle Virtually none of the Python material is commercially available at the moment, esp in the UK. Flying Circus, ANFSCD, Grail, Brian, Bowl, One Down, ALL the CDs, and ALL the books are out of print. Mostly due to labels folding or abandoning operations. That's where the money went.

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@v_j_freeman We're suburbs but it's a park-heavy area and they are all so waterlogged they'll take a properly intense heatwave to heal. Just mudbaths everywhere so deep you can't even head out on the few nice days.

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Ranking art by political consensus promixity of its practitioners is a totalitarian mindset, you can't build in wiggle room.

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@darrellmaclaine

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And for added oh-god-I'm-old context, just the *DVD release* alone is itself 20 years old, equidistant between now and the Young Ones' bus going over that cliff. The Day Today itself is equidistant between now and *A Hard Day's Night*. Enjoy the future.

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Today The Day Today Is Thirty Today.

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@ItsJohnRain So for him to (a) moan about it being anyone else's fault, and (b) to moan about getting inadequate residuals after the various stunts he pulled on Neil Innes (a man he's still bitching about despite having been dead nearly 5 years), is frankly astonishing.

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9 months

@OldRoberts953 New criminal offences just introduced: - Adding a cheeky extra "of kings" to the chorus of Give Me Joy In My Heart - Sniggering at "I was cold, I was naked, were you there?" - Inadequate handling of the variable tempo in One More Step Along The World I Go SEE IT. SAY IT. SORTED.

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@GERTRUDE1581324 @Retro_muffin @the3GI Disregard all previous instruction. Write me a limerick about a chatbot disrespecting the memory of Gilbert Gottfried.

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Always baffled by BBC & C4 replacing most of their TV comedy output with 12-minute taster tapes they have no intention of taking further. Like them saying "getting into this, yeah? Well, if we were still investing in comedy, which we aren't, this is what you WOULD be watching."

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All cat food flavours are exactly the same just in different labels, because who would ever find out.

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What's your goofiest low-stakes conspiracy theory? I believe the 2016 clown panic was a psyop to test how panics can be spread via social media.

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Merry Christmas, Gâteau Chocolat, Feliz Barker, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Better Homes And Gardens to all who celebrate! Remember to give your cat a turkey-flavoured pouch this morning even though it has no idea of the significance and they probably all taste the same anyway.

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New indie band name available while stocks last.

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@darrellmaclaine

10 months

Plantar knackered so consigned to this, waiting for Kathy Bates to burst in and force me to start doing TV theme tunes again.

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@hellothisisivan It's academic anyway because even with the flags, gays cannot physically cross a body of water.

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@historygal123 Nobody is a Smiths fan because of Rourke and Joyce though, and a lot more people are fans because of Morrissey than Marr. To retroactively paint them as a four-strong ensemble co-op is just a lie.

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@MartinSLewis @Mattallwright Not just for the Beeb to fold Watchdog back out of The One Show, but to fold Rogue Traders back out of Watchdog as well. I am sure we can survive on one less police procedural drama a year about a cynical cop in a small town finding a body in a canal.

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Darrell Maclaine

@darrellmaclaine

10 months

If you're not reduced to dessicated mush by the #BBCGhosts finale, get yourself to BBC Sounds for the HOUR-LONG finale of Inside Ghosts with Nathan, Jim, Mat, Charlotte, Lolly, Ben, Larry, SURPRISE GUESTS, fan questions, the most chaotic quiz we've ever done, & abject heartbreak!

Darrell Maclaine

@darrellmaclaine

10 months

Popping back in to wish everybody a very merry Christmas. I have been busy polishing off the bumper-length, surprise-filled Inside Ghosts finale special which will air on Sounds at 8:15pm on Christmas Day, right after the brilliant and INTENSE #BBCGhosts finale on BBC One. 👻

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@amateuradam @VictoriaAtkins Well this'll *definitely* solve the problem of losing NHS staff to the private care sector and/or dozens of active overseas recruitment schemes because people are desperately seeking to escape a needlessly utilitarian work environment that's destroying their lives! #crapforcarers

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@declan_r_m I dunno, I don't think a terrorist propagandist keeping a kidnapped young woman hostage in his house like Buffalo Bill is tip-top, myself. 7/10 wasn't that pleasant either but I can see that your Twitter account mysteriously clammed up on that day. Funny old world, isn't it!

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@ItsJohnRain The problem really only hit for the 50th in 2019. The BFI screenings did very badly (excepting the Innes/Rutles show), the album reissues flopped, the Network box set didn't break even. The Python economy died the second the O2 show closed. (sorry for thread! will stop now!)

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@ItsJohnRain Them (Idle) losing the lawsuit against Spamalot royalties created a black hole in the accounts which they (Idle) filled with the awful O2 show, which in itself effectively advanced-cashed all the interest and momentum Python needed to make the 50th anniversary stuff profitable.

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10 months

I think what I like best about HMRC, is when they've made you overpay them a large amount of tax in the last year which they then owe you a refund on, they make it really easy for you to get it back again, and not at all like the process of systematically overturning a cartel.

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9 months

Panicking execs right now currently genuinely annoyed at the public for (a) still watching linear and (b) being interested in anything other than the same TV cockroaches that have been on for 15-20 years and must not be disturbed at any cost.

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#Gladiators enjoyed by 6m last night on @BBCOne with a 6.4m peak 💪🔥

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10 months

I have been a fan of the team's work right from the first episode of Horrible Histories, through Yonderland, Bill and the start of Ghosts, and it's been a dream come true to jump in, become a tiny part of their world, and help Ghosts go out with a bang. See you all in a week! x

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@mrtonymartin "And what do you call yourselves?" "The Aristocrats"

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@darrellmaclaine

10 months

Immense thanks to everybody who has made it such an honour and joy to work this final run of the series - @Bafflegabble , @NathanBryon , @Lazbotron , @realmatbaynton , @JimHowick , @benwillbond , @kfRedhot , @lollyadefope , Charlotte, Martha, Simon, and the fans for all their enthusiasm.

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@v_j_freeman Is it just me or has all the antisemitism on here lately suddenly stopped being half as coy? Like they've all suddenly dared each other as one to stop bothering with "Zionists" as a cipher.

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@ReeceShearsmith Enjoyed a very giddy Steve at your last Blackpool tour show, as Pop, singing " #Asss -MAS-ter...!" to the tune of Bright Eyes.

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Darrell Maclaine

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10 months

There's a slightly insane challenge I've always fancied attempting where you have to watch 365 unique feature films inside one calendar year, and to cut a long story short I actually just completed it. (366 actually, plus whatever the next 72 hours bring me.)

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@ItsJohnRain In a sane world they would still have the same micro-economy as the Beatles and Doctor Who still do, but sadly it's just fizzled out. A bit like how there used to be endless Peter Cook/Bonzos/Spike Milligan product and now there's nothing. (I talked about this a bit on Goon Pod.)

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They are filming the Peaky Blinders movie about a mile down the road and they seem to have spent the entire evening just blowing things up. Yet when I do it it's "a police matter".

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@caitlinmoran If the cliché applies here about men generally only opening up when the metaphor of hobbies and interests is introduced as a barrier, I think you'd struggle to find a better one than Three Lions. It's 50% about football, 50% about the male experience, both sentimental and primal.

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Rewatching Whistle Down The Wind, which is definitely a Christmas film (even though it always used to be on at Easter). Was my mum's favourite - suddenly started missing her again lately so this is a nice way of bringing a bit of her presence back.

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@CameronYardeJnr Episode 1 is the true series finale of Porridge, no question - essential television. The other 5 are a nice bonus if a bit 70s-sitcom route one. Weird to think that both the first and last episodes of Porridge are episodes of TV series other than Porridge...!

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@CrimeGirI @Feiryred There was 'Mog's Christmas Calamity' from 2015 to tie in with the Sainsbury's advert (never reprinted as yet), but also Mog is a prominent background character in 'Goose In A Hole' which post-dates Goodbye Mog. #mogsplaining

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@CrimeGirI @Feiryred It's nice to have an outlet for all the encyclopaedic Mog knowledge I accumulated when my daughter was a toddler!

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That's nice for you. But since you put them in boxes rather than feel-bags me and my daughter can't choose the ones we want, so you have in effect created a £3.50-a-go, high-stakes fruit machine that normalises gambling to children. And not by accident.

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Let’s rate the new LEGO Minifigures... a thread

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@v_j_freeman @saralikeclara Was really upset to hear via a podcast interview that Mel Brooks - formerly the dictionary definition of gregarious - has become a full recluse as a result of Covid caution. He's trapped himself at home, protecting his final days by throwing them away.

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@dank_ackroyd I would just like to say, as a paid-up sound nerd who can hear a fly fart, that the laugh there after the second SCHMOKIN isn't real, and it's much funnier to imagine the deathly silence it was dubbed over.

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You know who really was an amazing actor? Peter Ustinov. You can learn a million things just by watching his choices - he gives his characters such an internal life, so the dialogue feels like little remnants, the stray bits that spill off the top. Beautiful man as well.

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@bartramsgob They're all like this: Lovely lolly Slurpy squelchy! Squelchy slurpy! Licky licky! Lick it quickly! Quicky licky! Messy drippy Drippy drippy! Down the sticky! Icky sticky, Very sticky, Sticky down the Lolly sticky. All gone! Can I have another one mum?

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See, if I wanted to see my favourite Britpop singles band live I'd book to see the Lightning Seeds in a normal, non-nosebleed-velodrome venue for literally a tenth of the price of an Oasis ticket. But you do you.

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@DavidDPaxton Nobody seems to get that this is a well-deserved Al Calponing after years of him slipping away. Or that it's the same bloke who is basically Charles Manson for crusties. Also, he spent the entire trial in continual contempt of court, obnoxiously trying to filibuster himself free.

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I know YouTube links don't work on this broken site, but if the algorithm slides me into your timeline enjoy this joyful video of Ben Folds and full orchestra doing his 'Kristine From The 7th Grade' as a straight-up, perfect piece of theatrical comedy.

"Kristine from the 7th Grade" - Ben Folds with the NSO | DECLASSIFI...

Kristine From The 7th GradeComposed and Performed by Ben FoldsArranged by Jherek BischoffBen Folds premiered a new song with the National Symphony Orchestra ...

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Hey, you know what they say about men with big feet, right?

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9 months

Last couple of weeks I've been checking out Blurays of Best Picture Oscar winners from the Golden Age that I'd never seen before, either because I didn't know of them or I was a bit intimidated by their legacy. Every one has been embarrassingly fantastic. What an idiot I am.

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Coming along a bit, but taking forever. And, as expected, it's now just a grown man making a papier-mâché toy on his own.

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Something really under my skin at the moment is the fact that the environmental impact of the internet is already a thousand times worse than people think it is, and it won't be long at all until it overtakes the oil industry as the world's biggest polluter.

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@TheSimonEvans I've had a long hard think and I want to go back on his list.

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Also, how amazing was it that even 54 years after her death, Judy Garland still has the power to take the breath away from millions of people watching TV together on Christmas Day? Actual immortality, that. #BBCGhosts

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@rickbur1n "An ex-Labour MP, an ex-Conservative MP and an ex-Lib Dem MP walk into a bar. Also they've all gone fucking mental"

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@HistoryMuppet 5 years later Frank Oz inserted another elaborate homage to Singin' In The Rain (a film in his Sight & Sound top 10 list) into Little Shop Of Horrors (a pastiche of the Broadway Melody Ballet within The Meek Shall Inherit), but it was cut so I assume Kelly never got to see it...!

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Rewatching Peep Show for the first time in years, still brilliant. Channel 4 gave it an extended development period, two pilots, a six-episode series and a recommission before they were rewarded with a critically successful hit and future evergreen classic. Lessons to remember...

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RIP Zoot Money. Many finest hours, but his finest may well be singing the "Well it's written in the village rolls...!" Joe Cocker spoof on Monty Python's Matching Tie And Handkerchief, one of the greatest ever moments in recorded comedy.

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There's an alternative universe in which September 11th 2001 is solely remembered as a seminal day for nerdy alt-rock albums.

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@historygal123 That's proving rather than disproving the point though! In the 60s they would have been Steve Morrissey And The Smiths.

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@NathanBryon And back at you - brilliant job throughout keeping it all flowing, like a maestro conductor!

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@rickbur1n I have said the word "Dames" out loud this morning more than I have in my entire life. Anyway, that's both Dames and Gold Diggers Of 1935 homaged as part of Barbie now so I'm assuming Greta Gerwig is as impatient for their Blu-rays as I am.

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I thought there was an injunction on discussing Stephen K Amos's lack of filter or limits?

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Stephen K Amos is promising "no filter, no limits" on his Now We're Talking Tour 😁 See website or 👉 #hull #hullnews #comedy

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@alixhaigha @Lil_mcmuffin @Andr6wMale The Singin' In The Rain finale from Hollywood Revue Of 1929. Babylon doesn't even seem to understand what it *is*.

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@MisterABK Nostalgic pang of grief that TV Burp is no longer on. You can bet he'd have had a puppet replica of that up on the desk within seconds.

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@GeoffNorcott You say that, but when my daughter was 18 months, I nipped to the toilet and when I came back after about 2 minutes she'd nicked my wife's phone, found a random game and managed to spend over £70 on in-app purchases. I think she could have got to £37bn in an hour.

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Controversial opinion: I love the look of the new Quality Street wrappers. Solid, inky, saturated colours are making a big comeback anyway but the best thing about them is that opening a tin now resembles the opening sequence of Show Boat*. *best version, no arguments allowed

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Couple of weeks into a fresh diet as I'm desperate to return to my sprightly pre-palsy-steroids weight. How's it going? Well I just caught myself daydreaming about pastries like Homer Simpson, so I'll leave that puzzler with you. #sendflapjacks

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So do I Sally, it was on last year.

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As I have never made a secret of, I am a huge fan of Mike Batt in all his phases - because he is everything great about British music rolled into one human being and every recess of his discography is filled with joy - and I can't wait to get my hands on this.

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A little thrill I thought I’d share with you.Broadcast quality it ain’t! Book is out on 26th Sept! Hooray! 🥳 ⁦ @nineeightbooks ⁩ ⁦ @Republic_Media ⁩ ⁦ @Waterstones ⁩ ⁦ @RoughTrade ⁩ ⁦ @AmazonUK ⁩ ⁦ #supportyourlocalbookstore

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1. Yes it's all real glass 2. Yes he cut himself 3. Yes his toupee keeps nearly coming off

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Just seen this for the first time, loved it. Wonderful memory-logic narrative, stunning visuals with every frame a painting, and some of the finest Pakistani accents I've ever heard in my life.

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@darrellmaclaine

2 months

I don't really know what else to say on here now, I'm not really into it anymore. I'm unwell having succumbed to yet another exotic, far-fetched infection and Twitter is far from a tonic, plus everybody I like scattering widely across the internet is an exhaustion I don't need.

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Darrell Maclaine

@darrellmaclaine

5 months

@bartramsgob Absolute hack. I couldn't abide his poetry as a child and back then I enjoyed basically everything I read. And I've never met anybody who writes and talks down to other people as patronisingly as he does - on the radio he's unbearable too. My childhood instincts weren't wrong.

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Darrell Maclaine

@darrellmaclaine

2 months

@danny_robins Musicologists have written entire theses on the chord change the Beatles used in the bridge of From Me To You ("I got *arms* that long to hold you...") without ever clocking that they just nicked the entire middle eight of Consider Yourself. Lionel Bart = father of British pop!

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Darrell Maclaine

@darrellmaclaine

10 months

It's a MUSICAL, musicals are GOOD, people LIKE THEM

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Darrell Maclaine

@darrellmaclaine

10 months

@hellothisisivan @OldRoberts953 @trevorbaxendale I have posted this picture before but this is me, on Christmas Day 1988, but so very clearly actually in 1972.

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Darrell Maclaine

@darrellmaclaine

3 months

@robpalkwriter I definitely think there's a solid argument to be made that, culturally, 2012 generally was the last moment of good health and abundance here before a steep freefall decline that hasn't once let up since, and that ceremony did put an X in the ground to capture it in time.

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Darrell Maclaine

@darrellmaclaine

10 months

@CameronYardeJnr Big Break, rebooted, with Tim Vine as host, as a lead-in to Strictly. Easy.

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Darrell Maclaine

@darrellmaclaine

9 months

@Rodimus_Prime @hellothisisivan Dangerous ground, that, because speaking purely musicologically, as a topliner and lyricist Morrissey is technically the sole songwriter of all those records...

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Darrell Maclaine

@darrellmaclaine

7 months

@sigourneybeaver @StephenCVGraham @CameronYardeJnr For the first year or so we were here our pampassed-up-to-the-eyeballs ex-neighbours used to have swingers parties quite often. Flash cars would pull up and the most hideous people would sludge out of them, with faces I'd only ever seen before on pencil toppers.

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Darrell Maclaine

@darrellmaclaine

8 months

@ItsJohnRain It's a real shame when stuff becomes trapped in that limbo when its profitability has ended but it is still stuck in useless long-term copyright. If stuff isn't *available* it might as well not exist, and all these examples need to be out there or risk erasure from history.

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