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  1. His name was James. Not Jamie.

     

    I can remember his parents making it clear at the time that they did not call him 'Jamie'. To no avail. The gutter media had already decided otherwise. Presumptuous and lazy hacks have ensured that the poor kid even lost his name.


  2. Question 9 might be: What does this poem tell us about Carol Ann Duffy?

     

     

    Now my rant for today. Bloody Waterstones. Someone gave me a £10 gift card at Christmas, and grateful though I was, I really struggled to find anything I wanted that couldn't be found much cheaper elsewhere. Anyway - placed an order, came to £15, filled in all the particulars as required including gift card serial number etc. The items eventually arrived (one was apparently out of stock, so they wouldn't send the other one on its own, bastards).

     

    Aaaaand today my credit card bill has arrived, and you guessed it, they've charged me for the lot, not just the extra fiver. Tossers.


  3. You mean like

     

    And if a double-decker bus

    Crashes in to us

    To die by your side

    Is such a heavenly way to die

    And if a ten ton truck

    Kills the both of us

    To die by your side

    Well the pleasure, the privilege is mine

     

    Funnily enough they did a cover of Twinkle's other song, Golden Lights. (not nearly such a good song as Terry, mind.)


  4. Great stuff, keep em coming.

     

    Now here's a bit of Sixties nostalgia - the English 'Leader of the Pack'. Banned by the BBC!

     

    Twinkle with

     

    He rode into the night, accelerated his motorbike

    I cried to him in fright, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it ...


  5. Perhaps I've missed something, but I can't see a topic collecting all those gruesome pop songs featuring death.

     

    To start the ball rolling, here's murderer R. Dean Taylor on the run in 1970 (and probably not surviving the hail of gunfire at the end).

     

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