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I suspect this has an American derivation....

24 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 24 Bay City Rollers - Summerlove Sensation 24 Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - The Hustle +1 24 Lulu - The Man Who Sold the World +3 21 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 21 Kenny - The Bump 20 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil 20 Hot Chocolate - Emma 20 Slade - Everyday 20 Peters and Lee - Don’t Stay Away Too Long 20 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died 20 R. Dean Taylor - There’s a Ghost in My House 20 Slade - Bangin’ Man 20 Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby 20 The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive 20 Mud - The Secrets That You Keep 20 Fox - Only You Can 20 The Moments and Whatnauts - Girls 20 Peter Shelley - Love Me Love My Dog 20 The Stylistics - Sing Baby Sing 20 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me 20 Bay City Rollers - Money Honey 16 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run 16 Mac and Katie Kissoon - Sugar Candy Kisses -4 00 Gary Glitter - I'd rather not remember you at all -2

23 May 52 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes +4 49 America - A Horse With No Name 41 David Bowie — Life on Mars? 37 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash 23 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain -1 00 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday -5

Once finally convinced that "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt" (Bertrand Russell, not me sadly) is actually bloody true and you'll be fine. Took me a while to believe it and I'm not completely daft, though no longer anywhere near school age.

Their copy of that barrier at a Japanese convenience store is a fail on 3 counts - It's too low, it's see through, and there's no view of Mount Fuji in the first place.

22nd May 50 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 48 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 41 America - A Horse With No Name 33 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash +4 28 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain 20 Hawkwind - Silver Machine +4 13 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 13 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 00 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack -6 Temptation accepted. I'm ok with Carly. Actually I'm ok with the shangri-la's too, nothing I detested here but we need to move on.

"Suvarnabhumi airport general manager Kittipong Kittikachorn" Now that's a name. Never mind the difficulties of specifying the airport to your taxi driver.

"73 year old British man with a heart condition". So.... A: Heart attack leaps up the probability order. and B: British! So we'll get to hear every nuance rather than it all fading into the background.

Aye, I know mate. And I'm no defender of Boeing. Just rather focus on their actual flaws. It isn't, not by a long way. That's an absolutely massive drop. No, they don't because - as above. Whistle under seat in case of ditch in ocean 2000 miles from land. Handy. Oh wait not that kind of whistle blower. Yeah, they can .

FWIW, my guess would be no seatbelt, out of chair, broke neck or such on roof/overhead locker. Clear air turbulence can occasionally be that bad. I barely fly anymore but have always kept the seatbelt on. Not this time Willz. Their behaviour as a corporation has been attrocious and it's not an unreasonable thought at all but this could as easily have been an Airbus, it wasn't due to a fault with the plane.

21 May 51 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 48 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 43 America - A Horse With No Name 34 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain 29 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash 26 Hawkwind - Silver Machine +4 18 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 18 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 17 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack -6

This will come as a complete surprise to.....oh yeah, nobody.

They are, but I personally don't think he is particularly mentally feeble (he has at least the strength of character to keep turning up here despite what must be around the 3rd highest facepalm count). Merely misguided and seeking conspiracy theories under every rock using his tin-foil-hat device. On the plus side, it's his first comment in what must be years now that isn't about the illuminati sponsored vaccine armageddon. Small steps. ETA: Mere seconds ago I just read This which seems extraordinarily apposite just at this precise moment. I wonder if it's a sign from God? ()

I hear you - after a fashion anyway. But the problem for me is that it's exactly that, the interest is that it's a novelty song with a sad tale. What that doesn't do, for me at least, is make it repeatable. Musically it's banal at best and an earworm at worst. Still, if we all liked the same stuff these threads would be damn short lived.

So did I but I guess it's a bit marmite. It's also not really representative of their general output. I really like the album Quark Strangeness and Charm (as an example only, there's quite a lot), which I think is much better than this oddity of a single.

Sad Times New Roman

A bit too compact for my liking. In another life I learned to fly: One of aviations most useless commodites - runway that's behind you. I'm kidding again . It's fine so long as you're not in an A380.

These how people look 'on the outside' lists are godawful. I wouldn't fuck Kim Kardashian with yours. Jo Brand is beautiful on the inside. I'd kick both of them out for Ruth Gemmel any day. Also reminded of - 'Of course I'd swap you for Michelle Pfeifer, but I'd have the grace to feel guilty about it'. (not perhaps verbatim, it's from memory only and a bonus point to anyone remembers where it's from). *this post is not fckin serious, none of these people would touch me with a bargepole, and rightly so.

20 May 51 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes +4 49 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 40 America - A Horse With No Name 33 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain 32 Hawkwind - Silver Machine 30 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack 28 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 27 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash 20 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 6 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies -6

19 May 47 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes +4 46 America - A Horse With No Name 45 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 37 Hawkwind - Silver Machine 36 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash 31 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain 30 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 30 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack 26 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 12 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies -6 06 Python Lee Jackson - In A Broken Dream

Nah, only me messing about for (my usual lame) comedic effect. In truth I assumed it was something to do with Blackburn Rovers and football in general.

I was tempted to go with Rover, but we've got our own @RoverAndOut and don't want to cause offence . Fenton also crossed my mind, but too many people don't know the video or mishear it as Benton. So, yes, don't know what happened to Fido really, seems dogs names have the same fashion issue as humans.

Tell that to my mates kid Fido.

You don't know some of my friends ...... Edit: And now whilst I think of it the only Craig I actually know is a player on my pool team. But I forgot that - because - he detests it so much himself that he goes by 'Sally'. And no, I'm not making this up, it seems to amuse him (and other teams we play when we cheer him on).

So where does that leave the actor Craig Charles?