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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 2h

Lawrence Olivier, in a fatsuit, twanging a rubber band for 15 minutes.

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 2h

My earliest dateable memory is my parents discussing what the car in the video for Ghost Town by The Specials was.

extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 2h

Didn't Fat Larry die in the 80s?

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 3h

Trivia time! The only Fall single to make the Top 40 that wasn't a cover? That would be 1992's "Free Range" which got dangerously dancey in places as MES warned of the dangers of...himself probably.

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TEATLES @teatles.bsky.social · 3h

KELP!

Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 3h

Change a letter, ruin a song.
Got To Get You Into My Wife

Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 4h

Change a letter, ruin a song.
I Can Pee For Miles

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 3h

Introducing the Manics to the sights of the Top 40 was "Stay Beautiful" from August 1991. And aren't we all grateful they didn't *guitar riff*?

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 5h

Dojo Want To Know A Secret

Baby You're A Rishiki Man

The Ballad Of John and Yokozuna

Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 5h

Whoops, I forgot to add this London pic.
Three guesses as to where our rikishi are here?
On second thought, reduce it to one!

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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 5h

Whoops, I forgot to add this London pic.
Three guesses as to where our rikishi are here?
On second thought, reduce it to one!

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 5h

This is seriously a beautiful photo.

(Sumo wrestlers Abi and Wakamotoharu in front of an Assyrian, or possibly Babylonian, relief in the British Museum. They are extending their arms to each other in imitation of the figures on the relief.)

Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h

With his best friend, Wakamotoharu. You'll remember the two of them created such distress for sumo elders when a young Abi posted on SMS a pic of a tied-and-bound (with electric tape) Wakamotoharu.
That prank cost ALL rikishi the privilege to post and text for years!

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 6h

Produced by Chris Difford youtu.be/ASvC6xOg6Cw?...

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 1d

The death in August has been announced of Philip Elsmore, the first and last continuity announcer on Thames (1968 to 1992) and the last person to appear on screen in a Morecambe & Wise Christmas special.

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 1d

"You got that picture of the new Marinas?"

"Yeah boss, really looking like one crashed into the other."

The Car Factoids @thecarfactoids.bsky.social · 1d

Factoid: October sees the half century of two revised BL cars & here’s one of them though if things had been different buyers would’ve got a new car as opposed to the start of a series of marketing-inspired refreshes…

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 1d

Leyland Your Love On Me #ABBATrucks

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 1d

As mentioned in the @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social when a young Mark Lewisohn used to go there.

Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social · 1d

Kenton Library, Harrow

1939

Curtis and Burchett for Middlesex County Council

www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/kenton-libra...

A colour photograph of the modernist 1930s library at Kenton, Harrow

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway I had to listen to Sub-Culture to remember which song it was. Does he really say "you can't shaft without someone else"?

a man in a suit stands on a stage with the words as they decide whether to share

ALT: a man in a suit stands on a stage with the words as they decide whether to share

media.tenor.com

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of those singles that sounds like it was assembled from offcuts of other Kool & The Gang records. #forgotten80s

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 2d

I still sort of like it as a groove though. #forgotten80s

extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 2d

When I first heard the chorus of Radio Africa I thought they were complaining that only the bad news from Africa got reported in the West, but I think they are just suggesting only bad things were happening there. #forgotten80s

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Him Over There, Now Over Here @snathe.bsky.social · 2d

Blimey, the SOTN podium is going to be crowded tonight! "Love Is In Control" is an absolute banger.

(written by that bloke from Cleethorpes, too) #forgotten80s

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Lee Graham @leepg.bsky.social · 2d

George Benson: Turn Your Love Around
Farley "Jackmaster" Funk: Love Can’t Turn Around
Me: ROUND 2!
#forgotten80s

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 2d

"A game where there can be two winners, unlike any sport."

Oh yeah? What about doubles tennis? #forgotten80s

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 2d

I love I Won't Let You Down. Despite the way he keeps saying "woman". #forgotten80s

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Matthew Rudd @matthewjrudd.bsky.social · 2d

Cock Robin. The band that forces me to do a lot of 'unhiding' on the #forgotten80s Facebook page.

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Chris A Tye @chrisatyeart.co.uk · 2d

Sorry you're not keen on sleeping on your own, Ray - I can leave the landing light on if your scared of the wardrobe monster #forgotten80s

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