Let battle commence.

dondare

Why is it so many cyclists do/don't wear helmets these days? It ought to be banned/compulsory.
Also cycling on footpaths/cycle-lanes is more/less dangerous than riding on the road.

whyamihere

I don't like cricket. I love it.

iclestu

surely another candidate for whyamihere's lethal axe.......

jonginge

whyamihere wrote:

I don't like cricket. I love it.

Oh no. That's gonna be going round my head all day. Why I oughta...

Kieran_Burns

Can anyone else make that disgusting popping noise when you clean your ear and pull your finger out dead quick?

UndercoverElephant

JonGinge wrote:

whyamihere wrote:

I don't like cricket. I love it.

Oh no. That's gonna be going round my head all day. Why I oughta...

Could be worse, someone could mention the theme tune to, "Terry and June". :twisted:

Kieran_Burns

BadgerBadgerBadger MUSHROOM!

:twisted:

Greg T

whyamihere wrote:

I don't like cricket. I love it.

Don't you walk thru my words
You got to show some respect
Don't you walk thru my words
'Cause you ain't heard me out yet

Ah! One Notting Hill Carnival and we've all gone Reggae.

Clever Pun

Never gonna give you up,
Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around and desert you,
Never gonna make you cry,
Never gonna say goodbye,
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

whyamihere

Clever Pun wrote:

Never gonna give you up,
Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around and desert you,
Never gonna make you cry,
Never gonna say goodbye,
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k

CiB

She is D desirable
She is I irresistible
She is S super sexy
She is C such a cute
She is O oh, oh, oh

D.I.S.C.O.
She is D.I.S.C.O.

Ottowan. Brill.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ga-do-do-do, push pineapple, stroke the sea*...

I'll get me coat.


*possibly not the correct lyric

secretsam

All together now, as tunelessly as possible:

"And through it a-a-a-a-a-llllll,
She offers me protection,
A lot of love and affection,
mumble mumble I'm right or wrong,
um-ah-ah-la-la-la, dee dee dah dah etc.,
I'm lovin' angels in bread"

(Also possibly not the right lyrics)

Wallace1492

Cue disco lights and silver suits.....

"First I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
without you by my side
But I spent so many nights
thinking how you did me wrong
I grew strong
I learned how to carry on
and so you're back
from outer space
I just walked in to find you here
with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed my stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second
you'd be back to bother me"

Greg T

I see a red bike and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls fly by dressed in their lycra clothes
I have to turn my cranks until the lactic flows

Apologies to the Rolling Stones.

El Imbatido

Ok everybody knows this one:


Risin' up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive

So many times, it happens too fast
You change your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive

Chorus:
It's the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight

Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all in the eye of the tiger

Face to face, out in the heat
Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry
They stack the odds 'til we take to the street
For we kill with the skill to survive

chorus

Risin' up, straight to the top
Have the guts, got the glory
Went the distance, now I'm not gonna stop
Just a man and his will to survive

chorus

The eye of the tiger (repeats out)...

suzyb

God not eye of the tiger.

Always bring back memories of my boss playing that to the office as part of a motivational speach. God knows how we all managed to keep a straight face.

oscarbudgie

Till now I always got by on my own
I never really cared until I met you
And now it chills me to the bone
How do I get you alone?
How do I get you alone?


(as the drift is from reggae to c0ck rock)

Wallace1492

And the Daddy of them all:

Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

You say black I say white
You say bark I say bite
You say shark I say hey man
Jaws was never my scene
And I don't like Star Wars
You say Rolls I say Royce
You say God give me a choice
You say Lord I say Christ
I don't believe in Peter Pan
Frankenstein or Superman
All I wanna do is

CiB

Well if we're going back to the days of real music, here's some Nazareth. Bob Harris played this on his Saturday night show a few years ago and followed it by reading out my 'hello', the night before my first bash at doing the London - Brighton.

My white bicycle, my white bicycle

Riding all around the street
Four o'clock and they're all asleep
I'm not tired and it's so late
Moving fast everything looks great.
My white bicycle, my white bicycle
See that man, he's all alone
Looks so happy but he's far from home
Ring my bell, smile at him
Better kick over his garbage bin
My white bicycle, my white bicycle
The rain comes down but I don't care
The wind is blowing in my hair
Seagulls flying in the air
My white bicycle
Lead:
Policeman shouts but I don't see him
They're one thing I don't believe in
To find some charge but it's not leavin'
Lift both hands, his head in disgrace
Shines no light upon my face
Through the darkness, we still speed
My white bicycle and me
My white bicycle, my white bicycle

Speaking of real music, I found my CDs of Alan Freeman's Final Saturday Rock Show from August 1978 yesterday and had them on instead of Radio 2's Beatlesfest. Blimey he was good, old Fluff. Let's see

Big Intro
Elton John
Sandy Denny
The 'oo Won't Get Fooled Again. Make sure yer don't...
Bowie
Dylan
ELP - Karn Evil 9 (welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...)
Barclay James Harvest
Queen from a BBC session from 1977
Be Bop Deluxe
The old Radio 1 news bed
etc

Stirring stuff.

They don't have disc jockeys like Fluff on the wireless anymore. [Pulls onion from pocket...]

Wallace1492

ChrisInBicester wrote:

Be Bop Deluxe

Stirring stuff.

They don't have disc jockeys like Fluff on the wireless anymore. [Pulls onion from pocket...]

Agree on Fluff, genius. And great shout for Be Bop Deluxe, Maid in Heaven is one of the classics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikowGOjjpwM

clanton

Kieran_Burns wrote:

BadgerBadgerBadger MUSHROOM!

:twisted:

I think that should be BadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgeBadgerBadgerBadger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

essexian

Need to be careful when singing this... :oops:

Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!

Ive been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I seen evry blue eyed floozy on the way
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies every time

Oh wont you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin world go round

CiB

Wallace1492 wrote:

Agree on Fluff, genius.

Him & Tony Wilson [producer] were the dogs'. I used to hear the start of the show at about 2 o'clock after either Paul Gambaccini or Rock On, then head off to play football up the rec and then do me paper-round, getting back home in time to hear him finish and see the football scores coming in, so it was rare to ever hear the Saturday Show properly. By the time I'd locked onto it he was running up the end of August and The Final Show.

Tell you what sounds odd - he reads out the full name & address for each request - so you get something like Smetna's 'Ma Vlast' playing under Fluff doing 'We're calling in Bill Watson from 52 Scurret Street, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear. Ta Bill. Thanks for the letter - it's a beauty...'. Can't imagine that sort of thing now what with all the paranoia that we live with.

Who else was on?

Lone Star
The Clash
John Martyn
Beatles to end the whole lot.
Lots more too I expect.

Better than the tat that Fox FM & Heart FM blast us with now. 'Hey guys - here's Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol. After the newsandweather we'll be playing Chasing Cars, by Snow Patrol'...

nigeve

I dont get it... I'm new here so can someone explain..?

CiB

nigeve wrote:

I dont get it... I'm new here so can someone explain..?

Alan Freeman was an Australian who came to England in the late fifties and got a job on the BBC, initially doing pop shows. He was given the Saturday afternoon graveyard slot on Radio 1 in 1973 and set about creating [with Tony Wilson] what became the best radio programme ever, The Saturday Rock Show, big album acts of the day interspersed with bits of classical music played underneath listener request. It won awards year after year. He gave it up in 1978 when the punk & new wave revolution meant that he was falling out of fashion.

What? You didn't mean that? Oh. Sorry.

prawny

-null- wrote:

God not eye of the tiger.

Always bring back memories of my boss playing that to the office as part of a motivational speach. God knows how we all managed to keep a straight face.

Is your boss Ricky Gervais? Or Steve Carrell?

(I personally thing the American version is way better, season 2 onwards anyway)

sarajoy

nigeve wrote:

I dont get it... I'm new here so can someone explain..?

Some debates pop up here too often - and people are so sick of them, they troll any helmet/bikelane/etc threads with whatever they likes until they go away - seems like it's lyrics this time..!


Whatcha know Joe?
I don't know nuthin'...
Whatcha know Joe?
Tell me somethin'...
Whatcha know Joe?
Ain't connivin', I ain't jivin', I don't know!

Whatcha know Joe?
Well, I don't know Latin...
Whatcha know Joe?
Ain't high-hattin'...
Whatcha know Joe?
I ain't foolin', I need schoolin', I don't know.

I don't knooow,
Mamma tried to tell me so,
Pappa wouldn't let me go,
Couldn't even see a movie sho-ow!

Whatcha know Joe?
Well I just can't figure...
Whatcha know Joe?
Well I don't dig ya!
Whatcha know Joe?
Hey, quit your squawkin', I ain't talkin', I just don't know!

Ba-bada-badam-ba, do-be-do-be-dooo-do....
/me floats off on a cloud of lovely swing...

CiB

sarajoy wrote:

nigeve wrote:

I dont get it... I'm new here so can someone explain..?

Some debates pop up here too often - and people are so sick of them, they troll any helmet/bikelane/etc threads with whatever they likes until they go away - seems like it's lyrics this time..!


Whatcha know Joe?
I don't know nuthin'...
Whatcha know Joe?
Tell me somethin'...
Whatcha know Joe?
Ain't connivin', I ain't jivin', I don't know!

Whatcha know Joe?
Well, I don't know Latin...
Whatcha know Joe?
Ain't high-hattin'...
Whatcha know Joe?
I ain't foolin', I need schoolin', I don't know.

I don't knooow,
Mamma tried to tell me so,
Pappa wouldn't let me go,
Couldn't even see a movie sho-ow!

Whatcha know Joe?
Well I just can't figure...
Whatcha know Joe?
Well I don't dig ya!
Whatcha know Joe?
Hey, quit your squawkin', I ain't talkin', I just don't know!

Ba-bada-badam-ba, do-be-do-be-dooo-do....
/me floats off on a cloud of lovely swing...

And just how is that bicycle-related? Come on. Make an effort.

Wallace1492

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQz-CZvkY8k&feature=PlayList&p=E02CA1D467D8909D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14

essexian

Cycling related and a darn good band (IMHO)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVyV2282Qdk