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Wasn't it v Preston a few years back, when we scored at the Loft end and one of their defenders threw himself into the net and started rolling about holding his head. What a plonqueur.
I had a Royal Enfield Crusader Sports motorcycle once. I s'ppose that wouldn't be acceptable these days. Next bike I had was a BSA…..Bloody Sore Arse I used to call it.
I've just remembered a good 'un although many west Londoners might know it - James Thompson wrote the words to Rule Britannia in his local pub, The Dove along the river at Hammersmith. He used to row his boat from his home in Chiswick to The Dove. Lucky ESB hadn't been invented then.
I was playing a bit of jazz on the pub piano this lunch, when a mate came up and said “how's things Colin?” I said “times are difficult, Ben” He said “well, play it in 4/4 then”.
The world has indeedio gone mad. There was a story in the news a few weeks back about animal rights activists getting shirty about a pub called the Sly Fox.
True ones please. Samuel Goldwyn of Metro Goldwyn Mayer films is offically named Samuel Goldfish. When he emigrated to the US from Poland, his actual name was Schmuel Goldfisz. The immigration officail misheard it as Samuel Goldfish which he remained for some years. Notta Lotta People Know That.
Talkin' of daft lyrics, it's generally accepted that the huge popularity of bananas in Victorian times was entirely due to music hall audiences' interpolation of 'Ave A Banana after the opening line of Let's All Go Down The Strand. Not a lot of people know that.
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