The sourcing of a fart involves a ritual of assignment that sometimes takes the form of a rhyming game. The trick is to pin the blame on someone else, often by means of deception, or using a back and forth rhyming game that includes phrases such as:
* He who observed it served it.
* He who first ejected it detected it.
* Whoever rhymed it crimed it.
* Whoever spoke last set off the blast.
* Whoever smelt it, dealt it.
* Whoever denied it supplied it.
* The next person who speaks is the person who reeks.
* The smeller's the feller.
* Who sat on a duck?
* The one who said the verse just made the atmosphere worse.
* He who accuses blew the fuses.
* The first chicken that cackles, laid the egg.
And in some cases, blame was laid upon either the dog or the cat.
"One of Britain's longest running and best loved rock acts split up today after Dave announced his retirement from Chas & Dave" - The Telegraph
It's a sad day when of two Britain's finest musicians of all time decide to call it a day. They produced some of the great classics of British music from the past three decades. Ageless tunes such as Gertcha, Rabbit, Romford Rap, Ossie's Dream (Spurs Are On Their Way To Wembley) and so many more. However, my personal favourite has to be the 1986 smash hit "Snooker Loopy".
"Snooker Loopy" is a comic song about snooker. It was released as a single in May 1986 and entered the UK Singles Chart, reaching #6 and featured snooker players Steve Davis, Dennis Taylor, Willie Thorne, Terry Griffiths and Tony Meo, as backing vocalists under the name 'The Matchroom Mob' - Matchroom Sport being the company owned by promoter Barry Hearn which managed all these top snooker professionals at the time.
The lyrics are a mild satire on the style and antics of the players involved: "old Willie Thorne; his hair's all gone" for example. The verse on Steve Davis also makes light of the famous 1985 World Snooker Championship final and his missed black in the final frame.
Chas & Dave still perform the song at their live shows with the original lyrics, even though most of the players mentioned have now retired from the game, although some are still known as part of the BBC commentary team.
Also, an amazing nugget that is not widely known: Chas and Dave played on one the biggest rap singles of all time - My Name Is, by Eminem.
In the seventies Chas & Dave were prolific session musicians before their own thing took off, playing on many albums for a wide range of artists. One such album was Labi Siffre's 'Remember My Song' from 1975. One of the tracks on this album - 'I Got The' - was sampled by Eminem on his breakthrough hit 'My Name Is' and is the main musical refrain of the track. Chas is playing guitar and Dave is playing bass.
After being forced to lip sync on German TV, Iron Maiden were not happy so decided to do this:
Ig Nobel 2006 Medicine Award Hiccups Acceptance Speech
First Michael Jackson and now the world of music has lost another great. Rest in Peace H from Steps.
I was pretty underwhelmed by Derren Brown's latest trick - "predicting" the lottery numbers. The fact that he told us what numbers he had predicted after the draw had been made really did defeat the whole purpose of the event. There are a number of ways he could have done it, this video being my favourite and I suspect the most probable.
One thing though - this is not Brown's style. Cheap camera trickery can be done by any old fool with a camera and a computer. I suspect or at least hope all this is a mere distraction and that come Friday night the real, much bigger, trick will be revealed.
This is a short video of someone at the zoo. So what you might ask? Well, the only significant thing whatsoever about this video is that is was the very first video ever to be posted on Youtube... apparently.
From wikipedia:
YouTube began as a venture-funded technology startup, primarily from a US$11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006. YouTube's early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www.youtube.com was activated on February 15, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months. The first YouTube video was entitled Me at the zoo, and shows founder Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site.
YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005, six months before the official launch in November 2005. The site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. According to data published by market research company comScore, YouTube is the dominant provider of online video in the United States, with a market share of around 43 percent and more than six billion videos viewed in January 2009.