News
EPL is back, but are there better, safer options?
Yes the EPL has joined the AFL and NRL and is back. Now, Australia has done brilliantly in containing COVID-19, and this is why the NRL and AFL is back (albeit without spectators). But the problem in the UK is that there are still hundreds of people dying every day! All it takes is just one player or a member of staff that have been present during these games to fall ill with the Corona virus…and what if they die…? – it will be all back to square one again, putting everything backwards…not forgetting that someone would have died. This virus is ever so... [Read the full story]
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Sport
On this day…in 1964
On February 25, 1964, underdog Cassius Clay, age 22, defeats champion Sonny Liston in a technical knockout to win the world heavyweight boxing crown. The highly anticipated match took place in Miami Beach, Florida. Clay, who later became known to the world as Muhammad Ali, went on to become the first fighter to capture the heavyweight title three times. Liston was a reserved, feared fighter, a decade older than Cassius Clay, and had been world heavyweight champ since defeating Floyd Patterson in 1962. By contrast, Clay was a mouthy underdog who had won a gold medal in the light heavyweight... [Read the full story]
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Smoko
Hydrogen from urine
Currently, most commercially available hydrogen is collected by reforming natural gas with steam. That means fossil fuels are still in the mix, which is a serious black mark against hydrogen use for fuel. While it’s possible to extract hydrogen from water, the process is rather energy intensive and isn’t yet commercially viable. Gerardine Botte of Ohio University believes she may have one possible solution. Instead of cracking hydrogen away from its tight bond in water, the University has demonstrated that it takes much less energy to extract hydrogen from urine, whether that’s synthetic... [Read the full story]
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Music
On this day…in 1987
In 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its first group of inductees: Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and the Everly Brothers. Since then, the Hall has added a new class of inductees each year, expanding by January 2008 to 209 honorees in four categories: Performers, Non-Performers, Sidemen and Lifetime Achievers. The category in which the Hall is most conspicuously lacking, however, is women. Of the 159 total inductions in the Performers category, 135 have been of solo male performers or male... [Read the full story]
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Life
On this day…in 1799
American Astronomer, Andrew Elliott Douglass, witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys. Douglass wrote in his journal that the ‘ whole heaven appeared as if illuminated with sky rockets, flying in an infinity of directions, and I was in constant expectation of some of them falling on the ship. They continued until put out by the light of the sun after day-break’. This journal entry is the first record of a Meteor Shower. The Leonids meteor shower is an annual event that is vastly enhanced every 33 years (approximately) by the appearance of the comet ‘Tempel... [Read the full story]
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Quickies
True Colours
2020 is the year full of Corona-virus and uncertainties where all we can buy is food and medication. Blue Rinse could be in What is certain is that with no beauticians, hair salons and fashion we may have to resort to the natural look. Even the ‘pudding basin’ haircut may come back – who knows this may start a new fashionable trend…bring on the greys. by Mrs Blue Rinse Read More →
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Chin-Wag
Why would a gorgeous girl fall for a Nugly?
Some blokes just seem to punch way above their weight when it comes to dating hot girls. Is it that good looking girls seem to be charitable or even a bit dim? This is highly unlikely. What nobody seems to have considered is that such luck in love is down to something far simpler. Maybe girls just like the person,...
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On this day…in 1977
On this day in 1977, the weekend opens with an intergalactic bang as the first of George Lucas’ blockbuster Star Wars movies hits American theatres. The incredible success of Star Wars…it received seven Oscars, and earned $461 million in U.S. ticket sales and a gross of close to $800 million worldwide…began...
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The on-going saga of Harry and Megs
They are not going to give interviews with certain newspapers – why? What is so important that they make this information necessary for us to listen to and digest when the current situation is about a pandemic? I cannot understand the mind set of Harry – brought up a Royal with the standard shown...
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Alfred Hitchcock and his Birds
Behind the camera, his pendulous lips exhaling bad breath and extraordinarily obscene jokes in a lugubrious Cockney accent, stood the corpulent figure of Alfred Hitchcock, acknowledged as cinema’s master of murder, mayhem and suspense. In front of the camera, poised, elegant, remote, and seemingly unattainable,...
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Sport
On February 25, 1964, underdog Cassius Clay, age 22, defeats champion Sonny Liston...
The Sir Henry Bolte Handicap – 2000 metres – Race 4, 13:30 Flemington,...
EPL is back, but are there better, safer options?
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As you may or may not know, I specialise in cricket. I am dumb-founded by...
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Music
In 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its first group of inductees:...
Keith Richards best ‘fuck-off’ riffs
If rock’n’roll could be turned into flesh and made to walk the earth, it would...
Well, I get tired of hearing all this old nonsense about how so many Mods don’t...
Technical musicans are fucking clueless
It’s just a long, long argument that goes on, and will go on until the dawn...
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