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[jamiefairlie]

She was in that awful Jim Davidson thing as well

His entire life?

[Ferris]

Like Ian or Iain or Eoin

Or Shaun or Sean or Siobhan or Jean... etc

[JesusAndYourBush]

Ivan is just Russian for John. Like from Ionnanes. fuck. John the Terrible.

Also Vanya is a diminutive of Ivan.

[touchingcloth]

"Playing Wembley" is playing a large indoor arena, not a football stadium.

[olliebean]

"Playing Wembley" is playing a large indoor arena, not a football stadium.

Is it? I've seen a couple of bands "playing Wembley" in the stadium. I don't see what's so special about playing the arena, compared to any other large indoor arena. The stadium is a step up, though.

[Icehaven]

Ivan is just Russian for John. Like from Ionnanes. fuck. John the Terrible.

Johnka Trump.

[Poobum]

Yaya Toure, is John Toure, immediately less likeable }:(

[touchingcloth]

Is it? I've seen a couple of bands "playing Wembley" in the stadium. I don't see what's so special about playing the arena, compared to any other large indoor arena. The stadium is a step up, though.

Oh, maybe it's both. I'd been aware that in the "new rock & roll" days The Mary Whitehouse Experience had famously sold out Wembley, but I only realised yesterday that this was the arena and not the football ground. I only realised yesterday that there is an arena.

[Replies From View]

I went to Wembley Arena about 20 years ago to see Lee Evans.  Pointless.

[Dusty Substance]

Also Vanya is a diminutive of Ivan.

So if Vanya comes from the second half of the name Ivan, does that mean it's the Russian version of Nathan which is derived from Jo-nathan?

[Sebastian Cobb]

She was in that awful Jim Davidson thing as well

And the best Death Wish film.

[Sonny_Jim]

Just noticed the point of titling the film 'Labyrinth'.  She's going to get out because labyrinths are a single winding path, unlike a maze which has branching paths.

[NoSleep]

Oh, maybe it's both.

Live Aid was in the stadium.

[touchingcloth]

Live Aid was in the stadium.

It always struck me as highly unusual that as many people would turn out to support Hugh Dennis as some starving Africans.

[Clatty McCutcheon]

A pen knife is so-called because it was originally used to trim quills, back in the days of feather-based writing implements.

[olliebean]

The name of childrens TV programme Mike and Angelo was a pun on the Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Or possibly on the teenage mutant ninja turtle of the same name.

[touchingcloth]

The "...Sing a Rainbow" and "Richard of York..." rhymes give fundamentally different descriptions of the visible spectrum.

[kalowski]

The "...Sing a Rainbow" and "Richard of York..." rhymes give fundamentally different descriptions of the visible spectrum.

Yes. What I like to classify as the "incorrect" and "correct" versions respectively.

[jamiefairlie]

The "...Sing a Rainbow" and "Richard of York..." rhymes give fundamentally different descriptions of the visible spectrum.

Gronda, Gronda!

[Dr Rock]

'listen with your eyes' fuck off

[Cerys]

Synaesthesia in song since 1955.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Oh, maybe it's both. I'd been aware that in the "new rock & roll" days The Mary Whitehouse Experience had famously sold out Wembley, but I only realised yesterday that this was the arena and not the football ground. I only realised yesterday that there is an arena.

It was just Robert Newman and David Baddiel, rather than the MWE.  A youngish Sean Lock was the support act.

[touchingcloth]

a youngish Sean Lock

This post was brought to you by today's word; oxymoron.

[Dr Rock]

It was just Robert Newman and David Baddiel, rather than the MWE.  A youngish Sean Lock was the support act.

And I was the DJ at the aftershow event.

[mjwilson]

Yes. What I like to classify as the "incorrect" and "correct" versions respectively.

In fact, neither is correct.

[Poobum]

No such thing as violet is there, a mammalian brain invention.

[touchingcloth]

No such thing as violet is there, a mammalian brain invention.

Also red, yellow and blue are famously the primary colours, yet computer screens equally famously use red, green and blue palettes. What's up with that, besides the difference between additive and subtractive colour models, eh?

[Icehaven]

Janet Jackson wasn't in the Jackson Five.

[Replies From View]

Janet Jackson wasn't in the Jackson Five.

Nor was Jackson Pollock.  You can tell from his paintings he was quite furious about being left out.

[touchingcloth]

Nor was Jackson Pollock.  You can tell from his paintings he was quite furious about being left out.

And in perhaps the cruellest blow, not were any of the seven sons of Jack Kerouac.