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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by norrahe View Post
    But they did play a recording of Harry singing at his funeral.
    That wasn't very nice of them.

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  • RSoles
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    Which reminds me.
    http://rdemotivational.com/what-hell-arch-made

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Not sure about the Mayor of Hiroshima, but there was one poor sod who was injured by the Hiroshima bomb, and promptly shipped to a hospital - in Nagasaki, just in time for the next bomb (which he also managed to survive).

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  • norrahe
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    Originally posted by Sysman View Post
    He also wanted to outlive Harry Secombe so that the latter couldn't sing at his funeral.

    IIRC he managed it,
    But they did play a recording of Harry singing at his funeral.

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  • woohoo
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Must be really talented to write music as a carbonised radioactive corpse.

    Real Death MetalCarbonCarbon
    He was a dedicated man.

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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Must be really talented to write music as a carbonised radioactive corpse.

    Real Death MetalCarbonCarbon
    Heavy MetalCarbonCarbon

    (cf Heavy Water)
    Last edited by Sysman; 5 November 2014, 19:45.

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  • woohoo
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    Originally posted by GlenW View Post
    Madeleine McCann: 'Is that you Mummy?'
    Frankie Boyle on CUK now?

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  • GlenW
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    Madeleine McCann: 'Is that you Mummy?'

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  • woohoo
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    I stand by my words as the complete truth. You can even youtube some of his music, bit dated but you can still dance to it.

    My original comment would have been very funny if it translated properly in google translate. Teach me to post after a whisky.
    Last edited by woohoo; 5 November 2014, 11:04.

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  • TestMangler
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    Originally posted by woohoo View Post
    The mayor of Hiroshima, went on to survive the bombing and founded the folk music group "Anata kanashī yarō wa, inochi o eru". In your face. His reported actual last words... "Hontōni anata ga kono Chū de anata no inkei o oku koto ga dekimasu."
    What's the translation ? Why have I grown a second head ??

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  • RSoles
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    'Oh, and what does this button do?'

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  • woohoo
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    Originally posted by JoeyD View Post
    What the fuck was that ?? (Mayor of Hiroshima, 1945)
    The mayor of Hiroshima, went on to survive the bombing and founded the folk music group "これを翻訳するためのスペースのあなたの悲しい無駄". In your face. His reported actual last words... "本当にあなたがこの中であなたの陰茎を置くことができます."
    Last edited by woohoo; 5 November 2014, 11:07.

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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by tractor View Post
    Spike Milligan "I told you I was ill" engraved on his headstone
    He also wanted to outlive Harry Secombe so that the latter couldn't sing at his funeral.

    IIRC he managed it,

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  • Dactylion
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    Originally posted by tractor View Post
    Spike Milligan "I told you I was ill" engraved on his headstone
    But he thought the joke was so funny that he had "told" it several times in his various books long before he croaked!

    Spikes funniest quote was "snivelling little bastard" in reference to HRH Chaz waxing lyrical in a written blurb to some award or other.....

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
    I'm just popping outside for a ciggy
    - Captain Oates
    "Captain Oates, would you mind doing that outside the tent!"

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