Posts by Rob Hosking
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Seem to recall someone calculated, back in the mid-70s, that Keith Moon put out in one performance, the equivalent energy output of the Battersea Power Station over the same time period.
No, I don't know how you'd calculate that either.BTW, isn’t Mick Fleetwood quite highly rated, despite never being that challenged?
Was listening to Warren Zevon's 'Excitable Boy' album last night... Fleetwood drums on 'Werewolves of London' and he is as sharp as Charlie Watts on that track. Really lifts it.
And Ringo...I'd vote for all those already mentioned, and add 'You Never Give Me Your Money'
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As the bowl of petunias said, "Oh no, not again!"
Or as the whale said 'What's this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ... ow ... ound ... round ... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?'
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Has anyone successfully dried glass using newspaper?
I use newspaper for the car windows. It works fine, on the about two occasions a year I do it.
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OK, this should make Emma feel less 50s housewifey....
Baking Soda kills odours. (nice rhyme to help you remember it).
My dear Mum put me onto this after our wee one hurled all over her favourite cuddly toy (umm, not my mum's toy. You know what I mean).
Scrubbed the hell out of it but couldn't get rid of the smell. Mum said dissolve baking soda in water and apply. Worked a treat.
(another tip, from my sister, tangental but relevant here: when your wee one/s latch onto a favourite toy, buy a back-up. Can save a lot of grief)
Baking soda is also useful for shoes which begin to pong a bit, although I wouldn't do this if you have any international travel planned. Going through Customs with white powder coming out your shoes might cause unnecessary delays.
And also a useful substitute if you can't use deodorant. Just keep a packet in the shower and rub it where-ever you would otherwise apply the ol' Old Spice. Or whatever.
Pretty good for getting smells out of carpets as well, I gather..
Baking Soda. Is there anything it can't do??
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Vermeer's paintbrushes were made of badger hair.
So are shaving brushes, or so I've been told. Some of us still use those.
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The bank ads which had me and the soul mate wondering were the Westpac ones...especially about the woman with the lisp who talked about being 'a corporwate lawyer, tewwibly wesponsible...' who then got a loan to do something improbably creative.
It looked like actors, but the lisp thing had a sort of blemish of authenticity aspect to it.
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Oh, and on the being taken in by adverts theme....I know someone who, last week, when being driven past a billboard for the 'Burying Brian' series, shook her head and said 'I think its so sad about that missing man....' Seriously.
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I just spent a few days in Wanaka. Minus four degrees at 8am, and there were a bunch of smokers outside where I was staying, puffing away and trying not to slip over on the ice.
Now that's addiction, I thought. (I'm a reformed smoker, btw, who occasionally puffs, mostly after the second drink, and I refuse to get puritanical about smokers...also there is, in my experience, something in Emma's comments about the good conversations)
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Re: onions - I've found just washing them and not drying them before chopping takes care of the teariness.
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Paul
You beaut. It's one of my all time faves as well.
I shamelessly cribbed that line about the Magna Carta in a university debate once: it was a demonstration debate on how not to do debate.
Some of the best lines were on the radio shows though 'I thought my mother was a bad cook but at least her gravy used to move about.'