22nd, March 2014
Strange But True
TO Cornwall, where Andrew Salmon reportedly locked his wife in a garden shed when she began singing “Ding dong, the witch is dead” following death of his mother... More »
22nd, March 2014
Arsenal
ARSENAL were two goals down to Chelsea when referee Andre Marriner sent off Kieran Gibbs for playing goalkeeper... More »
22nd, March 2014
Flashback
FLASHBACK to August 5 1973: The Playboy Club Bunnies too on a Planet of the Apes team at London's Hurlingham Stadium. The game was in aid of the World Wildlife Fund... More »
22nd, March 2014
Film
"Make me look like Charlton Heston..." More »
22nd, March 2014
Key Posts
MADELEINE McCann: Anorak's look the missing child in the news. In 2009, Cape Verdean national Euclides Monteiro, 40, died in a tractor accident. His name has been linked the missing child. There is no evidence that he stole the child... More »
22nd, March 2014
Flashback
FLASHBACK to 1983: The Atari 2600 machine feature the Moses ‘Red Sea Crossing’ Bible story video game... More »
22nd, March 2014
Flashback
50 Jahre jung... More »
22nd, March 2014
Flashback
The electronic Morale Raiser was invented in 1951 to boost men's confidence. For reasons unknown it never really took off... More »
21st, March 2014
Flashback
This typical American family stands amid the food it eats in a year. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmer feed 220 million Americans on the same amount of land used in 1910 to feed some 80 million... More »
What's normal..? More »
YOU stick up for Andre Villas-Boas - sacked by Spurs and Chelsea - and then he tells his new paymasters and the Zenit St Petersburg fans that he pretty much won the Champions League with Chelsea in 2012... More »
21st, March 2014
Flashback
2 IN 1936, German toy maker Günther & Co. released the board game “Juden Raus! Das Neue Gesellschafts-Spiel” (“Out with the Jews! The Game of the New Society”).... More »
One officer tells The Express Tribune, "21 police officers were questioned about not being on duty. But the constables said they were on duty but did not anticipate a cat eating the peacock at night."... More »
21st, March 2014
Books
1 IN 1972, National Lampoon magazine introduced the super hero SON O' GOD . Created by Michael Choquette, Sean Kelly and Neal Adams, Son 'O God who turned from nebbishy Jewish New Yorker Benny David - 30-years-old; living with controlling parents; no aptitude for any sport - who turns into a WASP wonderman on a mission to tackle Catholicism, the Antichrist Pope and "the scourge of Islam". Now read on!... More »
21st, March 2014
Sports
AS the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster in which 96 people died and hundreds more were physically injured, the Reading Chronicle, produced this front page.. More »
21st, March 2014
Money
The ban came from the Prime Minister, cheesed off that people were disagreeing with him in public. One of the first people to breach the ban on using Twitter was the Turkish President... More »
21st, March 2014
Flashback
ON March 15 1978, the Press Association illustrated a story on the usual food scare with these photographs of pupils from Highgate School, Moseley, Birmingham, eating chips during their school lunch break... More »
David Moyes can't help talking... More »
21st, March 2014
Key Posts
2 ONE thing you’ll find when looking through magazines from the 1930s and 40s is an amazing array of soap and constipation adverts. It’s as if the world was ravaged by body odor and irregularity. Ad after ad proclaims the wonders of this fantastical object called “soap” – lives are changed by its tremendous power to rid even the smelliest among us of their funk. But that was only half the battle, because mankind still cowered helplessly beneath the specter of constipation. Countless adverts announce their special cure for this dread disease.. More »
20th, March 2014
Film
2 IT seems to me that far too many critics are obsessed with the idea that Veronica Mars can’t be discussed as a real film because fans got it made. The fact that fans were involved in the film's economic genesis seems a way only of ignoring the film’s trenchant commentary about America in the Age of Celebrity. More »
20th, March 2014
Key Posts
UNEXPECTEDLY to most, the Human League's 'Don't You Want Me?' went top ten midweek. No-one really knew why, especially die-in-the-wool Human League fans. Everyone was pleased all the same.. More »
20th, March 2014
Flashback
BBC Radio DJs Noel Edmonds and John Peel feature in this 10 September 1983 clip from The Late, Late Breakfast Show. Edmonds is vying for control of the Beeb, so we can expect lots more of this kind of telly is he gets his hands on it.... More »
20th, March 2014
Key Posts
1 In the second episode, McIntyre was reduced to terrible accents and doing silly walks with Sir David Jason. The pattern for guest bookings was replicated too – old fellas and young women – highlighting both McIntyre’s lack of gravitas and bemused-dad-picking-up-kids-from-the-Year-10 disco squareness... More »
20th, March 2014
Flashback
IT'S actually amazing when you stop and think about it. A counter-culture movement originating in homosexual night clubs somehow wound up overtaking every nook and cranny of the pop culture landscape. From Hollywood to the fashion industry to ridiculous albums like the one pictured above – nothing was safe from the marauding cash cow called Disco. So, why did it die a horrible death in the early 1980s?... More »
