Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 11, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Puppets and Automatons, Cartoons, United Kingdom, Twentieth Century
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 01, 2024 -
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Category: Unauthorized Dwellings, 1940s, United Kingdom
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 25, 2024 -
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Category: Food, History, Religion, United Kingdom, Alcohol
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 15, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Europe, United Kingdom, Nineteenth Century
Thrillington is an album produced by English musician Paul McCartney, under the pseudonym Percy "Thrills" Thrillington.... [In] late 1976, McCartney decided to release the long-in-storage project, and devised a plan to publicize the album while obscuring his own involvement with it. In preparation for the release of Thrillington, McCartney invented the fictitious socialite Percy Thrillington, and even took out ads in various UK music papers announcing Thrillington's so-called comings and goings to generate curiosity and interest.
Released in April 1977, McCartney's name was mentioned only in the main liner notes where he is described as a friend of Percy. Thrillington went mostly unnoticed upon its release although it was reviewed by Rolling Stone magazine and mentioned in the "Random Notes" section.[5] Variety also reviewed the album, noting that "Whether Percy Thrillington is Paul McCartney or not is really irrelevant. What matters is that he (they) is (are) having fun."[6]
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 05, 2024 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Music, 1970s, United Kingdom
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 28, 2024 -
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Category: Dinners, Banquets, Parties, Tributes, Roasts and Other Celebrations, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s, United Kingdom
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 12, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Reptiles, Snakes, Worms and Other Slithery Things, 1960s, United Kingdom
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 15, 2024 -
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Category: Holidays, Easter, Headgear, 1950s, United Kingdom
According to Hone, the practice was common in Lancashire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and other parts of England. Groups of people would gather together in the street and physically lift those they came across into the air, expecting a financial reward in return. Hone describes the practice as differing slightly in different parts of the country:
In some parts the person is laid horizontally, in others placed in a sitting position on the bearers’ hands. Usually, when the lifting or heaving is within doors, a chair is produced, but in all cases the ceremony is incomplete without three distinct elevations. (SCM 03706, p. 426)
In Warwickshire, Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday were known as ‘heaving-day‘, because on the Monday it was the tradition for men to ‘heave and kiss the women’ and on the Tuesday for the women to do the same to the men. Hone viewed the practice as, ‘an absurd performance of the resurrection’ derived from the Catholic church.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 06, 2024 -
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Category: Furniture, Holidays, Easter, Regionalism, Foreign Customs, United Kingdom
London Daily Telegraph - Aug 10, 1985
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 05, 2024 -
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Category: Inebriation and Intoxicants, 1980s, United Kingdom, Legs
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