Songs
"Slight Return", Bluetones
"Good Riddance", Green Day
"Wake Up Boo", Boo Radleys
"Is She Really Going Out With Him", Joe Jackson
"Just When You're Thinking Things Over", The Charlatans
"Into My Arms", Nick Cave
"Talking to Jesus", Genesis
"Song for Whoever", Beautiful South
"Roll to Me", "Always the Last to Know", "Nothing Ever Happens", Del Amitri
"Bohemian Rhapsody", Queen
"Remember You're A Womble", the Wombles
"I've Got a Brand New Combine Harvester", the Wurzels
"My Old Man's a Dustman", Lonnie Donegan
"Power in a Union", "The Unwelcome Guest", "The World Turned Upside Down", Billy Bragg
"Lounge", Dogs Die in Hot Cars
"Gin Soaked Boy", Divine Comedy
"Me and You Versus the World", Space
"Delilah", Tom Jones, the song the Welsh Assembly tried to ban.
"Stop the Cavalry", Jonah Louie
"Lifted", Lighthouse Family
"Can't Stand Losing You", Police
"Little Birdhouse in Your Soul", They Might Be Giants
The lyrics to the Blackadder TV series
"Brown Eyed Girl", Van Morrison
"Don't Look Any Further", M People
"The List Goes On", Ordinary Boys
Women, because modern culture's got a funny idea of what looks good in a woman:
Dharshini David, I occasionally awake a 5:30 am with BBC1 on (whicc is BBC News 24 at that hour) and that seems to be the only time this woman appears on Terrestrial TV, as the North America reporter (not actually a North American) for the World Business Report. Best looking woman on European television, according to wikipedia.
Joy Brook
Victoria Shalet
The blonde scotswoman who does the weather on BBC Breakfast. Carol Kirkwood?
Lucy Porter, unfunny comedian.
Asha Tanner.
Dr. Alice Roberts from Time Team.
Charlotte Uhlenbroek.
Jana Marie Hupp.
Maura Tierney, reminds me of Churchill.
The posh woman in the condom advert.
The blond woman in the drink-driving advert.
Emmy Rossum.
Tamlyn Tomita.
A woman from an old beer add. Strongbow, I think.
Daisy Sampson.
Alyson Hannigan.
Computer Games
The games of the Broken Sword series, especially Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (the original).
The Discworld games.
The old Commodore 64 games "Quest of Kron", "Vulcan" and "By Jove". And "Asylum".
"Alex Kidd in Miracle World".
* Indicates that I haven't read/seen/heard them.
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