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Our Ginger Fuhrer says that he could still code up a simple game idea in Amstrad Basic, while I'm your man if you ever need to rebuild the suspension on an Austin Allegro (1750 Equipe version). This stuff doesn't leave your mind - tell us about obsolete talents you still have.

(, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 17:04)
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Trying to enter the spirit of things:
Oddly, for someone with such a bad memory, most of the things I can 'do' are remember obscure lists in song or rhyme form from years ago. Although you'll have to take my word for it that I didn't look any of these up:

The Alphabet Backwards:

Said, Why eggs?
Double you, vee
You,tea, ess our queue pee
Oh n' Em?
Ell Kay Jay
I hate Gee
if he deceive BA

The 1987 Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Final Squad:

Ray Clemence, Mitchell Thomas, Gary Stephens, Steve Hodge
They're all gonna put on a show for you
And don't forget Ozzie
Especially 'coz 'e
back in 81 had a dream come true
Nico Clausen, Houghton and Galvin
Don't forget Clive and Paul Allen too
Richard Gough and Chrissy Waddle
Garry Mabbut and Glenn Hoddle
And Danny all the goals are gonna be for you.


We Didn't Start The Fire:

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe MCCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebakker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marylin Monroe (this one goes a bit hazy after this).


Dem Bones (In order of connection):

Toe, foot, anke, leg, knee, thigh, hip, back, neck, head (Finger, hand, shoulder, arm)


Spearmints Scottish Pop Bands:

The secret goldfish, Edwyn C, Nectarine Number 9, Bobby G,Stephen Pastel, Ray MgGinley, Adventures in Stereo, Emma P (Emma P), Stuart Murdoch, Douglas P (Douglas P)


A-Houses Endless Artists (without the years and only to about halfway through:

Turner, Toulouse-Lautrec, Andy Warhol, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, William Butler Yeats, Jack B. Yeats, Richard Redgrave, Henry Moore, Henry Miller, Sid Vicious (only 21), Brian Jones, Otis Redding,Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Elvis Presley 1935 to 1977, Man Ray, Johnny Ray...um...Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Lennon 1940-1980, Pissaro, Picasso, Degas...er..struggling badly now...skip to the end... Ian Curtis, Salavador Dali, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Walt Disney's Mickey Moutse. All Dead, yet still alive, in endless time, endless art.
(, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 17:29, 5 replies)
I can do all of We Didn't Start the Fire
But only because I authored this.
(, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 19:32, closed)
Isn't it
Walter Winchell, not Walter Scott?
(, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 21:15, closed)
Um...
what?

*cough*
(, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 8:35, closed)
Studebaker
not Studebagger isn't it?
(, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:22, closed)
oh FFS
um...

I mean

*cough*
(, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:06, closed)
On a slightly-related note
If you try and sing the closing theme from Only Fools and Horses acapella, it often turns into We Didn't Start The Fire if you're not careful.
(, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 16:46, closed)

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