Popular beat combo ‘Men at Work’ are not really ‘from a land down under’ at all.
They are really from Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire. You know, where they have the model village?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:44, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Bollocks.
The Aussie lady that works with me swears blind they are from "where beer does flow and men chunder".
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:47, Reply)

I thought it was "where women glow"?
So Fukushima.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:49, Reply)

And men they plunder
So Mozambique.
( Kroney, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:50, Reply)

I don't see how this is a fact-bomb about yourself
Unless you were IN popular beat combo 'Men at Work'. You know, when you were 13.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:47, Reply)

My fact-bomb is that I know Men at Work's dark secret.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:49, Reply)

They're English?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:52, Reply)

Wikipedia says thay are from St Kilda.
So it must be true.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:53, Reply)

I have a very vivid memory of seeing my first Tranny in st Kilda.
She was resplendently awful.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:14, Reply)

Now tell us something about Fine Young Cannibals
Other than "they were shit and the guitarist held his instrument in a really mongy way"
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:55, Reply)

they were part of the 1987 world daisy-chain record breaking team
you can take daisy chain for either meaning, there.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:57, Reply)

I assumed bumming
I always assume bumming
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:00, Reply)

and you would have right on your side.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:00, Reply)

What an unusual sensation
I'm not sure I like it
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:03, Reply)

Roland Gift has the worst voice in pop

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:58, Reply)

He was good in Heartbeat.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:00, Reply)

A mate of mine is a 'film' and TV lighting engineer.
The best day of his career was working on some Nick Berry shite being filmed on the quay of a seaside town. Some random bloke jumped over the barriers whilst filming was going on and punched Berry right in the face, sending him flying into the sea.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:04, Reply)

Finally a namedrop I can chip in on!
I met Nick Berry in 1992, he was a guest on Wogan which I was in the audience for because my Dad was the warm-up man for that show. Jim Fixed It for him. Seriously. Nick Berry was very nice and has (had) two fit sisters. Wogan is a thoroughly charming bloke. Jimmy Saville was mental even then.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:09, Reply)

Wogan *is* thoroughly charming.
I once offered to sleep with his producer.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:13, Reply)

Surely that was in order to obtain Mr b3th's 60th present?
How ironic. Morning sweetie.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:22, Reply)

Your dad was a fluffer for Wogan?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:18, Reply)

I doubt he needed one of them
Don't you remembmer that Points of View that time?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:20, Reply)

Incredibly, 'no'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:21, Reply)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-487777/Tight-trousered-Terrys-wardrobe-malfunction-sparks-BBC-complaints.html
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:22, Reply)

it's disturbing

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:24, Reply)

People complain about some really stupid things though
That EastEnders baby-swap storyline caused some idiots to complain that as well as being insensitive, it was unrealistic. Which is a bit like having a go at the makers of Monster Munch because they don't taste of monsters.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:27, Reply)

THEY DON'T?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:36, Reply)

they do

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:50, Reply)

I have only one word in response to this
And it is a horrible word. Those of a nervous disposition, avert your eyes.

JEDWARD
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:01, Reply)

After the band folded Roland Gift went into retail.


He opened a GIFT SHOP!!!!!!!!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:01, Reply)

Very good *polite applause*
Now do Living in a Box

EDIT: the fact-bomb concernign Living in a Box must be more elaborate than "they did not actually live in a box"
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:04, Reply)

Following the collapse of his band, Living in a Box frontman Richard Darbyshire suffered a mental breakdown
which cost him his marriage and his home, along with his sanity. Within two years he was an alcoholic vagrant eking out a dismal existence begging and picking up dog-ends on London’s South Bank where, to this day, in a twist of fate clocking in at a whopping 37.6 kilospoons on the Morrisette Scale, he actually does live in box.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:16, Reply)

*click*
And as for T'Pau?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:25, Reply)

They're not really Vulcan

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:30, Reply)

That crashing noise you can hear is my childhood illusions being shattered

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:35, Reply)

Bless you!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:31, Reply)

How did you know I sneezed?
*looks around, panicked*
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:36, Reply)

All dead - high grade heroin was found in a bag held tightly in Carol Decker's dead grip
AKA China in your hand
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:32, Reply)

There's a scene in Mission Impossible 3 based on one of their hits
Obviously they added explosions in the film. Fucking Hollywood.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:38, Reply)

Which bit?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:40, Reply)

The bit on the bridge
With the spies
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:45, Reply)

My mum taught Carol Decker at school
Trufax, there.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:34, Reply)

She used to live in Tufnell Park when I lived there.
As did Hugh Laurie.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:36, Reply)

I think Carol Decker and Rebekah Wade are the same person

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:38, Reply)

I don't actually know if it's true
Carol Decker did go to the school my mum taught at but I maintain any teacher who claims they can remember some spotty kid who turned out to be famous is a bullshitter. I can barely remember last year's final year undergrads sometimes.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:39, Reply)

My mum taught Tracy Tracy from the Primitives
And I don't really doubt her ability to remember people she taught as she is utterly unable to go anywhere without bumping into a former pupil.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:46, Reply)

My dad went to school with Mike Reid

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 10:47, Reply)

Terr-i-fic

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 11:03, Reply)

You're fucking kidding me.
Of course, now you come to mention it, it's obvious. An Australian group would never call themselves Men At Work.

Blokes Drinking, Mate? is more the Australian line.
( Kroney, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:48, Reply)