Rogues, Villains and EccentricsMy current toilet book is Brewer's classic encyclopedia of the same name, listing some of the great British nutters down the ages. Let's create a B3TA version based on the dodgy people you've met
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 13:43)
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AlsoFrom a few years back, the old tramp who would 'busk' down by the Broadmarsh. He played the xylophone but his idea of playing involved hitting 3 or 4 notes randomly.
Also the guy with the banjo and kazoo, always with a fixed grin and a cheery wink; one Christmas I heard him play a marvellous version of "In the bleak midwinter"
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Ahh the education quality in NottinghamI've had many a friendly drunken argument on Glockenspiel vs Xylophone
Here's the guys wiki entry though, if I recall correctly there was a petition to name a tram after him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Robinson_(Xylophone_Man)
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