1 March 72 St David's Day and they're all going to school in Wales bearing daffodils and leeks and there will be singing in the Assembly Hall and competitions and a great many will get drunk tonight except me of course.

Off the lead in Leeds

Tom Holt was considering the state of the sitcom back in 1979. The Stage and Television Today (1st March 1979)

I-Monster - Daydream in Blue (High Quality) YouTube video by mtveuropez

Up to South Yorkshire next, and Sheffield’s very own I, Monster. Used in about 6 million adverts, but I still love it.
No. 97
I, Monster
Daydream In Blue
#Top100
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Top of the Pops (1st March 1984). Wang Chung are at number 42 with Dance Hall Days.

I thought she liked burning hotels.

An advertisement featuring a man in a suit holding a cigar and a club, standing next to a woman in a leopard print dress. Cave paintings are in the background. It suggests cigars offer a feeling of power and satisfaction without needing inhalation. A cigar brings out the Caveman in you There's a man-size feeling of power in smoking a cigar. Because cigars give you a psychological lift along with flavor and satisfaction. Yet you needn't inhale to enjoy them... and no other pleasure so great costs so little. Try a few cigars today and... Get that good cigar feeling!

From America, Mar 1959: Cigars ad from Cigar Institute of America (more at @OldInPrintAds.bsky.social)

«A cigar brings out the Caveman in you»

Was ever the case with post/persistent illness patients.

Screenshot from Isabel Oakshit explaining that she is evacuating her apartment because of missile threats

I wonder if this experience will make this type of person think differently about refugees escaping emergency situations.

Monday 18th September 1978 - BBC Cymru/Wales - Ask Aspel - Blue Peter - Pippi Hosanhir/Longstocking YouTube video by Kaleidoscope's Presentation Vault

Happy St David's Day. Don't have nightmares.

Classic Ads: Trebor Mints are a minty bit stronger YouTube video by ukclassictelly

For our viewers abroad, this is based on the tune from this advert.

We used to sing "Trebor Mints are a minty bit stronger, stick 'em up yer bum and they'll last a bit longer."

You are welcome.

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Lovely Butt
Mother Of Groom
Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1912

Clara Goodfarter
Mother
Kentucky, Deaths, 1911-1967

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

Prolonged use of chat bots/LLMs is dangerous to health.

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Obviously it's not funny to laugh at British expats who are being bombed in Dubai having fled there to avoid the violence of Britain, of course it's not, stop it, but a million flowers for "Dynorod Stewart". Exceptional work.

Hang on, I thought Denis Norden presented this??

Oddly enough she’s deleted this.

On a 8am train from Dortmund to Stuttgart (3.5 hours, total price €30) and these lads were drinking pints for €2.50, literally cheaper than my coffee. Another world is possible

I think you mean “panicking immigrants” Ms Oakshott?

Now own a copy of this issue of Films & Filming. I may need to get it framed.

…includes a story on a “gang of wiretappers” in the HQ of the Democratic National Committee.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

US man issues challenge to disprove his claim of having world’s smallest penis to raise micropenis awareness North Carolina’s Michael Phillips revealed that he had a 0.38in member in bid to reduce stigma of the condition A North Carolina man has challenged anyone on earth to disprove his claim of having the world’s smallest penis as he advocates against body shaming and aims to raise awareness about the medical condition known as micropenis. Michael Phillips, 38, threw down the gauntlet in an interview posted Friday on TMZ’s YouTube channel, in which he purported that his penis was 0.38in (0.97cm) when fully erect – and, holding up the fingernail on his right pinky to illustrate that length, added: “When it’s flaccid, it’s smaller than that.” Continue reading...

US man issues challenge to disprove his claim of having world’s smallest penis to raise micropenis awareness

Harry T Watt

England and Wales, Census, 1901

Huggy the Bear.

The last time you had a pair of tits that big hosting, Mick Fleetwood was stood alongside.

I was close

Anyway who wants to see some 1950s football programmes? (And their amazing adverts) OF COURSE YOU DO