Martin Knight

Author & plagiarist. All views probably other people's. Dwindling. Retired goalhanger. Preferred Sweep over Sooty. Nostalgist. Change not always for the better.

[Martin Knight @MartinKnight_]

I had one of these

Followed by an ice cream float.

[Moo @Mooshmauler]

1984 London

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Brian Rankin is 85 today.

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The Inbetweeners debuted 18 years ago. How has that happened?

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@arbronsious 😂

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When we were kids we were encouraged to call the most tenuous family connections auntie and uncle, but when a real aunt & uncle came to visit we had to stay in because “the relations” were coming.

[Football Nostalgia @MemorabiliaMal]

Very sorry to read that the excellent Peter Dobing has passed away aged 87. Pictured here with his three English clubs, Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City & Stoke City whom he captained to League Cup Final victory in 1972.
R.I.P. Peter 😔 #Rovers #MCFC #SCFC

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The Shed. 1980.

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Funny that. It’s 1024 days until the latest time the UK can have the next General Election.

[Metro @MetroUK]

UK must be ready for war in 1000 days says Streeting https://t.co/2B4fkWFdgK

[Simon Danczuk @SimonDanczuk]

This made me laugh out loud:

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Much talk about UK’s debt & borrowing. I would like to know what idiot is lending us money?

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His wife and daughter died just four years later in the German ariel bombardment of Battersea.

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This was my great uncle. Hard times.

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Where is Bill?

[The League Magazine @Theleaguemag]

Bill Garner of Chelsea

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@Pete61896420 Welcome, Pete.

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Here it comes…and we thought the Industrial Revolution was consequential.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs in AI-led efficiency drive

https://t.co/iepqIFw2B9

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@deeb168 Yes, Dermot, you are right.

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The origin of the saying “pulling your leg” comes from the legendary clown Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837) whose circus act included encouraging audience members to pull his leg & smoke would come out of his ears. He would then feign anger & this gave rise to another everyday saying.

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My dad with my kids in my parents’ front room 1992. No doubt he’d be strumming & singing “Frankie & Johnny” to them, as he did us 3 decades earlier.

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Rarely hear this fine song nowadays. Probably because most of the population are now of the belief that if you hitch a ride you stand an even money chance of being murdered.

[Silverfoxdude @silverfoxdude]

The good old days of the late 1960's and early 1970's. Unfortunately, today no way would anybody in their right mind and concerned about their safety go hitch hiking today!

Vanity Fare - Hitchin' a Ride (1970)

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@KevanMcIlroy Yes, Grimaldi did indeed attach bells to his other leg. He appears in the Guinness Book of Records as the clown who had the most sayings attributed to him.
He was a quiet man who eschewed publicity & this was how the saying “ordinary Joe” began.