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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11h

Well, if it’s 30 September, it must be... oh God. The 36th anniversary of the first—and, you may not be entirely surprised to hear—only transmission of a sitcom which was genuinely called ‘Heil Honey, I’m Home’, in which Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to Jewish couple Arny and Rosa Goldenstein

Neil McCaul as comedy Hitler, mugging for the camera

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 16h

“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 16h

Spike Milligan under pressure to write yet another script c.1955

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And, without entirely changing the subject from combative people the world would be better for seeing the back of, it’s also the 12th anniversary of this

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AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And a big happy birthday to Matt and Luke Goss of Bros!

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is the 321st anniversary of the last of the ‘wars of the fists’ (guerre dei pugni) on a bridge in Venice. Sometimes also known as battagliole sui ponti, or “little battles on the bridges”, or guerre de canne (wars with sticks), they could also involve cudgels, roof tiles, stones, and knives

Ponte dei Pugni, Pietro Liberi (1605-87)—a 17th century painting of a massive scrap on a bridge. It’s covered in people, wrestling and jostling, and is surrounded by spectators

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 28/09/2026

This would make a great TV drama, but it'd have to be aired pasta watershed.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s the 51st anniversary of the first day of the unlikely-sounding Spaghetti House Siege, when three armed robbers went into the Knightsbridge branch of an Italian restaurant chain, staff hid the money from them under a table, police surrounded the building, and they were stuck in there five days

A London street with a bus going down it. On the other side of the road, police vans and a crowd of people

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Morning. Last week I found out for the first time that Champion The Wonder Horse (stalwart black and white 50s schedule filler up to 1993) was a spin-off. Champion was Gene Autry’s horse, and it was a 1955 cash in on the success of the Gene Autry Show. He’s like horse Frasier.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now that’s an important historical anniversary

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good sticker (and not one I expected to see in True Blue, distinctly Brexity, Stamford)

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In (one of) my happy place(s) (Carry On, Jeeves - short stories from 1925)

'If half of what he has written is true, said Florence, your uncle's youth must have been perfectly appalling. The moment we began to read he plunged straight into a most scandalous story of how he and my father were thrown out of a music-hall in 1887!'
‘Why?'
‘I decline to tell you why'
It must have been something pretty bad. It took a lot to make them chuck people out of music-halls in 1887.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of my favourite anniversaries today: the 19th of Ken Russell announcing his second-last film…

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

84th anniversary today of the birth of Alvin Stardust, who had two separate, successful, careers in music, in different decades, with different identities, both of which he inherited from other performers

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happy 12th anniversary to this immensely important editorial in Britain’s newspaper of record, the [checks notes] Sunday Sport.

Editorial in the Sunday Sport:

SUNDAY Sport likes to remain above the squabbles and spats which often divide our tired old
Fleet Street rivals.
We serve our readers, not the petty rivalries of editors or proprietors.
But we are today forced to join a debate after our very integrity was questioned by The Guardian.
And the heated issue is the spelling
of the word "BELLEND".
This left-wing,
loss-making house
journal of Britain's chattering classes recently updated its style guide - the manual which tells its journalists how to spell certain oft-misspelt words.
In defiance of common sense and common decency Guardian bigwigs have decreed their galley slaves spell out bellend as "bell-end"
They
may find
this bohemian
departure from orthodoxy "challenging" but it is a direct assault on the English language.
Do not forget, the teachers of Britain suckle at the teat of The Guardian like hungry puppies.
This misspelling of bellend will be forced into the easily-moulded minds of our nation's schoolchildren.
The
Guardian.
Wrong about everything. Always.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This sums up almost everything I felt about 70 UP - especially Jackie. I could watch her having a go at Michael Apted (and then speaking warmly of him years later, because people are not one thing) all day

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The unanswered questions of 70 Up

The death of Nick, goodbye to Neil, and the power of watching fourteen real lives in time-lapse – the return of my Mid-Week Culture Culture Blast

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Deleted that fucking cat because the fucking fucker’s fucking AI

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

...and its the 413th anniversary of that poor child being buried after he was murdered by ACTUAL WITCHES (who were not in fact witches—apologies for the spoiler)

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today is the 63rd anniversary of the publication of the Denning Report into the Profumo affair, which is not really obscure history, but you may enjoy this telegram from the British Embassy in Paris to the Foreign Office about what Those Saucy Bleeders The Damned French were making of it all

FROM PARIS TO FOREIGN OFFICE
By Bag
Sir P. Dixon
DEPARTMENTAL DISTRUBUTION
No. 242 Saving
September 28, 1963
R: September 29, 1963
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 242 Saving of 28/9

R.F.I. Saving to: Washington
Bonn

Denning Report

No doubt the more sensational Paris papers had been hoping to find new provender in the Denning Report. Some have done their best with the little they found. The pro-Gaullist Paris Presse, for example purports to be publishing the complete text: the tabloid Paris Jour adorned its centre page account with no less than 7 pictures of Miss Keeler in various stages of undress. But other equally popular papers (Parisien Liberé, for example) recognised from the outset that the material for sensationalism was disappointing and played the story down (“Report not worth 7 shillings”). The official Gaullist broadsheet La Nation went so far as to headline “Denning Report Damp Squib: Macmillan Acquitted: Ward Posthumously Executed”. The normally sedate Figaro went through contortions deciding how to handle the story: early editions were confined to an assessment of political consequences but the editor had second thoughts and later editions covered the Report in a way which will certainly bring complaints from parts of the paper’s rather squeamish public.

2. With regard to the political consequences, almost the only serious comment has so far come from Correspondents in London. A despatch from Henri Pierre in Le Monde published under the headline “Lord Denning’s Report contains a severe indictment of Mr. Macmillan and his colleagues and the Government” speaks of “a new stock of dynamite” for the Opposition and of the “casualness, incompetence of Mr. Macmillan’s direct associates”. Paris Presse under the heading “Stricken Macmillan goes to see Churchill” describes the Prime Minister as “madly incompetent … The report is hard, very hard, on him and his team that the only real censure…..is addressed”.

Capuano in L’Information adopted a rather similar line in a despatch headlined “Denning Report may offer Labour opposition good electoral platform”. “If the content … is no surprise, it nevertheless calls in question the Prime Minister’s foresight and authority. The political repercussions that this aspect of matters might have, is not to be under-estimated.” Bertrand in Le Figaro in reporting that elections would not take place before next Spring at the earliest, nevertheless speaks of the electoral battle as ”virtually begun”.

3. On the other hand the Prime Minister’s television appearance was reported in Le Monde under the heading “Mr. Macmillan defends himself in masterly fashion”. “He defended himself and defended his colleagues with such masterliness that Mr. Wilson is going, as is usual, to ask the right to reply to him. Mr. Macmillan was in fact excellent, making a bludgeon of his honesty and sincerity and even of his naivety”.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The horn is sounded! I declare Caturday open

Someone holds out a circular hunting horn. A tortoiseshell/white cat puts its face close to it to examine it, and appears to be blowing into the mouthpiece

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just came across this, which is great stuff. This photo is just one of the highlights

Writer/director/producer Lisa Joy stares down the camera from behind a desk adorned with a sign saying “I’M CEO, BITCH”

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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 25/09/2026

Not saying I got a bit bored but I did make this #totp

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching Bo Selecta would be preferable to this #TOTP

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That glimpse of Kath and Harry is going to be the high point of this #TOTP by some distance, isn’t it?

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the most important news from history today is that it’s the 39th anniversary of the (US) release of The Princess Bride—and what better way to mark the day than remind ourselves of Cary Elwes’ story about André the Giant and the enormous, life-altering, earth-shaking fart?

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck me, this story’s a rollercoaster

Photo of the Rutland and Stamford Mercury (Britain’s oldest continuously published newspaper) opened at a page with a picture of a road with barriers raised, and a headline “Waiting times at level crossing barriers are expected to rise”

Opening paragraph: “Waiting times at level crossings are expected to rise in a town, but not by as much as has been suggested.”

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why do all airport protestors look like Ron Mael? This Town Ain't Big Enough For A Third Airbus?

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On this day in 1647, a child was born near Edinburgh with two heads, each one with a single eye in the middle of its face, donkey ears, a tree-trunk-like body, arms sticking out all over, talons, male and female ‘secret parts’, and the legs and feet of oxen. Yes, IT’S ALL TRUE

A 1647 pamphlet: Strange Nevves from SCOTLAND,
OR,
A ſtrange Relation of a terrible and prodigious Monſter, borne to the amazement of all thoſe that were ſpectators, in the Kingdome of Scotland, in a Village neere Edenborough, call’d Hadensworth, Septem. 24. 1647. and the words the faid Monfter ſpake at its birth:
Printed according the Originall Relation ſent overto a great Divine hereafter mentioned.
Illustration shows the creature pretty much as described. It appears to have a forearm protruding from each knee.

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badly drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If this is the accurate image of Our Lord and Saviour, I'm in

A Christian recruiting poster with text saying I CAME to GIVE LIFE - abundant life - Jesus [sic]

And a picture of a dachshund

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hands up who thought Roger Irrelevant was a fictional character

Dan Snow QTs a post that says “Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.” with the words “England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York.
The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.”

Someone replies to Dan Snow to say “I hate your ads for south west trains”

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A thread of delights

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I respect our British culture. DO YOU?

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Started that ‘our British culture’ thing this morning to take the piss, obviously, but this should be our citizenship test: do you get the impression that this man was force for good in the world? Anyone answering no - immediately deported

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I respect our British culture. DO YOU?

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This tweet also respects are British culture

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