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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 02/10/2024

Happy Birthday Peanuts

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Roses are red Oats go in porridge

Eastern Daily Press headline: GIANT CANNIBAL SLUGS HIT NORWICH. Below this, a line to separate out the word SATURDAY

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 12h

[1992] Funnybones - TV adaptation of the popular series of children's books about the comical adventures of two skeletons and their skeletal dog. Narrated by Griff Rhys Jones. In this episode, Dog is having his favourite dream, the one about a big, juicy bone.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SDC M40 in Gerrards Cross is one of the most harmful sites yet proposed. It puts a gas power station next to ancient and wet woodland, home to great crested newts, bats, grass snakes, skylarks and more. But it bypassed the local council and went through by the government as a Section 35 direction.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pop bands in the News day eighteen: Erasure. Stop, just show A Little Respect. Am I Right?

War, Erasure, and the Politics of Culture in Sudan.

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aw, come on, look what AI morons have done, they’ve upset Sylvester McCoy! If I did that I’d think very hard about what I’d done then write an apology letter, they should be grateful he isn’t going back in time to remove them from the timeline.

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

David Bowie’s favourite pencil

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This rapid shift to mega-dairies creates a massive surplus of slurry that outdated infrastructure cannot handle. Dairy farming caused 71% of serious agricultural pollution incidents in England, devastating rivers by triggering algal blooms, stripping oxygen levels, and destroying wildlife.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A new Wildlife Trusts report exposes the devastating impact of unchecked mega-dairies on UK wildlife. There are more than 40 mega-dairies in the UK, but lack of government oversight leaves their growth and pollution unmonitored. “Zero-grazing" mega-dairies keep cows inside all year round.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The movement against habitat destroying AI data centres is growing. Check out these 30 local petitions hosted on change.org

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The “Beats off” Chronicles day one hundred and forty-six: Beating off is what willows do. I read it in Harry Potter.

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Weeping willow beats off rivals to be named Doncaster's tree of the year.

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aretaloger [air-uh-TAL-uh-jur] (n.) - A braggart; one who boasts excessively of their own virtues, merits, or accomplishments.

A “Grandiloquent Word of the Day” meme featuring the word “Aretaloger” [air-uh-TAL-uh-jur]. The definition reads: “A braggart; one who boasts excessively of their own virtues, merits, or accomplishments.” At right, a black-and-white vintage illustration depicts a self-assured, bare-chested gladiator holding a long trident, posed with one hand on his hip. Below, the example sentence reads: “After spending the entire evening giving an account of his wealth, accomplishments, romantic conquests, and innumerable virtues, the aretaloger was incredulous when Miss Junetinkle declined the offer of a second date.”

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Exciting news! Wild pine martens have naturally migrated to Wiltshire and have bred at the Longleat Estate. An adult pair were spotted earlier this year, and now healthy new kits have been captured on camera too.

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Carl Rosman @carlrosman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Are we sure it’s CUT that the parrot was yelling?

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Footnote! It is, indeed, very much worth reading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_...

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Over 1,200 live animals were used in the film, all of which required understudies. There are anecdotes of a goat eating Fleischer's script, and a parrot that learned to yell "Cut!"

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Mind you, thanks to Katie Stebbins on The Old Place, we do know that he gave the world this, which she described as “cinema’s greatest minute”, and which is, indeed, unimpeachable

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The fact that Robert Morley was apparently “very fond of and greatly admired” Harrison makes that particularly unforgivable, but even that can’t distract from the urge to invent a time machine and go back to shout at Rex Harrison: “Fuckin’ ’ell, mate. ‘One performance’? Coming from you!”

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Robert Morley’s grandson told me that a few days after Robert Morley’s This Is Your Life, he ran into Harrison who said “Very brave going on that programme, but of course unlike me you have only ever had one wife, one family, one house and if I may say one performance”

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Sometimes it’s a ‘little old lady’ at the stage door, with either an umbrella or a rolled-up programme, and sometimes Wilfrid H-W, as I say, delivers the punchline, and perhaps it’s a little too good to be true, but it’s entertaining – and far from the only example of Harrison being an arse...

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

He proffered a piece of paper hoping for an autograph. “Fuck off!” Rex snapped again. Without blinking, the chap thumped Rex in the face and sent him flying backwards. Stanley nearly wet himself with laughter. “That’s the first case of the fan hitting the shit I’ve ever witnessed,” he chuckled.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

“Oh, Mr Harrison! Forgive me, but I’m a huge fan...” “Fuck off then,” snapped Rex. Later, as they were leaving, the same chap was standing outside. “I’m sorry, Mr Harrison, I realize I shouldn’t have interrupted your meal so I’ve waited for you to finish.”

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

There are different versions, but one of the most enjoyable tellings comes in Roger Moore’s My Word is My Bond: “Stanley Holloway ...and Rex Harrison were out having dinner at a restaurant one night, when a chap approached them...”

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

It’s taken many forms, and the punchline has been attributed to both Wilfrid Hyde-White and Stanley Holloway (Rex Harrison’s male co-stars), but either way is predicated on the fact that Harrison was a legendarily unpleasant (if also talented) man

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Rex Harrison: His greatest hits - Comedy Chronicles - British Comedy Guide

The jaw-dropping tale of Rex Harrison, who may have been one of Hollywood's biggest stars but elicited far more anger than admiration amongst those he met.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Well, if it’s 15 March, we could commemorate the 2,070th anniversary of the doing in of Julius Caesar... or we could note that it’s 70 years since My Fair Lady opened on Broadway, and use that as an excuse to trot out one of the finest of all theatrical anecdotes... 🧵

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The new era needs to create its own “family“ of characters, arcs and therefore you only need itself to follow. That’s one of the secrets of those eras and why they were so popular. Can we *stop losing our minds over every quote!*

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Personally I’m just happy BBC Studios acknowledged Matt’s era is just as popular and massive and it did show you can mostly work within your own mythos and keep audiences hooked, without worrying about 40 year old older serials.

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The quote going around is saying LIKE the David Tennant and Matt Smith years, not bring them back. I too would try and recapture what those eras did for a general audience whilst also doing something new. Doctor Who needs to be popular in order to get the correct funding to keep it going.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the petition to end the Guga hunt gets to 120,000 it will be the 3rd most signed petition in the Scottish Parliament's history.

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Richard Unwin @richardunwin.bsky.social · 23h

8 And, most impressively, Richard E Grant has played the actual Doctor. Twice. First in 1999 Comic Relief sketch ‘Curse of the Fatal Death’, then in 2003 animation ‘Scream of the Shalka’. His incarnation was then included in a montage in 2024 ep ‘Rogue’. #DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors

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Richard Unwin @richardunwin.bsky.social · 23h

7 Ross Kemp’s ‘Eastenders’ character met Romana in celebrated 1993 Doctor Who / Eastenders Children in Need crossover ‘Dimensions in Time’. #DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors

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Richard Unwin @richardunwin.bsky.social · 23h

6 Romesh Ranganathan was recently fired at by a pair of Daleks during the ‘What has the BBC ever done for me?’ Promo film. #DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors

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Richard Unwin @richardunwin.bsky.social · 23h

5 Miranda Hart’s ‘Call the Midwife’ character ‘Chummy’ Brown met the Eleventh Doctor in n a 2013 Comic Relief crossover skit. #DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors

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Richard Unwin @richardunwin.bsky.social · 23h

4 Michael Sheen played the villainous entity known as House in 2011 episode ‘The Doctor’s Wife’. #DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors

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Richard Unwin @richardunwin.bsky.social · 23h

3 Julie Hesmondhalgh played Judy Maddox in the 2018 episode ‘Kerblam!’. #DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors

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Richard Unwin @richardunwin.bsky.social · 23h

2 Bella Ramsey was the voice of Freya in the ‘Doctor Who Infinity’ game ‘The Dalek Invasion of Time’. #DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors

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Richard Unwin @richardunwin.bsky.social · 23h

Celebrity Traitors Doctor Who Connections - Just because there are quite a few this year… 1 Amol Rajan played himself in the 2024 episode ’73 Yards’ - aged up to appear as he would in the year 2046. #DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Anyway, all together now: “They’re coming to get you, Barbra”

Producer of the movie Russell Streiner as Johnny at the beginning of the film, wearing a suit and thick glasses, mocking his sister’s fears by saying “They’re coming to get you, Barbra!”

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

You can watch it now on YouTube (because, as I understand it, the film was renamed at the last minute before that first release, and the company forgot to put a copyright notice on the new title card. In fact, there are several accounts offering the whole film, but this had the best preview image)

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Night of the Living Dead 1968 | Full Movie | Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea | Horror, Thriller

YouTube video by Cult Cinema Classics

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