
Former indoor cricketer, and lover of sports played over 5-23 days Technical assistant to @musettedutour for her photographic efforts
Sydney, Aust
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ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
Bea Arthur thought John Cleese was absolutely brilliant and so agreed to be in a 1983 American remake of Fawlty Towers called “Amanda’s By The Sea” as long as she could be as nasty as Basil Fawlty.
Sadly the network kept watering it down until she was playing Maude again.
13 episodes were produced, with 3 remaining unaired following the series' cancellation.
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A fantastic photo given the technology of the time ... Herbert Strudwick b Jack Gregory, England v Australia, 2nd Test, Lord's, June 14th 1921. This was the penultimate wicket in Australia's eight-wicket win, their seventh Ashes victory in succession
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40 years ago today 27.10.86 we released our second album No.10 Upping Street.Made in London and New York with co production by Joe Strummer
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Voice actor Eric Bauza, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Stimpy, dies at 46
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Congratulations to three-time Paralympic gold medallist Vanessa Low on her appointment to the Australian Athletics Board of Directors.
🔗Read more: bit.ly/4ij3Kd4
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England went to Pakistan expecting easy wins and boosted stats, but now they are ranked world number nine in ODI cricket, below Afghanistan. A World Cup qualifier against Jersey should await.
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To paraphrase Ellyse Perry; if this is ever going to happen, make it happen to England
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When the Māori people first arrived in New Zealand in the ~13th century, the islands abounded in all sorts of wildlife that had adapted to having no mammalian predators.
Within generations, however, those first settlers had triggered an extraordinary avian collapse.
1/n
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Julian Lennon, John Lennon’s son, shared a tweet after running into his dad's Beatles bandmate, Sir Paul McCartney, in an airport lounge.
In a cool twist, Paul was actually listening to a song from Julian’s new album “Jude” on his phone at that very moment.
As many people know, the Beatles’ famous song “Hey Jude” was originally written as “Hey Jules” by Paul back in 1968. It was inspired by Julian, who was only 5 years old at the time, after his father John split from his mom, Cynthia, for Yoko. That’s why Julian named his new album “Jude.”
Now, Paul is 84, and Julian is 63!
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Two sisters singing the same song, year by year since 2012… It just made me smile the whole video and then everything started getting blurry 😭😭
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I’m at a fast food place where Mambo #5 was just playing and it’s the first time I realized not a single couplet in the chorus actually rhymes.
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“Xanadu” was written and produced by Jeff Lynne specifically for the 1980 musical fantasy film Xanadu. Performed by Olivia Newton-John with the Electric Light Orchestra, the song was recorded at Musicland Studios in Munich, with Olivia providing the lead vocals and ELO contributing the instrumentation and backing vocals.
Released in 1980, “Xanadu” became a major international hit, reaching No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks and No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also topped the charts in several European countries and became the only UK No. 1 credited to ELO. The film's dance sequences had already been shot to an earlier demo of the song. When ELO recorded the final version, they had to match the demo's tempo so the finished recording would synchronise with the footage, giving the song its slightly unusual rhythmic feel.
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2005 stellte Sony in San Francisco offenbar die einzig vernünftige Frage, die man sich beim Bewerben neuer Fernseher stellen kann:
„Was wäre, wenn wir 250.000 bunte Gummibälle einen Berg hinunterhüpfen?“
Und dann taten sie es einfach.
Eine Viertelmillion echte Flummis, zwölf gesperrte Straßen und ein Team, das vermutlich sehr schnell bereute, im Vertrag nicht nach einer Gefahrenzulage gefragt zu haben.
Für den legendären Werbespot „Balls“ kaufte die Produktion angeblich praktisch jeden verfügbaren Gummiball westlich des Mississippi auf. In amerikanischen Kaugummiautomaten herrschte daraufhin für eine Weile vermutlich jene trostlose Leer.
Damit die Bälle nicht bloß bergab kullerten, baute das Effektteam gewaltige Druckluftkanonen.
Und wie es funktionierte.
Die Flummis erreichten Berichten zufolge Geschwindigkeiten von über 160 km/h. Das Kamerateam trug Schutzkleidung, Helme und benutzte teilweise Schutzschilde.
Beim ersten Abschuss verwandelte sich die Straße in ein kontrolliertes Experiment zur Chaostheorie. Bälle flogen über Häuser, sprangen einen ganzen Häuserblock wieder bergauf und landeten in Abflüssen, die eigentlich weit außerhalb der berechneten Flugzone lagen.
24 eigens bereitgestellte Autos und sechs Häuser wurden beschädigt; allein kaputte Fenster sollen rund 74.000 Dollar gekostet haben. Ein Crewmitglied sah später beim Einchecken ins Hotel – mehrere Meilen vom Drehort entfernt – noch einen einzelnen Gummiball über den Bürgersteig hüpfen.
Nach jedem Take begann die eigentliche Heldentat: das Einsammeln von 250.000 Flummis an den steilsten Straßen San Franciscos. Dafür gab es besondere Schaufeln, Netze und sogenannte „Ball Wranglers“.
Noch Jahre später sollen Anwohner einzelne Bälle in Dachrinnen und Abflüssen gefunden haben. Manche bewahrten sie als Souvenir auf. Damit ist der Spot vermutlich die einzige Werbekampagne, deren Requisiten zwei Jahrzehnte später noch selbstständig in Garagen auftauchen.
Das Ergebnis war aber eine der schönsten Werbungen der 2000er: eine unwirkliche Lawine aus Farbe, gefilmt in Zeitlupe und begleitet von José González’ „Heartbeats“. 🔴🟡🟢🔵

































