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The RANSOM of Hazzard County

Here's a little reminder of Tom in 'Blackadder'. For anyone unfamiliar with Edmund Blackadder, you may know Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean.

Jerry Springer

I also watched Tom Baker era 'Doctor Who', but did you ever hear him narrate 'Little Britain' or see his guest appearance in the second season of 'Blackadder'? Here's the intro from 'Little Britain' with some questionable claims about Britain's inventions.

I wish he'd skipped the geography and just stuck to the science.

The British haven't always been welcome visitors around the world, but here's a video listing just some of the inventions and discoveries they've produced. There are a few controversial points included, but most a clarified at the end. The title is a play on a Monty Python sketch (something else the British gave to the world) of which a small clip is included near the beginning.

Or just a coincidence. It's hardly surprising that one of the over 1300 passengers on board feared something like this happening.

MACK MAGEE Character in 'How to Succeed in Hazzard'.

Black Friday makes even less sense over here because we don't have Thanksgiving. I think the madness of a few years ago has gone now. The electrical shops had a few reduced items which I'm sure they bought in specially, and several clothes shops had 20% off certain lines, but no massive bargains or fights.

There's an old thread where people re-wrote Christmas songs with "Duke-ified" lyrics.

Rosco's radar gun was a HAIR dryer.

Milk

I saw this 'Home Alone' meme recently.

I obviously hear so many US voices that I don't really notice the difference in pronunciation with the name George. I saw some short videos yesterday of young Americans returning to the US after brief visits to Europe, and the most important thing they could find to say was that in "The Land of the Free" they could remove the caps from their soda bottles. For the last couple of years our plastic soda and water bottles have had caps which remain tethered to the bottles so the whole lot can get recycled. In Ireland we also pay a deposit on each bottle (15c or 25c depending on size) which we get back when they are returned to a store for recycling. The caps can still be separated easily if it's really too much to deal with, but you get used to them pretty quickly. I find it particularly odd that this should be such an issue for young Americans since when I visited the US in the early 80s you guys had soda cans with ring pulls which stayed attached while on our cans they were still separate and were often just thrown away! This video is now two years old, but the comparison of food prices and availability is still valid. The lady in the video spends six months of the year in the UK and six months in Texas, and the comparison is between Tesco in the UK and Kroger in the US.