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Can you narrow it down a bit - is this from one of the TV shows?.

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Roger, you nearly had me stumped with this one. Then the mail arrived this morning, and the cards were all bearing the same suspiciously high number on the front of them . We don't have Thanksgiving in Ireland, but it's nice to know that y'all get a day off to celebrate my birthday - Happy Thanksgiving to all of you that are celebrating today. Waikiki got the answer to my question correct. You did better than Rick, who remembered his name as Andrew Johnson when he told the story at the 20th Anniversary Barbeque (season 1 DVD extra). Apparently Andrew Robinson received death threats after playing the Scorpio killer in Dirty Harry (one of my favorite movies). He obviously didn't have the same trouble with Dukes because after playing Billy Joe in 'The Hazzardville Horror', he returned 2 years later to play Pruitt in 'The Treasure if Soggy Marsh' (the Japanese story must relate to his first appearance, because Rick wasn't in the second). I keep it simple today, because most of y'all are probably stuffed with turkey by now . Q. What links Ms. Mabel, Wendel & Irving, and Homer Willis?.

I never know whether commercials for global brands are seen around the world, or just certain areas. Either way, here's a few more memorable commercials from a few years ago: First a commercial for Miller Genuine Draft filmed in San Francisco. Simple idea, but very effective: Miller - Downhill Another commercial filmed in San Francisco was for Sony BRAVIA. This is not CGI - 250,000 real balls were released down the streets: This was parodied by soft drinks company Tango - this time filmed on the streets of Swansea, South Wales: Sony also filmed a BRAVIA commercial in Glasgow, Scotland. This one involved loads of paint exploding over various buildings. All the paint was environmentally friendly and, if I recall correctly, the buildings were due to be demolished: YouTube also has 'making of' videos for both of the Sony commercials if anyone's interested.

Well Garrett, I watched the highlights today, and don't have a lot to add to what you're already written. I wasn't watching Hamlin's crash close enough to decide whose fault it was. As for Kyle Busch, he seemed to take ages to stop his car while his pit crew were yelling at him to get out because it was on fire. With the hurt pit crew member, I only get the highlights, so maybe they didn't consider it worthy of more coverage, but it sounds like they didn't give any more time in the uncut version. In the BBC's F1 coverage (and ITV's before that) they have a couple of the commentary team based in the pit lane (very different layout to NASCAR), and when an incident like this occurs, one of them gets sent to the team garage to get the story. Although the new F1 champion, Sebastian Vettel, wasn't mentioned by name, the fact the he'd won after never leading before the final race did come up in the commentary. Did I also hear a mention of Michael Schumacher's five F1 titles in a row (2000-04) get mentioned?. I may have imagined it .

It is indeed Jimmie Best. Well done to waikiki and Roger. Q. Which guest actor rehearsed a scene with Sorrell Booke in Japanese (they were both fluent), much to the surprise of Rick Hurst who did his lines in English?.

Let It All Blow - Dazz Band (I see you've still got the NKOTB albums out Garrett )

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths (A cover of this song by Dream Academy was used in the art gallery scene of Ferris Bueller's Day Off)

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A song from 1985 with a video featuring Donald Sutherland. A sample from this was used in the 1992 song by Utah Saints.

I'm Shipping Up To Boston - Dropkick Murphys (Some Irish-American punk from Massachusetts - click the link and play loud )

medicine (laughter is the best ...)

(Another Irish band )

A haunting track from the late '70s. Sally is the sister of Mike Oldfield, who is probably best known for his 1973 album Tubular Bells.

I'm Only Sleeping - The Beatles

Bill Engvall (sorry - pinched that one from waikiki )

I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home - David Frizzell (Only a country song could have a title like that )

Zoolook - Jean-Michel Jarre From his experimental 4th studio album of 1984. The album uses samples of singing and speech from 25 languages - more info here.

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Sorry, I tried earlier. It's not on YouTube, or his MySpace (there's 6 other songs here in full), or any of the usual places I look. There's another similar sample available here. I did like his record company name - Deaf Jim - I'm assuming a parody of rap/hip-hop label DefJam. I'll keep looking and post a link if I do find anything.

It looks like no-one's getting this one. The mechanic who worked on Black Tillie was called Skeeter. Q. Which cast member is a cousin of the Everly Brothers?.

Hyperactive! - Thomas Dolby

The county fair in the video looks fun. They've got cars, girls, plaid shirts and loads of mud .

Far From Home - The Levellers