A-Z "Topic Of The Day"

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Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen

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Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler 

 

Just because so many funerals 

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^Yep... same for You Raise Me Up.

 

No Aphrodisiac - The Whitlams

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Out In The Fields - Gary Moore and Phil Lynott

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If I Could Start Today Again - Paul Kelly (you think we were doin a list without my main man???)

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Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen 

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^I get it....

 

OH.... Jillar just dream Fizchicked me and I gotta post an R for her...

 

Here Comes A Regular - The Replacements

 

Oooo... gues what that means I get the S.... yay for me... woohoo ..... oh, sorry... sob sob... cos its sad songs and all....

 

Sgt. MacKenzie -Joseph Kilna MacKenzie

 

 

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you cheeky little madam! 

 

For what it's worth was going to go with 

 

Dry Your Eyes Mate - The Streets 

 

But as you got in there first

 

Tracey Chapman - Fast Car

 

(not sure if it is sad or just desperation) 

[notsmokinjo]

^despiration is sad....

 

(well I was coming in to post another S... cos if @Sslip gets to have two S's then I can have to Ss.... I always cry for this song, if its this singer or any other, even Robbie Williams...

Mr. Bojangles - Sammy Davis Junior)

 

U.....

 

Stay (Faraway, too close) - U2

 

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Candy Says - The Velvet Underground 

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Back to Black - Amy Winehouse

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Lies - Jane X0

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Yesterday - Frank Sinatra.. 

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Zombie - The Cranberries 

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Changeroo timeski .... today we are going for.... Disaster & Survival Movies.... don't care how you justify it but if its not obvious best be letting us know how it fits...

 

Alive

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Born Free

 

(needs no explanation surely!!)

Edited May 10, 2018 by Wee fluffy me

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Children of Men

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Ooopppss I got another one...

 

 

Dante's  peak 

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Earthquake

[notsmokinjo]

Switcheroonie time - today's topic: Your Heroes

 

Florence Nightingale (happy 198th Birthday today)

- read one of those little cardboard cover ladybug books about her life as a real little tacker and for the first time in my life thought that women could be heros too.... she was amazing, the founder of modern nursing, a social reformer, a statitician and historian, years before her time in so many ways... all hail the Lady with the Lamp.... and the dispenser of this bit of advice that is worth living by:

 

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Galileo Galilei

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^^ How frickin amazing was he... thumbing his nose at the church and the authorities because he had an idea and then he went about proving it... thank you Galileo.

 

Harper Lee

She wrote To Kill A Mockingbird.... one of may all time favourite novels... I saw the Gregory Peck film as a 7 year old and borrowed the book from the library and have read it every year since at least once for the rest of my life to date.... so thank you Harper Lee (not so impressed with the sequel, I know why it was hidden away)

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It takes a greater dedication to principles than I think I would have.

 

Because I didn't get to use it before.

 

Isaac Newton - he invented gravity, without which we would be all floating in space. Another British invention, you're welcome world.

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Invented? really? or just gave it a name.... bit like Straya init... sailing along and bump into a huge frickin lump of dirt..."OH look what we've discovered (dutch and french did it first but the dutch landed where dessert meets sea and when nah its shit and the frogs landed at a swamp and did the same) lets call is Australia and send all the riff raff here... let them escape from an island. Bravo well done chaps, ok off to name something else now..."

 

That said great choice.

 

Albert "Bert" Jacka - 1 VC & 2 MCs in WW1 - cos his heroism makes me proud to be an Aussie... and Charles Bean reckons it should have really been 4 VCs but the brass weren't fans. go here for more info: https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/exhibitions/fiftyaustralians/26

 

 

Edited May 11, 2018 by notsmokinjo

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Just occassionally let one of these slide Jo

 

I promise you (but with my fingers crossed behind my back so it doesn't really count) that Sir Isaac invented gravity.