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The Wolstanton When-eveverly Boxing Day 2012 Review!! The Wolstanton Online Periodical World Wide Website is best viewed using your eyes. WARNING! Occasionally items are not entirely true. But then there's nothing stranger than the truth. Posted 26/12/2012 |
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Sport First: Last football match of the Year Stoke 3 - 1 Liverpool Kenwyne Jones Celebrates. Look at the Scouse faces in the background. Makes a change for us to steal something off them! 
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NEWS (OF THE 2012 WEATHER) Ever since the drought was announced at the beginning of the year, we've had nothing but rain! This Western Power vehicle got stuck in the floods at Darlaston recently. You'd think the lads parked up and the water rose, wouldn't you? I have this story on good authority. The road was already closed when the Power lads arrived. The Police said "you won't get through without a 4X4". "Thet's OK. This is a 4X4!" They replied. Then they drove into the water and started to float. They couldn't reverse out because the wheels were off the floor. This is where it sank! 
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TOP CELEBRITY DEATHS
2012 has been a bad year for celebrities. 26/12/2012 5................4...............3................2................1! Gerry Anderson died today. Best known to my generation for Thunderbirds, the kids series where puppets were men and smoked fags. 09/12/2012 Patrick Moore died today aged 89. 24/11/2012 Larry Hagman Who killed JR? Cancer! 07/11/2012 Clive Dunn Don't Panic! Dad's Army is still funny. 5/11/2012 LEGENDARY Page 3 photographer Beverley Goodway died on Sunday, aged 69. The shy, bow-tie wearing Sun man had been battling cancer. You can find some of his work Here if you like tits. 26/08/2012 Neil Armstrong. First man to walk on the Moon. Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 04/07/2012 Eric Sykes "Comedy great" Eric Sykes died today at the age of 89. If you've got plenty of time to spare, here's The Plank (in 5 bite sized sections) 21/5/2012 Robin Gibb died aged 62 of colorectal cancer (what ever that is). It's a Tragedy he's not Stayin Alive, Stayin Alive. 17/5/2012 Donna Summer, Queen of Disco died aged 63 of lung cancer. 13/5/2012 Donald "Duck" Dunn Played with The Blues Brothers and many others. Died in his sleep after playing a show the night before. 09/05/2012 Vidal Sassoon Apparently, he was a hair-dresser. That doesn't mean he was gay! 21/04/2012 Jack Ashley Former Stoke MP and campaigner for disabled rights. Jack was the first deaf MP. 20/04/2012 Bert Weedon, Britain's first guitar hero, dies at 91 Read more: Here 05/04/2012 Jim Marshall died today, aged 88. Here are one or two tributes to his fantastic contribution to ROCK. Spinal Tap The Who Jimi Hendrix AC/DC 29/02/2012 Davey Jones No more monkeying about for him. If you gave an infinite number of Monkeys a guitar, would they play Last Train To Clarksville? |
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Other things from 2012: TRF Peak District Park Demo Peak District National Park Authority are proposing closing many of the best green lanes in the park. The Trail Riders are not happy! I was on this one. POLICE COMMISSIONAIR ELECTIONS More people vote in X-Factor than turned out for the Police and Crime Commissionair elections. ELECTION SPECIAL: So. We voted out the prime minister we didn't vote in and replaced him with one who got less than 50% of the vote. He got in by joining the third placed party. What's worse? I'll tell you - I am now, for the first time in my life, older than the serving PM!!!! Nuff said about politics! EDITORS 2012 RANT This time it's all about music. Back in the seventies LP's and single were sold to us in their millions. The sound quality was pretty good and if you get one out of the loft now it will work as well as ever. In the eighties along came CD's. CD's are a conveniant size and the sound quality fantastic. They may not be as durable as we were lead to believe but they are pretty darn good. We have advanced so far now we can all burn our own CD's. You'd think things could only get better. Wouldn't you? Now in the twenty first century everything is heading towards downloads. iPods and mp3 players proliferate and the CD market is collapsing. Has anyone played one of these downloads through a hifi? They sound crap compared to a CD or LP! The music industry has wound the quality back forty years and Joe Public is buying it. Rant Over. |
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