Things you've always wanted to know......

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southbrishammer wrote: In addition to the above answers, anomalies of overseas markets can help. Apparently The Sweet are huge in Germany (they play metal these days rather than the glam rock we know them for) and still play massive sellout concerts there.
I'll bet "BALLROOM BLITZ" goes down well, and "DESERT FOX ON THE RUN" :P
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not that he needed the money but:

"Johnny's Theme" is an instrumental jazz song played as the opening theme of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from the show's inception in 1962 through its finale in 1992. The piece was composed by Paul Anka. Anka estimated that "Johnny's Theme" was played more than 1.4 million times over the course of 30 years. As its original composer, Paul Anka also was paid each time the song was broadcast, earning him an average of about $200,000 per year.
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When is someone going to break it to Danny Dyer that most English, if not British people could probably trace their ancestry, right back to ancient royalty...
Richard III must have been turning in his car park...
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Cuenca 'ammer wrote:Anka estimated that "Johnny's Theme" was played more than 1.4 million times over the course of 30 years.
That’d be 127 times a day, every single day for 30 years.

I’m sceptical.
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I don't know how these things work...

however, if they play it at the beginning and at every break and the end..let's say that maybe 10 times, the show was on 5 days a week.

50 times a week x 30 years = 78K

so I don't know where that figure came from........merely passing it along...I didn't investigate it (obviously)

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In a pair of jeans, whats the little pocket within the big pocket for?
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Why do motorbikes have to have mirrors yet bicycles don't.
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ageing hammer wrote:Why do motorbikes have to have mirrors yet bicycles don't.
There is no legal requirement to have mirrors on a motorcycle.
The same goes for ashtrays. :wink:
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westham,eggyandchips wrote:In a pair of jeans, whats the little pocket within the big pocket for?

A lump of resin... :wink:
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westham,eggyandchips wrote:In a pair of jeans, whats the little pocket within the big pocket for?
That's to hide your drugs in.
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westham,eggyandchips wrote:In a pair of jeans, whats the little pocket within the big pocket for?
For your watch, in the days of fob watches.
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westham,eggyandchips wrote:In a pair of jeans, whats the little pocket within the big pocket for?
A Johnny.

Although mine only fit in the big pocket.
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westham,eggyandchips wrote:In a pair of jeans, whats the little pocket within the big pocket for?
One of David Sullivan's hands.
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Shy Ted wrote:There is no legal requirement to have mirrors on a motorcycle.
The same goes for ashtrays. :wink:
WhyTF would you want mirrors on an ashtray?
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westham,eggyandchips wrote:In a pair of jeans, whats the little pocket within the big pocket for?
S-H wrote:One of David Sullivan's hands.
Close.They were actually designed for Jeremy Beadle.
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:D
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Shy Ted wrote:There is no legal requirement to have mirrors on a motorcycle.
The same goes for ashtrays. :wink:
Kludgehammer wrote:WhyTF would you want mirrors on an ashtray?
:lol:
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Why hasn't someone invented a teapot for service stations that doesn't leak?
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Why are M.P`s referred to in Parliament as "my right honourable colleague", there`s nothing honourable about any of them toerags?
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Think you have to have been a cabinet member to get 'right honorable'. I like the 'right' bit, it's like 'you're right orrible' or 'you're right stupid'.
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