Things I learned today (Part 1)

Some of Dusty Springfields ashes were scattered over the cliffs of moher.

Shes was shtone broke and living in a pay per day motel in LA when the Pet Shop Boys tracked her down in 1986.

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And when they found her they burnt her and fucked her ashes off the cliffs of Moher? :confused:

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What Have I Done To Deserve This

Pet Shop Boys, Dusty Springfield

You always wanted a lover
I only wanted a job
Iā€™ve always worked for my living
How am I gonna get through?
How am I gonna get through?

I come here looking for money
Got to have it
And end up living with love, oh, oh
Now you left me with nothing
Canā€™t take it
How am I gonna get through?
How am I gonna get through?

I bought you drinks, I brought you flowers
I read you books and talked for hours
Every day, so many drinks
Such pretty flowers, so tell me
What have I, what have I, what have I done to deserve this?
What have I, what have I, what have I done to deserve this?
What have I, what have I, what have I

Since you went away Iā€™ve been hanging around
Iā€™ve been wondering why Iā€™m feeling down
You went away, it should make me feel better
But I donā€™t know, oh
How Iā€™mā€¦

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What R0 means. Or R-naught as we say.

Good video in here for people that donā€™t know

Mark Harmon the actor played college ball at qb for UCLA

His father was a Heisman winner

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Simon Donovan :cry:

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Franklin Roosevelt was the first sitting US president to visit Africa, Asia or South America while in office.

Not cool to make fun of his disability mate

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Too soon?

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We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And stairs

As the Daleks said.

Bubbles Oā€™Dwyer has a rake of all Ireland badminton titles.

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Thatā€™ll be those thick wrists

Festy was handy at it as well.

A grand aunt of mine was a nun over in England for a while before leaving it. One of her students was the young Mary ā€˜Dusty Springfieldā€™ Oā€™Brien, who she described as a ā€˜lovely girlā€™. Up there with the Limerick man in Toronto that I met who was a teacher of John Candy

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The price of spam

Listening to John Mullanes podcast shows me how wrong I can be about a man,heā€™s hurling man true n true,quite humble and recognises how important God is to him and us

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Turkey is closer to China than it is to Portugal

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