>One Hit Wonders – Weggy Weggy Weggy, ‘ere comes Johnny Weggy

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1971

The Piglets

Pure Estuary English, glottal stops and all.

Invented and produced by Jonathon (“Everyone’s gone to the moon”) King.

John Wegg must have wanted to throttle him.

John Wegg used to work for Lufthansa at Heathrow in the 1970s as an Ops Agent.

He’d get the load details for an outbound flight – passenger figures, fuel, cargo, mail – , supervise the loading, fill out the load and trim sheet and then zip up the stairs to the cockpit and give it to the crew.

And then along came The Piglets with

“What’s ‘e like, Mavis?
E’s a real tasty geezer
Reggae reggae reggae
‘Ere comes Johnny Regggae
Reggae Johnny Reggae
Lay it on me”

Took Kieron Taylor about 3 seconds to see the potential and re-text it

Soon everyone was singing along.

Except Johnny Weggy.

John Wegg played a game in the Station football team against the Engineers, one of whom somehow got it into his head that he was trialing for the German national team.

Tackles John Wegg with an unbelievable ferocity and breaks his ankle in 34 places.

Once he learned to walk again, he still used a stick.

And they used to make sure that he didn’t get any flights that had a tight turnaround time.

Took him ages to get up and down the stairs to the cockpit.

To the tune of

Weggy Weggy Weggy, ‘ere comes Johnny Weggy…….

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>Yo ho ho and a bottle of…..

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…. blood.

And assorted knee gunk.

Up to 700ml so far.

No wonder I’m feeling a bit woozy….

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>Feeling a bit of a drip

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So it wasn’t the meniscus after all

Whatever it was that was fycking up my knee got cut out anyway.

I suppose I’ll find out what it was at some stage….

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>A day in Freiburg with an iPhone

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>"Eeeee" she said

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It looks offal. I mean – awful”

Definitely the former – fried tripe.

Which is cows’ stomach.

Quite excellent.

We had it a lot when I was a kid.

You didn’t earn a lot in the New Zealand Army in the 1950s and 60s even as a Senior NCO and it was roast lamb or beef on Sundays and leftovers during the week until it ran out and then casseroles, liver, kidneys, oxtail or tripe.

As Keith Richards said (referring to HP sauce):

“It’s as difficult to kick as heroin”

I’d go along with that.

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>The road less travelled….

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Out on the bike today, zipping around the vineyards over to Oppenheim which is an easy-ish 22km with a few decent gradients.

Between Zornheim and Mommenheim, there’s the most seductive concreted farm road.

It drops away from 230m ASL to 130m ASL in about 700 metres and I’m tanking down there, touching 45kmh and looking at the vineyard shelter in my immediate future.

Do I cut right onto the rough track or keep going on the concrete road?

No choice.

Full speed ahead..

But I couldn’t quite see where it went so I braked a bit.

And a bit more.

And a LOT more.

I came to a stop just before the road ceases to exist and a track does a sharp hairpin to the right.

What’s ahead?

Oh, a sheer 10 metre drop and vineyard posts and wires about 20 metres away neatly aligned to cushion the fall.

Bloody hell….

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>They’re kidding, right? Right…?

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If you want to vote in the state elections in North Rhein-Westfalia and you’re visually impaired, you can request free assistance from the BSVNRW. Which is the Organisation for the Blind and Partially Sighted.

Except it’s not free.

In a telecoms market where free domestic calls have become the norm, these idiots have the BALLS to provide a premium number for folks who are probably economically marginalised as well as having been dealt the cards of life from a crooked deck.

And I BET that they’ll get shunted through a MAZE of a menu to keep the cash register going “kaCHING”

This stuff really pisses me off.

(In case you hadn’t noticed….)

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Just imagine…

…having to eat something like this.

It’s the Kentucky Fried Chicken “Double Down” sandwich.

2 slices each of plastic cheese and bacon between 2 crumbed and deep fried chicken breasts

Not forgetting the dollop of “The Colonel’s Secret Sauce”, of course.

Needless to say, it doesn’t look QUITE this vile in the adverts once the food stylists are finished with it, but there’s no getting away from the fact that it’s 25% of my recommended daily calorific intake and with more salt than I should probably eat in a week.

I’d do it like this:

1 chicken breast, sliced horizontally and then flattened.

Dip in a beaten egg and then dredge in fresh breadcrumbs you’ve made from wholemeal bread.

Fry in olive oil.

In the meantime:

Grill some pancetta and drain on kitchen towels, thinly slice some buffalo mozzarella and toss some baby salad greens in a vinaigrette made of olive oil and aceto balsamico.

Assemble as a sandwich using a small ciabatta with a good dusting of freshly ground pepper.

You don’t get the large fries and the bucket of Coke, but then again, it doesn’t cost $9…..

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>As easy as falling off a Logue

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I’ll admit to being a bit of a fan of Popdose.

Actually, I’ve liked Jeff Giles’ writing and musical taste since his classic Jefitoblog and his Editor-in-Chief-ship at Popdose seems to keep the troops in line.

Except for this bird.

Ann C. Logue.

In real life, she teaches finance at the University of Illinois and writes for Business Week, Barron’s and the Chicago Tribune.

At Popdose, she does “Numberscruncher“.

She writes stuff like this.

Europe is in a state of uncertainty right now, so Poland’s sorrow adds to the stresses on the continent. A unified currency is a new experiment in the world, and we don’t know how it will work out. The Euro zone, which is those nations that use the euro, agreed to a €30 billion bailout of Greece last week. Poland is not on the euro yet, so it is not participating in the bailout. The plane crash and the Greek crash may delay Poland’s currency conversion, but if the euro is still around in a few years, then Poland will be on it.
 
I have absolutely NO idea which target audience she’s aiming at.
 
I also have NO idea what she’s trying to say. 

I’ll tell you what, though – I’ll definitely have some of whatever it is she’s smoking…..
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Man admits having sex with horse and donkey

Requesting he be released on bail, defence counsel Amar Mehta said: “The defendant does not have a stable address.”

Probably a good thing, too

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