http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17980 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:58:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17980#post-153047 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:47:52 +0000 beau-jolly 153047@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Basil, I know Wem! It has a big sign saying:<br /> "WEM, twinned with WEM, (because that's how we like it, now get orf moi land youm worring moi sheep)".<br /> It must be the only town in the UK without an A road. But it did have a lovely brewery before Lord Daresbury bought it, merged it with Greenalls and then shut the whole bloody lot. Git! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17980#post-153036 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:17:46 +0000 Dick Everyman 153036@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>One of three wizzard men on here today? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17980#post-153034 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:12:08 +0000 waylandsmithy 153034@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>heard it before. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17980#post-48540 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:31:00 +0000 Oxbridge 48540@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oddly enough, just that thought occurred to me earlier, though too late to edit it. Extra paragraph to slot in between 3 and 4:</p> <p>Wood also confirmed that, although not a trained meteorologist, he is perfectly well aware that it is not the snowman that 'brings his snow' but a complex mix of weather conditions. 'I might be from the West Midlands but I'm not THAT thick. Plus I was off my big fuzzy moobs on drugs at the time,' he said. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17980#post-48539 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:00:17 +0000 Sinnick 48539@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And how the fuck does "the snowman bring the snow" ?</p> <p>Surely the snow had to be there first. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17980#post-48329 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:43:52 +0000 Basil_B 48329@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I went to school in a place called Wem in Shropshire which was Wood's local town.<br /> What fun we used to have as kids singing 'wish it could be christmas every day' every time we saw him out an about regardless of what time of year it was.<br /> Wood used to tell us to 'fuck off' which I take it mean't he didn't appreciate the joke which would make your post virtually true Oxy. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17980#post-48320 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:19:43 +0000 Oxbridge 48320@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>'I do feel guilty sometimes, especially when I see all the mountains of tat infesting every shop and all the tacky TV ads for Chinese made-tat before the cricket season is even over,' says Roy Wood, lead singer of the 1970s glam rock band Wizzard. He has now officially apologised for his own part in this situation coming about.</p> <p>Thirty seven years ago this week, Wood and his band hit Number Two in the charts with 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day', just behind Slade's 'Merry Xmas Everybody'. As of this year, his remarkable vision has now come true. Wood himself has since retired from the music industry and manages an organic fruit farm in Shropshire that he bought with the royalties from the song.</p> <p>'In my defence, when I wrote the bloody song we were on tour in East Anglia, it was a blazing hot August day and I was homesick,' said the hirsute Brummie. 'I got to thinking, wouldn't it be nice if it was Christmas every day, you know when the kids start singing and the band begins to play and all that? How was I to know what would happen next?'</p> <p>Analysts have now calculated that, with Christmas goods reaching most shops in September and the unsold pile staying there on 3-for-2 offers until well into March, followed by entertainment venues planning their marketing campaigns for office Christmas parties in April, it is actually Christmas every bastard day. Given that many country houses are now advertising their first events of the New Year, an Easter Egg hunt, it is also coming close to being Easter every frigging day as well.</p> <p>'Mind you,' Wood told a female reporter, 'I wouldn't mind your rosy cheeks lighting my merry way, if you get my drift, eh eh? Oh sorry, thought I was back in the '70s for a moment there.' </p>