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Beatles did nothing in particular 50 years ago today

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Started 2 months ago by Oxbridge
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Oxbridge

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More soon.

Posted 2 months ago #
Lucy4

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I read the other day, in The Mail, that Mr Kite is still on benefits.

Posted 2 months ago #
Dick Everyman

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However, English Rugby died in south Wales and was buried along with its name

Posted 2 months ago #
AReader

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Cymru am byth

Posted 2 months ago #
Perks

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Ok. I've saw this earlier and then on the ticker and I still don't get it. What have I missed?

Posted 2 months ago #
Midnight Dreary

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Me too - there must be a news story I missed.
Can people please just make jokes about news on the BBC site, please? Otherwise it's very hard to understand.

Posted 2 months ago #
Lucy4

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Nor me. Perhaps it's a pun.

Posted 2 months ago #
button

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I don't get it either.

Posted 2 months ago #
J Vine

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Maybe one of our listeners could phone in and explain

Posted 2 months ago #
Truebiscuit

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No fucking clue.

Posted 2 months ago #
FlashArry

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Nope. Lost on me.

Posted 2 months ago #
Midnight Dreary

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Or is it an anti-joke, where all the fun is to be had in the fact that it's not funny?

I could never really get into those. I could quote a couple, but I don't want to seem like I'm being mean to Oxbridge, who seems like quite a promising writer and should be encouraged, not scorned.

Posted 2 months ago #
Bourbon

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Nope, I'm lost. Maybe it's a cryptic clue from the Guardian crossword.

Posted 2 months ago #
Anonymous

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I still got it

Posted 2 months ago #
Midnight Dreary

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There he is! Come on, Oxbridge, give us a clue!

Posted 2 months ago #
Anonymous

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Only joking. I haven't got a fucking clue either...

Posted 2 months ago #
fink

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Maybe the person who put it first on the ticker could explain what they saw in it?
Surely they didn't put up a joke they didn't get just because it was written by a former writer of the month?

No, that's too silly for words.

Posted 2 months ago #
Spartacus

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I get it and it's not exactly complicated. You lot must all just be a bit slow.

Posted 2 months ago #
Perks

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Quite happy to admit being slow, I genuinely don't get it. Please share your knowledge with the class

Posted 2 months ago #
charlies_hat

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As you may know I love a good ticker, but I agree this one has flown past me. I know there was fuss over Please Please Me about 6 weeks ago, but I don't think it can be that.

Posted 2 months ago #
blacklesbian

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It is called irony - I have seen a lot worse.

Posted 2 months ago #
Truebiscuit

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Pray tell what you've seen, proud black lesbian? And perhaps draw a picture?

Posted 2 months ago #
Bourbon

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The ticker is ironic, or posting something not funny on a humour site is ironic?

Posted 2 months ago #
fink

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No, it's not irony. Anyone else got an idea?

Posted 2 months ago #
Paddy Berzinski

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I know but I'm not telling.

Posted 2 months ago #
blacklesbian

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Ok this is how it works.

A lot of newspapers and other media, like to tell you what happened on this day in a past year, they tend to focus on round numbers of years ago like 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 (as in this case). If you are old it makes you feel even older, if you are young you haven't a fucking clue what they are on about, but it fills a page.

So, for example, 'A hard day's night was released 50 years ago today' would be typical, but 'Beatles did nothing 50 years ago today' is an example of what I call irony.

Not particularly funny I agree, but hardly much poorer than "Infallibility ‘more of a curse than a blessing’, says Pope" to take one example at random.

Posted 2 months ago #
dvo4fun

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Well, I smiled.

Posted 2 months ago #
Perks

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Ok, i get that. So what happened 50 years ago with The Beatles. I presume something did for this to have any meaning.

Actually, don't worry. I'm sure any further explanation will not help me get it. Some you get some you don't.

Posted 2 months ago #
Dick Everyman

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I thought it was based on this

It was twenty years ago today,
Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play
They've been going in and out of style
But they're guaranteed to raise a smile.
So may I introduce to you
The act you've known for all these years,
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Hence my word play on Eleanor Rigby as English Rugby.

Now I feel like the Fool on the Hill ;0(

Posted 2 months ago #
fink

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If in doubt, it's probably better just to put something funny on the ticker, isn't it?

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