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Beatles did nothing in particular 50 years ago today
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Posted 7 years ago #
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I read the other day, in The Mail, that Mr Kite is still on benefits.
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However, English Rugby died in south Wales and was buried along with its name
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Cymru am byth
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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?
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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 7 years ago # -
Nor me. Perhaps it's a pun.
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I don't get it either.
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Maybe one of our listeners could phone in and explain
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No fucking clue.
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Nope. Lost on me.
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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.
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Nope, I'm lost. Maybe it's a cryptic clue from the Guardian crossword.
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I still got it
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There he is! Come on, Oxbridge, give us a clue!
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Only joking. I haven't got a fucking clue either...
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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.
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I get it and it's not exactly complicated. You lot must all just be a bit slow.
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Quite happy to admit being slow, I genuinely don't get it. Please share your knowledge with the class
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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.
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It is called irony - I have seen a lot worse.
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Pray tell what you've seen, proud black lesbian? And perhaps draw a picture?
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The ticker is ironic, or posting something not funny on a humour site is ironic?
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No, it's not irony. Anyone else got an idea?
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I know but I'm not telling.
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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.
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Well, I smiled.
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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 7 years ago # -
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(
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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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