And so as the internet lights four candles for the passing of A Ronnie, we'd best have a nice gentle lunchtime quiz here at the blog. So we return to the heyday of the Rons, the imperial seventies and another run of four Look-In cover stars that could be anyone from Barbara Lott to Barbapapa, as I ask "Who the f**k ...in Look-In?"
And whilst you think on them, lets all listen to our new national anthem....
1. Ronnie Alvin Stardust, 2. Ronnie Cat Stevens, 3. Ronnie Sparks, 4. Ronnie Madness
Happy birthday Joseph Barbera! Off of Hanna-Barbera! Even though you technically died in 2006! We all know and love the H/B cartoons of old - or do we? Our collective selective memory will always remember characters such as The Flintstones, Huckleberry Hound, Boss Top, Whatever The Frig Snagglepuss Was and Boring Yogi Bear whilst filtering out the very real and existing likes of Mighty Mightor, Cattanooga Cats, Devlin, The Roman Holidays, CB Bears and Where's Huddles?
Can you pick out the five real Hanna Barbera cartoons from this list of ten possibilities?
1. Chappy, Chompy and Chippy
2. Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse
3. Determined Duck
4. Sir Knightsly Knight And His Kookoo Kourt
5. Breezly and Sneezly
6. The Brown Bunny
7. Squiddly Diddly
8. Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long
9. The Discolites
10. The Gary Coleman Show
Answers after these prayers.
A: Chappy, Chompy and Chippy, Determined Duck, Sir Knightsly Knight And His Kookoo Kourt, The Brown Bunny and The Discolites are fake. The others are all too real.
Time for four more "famous" "faces" as featured on the front cover of the once-mighty Look-In magazine in the seventies and early eighties. On first peep, I declare the answers to be "Randy Grandad", Glynis Barber off Blakes 7, Tarbuck (Experiment Failed) and the stars of "The All New Already Vetoed Monkey Sex Pals Show". I could be wrong though...what do you reckon? Who the f**k is in Look-In?
Answers below.
1. Noddy Holder, 2. Kim Wilde, 3. Little Jimmy Osmond, 4. Greg Evigan (BJ and the Bear)
As you may have seen in various news stories around the web, today marks the tenth anniversary of the first tweet ever sent back when Ian Twitter first sent the message "I am leaving Twitter #blessed" on 21st March, 2006. No, really its true. Mostly.
But what if Twitter had been around much longer than that? And was already much in use in the worlds of fictional characters? That rather slight but intriguing premise is the crux for today's PRPQ lunchtime quiz. All you have to do is work out which characters from TV, film, literature and pop culture could've sent the following tweets...
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Answers can be found below...
1. Billy Bunter, 2. Officer Dibble (Boss Cat), 3. Ernie The Fastest Milkman In The West (Benny Hill), 4. Emu, 5. Zammo (Grange Hill), 6. Dr Sam Beckett (Quantum Leap), 7. Carwash (Willo The Wisp), 8. Luigi (Super Mario Bros), 9. Pacman, 10. ALF
More St Patrick's Day shillelagh-anigans with some more live clips, this time from 2015's "Salute To Irish Ireland", starting with one of the Irish musical big guns, The Irish Rover. Or at least the lyrics are. But as for the five artists and songs they're being performed in the style of, that's anybody's guess...
A regular appearance at our quiz nights is the singing superstar Steven Patrick Overcoat Morrissey who provides Smiths-esque medleys of various acts or styles. Being the most Irish man of all time (as evidenced by his 2004 hit "Irish Blood, English Bum") it was inevitable he would turn up to do a megamix of Irish hits both Eire and Northern based. See how many you can pick out.
Bizarrely that Morrissey round was featured on the front page of Audioboom once and got us a thousand plays in a day. Wonder how many of the buggers bought a book....
Final round for now (you can see the full quiz in said just mentioned book) and its time for a jolly sing-a-long with that other staple of pissed toothless arseholes sloshing Guinness around everywhere The Wild Rover. And he sure has roved - all over the world! So much so he's picked up five different languages for the choruses. Can you work out which?
That's all the dubious stereotyping for this Paddy's Day! Have a safe one! Don't drink too many lovely pints!
THE IRISH ROVER: 1. Zombie – The Cranberries, 2. Parklife – Blur, 3. Rockin' In the Free World – Neil Young, 4. I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys, 5. Come Together – The Beatles / MORRISSEY DOES IRELAND: Dirty Old Town (Various), Whiskey In The Jar (Various), Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy), My Perfect Cousin (Undertones), I Don't Like Mondays (Boomtown Rats), Orinoco Flow (Enya), Nothing Compares 2 U (Sinead O'Connor), Screamager (Therapy?), Them Girls Them Girls (Zig and Zag), Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol), What Can I Do? (The Corrs), Lipstick (Jedward), My Lovely Horse (The Divine Comedy)/ THE WILD ROVER: 1. French, 2. German, 3. Dutch, 4. Russian, 5. Chinese
For those of a certain age, Look-In magazine was the go to place to learn about the latest trends in pop, film and television, specifically ITV programmes on the myriad of now-long dissolved telly regions. One of the key features that made it stand out from its pop mag brethren was its eschewing of photographs in favour of especially commissioned painted covers, invariably done by respected Italian film poster artist Arnaldo Putzu.
Sometimes this resulted in a wonderful, unique rendering of a current favourite, such as this wonderful "Monster" mash-up...
But sometimes under tight deadlines and less than reliable source material, it could go a bit wrong and you'd end up with something like...I do not know what this is...
And so, a regular feature here on the blog will be "Who The Fuck...in Look-In?" devoted to four not necessarily obvious cover stars of the past. Here's the first...
Answers below....
1. Bryan Ferry, 2. Gary Numan, 3. David Jason, 4. The Police
