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(Sarah:) |
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"I am tired and I'm bored", he said. |
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"and I've got kinks in my bed. |
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This work, how I hate it, I'd much rather play, |
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nothing to do, but I do need a rest." |
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(whispered:) Let's just get started and make a mess... |
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Morton stood up and said "What's that? |
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It's the fifteenth of May, and I'm cold, and I'm wet." |
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He turned without stopping |
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and smiled to the pilot. |
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People weather the terrible storm. |
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A distant space ??? |
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(Stephen:) |
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A scene from a film circa 1982. |
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We drove down George Street, en route to Wendy's. |
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Glenn Campbell was on the radio singing about cleaning his gun |
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and dreaming of Galveston. |
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"What's this?" she said. |
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"It's Hall and Oates or nothing for me." |
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Of course, this was pre-House Nation |
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and I asked her "What is anyone going to remember this decade for?" |
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She paused for a second, then said: |
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"Waffle cardigans, Wentworth jail, |
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rah-rah skirts straight out of Hell, |
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Andrew ??? and BMX bikes, |
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Chernenko and miners' strikes, |
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Nikky Kershaw and Red Ken, |
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Peter Tatchell and Dirty Den, |
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Mark King slapped his bass, |
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and early issues of The Face, |
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Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Margaret Thatcher, |
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Toto Coelo, and Spycatcher, |
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E.T., Arthur, Elmo's Fire, |
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not a patch on Billy Liar, |
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Phil Redmond and Transformers, |
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Tin-Tin Duffy in leg-warmers, |
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Stu Damer, evil Tel, |
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Roger Hebert, what a pal, |
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Steven Waldorf, Jerry Gross, |
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Do The Hucklebuck by Coast To Coast, |
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Steve Blacknell on the telly, |
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the classic beard of Altobelli, |
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Leon Klinghofer, baby duck(?), |
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blonde highlights, flourescent sock, |
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Steve Lynex and Gordon Smith, |
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Martin Fry grew a quiff, |
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Haysi Fantayzee, Videotech, |
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Shakey drove us crazy, what the heck, |
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Hazel O'Connor in Breaking Glass, |
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Gripper Stebson's in the class." |
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And I said, "I don't remember any of that. If you can remember the '80s you weren't there. Uh, you know, I remember Scott Crolla in his Furry Freak Brothers t-shirt, if that's anything." |
