This would be manageable if his beliefs were all barmy.
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The idea is not as barmy as it might first appear.
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Other choice epithets include "the barmy army" and "swivel-eyed loons".
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Probably, even now and in this barmy election year, she needn't be overly worried.
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He was a bit of a stiff, with a barmy, overbearing family of his own.
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The result is a severe shortage, and bride prices that are barmy even by Chinese standards.
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Some fear that any reform attempts would provide an opening for all those other barmy ideas.
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Maybe even a touch of nerves surrounding the sometimes barmy behavior coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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He piles up heaps of ridiculous names: Bingo Little, Tuppy Glossop, Freddie Bullivant, Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright.
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She could be on a triumphant journey, or she could be following in the path of her barmy father, the Mad King.
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Such barmy eclecticism resonates with the current generation of English designers, perhaps as a reflection of a homegrown culture in similar turmoil.
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Maritime analysts say that the idea is barmy—the roads are terrible and the area nearby is home to a fierce Somali insurgency.
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Imported by Wilson Daniels, distributed in the District and Maryland by Bacchus, in Virginia by RNDC: Available in the District at Barmy Wines & Liquors, Rodman's.
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And now, thanks to our barmy president and his staff meltdown, we are finding out fast who we are and who we don't want to be.
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Seeing passengers with full-sized suitcases trying to squeeze them into overhead lockers, crumpling Gulliver's hat and forcing others into a forlorn hunt for space, drives him barmy.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — Alun Williams is a barmy British bloke who roams the backstreets of cities and towns, stubbornly signifying historic citizens with slapdash splotches.
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America has as many barmy rules as the next country—such as those, often at state level, which mean that more than a quarter of workers must hold occupational licences.
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To put an end to the barmy incentives, Mr Ryan, adopting a pet cause of Kevin Brady, chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee, would stop taxing foreign profits.
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Ms. Spielman has poked fun at schools for what she considers excessive risk aversion, describing as "simply barmy" measures like sending schoolchildren out on city field trips in high-visibility jackets.
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See National News story NNCAR; But the 46-year-old decided to go one step further and spent a barmy £180 covering the ancient Golf in ten metres of teddy-bear fabric.
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On Monday, he beat 53rd-ranked Ricardas Berankis, 6-3, 6-33, 6-4, in the first round as plenty of his compatriots were getting barmy in the Wimbledon hinterlands of Court 17.
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But if you'd have said to me three weeks ago when the Cup began that we'd be watching a night like this here, I'd have said you was plain barmy, begging your pardon, sir.
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Its "one-in, one-out" requirement, which has since grown to "one-in, three-out", has unearthed some barmy rules, such as a requirement that people working for themselves at home should follow workplace health-and-safety laws.
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A small, delicate grid with an irregular cross at its center, it suggests painting and miracles as small, everyday occurrences: a poem written out in longhand or a scarf knitted by a beloved, if slightly barmy friend or relative.
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Money paid by Apple and other American firms to European governments will not go into tax coffers back home; the realisation that European politicians might gain at their expense could, optimists say, at last spur American policymakers to reform their barmy tax code.
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Newspapers will condemn his barmy outbursts against Mexicans, and then whip up the same hatred against British Muslims, safe in a context of global suffocating bigotry, but all the more comfortable for knowing that they're not quite as bad as he is.
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Dinty thanks Barmy before leaving. Barmy fears he will never see her again. Barmy spends the evening in town with Potter, though Potter is drunk and domineering. He takes Barmy to see his fiancée Hermione (or Heloise) Brimble at her home in King's Point, Long Island, and makes Barmy break into the house.
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Barmy tries to speak, but is shouted down by Lehman. Dinty defends Barmy, and Barmy, who starts talking with the same assertive language and slang used by Lehman, swiftly makes a deal to buy out Lehman and McClure with the rest of his inheritance. Dinty confesses that she loves Barmy. Together, they convince the assistant manager of their hotel, Oscar Fritchie, to invest in the play.
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After the Ashes, Burnham started running the Barmy Army on a part-time basis while supplementing his income by working as a bookmaker and writing for various cricket magazines. In 1997, he negotiated the Barmy Army's first sponsorship deal with Vodafone to support the Barmy Army's tour of the West Indies. He started working for the Barmy Army full-time in 2002 as the organizer after creating a website and travel agency for them. Burnham also set up the Barmy Army's operations office in Sunbury-on-Thames.
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Vic FlowersFlowers first joined the Barmy Army in 1998 after being inspired by the England supporters in Melbourne. It was also reported that he sold all of his possessions to follow England regularly. Flowers at England games is known for leading the Barmy Army in their singing. He is considered such a recognisable asset for the Barmy Army, that his travel expenses are covered by the Barmy Army.
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It is also mentioned that, before leaving London two years prior, Barmy saw a fortune teller in Wimbledon named Gypsy Sybil who predicted that Barmy would take a long journey, meet a fair girl, have some trouble with a dark man, and acquire a lot of money. Barmy, who has taken the long journey and got the money, now looks forward to meeting the fair girl, and is not worried about the dark man. Potter tells Barmy that he should not buy the hotel but instead invest in an upcoming Lehmac Productions play that Potter is starring in. Anderson offers to sell Barmy the hotel for a hundred thousand dollars, but Barmy only has about twenty thousand.
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J. G. Anderson, owner of the Hotel Washington in Bessemer, Ohio and the Lakeside Inn near Skeewassett, Maine, is staying at the Lakeside Inn. He is angered after a hotel guest, the famous but obnoxious actor Mervyn Potter, and Anderson's desk clerk, amiable and impressionable Cyril "Barmy" Fotheringay-Phipps, wake him at 3 a.m. to give him a frog. Anderson intends to fire Barmy, but instead decides to sell the Hotel Washington to Barmy after Potter mentions that Barmy has inherited a fortune.
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Anderson fires Barmy and Barmy goes to New York to invest in the play. There, Barmy sees a fair girl, Eileen "Dinty" Moore, looking longingly through a shop window at a fancy hat, and instantly falls in love with her. He tosses his cigar away, only for it to burn the old hat she is currently wearing. He buys the fancy hat for her to replace it.
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That sounds barmy but is it really any barmier than some of UKIP's pronouncements?
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But, when the door slams and wakes the person sleeping there, Bertie realises that it is Prof Cluj and his wife, instead of Barmy. Bertie punctured the hot-water bottle of Aneta Cluj. Bertie tries to escape from the room, but his dressing gown catches on the door, and Prof Cluj catches him. Bertie explains that he was looking for Barmy, and Prof Cluj tells Bertie that he had switched rooms with Barmy.
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Barmy (also, Barumy-Perdli, Pardaly, and Varumy) is a village in the Agsu Rayon of Azerbaijan.
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An Aussie Goes Barmy was an Australian reality television series which aired on the pay TV channel FOX8 in 2006. The series featured Australian cricket fan Gus Worland infiltrating the Barmy Army, an organised group of supporters of the England cricket team.Idato, Michael: Review: An Aussie Goes Barmy, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 November 2006. The series was narrated by Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman, who had been "best mates" with Worland since they attended the same kindergarten in Australia.
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To inject an illegal drug. ; barking mad : (also just barking) completely crazy; insane. ; barmy : crazy or foolish.
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Barmy cheerfully sets off with Dinty to marry her and buy Anderson's hotel, where Fritchie will be the manager.
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The production company owned by Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness, Seed Productions, devised and produced the series with Granada Productions and Foxtel.Gus must be Barmy, Herald Sun, 23 October 2006. The premise of the series was that Worland, who had lived in England for twenty years and had an English wife, must follow the Barmy Army as they travel from the UK to Australia for the 2006–07 Ashes series.Brown, Pam: The star who sent an Aussie Barmy , The West Australian, 28 November 2006.
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He says that the play will be closed unless Barmy agrees to give up most of the profits. Dinty convinces the lawyer to leave for half an hour. While the lawyer is out, Lehman and McClure return, intending to take over the now-successful play again. Barmy sells it to them for a hundred thousand dollars.
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Billy Cooper, also known as Billy The Trumpet, is a cricket supporter, best known as the trumpet player for the Barmy Army.
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The Barmy Army chanting at the Sydney Cricket Ground The Barmy Army at first an informal group, was later turned into a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales. The company provides tickets and arranges touring parties for some of its members to follow the English cricket team in the UK and overseas. The name is also applied to followers of the team who join in with match day activities in the crowd, but do not necessarily travel as part of an organised tour. The term "barmy" is English slang for "mad" or "crazy".
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On the first day of the 1994–95 Ashes Series at Adelaide Oval, a group of supporters of the English Cricket team during the lunch break headed to T-Shirt City on Hindley Street and ordered 50 shirts saying "Atherton's Barmy Army" with the Union Jack emblazoned on the back. By the end of the Test over 200 shirts had been purchased. This Test is often cited as the catalyst for the formal establishment of the Barmy Army. The Barmy Army, which is now a limited company, states that it wants to "make watching cricket more fun and much more popular".
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Jackman makes a bet with his friend—if England wins the Test series, Worland must join the Barmy Army permanently and become an England supporter (Australia won the series 5–0). An Aussie Goes Barmy was followed by a sequel, An Aussie Goes Bolly, in 2007, which featured Worland travelling through India during a tour by the Australian cricket team.
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With Hugh Jackman, Worland co-created and starred in Fox8's An Aussie Goes series, following the Australian cricket team around the world. The first series in 2006 was An Aussie Goes Barmy. His mission was to follow the Barmy Army from England to Australia for all five cricket test matches. The next series was An Aussie Goes Bolly in India.
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Cooper became involved with the Barmy Army in 2004 after following England on a tour of the West Indies and accidentally leaving his trumpet in a taxi in Barbados. It was later discovered by someone in the Barmy Army who was also at the same game Cooper was going to. When Cooper asked for it to be returned, the person asked for him to prove it was his by playing it. Cooper then played The Great Escape theme tune, which led to some of the Barmy Army offering to pay his air fare if he would join them on England's tour of South Africa.
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Clones for home systems include: Mr. Wimpy, Burger Chase, Burger Time (Interceptor Micros), BurgerSpace, Chip Factory, Burger Boy!, Basic Burger, Barmy Burgers, Burger Builder, and Lunchtime.
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The Brimbles' butler hears him and fires off a revolver, causing Barmy to hide in a tree. Hermione comes upon the scene and sees Potter drunk. She declares that their engagement will be over if he ever drinks alcohol again. At the office of Lehmac Productions, business partners Joe Lehman and Jack McClure desperately need an investor (or "angel") and deceive Barmy about their play's chance of success.
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The English Disease is an album by British producer Adrian Sherwood, issued under the moniker Barmy Army. It was released on October 1989 by On-U Sound Records.
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Barmy is mentioned in several Jeeves stories: Right Ho, Jeeves (ch. 17), The Code of the Woosters (ch. 7), Joy in the Morning (ch. 8), The Mating Season (ch.
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The sacred birds like peacock, barmy kite (Alwar) are plenty to see in this village. The age of the tree in this temple is predicted more than 1000 years.
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The rules are there to protect jockeys, as much as anything, and if you want protecting from barmy behaviour, you've got to expect to be punished for behaving barmily.
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Barmy in Wonderland is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 21 April 1952 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 8 May 1952 by Doubleday & Company, New York, under the title Angel Cake.McIlvaine (1990), p. 86, A72. The novel may be considered part of the expanded Drones Club canon, since the main character Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps is a member of the club.
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Nevertheless, the most well known tracks from this release are definitely Barmy Army, I Am the Mystic and I Fuck the Violence which are played live even to these days.
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Paul Lawrence "Leafy" Burnham (born ) is a cricket supporter from Twickenham, London, England. He is one of the founding members of the Barmy Army of supporters of the England cricket team.
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2), and Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (ch. 6). In the television series Jeeves and Wooster, Barmy was portrayed by Adam Blackwood in series one and by Martin Clunes in series two.
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Supporters of English national teams in other sports are also subsidiaries of the Barmy Army. The rugby equivalent was formed in 2014, they also form part of the Army to support British and Irish Lions, while there is another separate subsidiary for Rugby League. The term Barmy Army has also been used to describe the Devonshire football team Plymouth Argyle F.C., usually with a prefix of ‘Green and White’ during stadium-wide chants, although there is no association to the above groups.
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"Sharp as a Needle" is a single by British producer Adrian Sherwood, issued under the moniker "The Barmy Army". It was released in January 1988 by On-U Sound Records and would appear on Barmy Army's sole album The English Disease, released in 1989. Continuing the sports theme established on Tackhead's "The Game", Sherwood released "Sharp as a Needle" single as a tribute to Scottish football player Kenny Dalglish, who is represented on the front cover holding the European Cup.
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It's not an outburst of patriotism, it's not even about > the popularity of the royal family. It's about a sense of belonging. For one > day, everybody is the same in Holland. Bright orange and barmy.
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Victor "Vic" Flowers is a cricket supporter from Oldham, England and is often referred to as the unofficial leader of the Barmy Army. He is also known as Jimmy due to bearing a resemblance to Jimmy Savile.
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The play, titled Sacrifice, has a somewhat incoherent plot, but is essentially about a man who chooses to take the blame for a crime committed by the brother of the woman he loves. Barmy agrees to invest ten thousand dollars when he sees that Dinty is Lehman's secretary. Barmy gets carried away and kisses her; she slaps him and he apologizes. He explains that he was going to ask her to marry him and invested half of his money in the play to be near her, which amazes Dinty.
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Barmy Burgers is a 1983 video game written for the ZX Spectrum by Gary Capewell and Gary Sewell and published by Blaby Computer Games in the UK and Ventamatic in Spain. It is a clone of the 1982 arcade game BurgerTime.
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The group, then less organised, was given its name by the Australian media during the 1994–95 Test series in Australia, reportedly for the fans' hopeless audacity in travelling all the way to Australia in the near-certain knowledge that their team would lose, and the fact that they kept on chanting encouragement to the England team even when England were losing quite badly.Staff. Crass and corporate - why the Barmy Army are no laughing matter 1 December 2006Dominic Lawson: Fight back against the Barmy Army, The Independent, 5 Dec 2006 It was co-founded by Paul Burnham.
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In the late 1990s performers Richard Stilgoe and Peter Skellern recognised the need for an anthem for the loyal supporters of a team that regularly seemed to lose and wrote a stirring song called "The Barmy Army" which they included in their touring repertoire. It can be found on their 1999 CD "A Quiet Night Out" and humorously celebrates the English team's skill at "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory". Billy Cooper Cheering England at 1st Test vs Pakistan Dubai January 2012 Most grounds now set aside areas especially for Barmy Army fans apart from Lord's.
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Lodge's first published novels, evoke the atmosphere of post-war England (for example, The Picturegoers (1960)). The theme occurs in later novels, through the childhood memories of certain characters (Paradise News, 1992; Therapy, 1995). The war is covered in Out of the Shelter (1970), while Ginger, You're Barmy (1962) draws on Lodge's experience of military service in the 1950s. The Guardian review of the 2011 reissue of Ginger, You're Barmy, called the novel "an impressively humane and feelingly political indictment of a tawdry postwar compromise" and "a moving glimpse of a world on the cusp of change".
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The sign was then confiscated. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, a human rights group, said that, "They will be banning words like 'war' and 'tax' from placards and demonstrations next. This is just barmy". On May 23, 2008, the legal action against the boy was dropped.
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In 1999, she took the lead in the children's television series Barmy Aunt Boomerang. She also provided the voices for the children's television programmes Teletubbies and Brum. She has also appeared in the reality television series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and I'm Famous and Frightened!.
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The paper had printed an article by Spain that suggested that the sales of Waugh's books were much lower than they were and that his worth, as a journalist, was low.Stannard, pp. 382–83 Gilbert Pinfold was published in the summer of 1957, "my barmy book", Waugh called it.
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His appearance at the 2005 Bath Festival was met with jubilation by his fans as they chanted his name throughout the day. His clever left arm spin bamboozled Somerset that day as 'Ray's Barmy Army' went through a selection of pop hits based on the popular Zimbabwe international.
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Gus Worland is an Australian television and radio personality. He worked on Triple M breakfast radio from 2009 - 2019 and a series of reality television programs Man Up on the ABC, An Aussie Goes Barmy, An Aussie Goes Bolly and An Aussie Goes Calypso which aired on Fox8.
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I ended up as part of mad, drunk scenes in Los Angeles and I finally finished it off on my own. And there was still problems with it up to the minute it came out. I can't begin to say, it's just barmy, there's a jinx on that album.
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The group uses flags, banners, songs and chants to encourage the team and crowd participation in their activities. In contrast to the reputations of some sports fans for hooliganism, the Barmy Army organisers actively discourage and avoid such behaviour. The group engages in charity work and has gained a good reputation among most cricket administrators. However, many cricket followers find their constant chanting to be annoying and disruptive, particularly during the afternoon sessions of Test matches when the chanting of the Barmy Army, fuelled by their consumption of large amounts of alcohol, often becomes a repetitive, irritating background noise; among others, the renowned cricket writer/commentator Christopher Martin- Jenkins accused them of "demeaning English cricket".
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It includes the books: Savage Stone Age, Awesome Egyptians, Groovy Greeks, Rotten Romans, Cut-Throat Celts, Smashing Saxons, Vicious Vikings, Stormin' Normans, Angry Aztecs, Incredible Incas, Measly Middle Ages, Slimy Stuarts, Terrible Tudors, Gorgeous Georgians, Vile Victorians, Villainous Victorians, Barmy British Empire, Frightful First World War, Woeful Second World War, Blitzed Brits.
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Nick Levine of Digital Spy described the video as "barmy". Celebuzz praised the video describing it as a "steamy clip". "It starts out in the best possible way: With lead Doll Nicole Scherzinger wet and naked." The Daily Star's Gemma Wheatley said that "the rest of the Pussycat Dolls also look hotter than ever". Mirror.co.
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Records of the asylum are kept in the annual reports of the Commissioner in Lunacy. Even today, the park where the library stands is known locally as "Barmy Park". The original mansion, the White House, was supplemented by other buildings. In 1891 the Trust lost the use of Poor's Land to the London County Council.
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Several actors auditioned for the part of Watson, and Martin Freeman eventually took the role. Steven Moffat said that Matt Smith was the first to audition unsuccessfully. He was rejected for being too "barmy", as the producers required someone "straighter" for Watson. Shortly after, Moffat cast Smith as the Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who.
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The song is produced in the key of D flat major. Described as an "upbeat pop tune", the song received comparisons to Bananarama. It was also called "brilliantly barmy, with its lyrics about transvestite boyfriends running down the Old Kent Road." "Long Hot Summer" was written by Xenomania while they were in Los Angeles to meet with Disney.
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Extasick is a Digital Hardcore band from Tours, France. The group is now initially led by Lead guitarist/vocalist/programmer Lewsor, but the original line up featured guitarist/programmer/additional vocalist Barmy Failure. The group released their debut ...And This Dirty Musick on Canadian DHR based label D-Trash Records, and the album received a good review from Kerrang! and Terrorizor Magazine.
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Sheila embarks on a romance with Clive Gibbons (Geoff Paine) in 2017. Mann told Johnathon Hughes of the Radio Times that she was "excited" upon learning that Sheila would date Clive. Clive and Sheila initially clash when he wrongly accuses Xanthe of stealing hospital medication. Sheila later learns that he is attracted to her because she is "fiery" and "a bit barmy".
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Cyril "Barmy" Fotheringay-Phipps (pronounced "Fungy Fips") is a fictional character in the Drones Club stories. A tall, willowy figure with fair hair, he is the amiable nephew of Theodore, Lord Binghamton and a member of the Drones Club. On one Boat Race night, he was arrested in Leicester Square by his younger brother George, a policeman.Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 92–93.
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Just his voice on the end of the phone would have helped. Den had tears in his eyes as he hugged Sharon. As the two began to bond, Den brought the conversation round to his first wife and Sharon's adoptive mother, Angie Watts (Anita Dobson) and offended Sharon by referring to her as a "barmy old lush". Sharon announced that Angie had died.
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He also appears in "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird", in which he and Bertie discuss the theatrical agent, Jas Waterbury. Catsmeat collaborates with Barmy Fotheringay- Phipps to write an article titled "Some Little-Known Cocktails" for Wee Tots, a family publication edited by Bingo Little, and they present it to Bingo in "The Shadow Passes". Ultimately, Catsmeat plans to go to Hollywood.Cawthorne (2013), p. 217.
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An Aussie Goes Calypso is an Australian reality television series which airs on the pay TV channel FOX8. The series features Australian cricket fan Gus Worland following the Australian cricket team during their 2008 tour of The West Indies. The series is a sequel to Worland's previous series An Aussie Goes Barmy and An Aussie Goes Bolly. Its debut is on 3 December 2008.
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Harold P. "Stinker" Pinker, Claude "Catsmeat" Potter-Pirbright, Oliver "Sippy" Sipperley, and Rockmetteller "Rocky" Todd. Sometimes a friend or acquaintance will become a jealous antagonist, for example G. D'Arcy "Stilton" Cheesewright. Some pals of Bertie's are occasionally mentioned who do not play major roles in the Jeeves stories, including Freddie Widgeon, Cyril "Barmy" Fotheringay-Phipps, and Oofy Prosser. Many Drones Club members appear in the separate Wodehouse Drones Club stories.
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In 1994, Burnham travelled to Australia to watch The Ashes. There he met a number of other English supporters who were noted for singing songs, despite England losing. They received press attention which was positive in Australia but negative in the British press. Burnham then trademarked the name "Barmy Army" in the United Kingdom and Australia and created a number of replica shirts with it on them which sold out.
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After the appearance by the Exploited on Top of the Pops to perform Dead Cities in 1981, the hardcore punk band Conflict criticized the decision to appear on the programme with the song "Exploitation". This began a long-standing feud between the Exploited and Conflict, which divided the punk community and caused occasional clashes between the bands' fans (known as The Barmy Army for the Exploited and the Conflict Crew).
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Chris Pearson of The Times wrote "By now we should have learnt to trust Wayne Shorter, the great saxophonist whose credits stretch back to Miles Davis and Weather Report. Still, one trembles at the prospect of his latest project, a triple orchestral album swimming in armchair philosophy, cod sociology and sci-fi and accompanied by a comic book. It sounds barmy and boring, but wait — come back. It’s actually brilliantly beautiful".
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Easter Traditions: from the barmy to the beautiful The Times, London, 2009. In the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, historically famous for growing and exporting the Easter lily, the most notable feature of the Easter celebration is the flying of kites to symbolize Christ's ascent.Chello.nl, Bermuda Kite History. Traditional Bermuda kites are constructed by Bermudians of all ages as Easter approaches, and are normally only flown at Easter.
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Lennaárd is a former child actor, and had a role in the movies Hela långa dagen (1979) and Blomstrande tider (1980). Lennaárd earned his "Thimble" nickname after finishing 2nd in a Swedish Monopoly competition, an achievement described by "Barmy" Barny Boatman as being equivalent to being the "second best-looking bloke in ABBA." Lennaárd was also the winner of the Swedish reality television game show Riket in 2004.
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15 October 2007. The series was a sequel to Worland's 2006 series An Aussie Goes Barmy, and was narrated and produced by Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman, who had been "best mates" with Worland since they attended the same kindergarten in Australia. During a match in Mumbai, Worland stood up to 47,000 Indian fans who were making racial taunts against Australian player Andrew Symonds.Walshaw, Nick: How Gus took on India over monkey chants.
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Bertie Wooster is determined to propose to Roberta Wickham ("Bobbie"). When Barmy Fotheringay Phipps defeats him at golf, Roberta ("Bobbie") recommends an idea for a practical joke by sneaking into Barmy's bedroom at night and puncturing the hot-water bottle with a darning needle attached to a stick. At 2:30 in the morning, Bertie goes to the bedroom with the stick and needle. In the darkened room, he successfully punctures the hot-water bottle.
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In 1952, Lodge entered University College, London, where he gained a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955. There he met his future wife, Mary Frances Jacob, as a fellow student, when they were 18. Meanwhile he wrote a first, unpublished novel (1953): "The Devil, the World and the Flesh". After graduating, he spent two years in the Royal Armoured Corps on national service, which provided a basis for his novel Ginger You're Barmy.
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On the seventh floor opposite an enormous tapestry depicting Barnabas the Barmy attempting to train trolls for the ballet, the Room of Requirement appears only when someone is in need of it. To make it appear, one must walk past its hidden entrance three times while concentrating on what is needed. The room will then appear, outfitted with whatever is required. To the Hogwarts house-elves, it is also known as the Come and Go Room.
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Shortly after this release Barmy Failure left. The band is currently on hiatus while Lewsor concentrates on trying to make music for his upcoming album 'No Error Its Lewsor', and hopefully finds another musician to join Extasick. More recently, a two newer tune has appeared called Impratical Minefields and a cover of Atari Teenage Riot's song No Remorse on the group's myspace and a new album entitled Overdose may be released sometime in the near future.
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Barmy Aunt Boomerang is a children's comedy television series broadcast on BBC1 in the United Kingdom from 16 September 1999 to 14 December 2000. Sebastian's world is turned upside down by the arrival of his unconventional Australian aunt Boomerang. It is revealed in the first episode that Aunt Boomerang is in fact a ghost who was starring in an Australian soap when she was killed on set. She now acts as something of a "fairy godmother" to Sebastian.
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Meanwhile, Tubby and Slim decide that in order to get back on the police force they must capture this "monster" (Hyde). While walking down the street that night, Tubby spots Hyde (whom Slim at first mistakes for a burglar). They decide to follow Hyde into a music hall (where Vicky is performing and Adams is visiting her. Tubby annoys an actor in a far-eastern demon mask by mistaking him for the monster, and gets called "barmy" ).
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The England supporters' group, the Barmy Army, said there was "too much risk" for fans to travel to Bangladesh and later confirmed they would not be following the tour. Jos Buttler was appointed captain of the ODI side in Morgan's absence. Buttler said that Morgan remains "very much the captain" and his choice not to tour Bangladesh "won't divide the dressing room". Morgan returned to his role of ODI captain when England tour India in November.
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Lodge's work first came to wider notice in Britain in 1975, when he won the Hawthornden prize for Changing Places. He went on to win the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1980 for How Far Can You Go? and the Sunday Express Book of the Year in 1988 for Nice Work. Two of his early novels were reissued during this period (Ginger, You're Barmy, 1962/1982, and The British Museum is Falling Down, 1965/1981).
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Barmy Army's lucky mascot plans fail, 17 October 2006 The Age. Retrieved on 24 November 2006. Pratt felt that the event that thrust him into the cricketing limelight was also the one that quickened his dramatic fall from grace, ignoring his skill with the bat: "I was just known for fielding afterwards, and I didn't really want that." he was working at a cricketing equipment shop and skippers Cumberland, where he has scored ten Championship hundreds.
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In addition, later in 2009 when attending a Test match in Durban, South Africa with the Barmy Army, Flowers was attacked by two men who knocked him to the ground and then hit him with a flag. He was once ejected from the Adelaide Oval by the police during the 2010–11 Ashes series for being lifted onto fans shoulders but was permitted to re-enter later in the game after an angry reaction at his ejection from England fans.
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Following the victory of the England cricket team in the 2013 Ashes series, Carnahan released a version of "That's in Queensland" called "That's in England" to parody the view that England were selecting players not born in England with references to players born in Pietermaritzburg, Londonderry, and Harare. Carnahan stated that it was an attempt to respond to England's Barmy Army. Former England and Kent player Geraint Jones expressed delight at hearing his hometown of Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea mentioned.
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Once the tow began 422 nm were covered in just over 56 hours at an average speed of 7.5 knots. It was a feat never before accomplished with two ships of this size, and Captain John Warren of the Union Rotorua later exclaimed: ‘If anyone had previously tried to tell me it was possible … I would have thought them quite barmy’. On 23 April 1999, New Zealand Transport Accident Investigation committee reported Union Rotoiti as losing power in the Tasman Sea.
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Chants are also used in Cricket, the Barmy Army has a collection of songs and chants such as 'You all live in a convict colony' sung to the tune of 'Yellow Submarine'. It is done to remind Australian cricket fans of their supposed criminal past. The hymn Jerusalem became the song of choice for the England cricket team during the 2005 Ashes series, and Michael Vaughan encouraged the whole country to sing the song before the last Test match at The Oval.
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He attends the engagement dinner of Gussie Fink-Nottle in The Code of the Woosters. He appears in the Drones Club short story "Tried in the Furnace" (collected in Young Men in Spats), in which he is in a cross-talk act with Pongo Twistleton, and has a brief appearance with Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright in "The Shadow Passes" (collected in Nothing Serious). He stars in the novel Barmy in Wonderland. He is mentioned in "The Fat of the Land" and Cocktail Time.
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In 2013, there was also a performance of Billy Elliot the Musical, Wicked, Matilda the Musical, Horrible Histories performing Barmy Britain, and We're Going on a Bear Hunt. The National Gallery also brought reproductions of three paintings: Bacchus and Ariadne (Titian), Saint George and the Dragon (Paolo Uccello), and An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (Joseph Wright). A National Gallery spokesman said that they brought the paintings in an attempt to "engage young audiences" and help them "enjoy our collection".
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When I was young, I used to be, As fine a man as ever you'd see, 'til the Prince of Wales, he said to me, Come and join the British army. Too- ra loo-ra loo-ra loo, They're lookin' for monkeys up in the zoo, And if ever I had a face like you? I'd join the British army. Sarah Condon baked a cake, It's all for poor old Slattery's sake, Sure I threw meself into the lake, Pretendin' I was barmy.
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He was particularly identified with the chant following an incident in a match between Quinn's then club Newcastle United and Grimsby Town in March 1992, in which a fan threw a pie onto the pitch which Quinn promptly picked up and ate. The chant even formed the title for Quinn's autobiography, which was published in 2003. During cricket matches, the chant is known to have been directed at players such as Shane Warne, by spectators belonging to the Barmy Army.
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The run out earned him a place on the open top bus parade following the series victory. Since the incident, Pratt has acquired a small following of grateful English fans. He had the dubious honour of having the pavilion in Sky Sports' Cricket AM named the 'Gary Pratt Pavilion'. England fan organisation the Barmy Army planned to fly Pratt out to Australia for the 2006–07 Ashes series as a good-luck charm, but failed to find sponsorship for his plane fare.
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Beorma variously means, in Old English, "fermented", "head of beer", "yeasty" or "frothy",Beorma at Etymonline.com from which the modern English words barm and barmy are derived.Barm at Reference.com The assertion that Beorma was the founder of Birmingham arose from a post-war challenge to the way Anglo-Saxon place-names had been constructed. It was not until 1940 that Eilert Ekwall noted that: “Birmingham probably meant ‘the Hamm of Beornmund’s people’ (OE Beornmund-ingaham). Or the direct base may be a pet- form Beorma from Beornmund”.
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Wodehouse adapted the novel from a play, The Butter and Egg Man (1925), by George S. Kaufman and, echoing Shakespeare's dedication of his Sonnets, dedicated the US edition to "the onlie begetter of these sonnets, Mr G S K". The central character is Cyril "Barmy" Fotheringay-Phipps (pronounced "Fungy Fips"), an amiable young Englishman who falls in love with a spirited American girl named Eileen "Dinty" Moore and finds himself suddenly thrown into the daunting world of Broadway theatre after investing in a play.
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Prior to forming the UK Subs, he was the frontman and founder of The Marauders between 1975-76. In 1980 his solo single release "Barmy London Army" spent one week at #68 in the UK Singles Chart. He has also recorded with his side project The Urban Dogs and released a solo album entitled Stolen Property and a second solo single "Freaked". As well as singing he also plays the harmonica and bass, he played rhythm guitar on the UK Subs album Diminished Responsibility.
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Brown said "I'm terrified and apprehensive about what I've let myself in for, I must be barmy and I'm not sure what's come over me... I just hope I can remember the steps to the routines. I'm looking forward to working with the professional dancers and the other contestants." Her dancing partner was Vincent Simone, with whom she danced the tango. In July 2012, Brown hosted a documentary for the BBC called Respect Your Elders, which looked at society's treatment and attitudes towards the elderly.
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An elderly, tanned, square-faced man, he was an explorer in Brazil and now lives in a house that he inherited from his godfather in Hockley-cum-Meston. He is devoted to rugby football and was educated at Haileybury, where he had the nickname "Barmy". He breeds cocker spaniels and eats nonfattening protein bread. He was once scarred in the leg by the mother of an Honourable Mention in a Bonny Babies contest he judged in Peru, and is now strongly averse to marriage and babies.
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1961 He was nicknamed Barmy Gilbert. Gilbert was born in Malabar Hill, Bombay (now Mumbai), but was educated in England, at Charterhouse, before going on to Christ Church, Oxford. He made his first-class debut for Oxford against Lancashire at the Christ Church ground in May 1907, taking the single wicket of Harry Dean. A little later in the summer, he took what was to remain a career-best innings haul of 8–48 against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at The University Parks.
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At games he usually wears a singlet and a top hat with a St. George's Cross on it. In 2006 he led criticism of Cricket Australia for their ticketing policies at the Gabba after they split up English fans and ejected Billy Cooper, the Barmy Army's trumpet player. Flowers' actions have also led him into trouble. He was once barred from attending an Ashes match at Headingley Stadium in 2009 by the England and Wales Cricket Board but due to intervention from Yorkshire County Cricket Club Chief Executive Stewart Regan, this was overturned.
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The next year he won the $150 Pot Limit Hold-Em tournament in Dundee, Scotland, which included a rare final table appearance by Late Night Poker commentator Nic Szeremeta. In 2004 he won the No Limit Hold-Em tournament at the Crown Australasian Poker Championship in Melbourne, defeating a final table including Peter "The Poet" Costa, "Barmy" Barny Boatman and "Cowboy" Kenna James. On the trip he found an address book left in his hotel room. He eventually realised it belonged to his brother Michael, who he had not seen in 18 years.
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Watts described Jones' role in these early days: "Brian was very instrumental in pushing the band at the beginning. Keith and I would look at him and say he was barmy. It was a crusade to him to get us on the stage in a club and be paid half-a-crown and to be billed as an R&B; band". While acting as the band's business manager, Jones received £5 more than the other members (), which did not sit well with the rest of the band and created resentment.
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Roy Apps (born 1951) is a British screenwriter, dramatist and children’s author. In 2001 Roy Apps was awarded a personal BAFTA for outstanding contributions to children’s film and television. For 10 years he wrote for the award-winning CBBC series Byker Grove where his first job was to write out the show’s leading characters ‘PJ and Duncan’ played by Ant and Dec. He co-devised and wrote for the award-winning series The Ghost Hunter and has contributed to many other TV series, including Chucklevision, Barmy Aunt Boomerang, Stacey Stone and Casper's Scare School.
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Line-up soon expanded as Dariusz "Popcorn" Popowicz (lead guitar) and a drummer Piotr "Chomik" Kulk (shortly after replaced by Maciej "Ślepy" Głuchowski) joined the band. With this line-up the band worked on its own compositions; such as "Barmy Army", "Del Rocca" and "I Mean Acid". Within a month of the band's creation, Pukacki was called to join the army and left the band for two years. The others did not intend to idle their time away; Friedrich and Popowicz undertook a reactivation of the band named Slavoy.
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He was then cast in the lead role of Sebastian in the children's television series Barmy Aunt Boomerang, which aired from 1999 until 2000. Madden later stated that he experienced bullying following his performance in Complicity, especially in high school. He later attended the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, in Glasgow, graduating in 2007. He worked with The Arches and the Glasgow Repertory Company during his studies; he also performed in Franz Xaver Kroetz's play Tom Fool at the Citizens Theatre.
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The song was well-received by critics, who welcomed the song's pop sound. Select declared it 'Single of the Month', writing: “Like ‘Electricity’ before it, ‘She’s in Fashion’ is gloriously shallow pop music. With a keyboard figure from a Tunisian tourist-board ad, it’s about as summery as getting pissed at the fairground." NME liked the music, saying: "Soused in acoustic guitar'd empathy, with a vaporous keyboard motif inescapably reminiscent of Duran Duran's 'Save A Prayer', 'She's In Fashion' is a balmy, barmy beaut, shimmering grooves turning a blithe eye to the world.
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At 7.15 p.m. on 1 May each year, local morris dancers Kettle Bridge Clogs Kettle Bridge Clogs dance across Barming Bridge (otherwise known as the Kettle Bridge) which spans the River Medway at the southern end of South Street. This event marks the official start of their morris dancing season. In and around Barming (as well as much of the UK), it is believed that the word "barming" or "barmy" (meaning mad or crazy) were named after the village of Barming due to the location of the County of Kent's psychiatric hospital being in barming.
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Investment was made in extensive sanitation projects, including city water systems, fumigation of buildings, spraying of insect-breeding areas with oil and larvicide, installation of mosquito netting and window screens, and elimination of stagnant water. Despite opposition from the commission (one member said his ideas were barmy), Gorgas persisted, and when Stevens arrived, he threw his weight behind the project. After two years of extensive work, the mosquito-spread diseases were nearly eliminated. Even after all that effort, about 5,600 workers died of disease and accidents during the US construction phase of the canal.
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They even had a suitably barmy Jetset cartoon strip that appeared in Shadows & Reflections, the underground magazine of long-time Jetset champion Chris Hunt. Taub added the trademark nasal vocals to The Jetset's authentic 1960s pop sound, and the band went on to record five albums before their acrimonious split in 1988. As Paul Bevoir started to assume more control of the band's direction and sound, and took on more of the singing duties, Bultitude and Taub quit the band, leaving Bevoir to finish the final Jetset album without them.
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Cooper's actions have sometimes led him into trouble. In 2006, Cooper was thrown out of the Gabba and arrested for playing the Neighbours theme tune on his trumpet during the 2006–07 Ashes series due to playing a "banned musical instrument". However, in 2010, Cricket Australia gave Cooper special dispensation to be the only person allowed into the Gabba with a musical instrument. In 2009, he was banned from attending a Test match at Headingley along with Barmy Army leader Vic Flowers for potentially being a distraction to people watching matches according to the operators of Headingley.
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This was slowly picked up by other clubs in the Premier League, helped by the use of it at England matches (where the Sheffield Wednesday band were now invited to play). Sheffield Wednesday had already lost their "barmy army" chant to the England cricket team and also other football clubs.Barmy Army In an effort to either stem this spread of the song (or just to keep it unique), the fans of Sheffield Wednesday added their own lyrics to the theme (which continues to this day). This happened around the time of the Dario G single release.
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"Hermans Hermits 1965 Album", accessed August 2011 Champion was mentioned twice in a 1969 episode of Dad's Army in the Series 3 episode "War dance", first when music is being selected and again when Lance Corporal Jones performs various impressions of music hall artistes of the pre-First World War era but says that he cannot do an impression of Champion.Webber, p. 86 "Ginger You're Barmy" which was the title of Champion's 1910 song was used as the title of a book written by the author (not to be confused with the actor of the same name) David Lodge in 1962.
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Of this, Rawle explained: "Silas alters Lynsey's reality – so when she insists that one thing is happening, it appears not to be the case the next minute." Silas sneaks into Lynsey's flat at night and moves her things around which Rawle said is "a subtle way of sending a person barmy". Lynsey's friends do not believe her accusations and question her state of mind, so she leaves the village. Lynsey's friend, Brendan Brady (Emmett J. Scanlan), sees Silas watching Lynsey as she is leaving and Hassan said that "[Brendan] starts to think there's something odd about him".
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In the mid 1970s, Birkinshaw's production of Alice in Wonderland ran into difficulties when the RSPCA banned him from using live flamingos in the croquet scene.NBC News – Clip name: 5112785258_s01. Date: 5/10/76 In an interview with ITN, the director of the London Zoo described Birkinshaw as 'barmy'. In 1986, Birkinshaw went to India where he directed an award-winning film on the life of Jawaharlal Nehru, entitled But I Have Promises To Keep, which had been commissioned by Rajiv Gandhi and was made for the Government of India via Doordarshan, the national television network of India.
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Gussie says that the dinner was attended by Bertie Wooster, Freddie Widgeon, Bingo Little, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, and Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, among others. Bertie states that Gussie loves cold steak and kidney pie so much that Bertie has known him to order it "even on curry day at the Drones",Wodehouse (2008) [1963], Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 7, p. 57. and it is implied by Wodehouse in a 1937 letter he wrote to The Times that one can find Gussie at the Drones Club. Gussie is described as a Drone in two books about Wodehouse's characters, Who's Who in Wodehouse by Daniel H. GarrisonGarrison (1991), p. 70.
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Just as his previous nonfiction work, Humiliation, seemed like an apotheosis of new literary possibility in the age of overshare, so Koestenbaum's new book reinvigorates film studies."'Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, Saul Austerlitz suggested that Koestenbaum "sexualizes Harpo beyond all recognition, creating a figure about whom the author can say, in all seriousness, that 'courtesy of the anus, we can imagine, Marxist-style, a path away from family and state.'" Joe Queenan, citing Koestenbaum's claim that Harpo Marx "has many vaginas," wrote that Koestenbaum "peppers his story with just enough tidbits of fascinating information that readers may fleetingly overlook the fact that his theories are barmy.
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He is a close friend of Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, and the two always perform a "cross-talk" act written by Catsmeat Potter- Pirbright at the annual Drones smoker event. Pongo Twistleton appears in the novels Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Uncle Dynamite, Cocktail Time, and Service With a Smile as well as in the short stories "Uncle Fred Flits By" and "Tried in the Furnace". Pongo is a friend of fellow Drone Bertie Wooster and is mentioned in several Jeeves stories: Right Ho, Jeeves (chapters 1, 8, 10, and 23), The Mating Season (chapter 2), Ring for Jeeves (chapter 4), and Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (chapter 13).
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This occurs in chapter 5: "There is an expression in common use which might have been invented to describe the enterprising peer in moments such as this: the expression 'boomps-a-daisy.' You could look askance at his methods, you could shake your head at him in disapproval and click your tongue in reproof, but you could not deny that he was boomps-a-daisy."Hall (1974), p. 89. Some of Wodehouse's older, more dignified male characters have humorously inappropriate, discourteous nicknames from their years at school, such as Sir Aylmer "Mugsy" Bostock, Major "Bimbo" Brabazon-Plank, and Frederick Altamont Cornwallis "Barmy" Twistleton, Lord Ickenham.
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Kennedy initially worked as a disc jockey regularly holding club nights while studying at University in Norwich. Following this, he undertook a media course run by Community Service Volunteers in South East London where he was given the opportunity to begin broadcasting a music show from Radio Thamesmead (now RTM.FM). His show ‘Sharp As A Needle’ was named after the Barmy Army track of the same name was broadcast weekly across London and Kent. In 1991, Kennedy met Sammy Jacobs, a former pirate broadcaster and radio controller at Reading and Leeds FestivalsReading Festival, who had just obtained a restricted service license to operate XFM radio station.
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The company is strongly associated with the world stage premieres of Horrible Histories including Terrible Tudors, Vile Victorians, Ruthless Romans, Awful Egyptians, Groovy Greeks, Incredible Invaders, Frightful First World War, Woeful Second World War, Wicked Warwick, Horrible Christmas and its record-breaking production of Barmy Britain - Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4, which is the longest running children's show in West End history. The company has staged several world premieres including Collision by Dominic Leyton, Bridges and Harmonies by Oren Lavie and The Dice House by Paul Lucas. Actors that have worked with the company include Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Amanda Donohoe, Corin Redgrave, Diana Coupland, Stephen Mangan, Eva Pope, Barry Stanton and Honor Blackman.
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After Lou's death in 1988 Ethel and Dot become an inseparable double-act and although the two argue constantly, they actually depend on each other a great deal. Despite the fact that Ethel appears totally barmy, she can be quite astute when she wants and she is always the first to point out the malicious ways of Dot's villainous son, Nick Cotton (John Altman). Ethel is never afraid to stand up to Nick, even kneeing him in the groin once when he attempts to mug her. She also correctly figures out that Nick is trying to poison Dot to get her money, and she refuses to back down, despite Dot falling out with her because of her accusations.
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Yet the album was still experimental enough that it did not gain as wide an audience as had been hoped and the band was dropped from their record label shortly after. Despite not recording any new material as Tackhead since, group members continued to record as the backing band or along with various Sherwood-led On-U Sound productions artists such as Gary Clail's solo efforts, African Head Charge, Dub Syndicate, New Age Steppers and others. Subsets of the group have also appeared in various guises such as the Strange Parcels, Barmy Army and the blues-oriented Little Axe. In addition to continuing to collaborate with Sherwood and the On-U Sound record label, each of the other members continues to lead active solo careers.
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In a letter to his friend William "Bill" Townend, dated 6 July 1951, Wodehouse stated that he had finished the book, which he titled The Butter and Egg Man, after the play it was based on, The Butter and Egg Man by George S. Kaufman. However, Wodehouse expressed concern in the letter about whether or not to explicitly associate his novel with Kaufman's play, worrying that if he did, "people will say 'this must be a rehash of a play,'" or if he did not, "everybody will say 'this is a complete steal from Kaufman's play The Butter and Egg Man.'". The book was ultimately published with a different title, Barmy in Wonderland in the UK and Angel Cake in the US.McIlvaine (1990), p. 418, N.165.
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Once the tow began 422 nm were covered in just over 56 hours at an average speed of 7.5 knots. It was a feat never before accomplished with two ships of this size, and Captain John Warren of Union Rotorua later exclaimed: ‘If anyone had previously tried to tell me it was possible … I would have thought them quite barmy’. On 29 December 1993 Union Rotorua was about 27 miles south of Sydney Heads, en route for Melbourne, when a fire broke out in the gas turbine house. It was established that the seat of the fire was in one of the cubicles of the 6.6 kilovolt switchboard, which distributed power from the gas turbine generator to the propulsion motors and auxiliary electrical systems.
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The story is about a teenage girl called Eileen Skeates who decides to visit a mixed comprehensive named Shepway school, she causes a lot of chaos during her visit and turns the school into an uproar. Her actions include giving out false names of Julie Smith, Susan Tucker and Deborah Clark when challenged by several teachers, introducing the third year girls to feminist politics and encouraging the sixth form to squat in an unused classroom. She meets a girl called Lisa Donovan, who thinks she's barmy because of her carefree attitude and the way she keeps causing trouble. Later after a long chat with each other, the teachers realize what Eileen has been up to and one of them catch her.
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Indian flag during match between India and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary, a fan of the Indian cricket team, travels to all Indian home games with his body painted as the Indian flag. Due to the massive Indian diaspora in nations like Australia, England and South Africa, a large Indian fan turnout is expected whenever India plays in each of these nations. There have been a number of official fan groups that have been formed over the years, including the Swami Army or Bharat Army, the Indian equivalent of the Barmy Army, that were very active in their support when India toured Australia in 2003/2004. They are known to attribute a number of popular Indian songs to the cricket team.
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As council leader during the 1985 Broadwater Farm riot, in which a policeman, PC Keith Blakelock, was murdered, Grant was brought to national attention when he was widely quoted as saying: "What the police got was a bloody good hiding." Grant claimed his words had been taken out of context, but offered an apology to the family of PC Blakelock. A fuller version of the quotation is: "The youths around here believe the police were to blame for what happened on Sunday and what they got was a bloody good hiding." His comments brought swift denunciation from the Labour Party leadership, and the then Conservative Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, called him "the high priest of conflict"; several British newspapers also dubbed him "Barmy Bernie".
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Uncut commented that the album provides plenty of evidence to argue that he is either "one of the most important songwriters of his generation" or "just an infuriating, neurotic show-off". Alexis Petridis of The Guardian said that although the album "goes a bit barmy and over-the-top" there are some "incredible tune[s]" that are "not only genuinely remarkable, but genuinely enjoyable". Alex Denney of NME similarly commented that the album "conjures just enough moments of heart-stopping gorgeousness to foot the bill for its dizzying excesses". Sam Lewis of the BBC remarked on the same point: that the album is "suffused with individual moments of brilliance", but overall it is "let down by its self-conscious incoherence".
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Purgatory was first aired by TNT Network on January 10, 1999. The movie was advertised and marketed as "Not your ordinary damn western".Poster at Philadelphia Inquirer, 10 Jan 1999, Page 501 Variety gave the film a positive review, praising the story and Sam Shepard's performance in particular.Ray Richmond, Variety, January 7, 1999 The New York Times Anita Gates was also enthusiastic about this “fascinating, deceptively dark western with more than a touch of The Twilight Zone, observing that “Gordon Dawson's script makes the process satisfying despite the fact that any viewer who has noticed the title of the film knows the answer from the beginning”. When it was shown in Britain, Radio Times described the film as “a barmy but richly enjoyable western fable”.
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For example, "I fell over and badly scraged my knee" ; Suff : another word for drain, as in "put it down the suff" ; Throw a wobbly : to become sulky or have a tantrum (not unique to Birmingham, common in Australia) ; Trap : to leave suddenly, or flee ; Up the cut : up the canal (not unique to Birmingham) ; Yampy : mad, daft, barmy. Many from Black Country believe yampy originates from their region, from the Dudley-Tipton area, which has been appropriated and claimed as their own by both Birmingham and Coventry dialects. However, the word is found in areas of the Black Country, both outside Birmingham and Tipton/Dudley which therefore might have been a general term used in south Staffordshire and north Worcestershire areas.
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In 1964, John Nichols opened his first shop in Kingston upon Hull, by 1985 the Nichols family (John, his wife Molly and his two sons Paul and Robert) had eight stores in towns such as Whitby and Bridlington, and in 1995 the store count had increased to 12 with locations in Richmond and Ripon. With the demise of high street giant Woolworths in 2008, 11 more shops were also added to the portfolio. The business had several speciality stores under different names; James Piper was the name given to a glassware store in Driffield operated by Tom Nichols, John's youngest son. Other store names such as JC Nichols and Barmy Bob's were phased out in 2000 as the company rebranded all of their locations under the Yorkshire Trading Company banner and became a limited company.
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Reviews of the film were varied, with Variety's Tony Scott stating "[The] film lurches on without much credibility" before going on to say "blood spurts, but director (and co-writer with Marc B. Ray) Guy Magar doesn't make the horror convincing. The simplistic story line and the unconvincing portrayal by Wightman haven't been enhanced by indifferent production values." Entertainment Weekly's Doug Brod gave the film a D+, referring to it as "a poorly scripted, all-too-familiar chiller", also calling Robert Wightman "robotic" and "a weak substitute for previous death- dealing dad Terry O'Quinn". Time Out Film Guide stated that the film "is far better than one might expect" and called Wightman's performance "more barmy than ever" and "with that prissy, scary, whiny voice makes a good fist of it".
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Singer-songwriter Donovan remembered that "we were diving deep inside ourselves, not just for 20 minutes in the morning and the evening, but we had days of it ... deep exploration of the deep psyche ... So Prudence was in deep, and this [song] was John's way of saying, "Are you OK in there?"". According to author and journalist Mark Paytress, Lennon was less "charitably disposed" when commenting on the song after he had grown disaffected with the Maharishi and Transcendental Meditation. In a 1980 interview, he said of "Dear Prudence": > A song about Mia Farrow's sister, who seemed to go slightly barmy, > meditating too long, and couldn't come out of the little hut that we were > livin' in. They selected me and George to try and bring her out because she > would trust us.
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Other gentlemen's clubs which have existed on Dover Street but are now dissolved include the Bath Club, the Junior Naval and Military Club, and the Scottish Club, as well as two mixed-sex clubs, the Albemarle Club and the Empress Club. None of these were considered among London's 'premier' clubs of the kind found on St James's Street and Pall Mall, and so their ambience often had something of the raucous informality of the fictional Drones Club. About a dozen club members are major or secondary recurring characters in the Wodehouse stories. In addition to Bertie Wooster (Jeeves stories), Pongo Twistleton (Uncle Fred stories), Rupert Psmith (Psmith stories), and Freddie Threepwood (Blandings stories), prominent recurring drones include Bingo Little and Freddie Widgeon, plus Monty Bodkin, Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, Tuppy Glossop, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, Archibald Mulliner, and the club millionaire Oofy Prosser.
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The fact of being a band composed of girls, beside the obvious marketing gimmick based on sexuality, has always been perceived as a handicap in the sexist and male-dominated heavy metal scene, especially in the early 1980s, when metal was rapidly taking the place of punk music in the tastes of many young males in Great Britain. However, Girlschool's good musicianship and their aggressive but fun-loving attitude quickly won the NWOBHM audience, which treated them with respect, forming a loyal fan base. In Kelly Johnson's word, Girlschool were so well accepted because "most of the audience is headbangers and they spend most of the time banging their heads and hardly look at us". In 1980, Girlschool's fondest fans formed a club called 'The Barmy Army', which followed and supported the band during every tour in Great Britain and Europe.
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Fairly Secret Army is a British sitcom which ran to thirteen episodes over two series between 1984 and 1986. Though not a direct spin-off from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the lead character, Major Harry Truscott, was very similar to Geoffrey Palmer's character of Jimmy in that series, and the scripts were written by Reginald Perrin's creator and writer David Nobbs. Harry Kitchener Wellington Truscott (ex Queen's Own West Mercian Lowlanders) is an inept and slightly barmy ex-army man intent on training a group of highly unlikely people into a secret paramilitary organisation. This idea first emerged in an episode of Perrin when Jimmy confided the plan to Reggie (who rubbished it) and was based on persistent and subsequently verified rumours in the 1970s press that far-right generals were secretly planning a coup to "rescue" Britain from trade union militancy.
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