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I was apparently holding my knees up with Hulk strength!

Robinson suggests his athletes keep their knees up for maximum effect.

He pushed my knees up, my feet flat on the bed.

Has Prince Harry lined up his chums for a knees-up?

With his knees up, his arms wrapped around them, he looked fragile.

Jump up as high as possible bringing your knees up by your chest.

Plastic Bag Twists Begin in the sit-up position, knees up, with core engaged.

In the back of the van, she draws her knees up to her face.

Then, you engage your abs and slowly raise your knees up to your chest.

And second, the pain improved when she brought her knees up toward her chest.

All these open seats and you got your bony ass knees up my back?

"I like it," Sarah said, pulling her knees up to her chest, bouncing a bit.

It begins with sprightly Celtic fiddle music and show-off knees-up and step-dancing moves.

The first president to attend this Rotary Club-style knees-up was Calvin Coolidge, in 1924.

"I was trying to remember what my track coach said: to keep those knees up," Drake said.

High Knees: Start by running in place bringing your knees up close to your chest, one at a time.

On the way up, we lifted our knees up and forward to work on balance, small stabilizing muscles, and our glutes.

A fighter who can comfortably put in knees up by his own shoulders has a great advantage in striking from the clinch.

Though I'm certain on the flights to Japan, with his knees up by his chest, his gifts were not such a blessing.

The doctor did the insertion, then, my mother says, crossed both fingers as my mom pulled her knees up against her chest.

In the ball and spoon, the little spoon lifts their knees up to their stomach, as if they're curled up in a ball.

In all four drawings, Patty is positioned as if seated on the ground, with her knees up and legs spread, reminiscent of the siren.

At one knees-up party, we see Tzara with Picabia and other fellow travelers wearing black tie, the word "Dada" scrawled across his forehead.

"I think people see it as an excuse for a good knees-up, if you can forget we're paying for it," Ms. Gale said.

I pick my knees up in an attempt to imitate the birthing position I've seen in movies, and notice others are doing the same.

"I crawled on my hands and knees up to the back of one tee to watch Peter Thomson and Roberto De Vicenzo tee off," he said.

"Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour," by contrast, is what the British call a knees-up: a raucous entertainment whose hyperadrenalized state is also its reason for being.

Pyongyang, the capital of hyper-isolated and totalitarian North Korea, might not sound like the obvious location for a beer-sodden knees-up with the jolly boys.

Later that day, once the sun sets, my friend Andy and I lie down on the benches with no backs, splaying out separately with both knees up.

If you ask the fan, 45-year-old Shane Keisel, he denies ANY inappropriate or racist words were said, claiming he yelled, "Ice those knees up!" to the MVP.

But he has been ever more cognizant of his running style — how, sometimes, he does not pick his knees up, which leaves him susceptible to getting tackled from behind.

Lie on your back and draw your knees up, so your feet are flat on the floor (you can optionally place a band above the knees for light resistance). 230.

"I saw a lady on the floor like on the beach with her arms straight and her knees up and blood all over the face," Hichem Ben-Abdallah told reporters.

Any heavyweight who could bring knees up to the head of an upright opponent in the style of Demetrious Johnson or Masaaki Noiri could have some fun in that weight class.

In an interview with Salt Lake City NBC 5, one of the hecklers, Shane Keisel, said that he thought he was having "fun" with Westbrook by yelling to "ice those knees" up.

" And they see another man on his knees up ahead with his masonry tools, and he says: "I'm building a wall; I got a wife and kids and bills to pay, man!

A survey of British office workers in 2014 found that only a quarter looked forward to their Christmas event and 71% would rather have a small cash bonus than a knees-up.

In recent years, the invention of the Squatty Potty — a step that props your feet and knees up, forcing you into a squatting position — brought this issue back to the forefront of our minds.

We both climb into this narrow bath and sit there with our knees up to our chest, and I could see he was kind of amused, like, I was obviously a really unprofessional hooker.

Collywobbles is a popular British term for butterflies in the stomach, chums are friends, clangers are mistakes, a knees-up is a boisterous party, gobsmacked means astonished and blimey is a term of surprise.

I was going to the brothel with Dave and wasn't quite sure if it was going to be a red blooded knees up or a dark, scaring excursion into the recesses of the city's sexual underworld.

And if those around me seemed in deeper thrall to the material than I was, that was surely due at least in part to a self-evidently bibulous crowd primed for what the Brits like to call a knees-up.

See for yourself: Roger Craig, the high-stepping 249er, might not be the most accomplished Super Bowl running back ever, but it is impossible to watch him run, his knees up to his abdomen, and not love him way more than Emmitt Smith.

From the moment that the beat drops in, he trips across the stage, exaggerating every ecstatic expression, kicking his knees up in time with each syncopated fill, flashing his arms out at right angles every time Donnie Trumpet's horn flies up into the beat.

Caloric information by itself is hardly a good measure of overall health; I'd argue that defeating an enemy in a game that forces you to jog quickly, bring your knees up high, and hold a plank for a minute is a better metric, at least for my own purposes.

"If you saw someone land from a regular vertical jump in a full squat, with their knees up by their ears, you'd probably think, 'oh, that looks ugly, it doesn't look like a good position to land from a jump,'" says Doug Kechijian, co-owner of Resilient PT Performance, in New York City.

Julia sighed and flumped on her bed, gathering her knees up to her chin.

"Knees Up Mother Brown" is a song, published in 1938, by which time it had already been known for some years.

The official video featured the orchestra backing the band. They were given a Christmas TV special on LWT that year, Chas and Dave's Christmas Knees-up. After the Christmas special, they were offered their own television series, Chas and Dave's Knees-up, broadcast in 1983. In 1985, Chas & Dave recorded the theme song to the BBC sitcom In Sickness and in Health.

During the Silver Jubilee, Britain was awash with red, white and blue and York made sure it didn't miss out on the knees-up.

It was also later performed on television by Noel Harrison and Petula Clark singing as a duo. The expression "knees up" means a party or a dance.

It is also a take off of the famous song "Knees Up Mother Brown". Category:Novels by Robert Rankin Category:2004 British novels Category:Novels set in London Category:Brentford F.C.

A one-off album entitled The EastEnders' Sing-A-Long Album was released in 1986 on BBC Records. It featured most of the original cast and was an album of medleys containing well known cockney knees-up songs such as "Knees Up Mother Brown" and "Roll Out the Barrel". The record is notable for containing a Doctor Legg solo effort, performed by the actor who portrayed the character, Leonard Fenton. The album reached number 54 in the UK Albums Chart.

"A Right Royal Knees-Up". The Guardian. July 20, 2007. While "self-imposed alienation" was common among "drunk punks" and "gutter punks", there was always a tension between their nihilistic outlook and the "radical leftist utopianism"Washburne, Christopher, and Maiken Derno.

A rendition also appears on the 1982 exercise album Mousercise, but with mostly different lyrics ("Kick Your Knees Up" and "Flap Like A Birdie" are kept in this version). This version was also seen as an episode of D-TV on the Disney Channel.

William "Fatty" Foulke, in whose honour the chant may have originated. "Who Ate All the Pies?" is a football chant sung by fans in England. It is usually sung to the tune of "Knees Up Mother Brown" and is aimed at overweight footballers, officials or other supporters.

He fought Cristian Mitrea, in a light heavyweight match-up, on 19 December 2016 at Real Xtreme Fighting 25. After stunning his opponent by punches and knees up against the fence, Barnatt landed a head kick to earn the knockout victory, 3 minutes into the first round.

The song "Me Ol' Bamboo" from the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, also written by the Sherman brothers and performed by Van Dyke, is very similar to Step in Time. Both songs are loosely based on the repetitive physical action song "Knees Up Mother Brown", popular in British music halls and Cockney pubs, especially during World War II.

This movement can also be done with "ab slings" which hold the humeri in ~90 degrees of shoulder flexion. This allows one to do a more traditional crunch by bringing the knees up to touch the elbows. It is however possible to assist in this movement by using the lats and other muscles to perform shoulder extension.

Next, Barrington Hughes took on Markos Espada. Hughes immediately executed a Purple Crush on Espada and pinned him for the quick win. In the following match, Darby Allin took on Jason Cade. Allin raised his knees up to block a frog splash by Cade and then applied a figure four leglock on Cade and pinned him for the win.

Several individuals showed evidence of having been intentionally killed, perhaps as sacrifices. Two methods for which there was evidence was breaking the back or the neck. In two specific instances, individuals with broken backs were found face-up with their knees up near one shoulder. In both cases, these individuals were holding bundles of bones, possibly representing their masters.

In England, fans at football games sometimes eat meat pies before kick-off or at half-time. On occasion there are not enough pies to go round and so any player looking a little overweight gets heckled with the question "Who ate all the pies?". According to The Cat's Pyjamas: The Penguin Book of Cliches, the chant was first sung in 1894 by Sheffield United supporters, and directed at the club's goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke, who weighed over . In his early career he played for Blackwell Colliery, subsequently playing for Sheffield United and Chelsea FC. If the tune used was Knees up Mother Brown, then it is highly improbable that the chant originated with Foulke who retired in 1907 and died in 1916; Knees up Mother Brown originated in 1918.

Similarly, there is another practice for women to come on their knees from their home to the temple. First, they roll a coconut on the road and then walk on their knees up to the point, pick up the coconut and roll it again. These practices bear testimony to the strong faith the native residents of Tirupati have in the goddess.

In his haste, he tripped over the steps leading to the ringside area and fell unconscious to the ground. Referee Matsui went to check on him and deemed him unable to compete thus ruling the match a no contest. The next match saw Mao and Asuka taking on HarashiMarufuji (Harashima and Naomichi Marufuji). As Asuka attempted a moonsault on Harashima, Harashima countered by getting his knees up.

The WFEs were for many years the standard for non-surgical low back pain treatment. These exercises were performed in the supine position on a floor or other flat surface. There were variations, but the primary maneuver is to grab the legs and pull the knees up to the chest and hold them there for several seconds. The patient then relaxes, drops the legs down and repeats the exercise again.

A third ghostly sighting was that of a five-year-old girl who was said to have been hanged for stealing bread. Ghostly Roman legionnaires are also said to have been seen marching up the Main Street of Crawford. Various reports described them as only being seen from the knees up as the level of the road in Roman times was much lower than it currently is today.

The duo also wrote music for film, including the book and lyrics for O-kay for Sound, a 1937 film. Much of their music was written specifically for actors Sydney Howard and Stanley Holloway both noted comedians of the 1920s and 1930s. These included "Splinters in the Air" for Howard and "Squibs" for Holloway. Among Lee's most endearing tunes is "Knees Up Mother Brown", which is traditionally associated with Cockney culture.

Music hall songs could be romantic, patriotic, humorous or sentimental, as the need arose. The most popular music hall songs became the basis for the pub songs of the typical Cockney "knees up". Although a number of songs show a sharply ironic and knowing view of working class life, there were, too, those which were repetitive, derivative, written quickly and sung to make a living rather than a work of art.

"Step In Time" is a song and dance number from Walt Disney's 1964 film Mary Poppins which was composed by the Sherman Brothers. The choreography for this song was provided by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood. It is sung by Bert, the chimney sweep (Dick Van Dyke) and the other chimney sweeps on the rooftops of London. It is similar to the old British music hall song Knees Up Mother Brown.

While playing and reciting the verses, the child sits on a parent's knees or lap facing the parent. The parent moves the knees up and down, imitating riding a horse. The parent holds on to the child's hands imitating holding reins. When it comes to the part where the parent says "the rider will go plop" the parent opens the legs or knees so that the child slips down towards the floor while holding hands the entire time.

Unlike modern marching bands and corps, who develop one show and repeat it all season, the Sound of Today produced an entirely new halftime show for every home game in a season. The band was known for the quality of its music and for the precision of its drills. In the mid-1970s the band marched in 8-to-5 and used a knees-up bicycle step and mark time. With the uniform's white shoes, this produced flashy movements the crowds enjoyed.

Martin Slavin (19 February 1922 - 25 May 1988) was a British composer and music director. Slavin was born in London. He served in the army as a Band Sergeant, and after demobilization formed his own seven piece band, working with musicians such as Eddie Calvert and Kenny Baker. In 1958, he had a UK #18 in Record Mirror's Top 20, as Martinas & His Music, with the song "Cha Cha Momma Brown", a take on the old party favourite "Knees Up Mother Brown".

Sleepsacks are designed so the person is as immobile as possible, while offering a convenient alternative to the time- consuming wrapping of elastic bandages and/or sticky mess of athletic tape associated with traditional mummy-type bondage. There is generally a pocket at the bottom that the wearer's feet go into. A durable zipper runs from below the knees up to the neck. Generally sleepsacks have collars at the top which buckle around the neck, further securing the person in it.

Songwriter/lyricist Robert B. Sherman was inspired to write the song by his own use of a bamboo walking stick, which he used after a World War II knee injury. It is very similar to the song "Step in Time" from Mary Poppins, also written by the Sherman brothers, with a dance choreographed by Breaux and Wood, and performed by Van Dyke. Both songs are also loosely based on the popular British music hall (vaudeville) repetitive action song "Knees Up Mother Brown".

In the 1999 movie "The Talented Mr Ripley", Jack Davenport's character, Peter attempts to cheer up Tom (played by Matt Damon) by playing a bit of the tune on the piano. A version with ribald lyrics playing off the "blackout" regulations in WWII-era London is quoted both in Ken Follet's book Eye of the Needle (1978) and Laura Wilson's The Lover (2004). In Season5 Episode10 of Frasier, the crowd at Daphne's pub, the Fox and Whistle, requests 'Knees Up Mother Brown' from the piano player.

The walkway is the site of, what has been described as, one of the most well-known Civil War hauntings. The ghost of Francis Windebank, a Colonel executed by firing squad in 1645 against the length of town wall that borders Merton College, has been reportedly sighted here. The ghost is allegedly only seen from the knees up, due to the raising of the ground level. It has been suggested that reports of a haunting are to be expected here given the evocative name.

Robin Roberts interviewing Barack Obama The medium shot shows equality between subjects and background. The dividing line between what constitutes a long shot and medium shot is not definite, nor is the line between medium shot and close-up. In some standard texts and professional references, a full-length view of a human subject is called a medium shot; in this terminology, a shot of the person from the knees up or the waist up is a close-up shot. In other texts, these partial views are called medium shots.

Caine is a fan of chill-out music, and released a compilation CD called Cained in 2007 on the UMTV record label. He met his good friend Elton John and was discussing musical tastes, when Caine said that he had been creating chillout mix tapes as an amateur for years.Michael Caine to release chill-out album The Times. Retrieved 31 July 2007. Caine and Elton John had also appeared on the same episode of Parkinson, where they sang an impromptu version of the British pub tune “Knees Up Mother Brown”.

After touching the wall, the swimmer tucks their knees up to their stomach and flips around so that their feet are touching the wall pointing down and they can push off of the wall on their stomach. Another, arguably faster variation of the new backstroke to breaststroke turn is very similar to the regular forward flipturn. The swimmer goes into the wall with their leading arm outstretched behind their head. The swimmer then touches the wall and immediately goes into a frontflip and proceeds with the breaststroke portion of the race.

This facebreaker involves an attacking wrestler, who is standing face-to-face with an opponent, hooking both hands around the opponent's head and then leaping to bring both knees up to the face of the opponent. The wrestler then falls backwards to the mat, thus forcing the opponent to fall forwards and impact the exposed knees. The move was originated by Phillip Michael Grant, and later popularized by Chris Jericho, who named it the Codebreaker. Bushi uses a diving variation called MX where he dives from the top rope to hit the double knee facebreaker.

There are many superstitious and folk remedies for hiccups, including headstanding, drinking a glass of water upside-down, being frightened by someone, breathing into a bag, eating a large spoonful of peanut butter and placing sugar on or under the tongue. A simple treatment involves increasing the partial pressure of CO2 and inhibiting diaphragm activity by holding one’s breath or rebreathing into a paper bag. Other potential remedies suggested by NHS Choices include pulling your knees up to your chest and leaning forward, sipping ice-cold water and swallowing some granulated sugar.

From Now On... was Hughes’ second solo release after finding his ‘higher power’ and kicking the drug habits that had marred his career throughout the late 70s and 80s. The album was recorded in Sweden in the Nordic Studio Lab and had its initial release just within that country. It was subsequently released in Japan, Europe and America. It is notable that From Now On… is the only Glenn Hughes studio album which features no bass playing from Hughes himself (a situation that apparently made him uncomfortable in Black Sabbath), claiming that he wanted a ‘knees up without the bass’.

Stripey-Jumper was a British street theatre group that claimed to have set the world's record for the largest number of people simultaneously playing spoons musically. 345 people gathered in Trowbridge, south west England, on 23 July 2006 at the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival to join The Banjo Billys and perform a version of the British pub song "Knees Up Mother Brown" in front of a group of judges. The judges sent the verified count to the board of Guinness World Records for validation. The disbanding of the Stripey-Jumper Walkabout Theatre was announced on 4 April 2008.

In 1988, the tune had another set of lyrics added to produce a hymn called "Glory Be To God On High", which was performed on the BBC's Songs of Praise. The 1993 "jazzy" arrangement spawned another vocal version (Sharon Benson's "I'll Always Believe in You"). In 2010 in the lead up to the shows 25th silver anniversary, Patsy Palmer (Bianca) Sid Owen (Ricky) appeared on the Alan Carr show for an interview and decided to have an old "Knees up" round the piano to do their own version of "Anyone Can Fall In Love" which proved to be popular with the audience. Including a glass statue "Wellard" singing along.

Disc 1 # "I Walk Away" (Neil Finn) – 4:43 # "One Step Ahead" (N. Finn) – 3:34 # "Bold as Brass" (Tim Finn, Robert Gillies) – 5:34 # "Ninnie Knees Up" (Noel Crombie) – 3:39 # "I See Red" (T. Finn) – 4:15 # "Message to My Girl" (N. Finn) – 4:27 # "I Hope I Never" (T. Finn) – 4:52 # "Dirty Creature" (T. Finn, Nigel Griggs, N. Finn) – 5:57 # "Hard Act to Follow" (T. Finn) – 3:08 # "Time for a Change" (Phil Judd) – 3:57 Disc 2 # "Strait Old Line" (N. Finn) – 4:16 # "Walking Through the Ruins" (T. Finn) – 6:41 # "Pioneer" (Eddie Rayner) – 2:01 # "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" (T.

Michinoku attempted to perform another Moonsault but Tiger raised his knees up and then delivered a Brainbuster to Michinoku and followed with a Tornado DDT for the win. Next, El Samurai took on Masayoshi Motegi. Motegi hit two dropkicks on Samurai to send him outside the ring and then delivered a suicide dive to Samurai and then attempted another suicide dive but Samurai punched him to gain momentum in the match. Both men exchanged momentum until Motegi began hitting rolling German suplexes on Samurai until Samurai countered into his own German suplex and then picked up Motegi and hit a Powerbomb to win the match.

This is the most common version of the elevated gutbuster and sees the attacking wrestler first lift the opponent up across their shoulders; a position known as a fireman's carry, before then dropping down to one knee while simultaneously elevating the opponent over their head forcing them to drop down and impact their exposed knee. Former WWE Superstar Kaitlyn uses this as one of her signature move. A slight variation of this uses a modified double knee gutbuster and sees the attacking wrestler drop down to their back while bringing both knees up for the opponent to land on. Darren Young used the move as his finisher calling it Gutcheck.

Knees Up Mother Earth is the seventh book by Robert Rankin in the Brentford Trilogy, as well as the second book in The Witches of Chiswick trilogy. The plot centers on the efforts of Jim Pooley and John Omalley to save Brentford F.C.'s football ground from demolition as part of a satanic conspiracy to awake the serpent from the Garden of Eden. Many of the events in the book are based on a real campaign, in which Rankin himself was involved, to save the ground from being purchased by property developers. The title is taken from the first album by Knights Of The Occasional Table, released in 1993.

The sound grew in intensity until, just below his ladder, Martindale reported that he saw a soldier, wearing a plumed helmet, emerge from the wall, followed by a cart horse and about nine or ten pairs of other Roman soldiers. Martindale fell, terrified, from his ladder and stumbled into a corner to hide. The soldiers appeared to be armed legionaries, visible only from the knees up, in a marching formation, but were "scruffy". They were distinctive in three ways: they carried round shields on their left arms, they carried some kind of daggers in scabbards on their right side and they wore green tunics.

Catatonia played at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, Scotland, shortly after the release of "Road Rage" as the support act for Travis. Neil Cooper at The Scotsman said that "the way [Matthews] rolls her R's" on "Road Rage", "you can forgive her anything." A similar comment was received in the Birmingham Evening Mail for the performed at the Wellington Rooms, Liverpool, saying "the way she rasped and rolled her R's on Road Rage was delightful". Returning to the Barrowland Ballroom in March 1999, the audience joined in with the rendition of "Road Rage", causing the review in the Daily Record to describe the atmosphere as not "all that different to some huge, back-of-the-bus knees- up".

The champion made his way back to the ring in the hopes of the referee declaring him the winner via countout, the act of a wrestler failing to appear in the ring for the referee's count of 10; Hardy made his way back in the ring by nine. A frustrated Punk continued his assault with knees before Hardy countered with a Whisper in the Wind followed by a pin attempt. Punk escaped the pin with a riding dragon sleepr for a submission attempt. Hardy escaped with some offense before ascending the top turnbuckle and attempting with his finishing maneuver, the Swanton Bomb, only to have the champion lift his knees up, driving them into Hardy's back.

At the end of each Mass offered in the Minor Basilica, devotees pay homage to the image by clapping their hands. In addition to the novena, Traslación, Pahalík, and the Pabihis, the Pasindí ("lighting") or lighting of votive candles is another popular devotion, as is the decades-old, reverential custom of creeping on one's knees up the main aisle towards the image. The Friday of each week in the year (except Good Friday, the image's liturgical commemoration) is colloquially known in Metro Manila as "Quiapo Day", since the novena in the image's honour is held on this day nationwide. As with Wednesday (which is comparably called "Baclaran Day"), this day is associated with heavy traffic surrounding the vicinity due to the influx of devotees.

He sang and danced in many musical numbers, and frequently acted in sketches (most famously his recurring sketch Bear On Patrol where he plays an unlucky police officer). He also often helps backstage and even attempts to plan out the show in one episode, and write the script in another. In one episode, he and his mother Emily do a performance of Knees Up Mother Brown, in which he sings and Emily dances as Mother Brown in the chorus. In Episode 115, Fozzie constantly annoys Kermit with a running gag, delivering a number of pun items, such as a "wire" and a "letter" for Kermit the Frog which turned out to be a clothes wire and the letter R, respectively.

Finally, the head and neck are attached to the body, which is attached to a test platform and struck violently in the chest by a heavy pendulum to ensure that the ribs bend and flex as they should. When the dummy has been determined to be ready for testing, calibration marks are fastened to the side of the head to aid researchers when slow-motion films are reviewed later. The dummy is then placed inside the test vehicle, set to seating position and then marked on either the head and knees. Up to fifty-eight data channels located in all parts of the Hybrid III, from the head to the ankle, record between 30 000 and 35 000 data items in a typical 100–150 millisecond crash.

After a short career as an economics lecturer at the NSW University of Technology (now the University of New South Wales), McGuinness moved to London where he worked with the Moscow Narodny [People's] Bank, an arm of the Soviet Government, from 1966 to 1967.Henderson G. Knees-up in Balmain The Sydney Institute's Media Watch (and Sydney Morning Herald, 23 September 2000) Continuing his studies at the London School of Economics, he acquired a master's degree.H. R. Nicholls Society "Personal profile" He later worked for the OECD in Paris, and there he observed the Paris demonstrations of 1968. Having returned to Sydney in 1971, he began what would be a long tenure at The Australian Financial Review, by writing economics articles.

' At the end, the whole audience was invited onstage for 'a jolly Essex knees up'. In her review, Dorothy Max Prior described the show as 'a marriage of choreography and scenography. Live art. Moving sculpture....Clothing isn’t merely decorative, it changes the body’s movement, it informs the choreography. Often, the performer’s body is deconstructed or distorted or extended by what she is wearing: a black penitent’s shroud covers her head, but exposes her legs, making her look like a mini-skirted Klu-Klux-Klan member; an enormous metal claw with excessively long fingers weaves through the air, both menacing and mesmeric (referencing Kay Lynn’s Finger Dance); her Max Wall bulging bottom channels the Bouffon, looking down at the world and laughing.

Martha convinced her royal nephew the king to arrest Erik and confiscate his property. He was eventually released and his property was restored to him, after the siblings and spouse of the king as well as his own family, among them his aunt (and Martha's niece) Queen Dowager Katarina Stenbock, had united in convincing the king to accede to it, and married Malin in 1574. According to the legend, it took one year of begging from the couple's relatives to convince Malin's powerful mother to forgive the couple for defying her authority; the women of the family begged her "crying upon their knees" before she agreed to see her daughter. According to legend, her daughter had to crawl on her knees up to her while pregnant.

Music professor Michael Harrington studied the songs allegedly written by Lennon's spirit and, while declining to comment on the Polleys' claims that the pieces were received from the afterlife, concluded that the songs showed melodic similarities to Lennon's work. Joel Bjorling, a specialist in alternative religions, examined three of the Polleys' songs and concluded that one ("Don't Make Heaven Mad") resembled Lennon's songs while the other two resembled American folk songs almost note-for-note. In addition, one commentator has pointed to similarities between "Hussein's Butt Song" and the folk song "Knees Up Mother Brown". In the run-up to the 2000 presidential election, Gerald Polley claimed that Jesus had left Heaven because Bill Clinton was not impeached, and would only return should George W. Bush win the election.

In the 1964 film Mary Poppins, during the first part of the song, the lines he says in the verses are "Kick your knees up", "'Round the chimney", "Flap like a birdie", "Up on the railing", "Over the rooftops" and "Link your elbows" followed by an interlude. The interlude continues with Bert, Mary Poppins, Michael, Jane and all the chimney sweepers dancing around the rooftops and as Admiral Boom looks at them with the telescope, he thinks that they're Hottentots, so he orders Mr. Binnacle to make them scram with colorful fireworks. In the second part, as all the chimney sweepers get in the house of George Banks, Mrs. Brill walks into the living room looking at them and screams, "They're at it again!" and she runs away trying to strike one of the chimney sweepers with a frying pan.

For NME, John Perry wrote that the album was "far from being the industrial, goth knees-up you'd expect" and did little to hold listener interest: "You can't help feeling it would have been better all-round if they hadn't bothered". Ben Mitchell of Select also criticized the album: "An unerring inability to distinguish arse from elbow throughout results in a flimsy 11-track approximation of a gang of mildly irritated moped riders attempting a stage invasion at a Jean-Michel Jarre concert". James Muretich of the Calgary Herald was impressed by "Candle", and wrote that "the band at least goes out with more of a bark than a whimper". Rommie Johnson of The Tampa Tribune gave the album two stars out of four, writing that the Last Rights track "Download" would have been "the perfect ending" for the band.

He played four first-class matches for Derbyshire County Cricket Club in the 1900 season, but is remembered primarily as a goalkeeper for Sheffield United although he later played for Chelsea and Bradford City. After being discovered playing for village side Blackwell in a Derbyshire Cup tie at Ilkeston Town, Foulke made his debut for Sheffield United against West Bromwich Albion on 1 September 1894 and led the team to three FA Cup finals (winning two) and a League Championship. According to The Cat's Pyjamas: The Penguin Book of Cliches (), the "Who ate all the pies?" chant was first sung in 1894 by Sheffield United supporters, and directed at Foulke's 300 lb (about 136 kg). This is disputed, however, as a September 2019 article on the BBC Sport website pointed out that the tune to which the chant is sung, "Knees Up Mother Brown", is believed to have originated in 1918, which was some two years after Foulke's death.