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Post by Paul on Jun 18, 2007 8:46:56 GMT -5
In the meantime, some corner of this foreign board will be forever English. Yep, the Ray Davies Preservation Society thread. |
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Post by shin on Jun 18, 2007 17:41:20 GMT -5
You may not know this, but my paternal grandmother's grandfather was one of the Brill brothers who owned the rights to the Brill Building and leased out the upper floors to the music industry. The Brill Building is where Sedaka wrote most of his hit stuff.
Comma comma down doobie doo down down.
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Post by Ryosuke on Jun 18, 2007 22:29:22 GMT -5
Hi Luigi.
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Post by maarts on Jun 19, 2007 4:59:18 GMT -5
Yeah, hi Thatch!
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Post by Thorngrub on Jun 19, 2007 11:32:27 GMT -5
You may not know this, but my paternal grandmother's grandfather was one of the Brill brothers who owned the rights to the Brill Building and leased out the upper floors to the music industry. The Brill Building is where Sedaka wrote most of his hit stuff. Comma comma down doobie doo down down. You may not know this, but my great great great etc grand daddy was none other than the world's largest, and strongest, man, Angus MacAskill.  Angus and a friendYes I'm saying he coulda whooped all o'yall's grandaddy's asses *sticks tongue out* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 1981 Guinness Book of World Records lists Angus as the tallest natural giant who ever lived, the strongest man who ever lived, and the man having the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man.
Cape Breton's Big Boy jogged down the street with a 300-pound barrel of pork under each arm to the admiring whistles of bystanders.
To win a bet with some French sailors he lifted an anchor weighing 2700 pounds to his shoulder and walked down the wharf with it.
Barnum exhibited the Giant on tours in the United States and Europe.
One day Big Angus McAskill threw a Big Sailor right over a large woodpile.
There was a time when a sick man had to be taken 25 miles through a howling snowstorm. The giant swung him up over his back and carried him to the doctor without once setting him down.
Fishermen who couldn't pull their heavily laden boat up on the beach called on Angus for help, and as the Giant pulled on the bow the men decided to play a trick and hauled back. The boat was torn in two in the tug-of-war between the Giant and the fishermen.
Queen Victoria heard stories of his amazing strength and invited the Cape Breton Giant to an audience at Windsor Castle where she presented him with two gold rings and acclaimed him as the tallest, stoutest, and strongest man that ever entered the palace.
These and many other tales are still told in Cape Breton about Big Angus McAskill of St. Ann's.
www.macaskill.com/GeneralTallTales/Angus/angus.html |
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Post by KooL on Jun 19, 2007 11:40:35 GMT -5
Angus is such a bad-ass name. Never fuck with an Angus.
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Post by Fuzznuts on Jun 19, 2007 13:13:23 GMT -5
He was no match for Bill Brasky! To Bill Brasky!!!  |
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Post by Thorngrub on Jun 19, 2007 14:55:26 GMT -5
My supergreat grandpappy Angus woulda stuffed Bill Brasky into a 300 pound pork barrell and thrown him right over a large woodpile.
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Post by shin on Jun 19, 2007 17:13:50 GMT -5
Who is Neil Kinnock and why am I like him?
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Jun 20, 2007 0:19:18 GMT -5
He's Welsh and ginger. I'm not too sure that comparison holds up under scrutiny.
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Post by maarts on Jun 20, 2007 3:48:08 GMT -5
You forgot the balding part.
Actually he's more the Baldrick to Blackadder.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jun 20, 2007 11:53:36 GMT -5
I've got a bald adder.
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Post by strat-0 on Jun 21, 2007 20:17:44 GMT -5
Gall bladder
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Post by shin on Jun 21, 2007 23:31:45 GMT -5
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Post by maarts on Jun 22, 2007 6:36:42 GMT -5
chillin' dude, chillin'!  |
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