Tonight, Bruce and Sheila, we take a look at some Aussieoddities, including an eleven-foot worm. Fair dinkum!
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They were driving merry automobiles in the 1920s, and they’re still driving today. Look out!.
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If you could filter out all the MOR and pop from country music and boil the remainder down to a fine distillate you’d probably get something that sounds an awful lot like Kitty Wells: Here’s her countrified version of Everybody Loves Somebody.
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British rockers Deep Purple once said bands who won’t play in Israel are wimps. They certainly weren’t wimps when it came to touring, as evidenced by tonight’s reminiscences about their deeply-purple tour of Venus, Mars, and regions beyond: Here’s Space Truckin’. Yo!
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You don’t need to be familiar with Robin Thicke’s hit “Blurred Lines” to enjoy Weird Al Jankovic’s parody Word Crimes.
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Tonight, a collection of “bet-you-didn’t-know-that” True Facts About Morgan Freeman.
h/t Mike
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Launching the tips thread this evening: Corb Lund – Time To Switch To Whiskey. Your mix in the comments.

If you’re thinking about making a weekend getaway as the summer winds down, don’t forget to consider sunny Cleveland..
h/t Judith
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Now a girl on the land / was waving her hand / as happy as can be / Talk of invasion, she wasn’t afraid / She winked her eye at me and murmured “Come on, invade” / When the Lads of the Village Get Cracking…  ♫
That’s George Formby and the lads, from the 1943 film Get Cracking.
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Music is the universal language, and love is the key. Tonight, former West London grime rapper L Jinny keeps it real as he treats us to a couple of krunk tunes from the Warm Up Sessions.
The son of an Egyptian “who was extradited from Britain to the United states on charges of terrorism in 2012″, Mr. Jinny’s def rhymes (“swagger dagger with the sore throat”) have been played on BBC Radio 1, and he is currently a “leading suspect in the…beheading of journalist James Foley.”
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Tonight, an edifying and nutritious “sword and salad epic in classic Cinemascope”: The story of Oedipus performed by vegetables.
h/t
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips two-time Formula One World Champion Mika Hakkinen teaches Top Gear’s James May how to drive like a Finn.
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Q: What happens when guy quits his street gang, starts combing his hair, and stops doing the wild things that he did before?
A: He bores his girlfriend to death.
That there’s The Shangri-Las.
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Tonight, just in case you’ve forgotten how to do it, Run C&W will tell you how to go about Walkin’ The Dog.
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Tonight we have a very well-done 42-minute documentary about IS, or as it’s more commonly known, ISIS. It’s the sort of coverage you’ll never see on CBC or CTV because it’s too informative, and because the IS jihadists speak for themselves with nary a GTA talking-head filter/censor in sight. Without further ado, here’s VICE News’ The Islamic State. Well worth watching, IMO.
For our progressive visitors who don’t want to “go there”, here’s Up With People!
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Tonight Maddy Prior and June Tabor sing a 15th century song about the Battle of Agincourt, where an outnumbered army led by Henry V defeated French forces: Here’s the Agincourt Carol.
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Tonight we have two Johnny Cash gospel songs accompanied by a pair of creative, effective, and oddly mesmerizing videos by YouTuber watchman4wales. Here are I Came To Believe and A Half A Mile A Day. Recommended, both.
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Tonight we skip the twenty-seventh installment of our Midget Tap Dancing series and head straight to the Reader Tips.
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“To Roger Waters, With Love From Israel.”
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Tonight we warm up for the Tips by dancing along at home with ol’ Rubber Legs Al.
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