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[Cartimand]

Check out The Forteana Forums, where a whole thread is devoted to this (along with more other weirdness than you could ever hope to read about)!...

[Cartimand]

I joined a croquet club a month ago. Great to play this historic and picturesque game/sport on a beautifully manicured full-sized croquet lawn!...

[Cartimand]

My favourite music era was the 70s. Throughout that decade, backmasking was a fairly common technique.
A few examples were:
Deep Purple – "Stormbringer" (1974) - - some expletive-laden backwards ndialogue from The Exorcist, thereby fueling the "satanic panic" scare....

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What do you mean 80s/90s??
It all started with the Beatles.
Their 1965 single “Free as a Bird” is the earliest I think to feature backtracking/backmasking.
Spin the 45 backwards during its outro and you can hear John Lennon saying the George Formby catchphrase “Turned...

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That was an alternative etymology of the term, but I always thought it derived from Young Urban Professional.
Whatever the term means, I found them ghastly people!...

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French and German at school.
The former proved particularly useful, as I married a French woman.

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I completed Valhalla some time ago and have reinstalled Witcher 3, now that the complete edition with the two expansion packs is available free on Xbox Gamepass.
I'd almost forgotten how brilliant it is! The feeling of "being there" especially in the main city Novigrad, is palpable....

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Just come back from a cruise from Southampton to the Norwegian fjords and back.
North Sea was pretty rough (the shipping forecast did say gale force 9 to very strong storm force 10, and my wife felt seasick.
If we'd been flying though, I guess turbulence might have been just as bad (but...

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Only one.
He was my best man when I got married, and still a regular drinking companion.