Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread XXII - Young Adulthood

"Everybody's in showbiz"

- Ray Davies

My first (and only) concert was the Kinks.

Did it last all day and all of the night?

It seemed like it.

I was Sitting in the Midday Sun watching David Watts and Mister Pleasant fly their Supersonic Rocketship into a Waterloo Sunset.

Some of the best Kinks covers are the most unlikely: Def Leppard doing "Waterloo Sunset," with amazing sensitivity and restraint, for instance. Or Van Halen coming up aces on both "You Really Got Me" and "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?"

I really dug Ray Davies's recent "Americana" albums, especially the first volume.

"Americanos" was a single on Holly Johnson's debut album after he split from Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

I've never been to Hollywood.

There's a Holywood next to Belfast where they have a jazz festival.

I've never been to Belfast.

The village of Belhaven has a brewery that supplies a lot of pubs across the west of Scotland.

Haarlem in the Netherlands has a bar housed inside an old church

Lots of old churches have been repurposed, a lot as bars or nightclubs.

It's no different here. I've gone to some ale tastings in some lovely old buildings as a result.

Apparently there is also an od church that has been repurposed into a sex club here in Amsterdam.

There's probably not many types of building that haven't been converted into sex clubs at some point in Amsterdam.

Morey Amsterdam played Buddy Sorrel on the Dick Van Dyke show. Buddy’s wife Pickles appeared in 3 episodes.

Pickles the dog found the Jules Rimet trophy just before the 1966 World Cup.

I like pickles. Pickled cucumber anyway. Some cultures pickle too many things.

Hold the pickles. Hold the lettuce. Special orders don’t upset us.

Old Burger King jingle.

A burger chain in a comic called the New Statesmen was called Cronenburgers after the horror film director. While there was lots of ketchup, It was also part of the setup to a very bloody encounter in one of their outlets.

I would rather there was a lot of mayonnaise.

In Australia Burger King is called Hungry Jack

Wimpy reached my childhood home decades before any of the other fast food outlets. For some reason, their brand appeal could never match the behemoths of Burger King and McDonalds. Stand ins for said behemoths were finally allowed into reprints of a Judge Dredd comic. There had been fears of legal action. I remember them having to slightly alter a Scooby Doo stand in for similar reasons.