The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we’re still alive, before we die.
BILL BAILEYAmerican rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying ‘Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.’
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My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
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Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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I try to appreciate the simple things. I’ve just been camping with my son and I enjoyed that just as much if not more than a holiday in a posh hotel. I like making a cup of tea and bacon sarnie in the morning.
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I’m English, and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.
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Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.
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I’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that’s undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.
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The so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing.
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I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars… I’m not bitter at all.
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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey.
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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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