A tremendous pic, unjustly forgotten, and with great performances from both Mitchum and Ken. As well as a great poster design by Bob Peak which, as far as I know, only used in Japan.

I think Guinness World Records changed their criteria so that food records would only be recognised for speed rather than quantity, as in, how fast can you eat ten hot dogs as opposed to can you eat a hundred hot dogs. I don’t think the ‘volume’ eaters are listed in the Guinness book anymore.

In the world of competition eating, vomiting is called ‘a reversal’. I have no idea how I know that. 

Nobody seems to remember the film The Pursuit Of D.B. Cooper, or just Pursuit in some countries.

There are branches of Snakes R’Us all over the South, or at least used to be before the lockdown.

HBO - We’ll Make You Too Fu*king Scared To Ever Venture Outside...

Seconded.

Wow, that’s a fabulous dog. Also with a great expression which says ‘You threw it, you go and pick it up....’

Souvenir brought back by a serving soldier?

‘A man who was fishing for metal objects in a river somehow ended up with a WWII-era grenade and brought it to a Taco Bell’. Well, obviously! Oh, a decades-old probably unstable explosive device. What else to do with but take it to the nearest fast-food joint?Mind you, if they dumped in the tanks of beef slurry or…

Ah, Antonio Sabato. I saw one of his ‘epics’ at an Italian film market. From minute one to minute ninety, no one else so much as stuck their head round the screening room door, watched the entire thing on my own and can’t remember a single frame.

Rod Argent also had a music shop, specialising in keyboards, around the corner from a pub I used to use in London. Long gone now. The shop, not Rod Argent, who’s still touring in various bands. 

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

‘Best practice is to check internal temp with a thermometer’. Fine, but what about the turkey? *hook....*

Tell me more about these diamond-studded steaks of which you speak....

I’d have put good money on it being 5cream....

There was a brilliant British comedian of the 50s and 60s, Tony Hancock, who had his own radio and TV shows, and in one was complaining about his housekeeper’s food -

The product was described as an ‘over-the-counter enema’, which made me think ‘Couldn’t they wait till they got home?’....

‘—when footage of it humping zoologist Mark Carwadine’s head went viral—’ No wonder there’s only 213 of them left. Somebody draw ‘em a diagram or something....

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