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I hard a hard finding the lyrics and have cobbled together the following not in any order:-

People are asking if this is the best video spoof ever!

In Newport, concrete jumble nothing in order, not far from the border.

Tom Jones, Steve Jones, Zeta Jones, traffic cones – if you come and visit use the Designated Parking Zones

When you’re in Newport. Chips, cheese, curry makes you feel brand new, washed down with a Special Brew.

Bugger off Alicia, Shirley Bassey is our queen.”

On the dance floor raving, pack of 16 Benson, someone fighting bouncers , turns out it’s Gavin Henson.”

In Newport, twinned with Guangxi Province in China, there’s no province finer. Josie D’Arby’s from Newport. Yes it’s strange we didn’t know either, thank you Wikipedia.

“Let’s say some more Newports, Newports, Newports.”

In Newport, access from the A4042, traffic will enrage you, on your way to Newport.

Our shopping centre is quite new, big leeks will inspire you. Repeat to fade Newport, Newport, Newport.”

‘Yeah you know the D to the V to the LA’

One hand in the air for a taxxiiiii, ’50 quid if you’re sick on the back seat, but all those bendy roads make me queasy can someone hold my hair?

My Mum didn’t see the article calling me a Rap Star , Ripped it up and fed it to the Hamster (HamStaa)

The video was obviously inspired by those giants of Welsh nay World Culture “Goldie Lookin Chain” who also hail from Newport.

Also includes Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch which means The name means: St Mary’s Church (Llanfair) in a hollow (pwll) of white hazel (gwyngyll) near (goger) the swirling whirlpool (y chwyrndrobwll) of the church of St Tysilio (llantysilio) with a red cave ([a]g ogo goch). The word with 58 letters is one of the longest place names in the world and is it is fair to say not often used in lyrics.

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Or rather the daughter of the farm maid now 106 is still alive (May 2010)l, Hardy had been inspired by the beauty of Gertrude’s mother Augusta Way, then an eighteen year-old milkmaid, when he visited Augusta’s father’s farm in Bockhampton. It is suggested by her daughter Norrie, that Augusta was the true inspiration for Tess, and being so taken with Augusta’s beauty, Hardy remembered her when writing the novel all those years later. When Hardy saw Gertrude Bugler (he rehearsed The Hardy Players at the hotel run by Gertrude’s parents), he immediately recognised her as the young image of the now older Augusta. (Woodhall, 2006/Wikipedia)

This sister would have likely become a well known actress but for the jealousy of Hardy’s wife.

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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

by Robert Frost

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Photo Nick Kaye. Polecat Retreat St Leonards Road, Leicester. Residence of Herbert Polecat. It’s probably fair to say that this was not a temple of learning.

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Saw this on a poster but where does it come from?

More at Serendipity Luck and Coincidence

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I’ve discovered a fair bit of weirdness associated with Zzyzx Road including an evangelist and the endangered Mohave tui chub, it’s had TWO films made about it read more by clicking here if you dare!

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For you to be alive you need to have an unbroken chain of ancestors, so your forefathers survived plagues, wars, illnesses, accidents, wars, starvation and so on. You had an ancestor alive at the same time as Jesus, you had an ancestor who walked out of Africa, an ancestor who first fashioned a stone tool.

Seems miraculous and yet mathematically it has no significance as the same is true for every other human alive today.

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The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U.S. and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, which became the longest battle on German ground during World War II, and the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought in its history.

The Hürtgen Forest cost the U.S. First Army at least 33,000 killed and incapacitated, including both combat and noncombat losses; Germans casualties were between 12,000 and 16,000.

This battle was completely over-shadowed by the Battle of the Bulge, many of those that died here in the most miserable conditions were heroes from D-Day and they should not be forgotten.

I’d never heard of this until just recently learn much more here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hurtgen_Forest

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Going to School with the 101st Airborne Little Rock

Photo Wikicommons US Government Public Domain

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