“Well, it must have been about half past two in the morning, and just sitting there in the front room, with Carl and Brendan and Adrian.”
So… what do we know about Adrian?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“Well, it must have been about half past two in the morning, and just sitting there in the front room, with Carl and Brendan and Adrian.”
So… what do we know about Adrian?
Nigel
The new West Ham goalkeeper?
10 September 2013
BrumBiscuit
Wasn’t Rocky’s missus called Adrian?
10 September 2013
Vendor of Quack Nostrums
Oh, that Adrian. I thought you meant him as was the same bloke as Sophie.
10 September 2013
CARDINAL RICHELIEU
Well the only vaguely interesting thing I know about the name Adrian is that Pope Adrian IV (c.1100 – 1159) had a very infectious laugh and a terrific sense of humour. So much so that his archbishops and other loyal subjects used to tell people they “Laughed like Adrian”.
Somehow, over the mists of time, the spelling of the phrase became corrupted, hence why we now say “He laughed like a drain”.
This fact may not be 100% true. In fact, it might be 100% fabricated.
10 September 2013
Dave Wiggins
Last minute winner in the 1984 FA Cup Semi Final. Delirium at Highbury, as celebrating Everton fans invaded the pitch en masse.
10 September 2013
Bobby SVARC
“Inchy” at Oxford in ’83, The saviour of H. Kendall
10 September 2013
warden Hodges
Yes, the famous Kevin Brock backpass. Also the secret diaries of…..
10 September 2013
Bobby SVARC
“Have a good week till next week” A.Street http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKmbPYlRx2g
10 September 2013
Acidic regulator
Adrian IV, the only English pope, was born Nicholas Breakspear and is distantly related to Brakspear’s the brewers.
10 September 2013
Dr Desperate
Ozymandias off Watchmen’s real name was Adrian Veidt. Spiderman villain Vulture was Adrian Toomes.
10 September 2013
Bobby SVARC
This Adrian played a crazed northern matador who lost his driving licence in the brilliant comic strip “Fistful of travelers’ cheques”
10 September 2013
Graeme Wright
Hopefully not a reference to the totally unpalatable Adrian Chiles, he of the unfathomable devotion to West Brom and bearer of the manly tashe to try and entice the apple of his eye from the clutches of Lamps…hang on, I think I’m going to puke!
15 September 2013
2 Chevrons
so not Adrian Mole then. I’m guessing Adrian Chiles still keeps similar diaries.
19 September 2013
this leaden paul
Also…
Adrian Adonis : 80s wrestler, killed when the vehicle in which he was travelling in Newfoundland swerved to avoid a moose and crashed off a bridge. Once voted “Most Embarrassing Wrestler” in Wrestling Observer, which is the Sunday version of Wrestling Guardian.
Adrian Alston : Star of the Australian 1974 World Cup team, later of Luton Town (q.v.).
Adrian Cronauer : The inspiration for Good Morning Vietnam, despite spending most of his military service at an airbase on Crete – much safer, unless it’s 1941.
Adrian Erlandsson : One-time drummer for Cradle Of Filth (q.v.) and Paradise Lost (q.v.), among many other bands of varying levels of metal.
Adrian Gurvitz : Wrote “This Time We’ll Get It Right”, the official England 1982 World Cup theme song; history does record that they, in fact, did not get it right on that occasion. Also wrote for Stevie Nicks (q.v.) and REO Speedwagon (q.v.). None of them were classics.
Adrian helmet : Technological breakthrough of World War I, offering protection from shrapnel; nothing to do with the current head coach of Minnesota United (see posts 5-7, etc.).
Adrian Mutu : Familiar with what made Colombia famous.
Adrian Mariappa : Once called up by the Fijian national football team, not a regular occurrence for natives of Harrow. His football career has survived both a positive test for COVID-19 and being managed by Brendan Rodgers.
Adrian Thaws : Umm, it’s tricky.
12 August 2020
Alice van der meer
There’s at least one HMHB fan called Adrian too. Trust me, I know.
12 August 2020
FEATURELESS TV PRODUCER STEVE
There is indeed!
12 August 2020
peter mcornithologist
Mr. Steve may I ask how things are. I believe you live in Portland , if my memory serves me well.
15 August 2020
FEATURELESS TV PRODUCER STEVE
It serves you well indeed, Mr. McOrnithologist. And if you’re inquiring about my well-being due to newscasts concerning certain antisocial activity in my fair city, I can assure you all is well, even comically so.
Every night for over two months now, a few hundred to a thousand protesters go downtown and face off against police. They do this in the same three-to-four block area of downtown every evening. The rest of the city and its surrounding environs lie completely untouched and unaffected, and those of us who live here would never even know what’s going on if the media didn’t tell us about it. It’s the most isolated little island of revolutionary upheaval since the Judean People’s Front.
Or was it the People’s Front of Judea? I always get them confused.
15 August 2020
EXXO
Portland certainly stikes one as a place one could find like-minded souls. Where do the PFJ drink these days since Cider Riot closed down?
15 August 2020
EXXO
Plenty of microbreweries, Antifa hang-outs, the Timbers, alternative music venues, and above all this article have convinced me Portland is in fact a veritable paradise on earth.
https://www.stumptownfooty.com/community/2018/9/6/17710318/buckman-field-park-epicenter-of-portland-pickup-soccer
Go freelance in Oregon and have school lunch breaks all-comers non-stop footie. Every single day of your life. Then teach another lesson, have a few beers and go throw rocks at the Feds. Every. Single. Day.
Portland rocks.
15 August 2020
FEATURELESS TV PRODUCER STEVE
I have lived in Portland since 1994. I cannot find anything in the previous post to argue with.
HOWEVER, you did not mention the weather. It was 99F here today, and it’s supposed to be 102 tomorrow.I might be dead by Monday.
16 August 2020
dr desperate
My cousin, after separating from her wife last year, moved to Portland, where she enjoys socially-distanced rioting while getting out the postal vote for Biden/Harris.
In another Python link to a north-western hotbed, Fox News recently reported straight-faced that a communist protester in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone had posted on Reddit: “I thought we had an autonomous collective. An anarcho-syndicalist commune at the least, we should take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.”
16 August 2020
EXXO
Thanks Doc, we missed that one, so Mrs Exford made me dig out the clip, via John Cleese’s tweet of 15th June, 4.59 pm.
16 August 2020