Gubba Gubba Hey
OK, we did it! A random bunch of frequent contributors here on the site (you know who you are, thanks)! – inspired by an idea from Paul Sharp – thought that to remind the world we’re still all here in pandemic lockdown, it would be a giggle to donate something to a cause dear to the band’s heart, namely Tranmere Rovers FC. The club were appealing for fans to sponsor cutout figures to be put in the stands, and we hit on the idea of a team of Tony Gubba cutouts. We raised enough money, and to their credit the club did it! Thanks to Deb at TRFC for accepting our honest explanation without questioning my sanity.
These photos are from the club’s Facebook feed. See how many Gubba lookalikes you can count (clue: there’s a whole team’s worth)
✉ Letters Sent (15)
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(5 years ago by Exxo)
Sean Macreavy
Absolutely inspirational. Chapeau!
29 April 2021
John Tansey
Chris – hope this is OK and please remove if not. We are an FB group that explores entire discographies. We’ve done The Fall, Can, Love and Husker Du but no Michael Ball, unfortunately. Anyway, we are going to listen to an HMHB album a day from Monday on. It would be great for a few of you to get involved. Ask to join and someone will let you in. The group is Temporary Fandoms and the podcast is TempFans. Generally the discourse is similar to how it is on here. Generally good natured and in the spirit of celebration. The link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tempfans/
29 April 2021
Chris The Siteowner
Fine by me! Join away, gang!
29 April 2021
EXXO
I’ve only read one sentence on your site and already learned three new words. That’s not something that happens to me every day, so yeah, I’ll have a go if accepted.
29 April 2021
dr desperate
I’m in.
29 April 2021
EXXO
@John T –
I really really liked your Facebook group’s Rule 1 (which taught me 3 new words): “No fascists, incels, swivel-eyed dogmatists, Tories, Brexiteers, hatemongers, edgelords, Russian trollfarms, bots or dubious businesses.” Hurrah! The preponderance of these types is why I don’t do much facebooking meself and have a very anonymous-looking facebook page which does not tell anyone anything about my identity.
But I wonder if that’s also why I haven’t been accepted to join? Maybe my page looks like an incel edgelord’s trollfarm?*
*When I’m teaching languages I always say use the words in your own contexts as soon as possible after you first encounter them**, so I have to take my own advice here.
**and as often as possible, so if there are an incel edgelord trollfarms out there I’m ready for you.
29 April 2021
EXXO
They’ve added 19 people to the group since I asked to join …
30 April 2021
Brumbiscuit
I’m in. Also wondering whether to post about the only song I know of about premature ejaculation; Fyra Sekunder (Four Seconds) by Swedish maverick, Magnus Uggla. His music is Europop catchy, but his lyrics are very edgy and anti-establishment.
30 April 2021
POP-TART MARK
I found a way in through a window they’d left open round the side ;-)
30 April 2021
dr desperate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahcvo3rSTzE
30 April 2021
EXXO
I could have had fun seeing how long it would take for you to work out that I’m ‘Eddie Thornton’ on there, but it would have only taken between 2 minutes and an hour, so not that much fun really. It’s an anonymous FB fishing page I have and I used it to join Temporary Fandoms after another FB ID I have wasn’t accepted to join.
3 May 2021
EXXO
I joined cos of FOMO and with quite a lot of fear of other things too – you can tell from my last post that I have had soooooo many bad experieces of FB groups – but I’m really impressed by today’s chat and I think it’s going to be a really good ride seeing the albums in such a condensed chronological way and with such a good mix of experts and newbie views.
3 May 2021
Pat
Typing fails me. my son, 11, sings ‘shite day’ in the shower and wants to read all this. Everyone here may be funnier than phil cool was. He could be better now as his face must be more malleable owing to age. Am I funny yet ? pat you will see me on u tube comments as ‘serious stuff’’ . I know you care.
7 July 2021
Lord leominster
With all due respect, Pat, or son of Pat, the bar has been set pretty low on here in terms of ‘funny’. But we, including you, are all probably funnier than Phil Cool. And Robin Askwith, come to think of it.
7 July 2021
EXXO
You must be v. proud of your lad and his fine taste in music, Pat.
I remember when I was nearly eleven, I got in trouble for the alleged crime of “saying “crap” a lot” (not talking crap, like I do now). This was a double-grassing, by a member of my school class grassing to my big bro’ who he was in church choir with, and big bro’ grassing to my folks. I wasn’t having it and there followed a three-year debate in our family about whether “crap” was a swearword. Shite? We used to dream of saying “shite” without being grassed on.
8 July 2021