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Jon Hancock
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Charlatan, Humbug and Imitation Humorist.

Former sporadic cartoonist and game designer. Occasionally #Outdoorsy, sometimes #Cycling. #Ukulele torturer […]

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Easy Peeler my arse.
January 1, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Settling in to watch the Stranger Things finale. Sadly already finished the retsina.
January 1, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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Some witty lyrics and a gently bouncing rhythm lift this song above the crowd, even though the subject matter is quotidian Tin Pan Alley stuff.

A particular inversion of the E chord means I had to paste in one of the diagrams, since it's not included in […]

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Ukulele songsheet for "I Gotta Get Myself Somebody To Love" by Lewis and Young & Lou Handman (1926). Lyrics, chord abbreviations and diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text. Sheet music cover for "I Gotta Get Myself Somebody To Love" by Lewis and Young & Lou Handman (1926). Title across top. Yellow background with scattered pale yellow love hearts of various sizes. Very large black and white photograph of a man wearing a possibly light grey or brown Homburg hat and belted woollen overcoat, hands in pockets, a closed smile on his face. Caption identifies him as "Al Herman, the Assassin of Grief and Remorse," who was a popular Scottish-American vaudeville performer, frequently in blackface but happily not so here.
January 1, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Indelibly associated in modern culture with Marilyn Monroe and "Some Like It Hot," this song was already getting on for a quarter of a century old by the time whe performed it. Before Marilyn it belonged to Helen Kane, most commonly remembered today as the […]

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Ukulele songsheet for "I Wanna Be Loved By You" by Bert Kalmar, Herbert Stothart and Harry Ruby (1928). Lyrics, chord abbreviations and diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text. Sheet music cover for "I Wanna Be Loved By You" by Bert Kalmar, Herbert Stothart and Harry Ruby (1928), from the musical play "Good Boy". Title in white against a wide orange bar across the top of the page; rest of the background is dark blue. Credits and decoration on overlapping circles of white, blue and grey, giving a rather stark and basic but still clear and eyecatching design.
January 1, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Wishing you every success with your New Year revolutions.
January 1, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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And the final dice roll of 2025 is…

#rpg #dice #fudgerpg
Screenshot of fudgerpg.com showing the online Fudge dice roller. The dice are displaying two blank faces, one plus sign and one minus sign, for a result of Fair (0).
December 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Daniel Ozick: "Auld Lang Syne for programmable music box and Zoot wind quartet"

https://youtu.be/3JcKh08q0e0

#electronicwindinstruments #zoot
December 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Via Matt at World of Ukes.

#ukulele
Yellow slide titled "The benefits of being a ukulele player". To the left is a key: Red = MONEY. Purple = FAME. Light blue = RESPECT FROM YOUR FRIENDS. To the right is a pie chart, equally divided into green, dark blue and orange.
December 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Last post of 2025 has arrived. Past Perfect had a three for the price of two offer with free postage, so I treated myself
Photo of three CD cases held in left hand, fanned out and using the back of Madeline Kahn, a surprisingly patient tortoiseshell and white cat, for support. The albums are "Fascinating Rhythm," "Charleston," and "Jazz Age! Hot Sounds of the 20s & 30s".
December 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Couldn't manage the extra game session my group played over Christmas (giving the "Outgunned" RPG a try), but tonight's our regular session and hopefully I've recovered sufficiently to play a potty British inventor in "Amazing Adventures".

I think it only needs a D20, so no heavy lifting.

#rpg […]
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December 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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“If nana came back to life now, she’d think the sputniks had landed!”

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/dec/30/tiny-village-tv-station-90s-waddington

#television #forlocalpeople
‘Terry Jones tried to eat the studio’s pet goldfish!’ The tiny village TV station that became a 90s smash hit
When the people of Waddington teamed up to broadcast self-written soap operas, horoscopes and magic tricks, little did they know it would be the most successful channel in the world – despite the chaos behind the cameras
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December 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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A charming song displaying the familiar American fascination with a bucolic idyll, but ideally one that's close enough to urban attractions that a car owner can have both. Apparently there is only one British recording of this tune from the 20s, possibly […]

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Ukulele songsheet for "Ten Little Miles From Town" by Gus Kahn and Elmer Schoebel (1928). Lyrics, chord abbreviations and diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text. Sheet music cover for "Ten Little Miles From Town" by Gus Kahn and Elmer Schoebel (1928). Pinkish-peach background, title across the top, partial red circle containing an illustration of a white cottage surrounded by trees and flowers towards which a path the colour of the background extends. Flowers and a red bird adorn the area around the circle.
December 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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A Tin Pan Alley special, extolling the virtues of a young woman from the point of view of a young man. You can't go wrong with quintessential 1920s lyrics like this:

"Oh me! she’s the sweetest hotsy-totsy
Oh my! I can see she knows a lot-sy"

The ukulele […]

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Ukulele songsheet for "Oh! Boy, What A Girl" by Bud Green & Wright and Bessinger “The Radio Franks” (1925). Lyrics, chord abbreviations and diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text. Sheet music cover for "Oh! Boy, What A Girl" by Bud Green & Wright and Bessinger "The Radio Franks" (1925). Background consists of curves and circles in shades of brown and green. Cartoon illustration of stereotypical Flapper, a woman wearing a knee-length red dress exposing bare arms and shoulders, green shoes and knee-length socks or stockings, a green cloche hat with red rose attached. She has a dark wavy bob, red Cupid's bow lipstick, and is walking a small and hairy dog on a red lead. Title across the top in large, swooping letters. Inset green-tinted photograph of Winnie Lightner, seated with flowers, who introduced the song in the show "Gar Paree".
December 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Checked the health and fitness app I'm using to monitor various things while I trial a CPAP machine.

One of the markers was flagged as complete, which surprised me as I'm not exactly living an active lifestyle at the moment. Still, maybe I'm doing better than I thought…

"Get Up: Achieved"
December 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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The lyricist, Frank Silver, claimed that the title came directly from the mouth of a Greek shopkeeper near a hotel where he was staying with his family, who prefaced every remark with "Yes!" even if it was in the negative. The song was an immediate hit […]

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Ukulele songsheet for "Yes! We Have No Bananas" by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn (1923). Lyrics, chord abbreviations and diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text. Sheet music cover for "Yes! We Have No Bananas" by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn (1923). Full page illustration of a man with checked turban, striped waistcoat and trousers, spotted cummerbund and grey jacket, standing in front of a greengrocer's with trays of fruit out front. He is looking at the viewer, spreading his arms as wide as his astonishing moustache, and shrugging.
December 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Edward "Zez" Confrey was mainly known for novelty piano pieces, his most famous being "Kitten on the Keys", but this charming "fox trot oddity" was popular enough to be recorded by the likes of Frank Crumit, Margaret Young, and Paul Whiteman and His […]

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Ukulele songsheet for "Stumbling" by Zez Confrey (1922). Lyrics, chord abbreviations and diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text. Sheet music cover for "Stumbling" by Zez Confrey (1922). Plain yellow background with very tall black and white illustration of an elaborate, arched, curtain doorway left of centre. Broad black band across lower fifth of page, above which a stylised cartoon illustration shows a couple awkwardly attempting to dance cheek to cheek while their lower limbs head for destinations unknown. Title in large black letters across top of page with subtitle "A Fox Trot Oddity".
December 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Post-Christmas post has arrived!
Photograph of a CD case held up in front of a computer monitor. The album is "The Happiness Boys: How Do You Do?" And features a portrait photograph of two smiling white men turning to look over their left shoulders at the camera.
December 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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#glorantha https://crispsandwi.ch/@JauntyArt/115798745765743755
Jaunty Art (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image duck around and find out
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December 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Twenty quid says my first guess will be wrong.
Screenshot of The Guardian website showing part of a crossword. The current clue is 10 across, "Defy (the system) (4)". Three letters of the four letter answer have been completed, leaving it as BLANK, U, C, K.
December 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Christmas Day, despite keeping it as relaxed as a trip to see family can be, wiped me out. Boxing Day was quiet, but the post-exertional malaise (or post-exertional symptom exacerbation, for those who prefer) kicked in yesterday and I was good for nothing. Slept for a big chunk of the day and […]
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December 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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1925 was right in the middle of Charleston-mania, so there's no surprise that more than one song tried to ride the wave begun a couple of years before. This one resurfaced almost fifty years later when Nick Lucas recorded a new arrangement for the […]

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Ukulele songsheet for "I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston" by Roy Turk and Lou Handman (1925). Lyrics, chord abbreviations and diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text. Sheet music cover for "I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston" by Roy Turk and Lou Handman (1925). Blue background with white clouds and black silhouetted trees in the distance. A white cottage with red roof and tall chimney stack nestles between low hills. Outside the white gate a woman wearing a knee-length red sleeveless dress and black hat with crest of red roses looks at the viewer. She has a black leather Gladstone bag in her left hand, holds her right around waist level flopping at the wrist, and is kicking her left leg back as if performing a dance move. Title in black block letters across the top of the page. Inset black and white portrait photograph of two women with matching dark bobs, captioned The Courtney Sisters.
December 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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There's an irony to this song being so well known today where others have slipped into the fog of history, as the reason for its renewed high profile—Tiny Tim—was also responsible for it becoming dismissed as something of a joke, the song everyone would […]

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Ukulele songsheet for "Tip-Toe Thru’ The Tulips With Me" by Al Dubin and Joe Burke (1929). Lyrics, chord abbreviations and diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text. Sheet music cover for "Tip-Toe Thru’ The Tulips With Me" by Al Dubin and Joe Burke (1929). Grey simplified cityscape along the bottom with broad alternating yellow and white sunshine rays behind it, originating from the lower left. Song title in simple letters across a narrow white banner at the top, with the show title—The Gold Diggers of Broadway—in much larger letters beneath it. Below that, a V-shaped arrangement of alternating rectangular and circular black and white portrait photographs show the stars of the show in glamorous attire: Winnie Lightner; Ann Pennington; Nick Lucas; Lilyan Tashman; Conway Tearle; and Nancy Welford. Illustration of a woman in something between flapper and showgirl dress with a large headdress, holding a cigarette in one hand and a rope in the other which is tied to a huge sack of (presumably) money, which she is leaning right back from with her feet against it.
December 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Started watching the new series of Stranger Things. The average age of the kids means it looks like a remake of Dad's Army.
December 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Ovoid: To steer clear of eggs.
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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BBC Archive: "1968: Boxing Day Lunch with Comedy Greats" – Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Marty Feldman and Denis Norden.

https://youtu.be/FX53kvfW2Vk
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM