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Post by PotterLog on Jun 11, 2010 4:35:51 GMT
So a few months ago a couple of mates and I decided that on these foreign shores we ought to have some England shirts for the World Cup. Buggered if we're paying 40 quid a throw for an official shirt, so we decided to knock up our own, with the three lions crest on the front, and a printed list of "all things English" on the back.
We set about writing the list. Our (very loose) criteria were: 1. English not British. 2. Emphasis on failure or faded glory. 3. No tories or posh.
After many nights scribbling on soggy beer mats and heated email exchanges during work time, here's the final result. Hope you like it.
4-2, warm bitter, Tommy Cooper, Bobby Moore, cheddar cheese, Tony Benn, cheese ‘n’ onion crisps, Devon, Sherlock Holmes, Cornish pasties, Winnie the Pooh, Gary Lineker, Charles Darwin, The Goodies, Stanley Matthews, Jane Austen, the full English, Agatha Christie, Keith Richards, Basil Brush, John Lydon, Chris Waddle, Monty Python, Eccles cakes, Michael Caine, Fred Perry, Shakespeare, Kevin Keegan, George Harrison, pies, Daniel Defoe, custard creams, Staffordshire, Ray Winstone, Yorkshire pudding, Brian Clough, Ronnie Barker, HP Sauce, David Beckham, Eric Morecambe, Thomas Turgoose, Scotch eggs, Wallace & Grommit, Ian Brown, bread & butter pudding, The Tolpuddle Martyrs, Thomas the Tank Engine, clotted cream, Victoria Wood, Alan Turing, Morris Minors, Shropshire, fish suppers, Morrissey, Tizer, Karl Pilkington, Woad, Bobby Robson, beans on toast, Gordon Banks, conkers, binge drinking, Robin Hood, apple crumble, Blackadder, North Staffordshire oatcakes, Glastonbury, Wembley, tea with milk, Shaun of the Dead, Banksy, Enid Blyton, Ali G, balti, Charlie Chaplin, Robert Plant, 99 ice-creams, Christopher Wren, John Barnes, Ian McEwan, Frank Bruno, scones, George Orwell, John Motson, Alan Partridge, 1966, Private Eye, Twiggy, fish finger sandwiches, Bash Street Kids, Samantha Fox, iced buns, Argos, 2-Tone, John Craven, Topman, Noel Coward, dippy eggs, AFC Wimbledon, King Harold, Steptoe & Son, beach donkeys, the Grand National, Thora Hird, nit nurses, Kate Bush, Roger Daltrey, Bullseye, Michael Parkinson, Bez, Pickles the dog, Joe Strummer, trifle, Morph, the Sinclair C5, Cyrille Regis, Vicky Pollard, Billy Bragg, Wigan Pier, Billy the Fish, Jimmy White, Lock-ins, Zammo, Robert Fripp, Felicity Kendall, Kendall mint cake, Kate Moss, Bernard Bresslaw, Graham Greene, Sexy Beast, Big Ron, Emily Bronte, Ian Curtis, Kiss Chase, Lionel Blair, treacle tart, Wendy Cope, Ted Baker, Offa’s Dyke, Alexander McQueen, Wayne Rooney, Roger McGough, gritter lorries, Michael Fish, Orinoco the Womble, Gary Barlow, Roy of the Rovers, Joyce Grenfell, James Richardson, CSE’s, Jarvis Cocker, Colemanballs, Dick Emery, salad cream, Nobby Stiles, Brian Cant, Little Chef, Freddie Star, the pools, Alec Guiness, Blackpool Tower, Tom Baker, Radio 4, Roy Hodgson, Byron, Oxo, Julie Walters, Stuart Pearce, knickerbocker glory, Alan Bennett, Ant & Dec, A.E.Housman, Saint Swithun, flibbertigibbets, Dawn French, Larry Grayson, the Dun Cow, Joanna Lumley, Nick Hornby, Wurzel Gummidge, Tom Thumb, Moira Stewart, Goldie, red leicester, Terry Thomas, Ricky Tomlinson, the Green Man, Uncle Tom Cobley, Jimmy Glass, Leonard Rossiter, Brian Patten, Kenny Sansom, Jerusalem, Cheryl Baker, Kenneth Williams, Back Home, Jimmy Saville, Tom Watt, sponge pudding, Norman Wisdom, Jamie Oliver, Luther Blissett, Mastermind, Kate Winslet, Ernest Bevin, Arctic Roll, Frank Worthington, John Gielgud, Abraham Darby, Routemaster buses, George Formby, Mo Mowlam, James Bolam, pork scratchings, Paddington Station, JB Priestly, Weetabix, William Beveridge, Greggs the Baker, Barry Cryer, Guy Fawkes, David Jason, the Tube, Bertrand Russell, Hugh Grant, Jossy’s Giants, Les Dennis, Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb, Mike Leigh, Windy Miller, 1966, Tetley’s, Tim Roth, Shoot!, Nigel Kennedy, PG Wodehouse, Les Dennis, Sunday dinner, flicking the V’s, Hugh Laurie, Football Focus, The Angel of the North, The FA Cup, Anna Friel, Michael Bentine, brass bands, the Co-op, Linda Bellingham, SS Empire Windrush, Rachel Weisz, allotments, Andy Capp, Bass, Ken Loach, Jaguar cars, Bakewell tart, Humphrey Lyttelton, Dad’s Army, Nick Drake, scooter rallies, Fred Dibnah, sarcasm, LS Lowry, Lady Penelope, custard, Butlins, London, crumpet, Ealing Studios, hedgehogs, Sandy Denny, darts, flapjacks, shopping trolleys in canals, Laurie Lee, Cheers!, Richard Whiteley, Bodie & Doyle, Match of the Day, northern soul, Rupert Brooke, garden sheds, Roger Moore, sunburn, the Tate Modern, John Montagu 4th Earl of Sandwich, lemon curd, three lions, Jonny and Raymond Briggs, Wellington boots, Geoff Thomas, Spaghetti Junction, the NHS, Steve Bull, marmalade, trade unions, Jimmy Hill, baked potatoes, David Attenborough, Lonsdale, Frank Bough, David Icke, mates, blokes, slappers, Michael Owen, Eddie the Eagle, scrumpy, Pudding Lane, Milk Tray, Derek Griffiths, barbers’ poles, panto, Clarks shoes, Gary Wilmot, Malcolm Allison, barm cakes, Meera Syal, Lennie Godber, Vimto, Quadrophenia, Captain Peacock, Mark Steel, Tubbs, Wainwright, Barry Fry, the GLC, Bungle, John Le Mesurier, Jim Dale, Douglas Adams, Ben Sherman, roundabouts, Annie Besant, Chris Morris, Jim Hacker, mild, Russ Abbott, Jeremy Hardy, Ian McShane, soggy beer mats, Penelope Keith, Admiral, Oyster cards, Richard Briers, Wayne Curtis, hanging on in quiet desperation, Frankie Howerd, hot cross buns, Vivienne Westwood, chemists, Tony Gubba, Margaret Rutherford, Gola, Jake Thackray, the Knowledge, Big Ted, racing pigeons, eggnog, Blakey, Lord Byron, Scarborough Fair, Bagpuss, two up two downs, Timothy Claypole, the early swerve, Stan Smiths, a swift half, fried slice, Charlie Brooker, Shaun Edwards, chocolate cigarettes, Umbro, Josiah Wedgwood, Hornby Trains, Creation Records, Rod Hull, Stuart Hall, liquid lunches, Miss Moneypenny, punk, Les Dawson, Peter Crouch’s robot dance, Alfred Hitchcock, Eric Gates, Slipper of the Yard, Ironbridge, Alton Towers, Basil Fawlty, Willie Thorne, skittles, Bamber & Paul Gascoigne, Nicholas Parsons, Knutsford services, Jeremy Paxman, the Pankhurst sisters, Billericay, Delia & Mandy Smith, two jags, the Millenium Dome, Henry & Brian Moore, caravanning, El Tel, Vic Reeves, the millionaire Paul Daniels, antagonising David Blaine, Eltons John & Welsby, Howard Marks, Keith Alexander, Sid Waddell, Tracy Emin, Dr William Penny & Bruno Brooks, John Shuttleworth, 1-5.
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