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swittle Dec 2020 9:56am, 18 Dec 2020 70,952 posts	0 swittle Jeremy Bulloch, who played 'Boba Fett' in 2 'Star Wars' films, has died, aged 75. bbc.co.uk
McGoohan Dec 2020 9:58am, 18 Dec 2020 47,736 posts	0 McGoohan The Neil Diamond song 'Cracklin Rosie' is about a bottle of wine and not a woman who, for example, likes a pork roast. 'You're a store-bought woman' makes a lot more sense now.
GlennR Dec 2020 10:04am, 18 Dec 2020 54,711 posts	0 GlennR Love it.
Ocelot Spleens Dec 2020 9:41am, 19 Dec 2020 29,395 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens I knew that. Was Diamond a drinker?
Nicholls595 Dec 2020 9:51am, 19 Dec 2020 23,095 posts	0 Nicholls595 Double Diamond
McGoohan Dec 2020 9:55am, 19 Dec 2020 47,760 posts	0 McGoohan Diamond White
McGoohan Dec 2020 9:57am, 19 Dec 2020 47,761 posts	0 McGoohan I also found out that Sweet Caroline was written for his wife Marcia. He spent ages trying to come up with a rhyme for Marcia before giving up and settling on Caroline instead. Sweet Marcia Don't get any arsier
Serendippily Dec 2020 12:11pm, 19 Dec 2020 20,026 posts	0 Serendippily Sweet Marcia The grass just gets grassier You are not My hamartia
ChrisHB Dec 2020 12:16pm, 19 Dec 2020 20,273 posts	0 ChrisHB Wouldn't she be pronounced Marsha? (Impressed by hamartia though it is cruel if it means what I think it does).
Serendippily Dec 2020 12:20pm, 19 Dec 2020 20,027 posts	0 Serendippily (I shamelessly acquired it from google who said: Aristotle introduced the term in the Poetics to describe the error of judgment which ultimately brings about the tragic hero's downfall. I think not being an error of judgement is a good thing)