I think with questions like that they need to impose some criteria to limit the number of songs that can be named to no more than 3, otherwise it takes too long for Ken to read out all the possible acceptable answers!
Though it's unlucky for you that you were able to name a less-well-known hit.
Thank you. I've been missing St Clements hot cross buns since Booths stopped doing that flavour. I will try to find a Lidl before Easter!
nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
Thanks: that was just enough hint!
Also, I knew the Kaizer Chiefs' country but not their city, so now I have a way of remembering that.
The ‘lunchtime walk’ was to deliver somebody else's post that had arrived with ours this morning. Please don't get the impression I routinely go out for exercise or anything.
I returned from a lunchtime walk to learn that 14352 files had successfully been renamed, based on their contents.
New #Bash utility: ~/bin/count — monitor a long-running command's output live in the terminal, and also get a count of the number of lines at the end.
cmd | count
Basically like running cmd | wc -l but not losing the output.
#!/bin/bash
tee >(wc -l)
Tavares chart listings, showing ‘Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel’ at 4; ‘Don't take Away The Music’ also at 4; ‘Mighty Power Of Love’ at 25; ‘Whodunit’ at 5; ‘One Step Away’ at 16; and ‘More Than A Woman’ at 7
‘Mighty Power of Love’ only got to number 25. The question asked for top-10 hits, so “Ken's rules” were right in this case. #PopMaster
Well done your 33, though — way better than my 21!
I used to not have WhatsApp because I don't have a smartphone.
I now suspect that I don't have a smartphone so that I can avoid WhatsApp.
(Please email me instead.)
Good luck! I think I only know their cover of ‘I Will Survive’.
I once was at a gig where the support act were called Cheap Hotel. I would gladly have seen them again … but they were completely unsearchable owing to the sheer number of actual hotels SEOing to the max about how cheap they are!
A train plan with most seats in green, including all 4 round 1 table and plenty of pairs of adjacent 2s; highlighted in blue are a pair of seats facing one way, one aisle seat in the row behind (with the window seat already taken) — and an aisle seat at the other end of the carriage, facing the other way
Booking 4 train tickets on a @trainsplit.com-powered site. Of all the available seats (in green), it's chosen these 4 for us (blue) — which one of us does it think should sit by themselves?
I remember paying £2·99 with those envelopes which dropped out of weekend newspapers and junk mail.
Here's one which was £3·49 including being sent a new roll of film with your prints: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25646502... (second-bottom pic for prices)
Oh, no! Ours did lots of other stuff, including a fantastic leavers' musical, but the Sats did seem to get in the way of things which were actually useful/fun/life-affirming.
At least you get to avoid being sad at it ending. I blubbed even on getting the email about the last-day arrangements!
Same — also 27, and also happy with it! #PopMaster
I hope the teachers appreciate that, and he manages to keep his spark despite the rigidity of the school system.
That's almost certainly a better answer than whatever the examiner was expecting. It's unarguable: there's no point in doing emergency drills other than people not wanting to die.
Best wishes for the Sats. So glad that is behind us. It felt such a distraction!
Brilliant! I love the pasta answer, too.
A piece of key stage 2 work on relative clauses where a 9 year old has pencilled in some answers.
Some of 9yo's home school work today is working on relative clauses. He had to finish the sentence 'JK Rowling is a famous author who...' and he finished it with 'is very transphobic'.
Puzzled Pint March 2026 — Escape Room When Tuesday March 10, 2026 Check your preferred location for times Where Solve the puzzle to display locations!
Have fun! I'm presuming that's the Horseferry Road in London (with Channel 4 on it), but that address could possibly do with something bigger than a road yet smaller than a country!
I'm also about to meet nerds in a pub — in my case, Puzzles nerds: puzzledpint.com
It was the group Alan Price formed after leaving The Animals. They had 4 top-10 hits. I saw them live in 2012.
The band featured Zoot Money on keyboards; when he crops up in questions, Ken always pronounces his name like “money” but Alan Price consistently said it as “M'nay”. #PopMaster
True, but it still might be expedient of a politician to claim to be listening to those views and that better leadership will help, cos that might be less hassle than saying the opposite!
Cheap oil allows us to grow huge crops and transport them around the world, trading (inedible) oil calories for delicious edible calories.
When the price of oil goes up, the price of food goes up way higher. Crops become more expensive to grow, fertilize, spray, harvest, transport, refrigerate.
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An *Aston* Fox should only appear in the lower-third of photos...
Screenshot of the sentence "I shall look into what that didn't happen this time," with purple dots under "look into" and the words highlighted in lilac; a pop-up menu has "Conciseness" as its first item, with a sub-menu saying "More concise language would be clearer for your reader" followed by the suggestion "investigate"
Outlook objecting to my using the phrase “look into”, telling me to be more concise ... and then suggesting instead to use “investigate”, which is longer!
artwork of a frog on a unicycle, made out of metal parts, and mounted on a wall with a colourful background
A bright yellow lemon on a pale blue background, with newspaper-style cut-out letters stuck on it spelling out ‘Feeling Sorry for Celia’, a book my Jaclyn Moriarty
Hints and explanations for today's Telegraph #CrypticCrossword are here: bigdave44.com/2026/03/09/d... — along with this frog, my favourite New Order Song, the Roger Stevens Building, a snake hiding in a log, and a completely unrelated book review.
DM if you want a gift link to the puzzle.
Ah, thanks. John replied between my leaving a tab open with your message to investigate, and my actually replying several hours later!
Oh, I thought I'd read The Telegraph say somewhere (centenary celebrations? puzzles newsletter?) they've been doing quickie puns since the 1960s, but I now can't find it, so maybe I misremembered.
This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got.
Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean?
Last line is especially ominous
My all-time favourite is Amy Housewine.
Arctic Numpties Debut Album 20th Anniversary Show Friday 27 November 2026 at 7:30pm Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
I do like it when a covers-band name requires no further explanation:
