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  1. worbod

    Any artist's heaviest track

    What are the heaviest songs you believe any artist has released? The songs do not have to be bordering on heavy metal, simply what you feel is the heaviest sound or strongest riff or loudest noise an artist put into one particular song. The artists don’t need to be artists who are associated...
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    Strange book titles

    I had to Google this person’s name to clarify the P-word was part of her name.
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    Bulldog cricket stats

    Another footy season is now upon us, but it would be fair to assume many of us also enjoy the summer game. I felt like creating a thread which shows some of the cricketing skills displayed by former Bulldog players over the years. Feel free to add any other names and stats you know about...
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    The strangest places where you have discovered money

    Most of us would have found random coins or notes on the streets or in a car park, or maybe in a store or around the house. The most unusual place I have discovered a decent amount of money occurred one day when I was going through one of my old tax envelopes from H and R Block. It had been five...
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    Fact Laurie Nash's football career

    Today is 35 years since Laurie Nash died. Recently I borrowed from a library the Laurie Nash biography from 1998 “The Great Laurie Nash” by Ned Wallish. In reading through Nash’s football journey I became interested in all the other football he played outside the VFL with South Melbourne. The...
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    Best raspy/screeching vocal performances

    Sorry if the title of the thread is a bit clumsy-sounding. They were the best adjectives I could come up with when I decided to create this thread. Hopefully the song examples I have included provide people with an understanding of what I am referring to. I was interested in putting together...
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    Cricketers and light entertainment TV

    With cricketers having a tradition of being high-profile people in Australia it was more or less inevitable that a fair percentage of them, more so during this century, would appear on television in various guises. Many have had a crack at presenting light entertainment or have been guests on...
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    John as a first name

    During some corona downtime I have discovered many well-known male identities whose birth name was John who then later used a different name as a celebrity. Some of these men’s names I already knew about but many of these discoveries surprised me. Perhaps it is the commonality of John which...
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    List Records & Bests - Teammates kicking 100 goals each (ex-fp discussion)

    This was one of my favourite Footypedia topics. Even though it was not an overly long thread, I am interested to see if anybody can add to it. Originally created by a poster known as Guest, this is the info collected so far relating to two teammates both kicking 100 goals in a season, listed...
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    Bulldog clerihews

    When watching one of the repeats of 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown recently, I discovered a new form of poetry known as a clerihew. A clerihew is basically a four-line poem about somebody famous. Here are two examples: Edgar Allen Poe Was passionately fond of roe. He always liked to chew some...
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    Casual mentions of Australia in films

    The Isolation Blues are leading me to try gathering some random info. I'm trying to discover movies in which Australia is mentioned but the mention of Australia is not crucial to the plot. For example: Educating Rita: Towards the end of the film Michael Caine tells Julie Walters he is being...
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    Opinion Top 5 players for each game range

    Something to discuss until next season begins for whoever is interested. It was hard to think of a succinct title for this thread, but you should understand once you start reading. Who are the five greatest players within each numerical game range? To begin, who are the five greatest players who...
  13. worbod

    Other great red, white and blue images

    Apart from this: Or any of our logos: Or even any of these related pictures: What other great red, white and blue images are there in life?
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    610 not out

    Has anybody ever heard of this innings played by an Australian batsman during the 1905-06 season? https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5003509/926570 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/174716737/19388248 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104771104...
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    Random cricket stats

    A number of Big Footy members may be familiar with the Football Statistics section within the Australian Football area of Big Footy at the top of the forums page. Within Football Statistics there is a thread titled Stats observations, which initially started out with the title "Post 5 random...
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    Fact Bob Hank's career

    These stats on Bob Hank's football career are taken from John Storer's 2007 book "The Records of the West Torrens Football Club". This is his season by season record for West Torrens. Season Games Goals Behinds Finals Finals goals Magarey votes 1945 16 9 2+ 3 2 20 1946 17 3...
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    Premiership timeline

    While re-watching the grand final DVD recently I noticed how often there was a digital clock visible in the background during play. There seems to be three digital time displays at the MCG, including on the major scoreboard, and this made me think about the possibility of putting an exact time...
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    List Players of the Year

    Inspired by the 1982-1990 Teams of the Year thread which can be viewed in this forum, I was intrigued to see on how many times 5, or on many occasions 6 Players of the Year have been selected by various VFL/AFL publications. The first mention I am aware of where Five Footballers of the Year...
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    The $21,000 incentive

    With no finals for the Bulldogs to play, I thought I'd create a thread relating to some better times. How many of you are old enough to remember the $21,000 incentive offered to Footscray to win its final three games of 1983? The money was put up by club sponsor Eastcoast Jeans. Footscray could...
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    Most goals kicked to reach 100

    When doing some research for the Most goals by a player in a game thread, I discovered some players who kicked big totals to achieve their century for the season, even though they were a long way from it when the game began. The record so far belongs to Greg Gadsden from Bears Lagoon-Serpentine...
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    Arise Sir Ringo

    In case all you Beatles fans haven't heard, Mr Richard Starkey is due for a particular recognition in the New Year's Honours https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5205347/beatles-ringo-starr-knighthood-sir/
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    Your second favourite grand final

    Apart from last year, which grand final have you most enjoyed watching? This may depend upon how many grand finals you have actually seen, or to put it another way, how old you are. I have seen some classic grand finals such as 1966, 1967 and 1970 on video/DVD, but I am considering only grand...
  23. worbod

    The Bangles 12 to 1

    As a teenage boy during the 1980s, The Bangles definitely caught my attention. I did learn to admire their music as well as their looks. I have decided to make this countdown a 12 to 1 and to make it relate to their 1980s catalogue only. This era is when they meant the most to me. I don’t feel...
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    Bulldogs stuff you own that you think probably no one else does

    Doesn’t have to be anything expensive, just anything old or rare you think perhaps nobody else or very few other Big Footy Bulldogs posters would have. If someone else does have it, that doesn’t really matter. This isn’t meant to showcase so much any recent premiership memorabilia, as somebody...
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    The Beatles 20 to 1 (non singles)

    This is my idea for a 20 to 1. It is designed to look at The Beatles' 20 best songs they never released as singles. In order to save myself too much time deliberating over which 20 songs to include, I have not chosen any songs which were B sides, and I have not chosen any of The Beatles’ cover...
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    The death of Andrew Sachs

    Have just heard it announced that Andrew Sachs has passed away in a nursing home at the age of 86. Best known to most Australians as Manuel in Fawlty Towers, he also appeared in Doctor Who and made guest appearances in Minder and Are You Being Served as well as appearing in a Mel Brooks film and...
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    The alliteration thread

    Dear Big Footy posters, Is there a looming likelihood we will willingly align to alliteration allegiance? Is it perchance possible for Big Footy participants to perpetually partake with planned panache? Can we cunningly concoct a crafty thread wherein each post constructed conforms to the...
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    Your favourite commentary of the finals campaign

    Inspired by the “Your favourite quarter of the finals campaign” thread. This has been developed from having watched various footage of our finals matches many times on YouTube over the past seven weeks. The commentators I have quoted are not my opinions of the best in the business, as obviously...
  29. worbod

    Cricket book dealers

    For all cricket book collectors out there, what are your most frequent sources? I have for many decades received Roger Page’s catalogue. He is Australia’s major cricket book dealer, based in Yallambie, Victoria. Recently though, when trying to access his website, rpcricketbooks.com, there is an...
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    Fact Largest grand final leads

    This is simply a listing of the biggest lead each team has had in the previous 50 grand finals. This is a list I became interested in compiling after discovering the vast majority of previous grand finals were on YouTube. It then became an exercise in how far back I could go without there being...

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