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Join Helen and Bill on another adventure down the never ending internet rabbit hole as they somehow get from places with funny names to Cilla Black, via Levi's jeans and Albert Einstein.

Related Links:

Pennycomequick’s Wikipedia page: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennycomequick

Wetwang Village:

https://www.wetwang.org.uk/wetwang-history/

Croatia’s strangely named places:

https://www.croatiaweek.com/the-many-strange-place-names-of-croatia/

Fugging in Austria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

Shitterton, Dorset in Bournemouth Echo

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14515534.shitterton-doesnt-make-this-years-rudest-place-names-list-but-somewhere-in-dorset-does/

Albert Einstein’s leather jacket:

https://www.christies.com/features/5-minutes-with-Einsteins-leather-jacket-7510-1.aspx

Levi’s 1985 advert, starring Nick Kamen, featuring Marvin Gaye’s I Heard it Through the Grapevine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwG_wym3p68

Eddie Kidd vs Robbie Kneivel (Evel’s son) in 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSUn922fZLc

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder et al, A Toot and a Snore, 1974:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhTY-k5epD0

Cilla Black’s version of the Righteous Brothers’ You've Lost That Loving Feeling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0HaJcirCVI

Bad Finger perform Come And Get It, written by Lennon/McCartney:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOnbeNAxdU

Andrew Oldham’s advert in Melody Maker praising Phil Spector’s You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling:

https://spectropop.com/PPS/PPSpart3.htm


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