#the funky gibbon

[macaron-vents]

Next time I ask fp if he loves me I hope that instead of pullung off his signature “not allowed to share that information because of the voices” spin, I hope he dances around the question in a more interesting-ly-er (word) way.

I want him to see him do the bloody Charleston, the conga, the one that hokes and pokes and quite possibly cokes, the Carioca, the Suzie Q, the hopscotch, the sock hop, the SECCOM MASADA SENSEI?! hop, the Freddy (fazbear?) the hully gully, the letkajenkka, the sprinkler, the tragedy(?), the grinding(? He does that a lot I think) the wig wam bam, the funky gibbon! the cabbage patch, the humpty dance, the roger rabbit, the algorithm match, the purge march (Amane reference), the month of march, the cha cha - possibly of the slide variety (real smooth), the one with the bear, caramelldansen (balsamic vinegar style), the lobotomy, LUKA LUKEWARM NIGHT FEVER! the whip nae nae, I need not to see him dab, the creep, the crepe, the wobble, the shake, the month of february, gangnam style, the floss, I need not to see him skibidi, EVERYTHING FROM FORTNITE, the WORM IN WHICH I WOULD INDEED STILL LOVE HIM, from ABC to YMCA to HOTTOGO to LOLXD YOU NAME IT HE’LL DO IT ANYTHING OTHER THEN CARING AT ALL HE WILL

THE VOICES CAN JOIN IN TOO!

Look. Least I’m not asking him to recite the bible in Japanese. And the yeehaw skinny white boy can actually speak Japanese. And probably not breathe simultaneously.

[gordonsgano]

Almost Live is such a g-d tier episode of The Goodies idk why the IMDB rating is so low

[denniswilsonzine]

Need to find which box I stuffed Coppy into so I can take photos for zine promo.

(promo photo of Coppy stolen off a random tumblr)

Have actual photos on my phone of Coppy in & out of it's box etc, maybe even sat on my printer lol but not with any other props/items. Probably should photograph that longarmed stapler with my zine backlog / some zine related stuff before it goes bye-bye too.

Yes I bought a Coppy figure thing on preorder (and the virtual badge) just so I could make visual zine related photocopier jokes. Totally missed the whole actual Clippy parody april fools tumblr thing but he's my zine mascot now.

I'm totally Schrodinger's zinester: got my (unused for nearly 20 years) long-armed stapler, a dymo label printer, a box semi full of identical rusty old zines, & several files and print outs of work in progress but no new zines (unless you count the one from last year).

[yharnamesque]

DESPERATELY resisting the urge to get Shadow of the Erdtree now instead of later like I originally planned.............

[doctors-star]

tagged by dearest @duskodair duskest of dairs (?)

last song: funky gibbon by the goodies. context to follow.

last book: just picked up the fashion in shrouds by margery allingham; last one finished was the light fantastic by terry pratchett.

last movie: no time to die. suitably silly.

last tv show: top of the pops from the seventies (there's the context).

sweet/savoury/spicy: largely savoury.

relationship status: i have many and diverse ones.

last thing i looked up: the weather forecast. the promised snow is yet to manifest.

current obsession: having a slight bond moment, with shades of acgas and holmes

looking forward to: wassail on monday, conclave on tuesday!

tagging @silvermagpies @breadcrumbsandstars @gr1d

[all-action-all-picture]

A Sez Dez editorial column from January 1980 on three of the British artists working for Marvel UK - Dave Funky Gibbons, Steve Sheriff Dillon and Stoic John Stokes. I think the Nick Fury story, with art by Dillon, that appeared in Hulk Comic is the only one of the UK originated strips never to have been reprinted.

[fitz-fool]

Thanks for tagging me @amethystamaranth!! I'm finally out of exam hell so after much soul-searching:

Fantaisie-impromptu (Chopin): x

Impromptu Op. 142 D. 935 no.4 (Schubert): x

Toccata (Schumann): x

ZUNG ZUNG FUNKY MUSIC (Orange Range): x (slight departure from genre lol)

Fantaisie (Chopin): x

O Clap Your Hands (Gibbons) : x

O freudenreicher Tag (Fuchs): x

La Campanella (Liszt): x

Tagging @filteredred @musicainextenso @shadows-echoes @toofrenchtofunction @ninemagicks and anyone who feels like it!

[inquisitorius-sin-bin]

Here, have some gibbons hugging 💙

Thank you very much gibbons are my favorite apes! I love their funky long arms and hands

Siamangs are also great, like gibbons with a frog update

[lighthousenewsnetwork]

Prince Harry attended the royal coronation of his father to honor him, but he says that upon reflection, he would have preferred to have stayed in America and taken his family to eat at The La Brea Tar Pits Diner. The Prince, who is a big fan of The Goodies, was keen to visit the La Brea Tar Pits Diner as surviving members Bill Oddie, 81, and Graham Garden, 80, were due to appear as part of their live-stage revival world tour. Tim Brooke-Taylor, who sadly passed away in 2020, has been seamlessly replaced by William Shatner, 92, to appeal more to the American audience. The show is set to feature high-speed trandem chases through the audience and a critically acclaimed spoken-word rendition of The Funky Gibbon by Shatner. Harry's wife, the stunningly gorgeous Meghan Markle, is a huge admirer of Shatner and wouldn't miss the show, even if King Charles offered her $200,000 in cash to attend his coronation. At the coronation, tensions were high between Harry and his brother William. Harry says that he came close to punching out Prince William's lights when he told him he had thrown away his Goodies duvet cover while clearing out Frogmore Cottage. SIDENOTE: Harry noted that he hates the way his step-mum, Camilla Parker Bowles, snubbed him at the coronation. He disparagingly told the press that he thinks the queen consort's facelift makes her look like Sylvester Stallone in a wig. https://lighthousenewsnetwork.com/prince-harry-son-of-king-charles-iii-says-he-was-snubbed-by-the-royal-family-and-he-will-never-set-foot-in-england-again/?feed_id=12824&_unique_id=677fd79cb5a92

[rastronomicals]

9:08 AM EST January 4, 2025:

ZZ Top - "Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings" From the album Fandango! (April 18, 1975)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Three Sides Live was a double album that was only 3/4 live. Ummagumma was a double album that went half and half, as it included two sides of studio stuff with the other disc being live recordings.

The Yes Album and The Joker had one live song mixed in with new studio recordings. But Fandango! is the only album that I can think of that's a) one disc with b) one side live, one side studio. Gibbons said "[i]t turned out to be a winning combination for us" and I have to guess so.

[rosiewitchescottage]

Two childhood memories in one here.

The Goodies had a part sitcom part comedy sketch show, and they also released songs like this one. 'Funky Gibbon' is the most famous. And they did a version of 'Wild Thing'.

They're performing here on a super popular BBC children's show called Crackerjack.

Friday at Five to Five!

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning!  I hope you slept well and feel rested?  Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.  Welcome to the weekend!

Wow!  Here we are again: Friday!  Where did that week go?  No, seriously, where did that week go?

I spent much of my childhood and teenage years in North London but I never visited Highgate Cemetery.  Maybe, back then, it wouldn’t have meant much to me?  Now, I can appreciate it.  More a mystical, magical forest than a graveyard.  From the accents around us, visitors had come from all around the world and, for many, this is one of the reasons to come to London  

Yesterday, me and old family friend Evan Alboum spent a few hours there.  As it happens, when he was young and living in London, he visited there often.

It’s quite a remarkable place.  Graves of every shape and size, ostentatious graves, humble, modest graves, stylish graves, catacombs and mausoleums and, as you may or may not know, lots of talented people are buried there: Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (better known as George Michael), musician Bert Jansch, actress Jean Simmons, actors Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm, Alan Howard and Roger Lloyd-Pack, footballer Ugo Ehiogu, painter Lucian Freud, writers Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, Alan Sillitoe, Anthony Shaffer, Peter Shaffer, Andrea Levy and Beryl Bainbridge, artist manager Malcolm McLaren, comedian Max Wall, noted academic Stuart Hall and, of course, political philosopher Karl Marx.  Well worth a visit! 

Hope you can join me tomorrow at 1.00 p.m. for ‘The A-Z Of Mi-Soul Music’.  The Letter A (Pt. 6).  No executive producer, just me playing with myself.  No more executive producers until The Letter B (Pt. 1).

Straight after the show, I’ll be jumping on a train and heading to The White Lion on Streatham High Road.  Looking forward to spinning tunes with my brother Shaq D.     

Have a fabulous & funky Friday!  I love you all.  You’re probably thinking, “You don’t even know me!” but, if people can hate for no reason, why can’t I love?

[limetimo]

I've got 23 - not counting hamlet and wardrobe because of the above. Whoever made that list should think again

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen mum loves it

2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein both my parents love it reading tolkien was not a choice

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte mum loves it

4 Harry Potter series my blobros

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible i read a couple pages

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell for school, liked it

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens I TRIED I HATED I DROPPED IT

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller good read

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare i read a couple does that count

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye sorta reading it rn

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams classic, loved it

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky picked it up in the right moment of my life (for school), go you funky lil mess of a wet cat man

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll didnt like it

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis all of them

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis why is this one separate from the other chronicles

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne mum loved it and so did we

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell read it for school liked it

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez it was ling and weird and made me feel Things but it was ok

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert dad loves it i liked it

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 it was alright

A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck I CRY EVERY TIME

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens read it for school, fucking hated the little twerp and the ending, wished he would die.

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker turns out i dont like emails very much :/

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome i read like 15 ransome books my dad loved him and so do i

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert dont remember if i read it or just learned at it at school

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery liked it better the second time

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams i dont think i could stomch it nowadays id get upset and cry. Preteen me didn't get the brutality like what is this, the hunger games??

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare why is this separate from other shskespeare fhkh

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl and matilda and the fantastic mr fox and--

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo i read the hunchback tho does that count

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[widthtomjones]

group 3 of the mega tournament

group 2 here

please reblog after voting