Thursday, September 23, 2004

LI

LI. The Sound Of Music was adapted from an unpublished poem by August Strindberg entitled I Pray For Death. Some liberties were taken with the original text.

XLVIII - L

XLVIII. Bean Factory, Oceans Of Lard, Pulmonary Fantastico, Towel Famine, and Twelve Bells For Helen were all names of horses running in the 1976 Grand National.

XLIX. Students undertaking Media Studies Degrees in UK Universities must first take a preliminary course in Barse/Banjo & Arse/Elbow Differentiation.

L. Bodie and Doyle, the crime-fighting duo of 1980s British television series The Professionals, were originally to be played by two large labradors until scriptwriters encountered dialogue problems.