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The boy from Lapland part 1

Long long ago in the dark dim distant days of slim youth there lived a chap known to some of us as 'the boy from Lapland'-his first name was actually Trev...now The boy from Lapland was not actually from Lapland, but at that time this TV show was on called'The boy from Lapland'...now Trev look a liking to the theme tune, which developed into an obsession...he was a very keen golf player and was always on kenton school field, playing golf(always by himself) and would constantly sing this bloody tune whilst playing golf...you could here him bawling his head off on the field all over the estate, at all times of the day...he never tired of it...so whenever we saw him we would greet him not with 'hello Trev' but with'oy loy loy, loy loy loy, loy loy loy loy, loy loy loy loy,loy loy loy' which seem seemed to delight him...I never forgot this and whenever I saw him on occasion in a bar/in the street/in a supermarket etc over the next 35 years I would sing th

BAB Brendon Chase

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The blog received another incredulous post from the Anonymous Tortured Soul: 'I remember one summer...must have been 1981 the KBAB and NKAB had allied with the BAB in the war v the NHAB...for some reason we went down Blakelaw, and the BAB started to join us...as we walked down the horrible streets they all started whistling this theme tune..more and more of the BAB came out at the sound of the whistling, jumping over hedges and joining the entourage...they kept on whistling it, it getting louder and louder as more and more riff-raff joined the seething throng...it  was obviously a signal to muster the troops, bit like in West Side Story...'