Springwatch versus The Manic Street Preachers
Post categories: Springwatch
|11:33 UK time, Monday, 20 June 2011
Eagle-eared pop fans amongst you might have noticed Chris Packham shoehorning Manic Street Preacher song titles into this year's Springwatch. He has form in this respect. Last Springwatch it was The Cure, the year before it was The Smiths.
For a bit of fun we edited all (we think) the Manics references together in the video below (though in the spirit of disclosure it seems fair to say we were beaten to it by a bunch of very keen fans of the Welsh rockers.) Great minds and all that...
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At 13:00 20th Jun 2011, Ranger_Parus wrote:It's not unusual to have fun with anyone.
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At 14:40 20th Jun 2011, Harry wrote:That is very funny. Also funny is The Essex Herald version of Pitsea springwatch.
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At 19:40 20th Jun 2011, Wildlife Filmer Adam wrote:Chris Packham = genius!!
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At 10:51 21st Jun 2011, davmcn wrote:Shouldn't that be the Manic Stweet Pweachers?
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At 11:33 21st Jun 2011, janeg wrote:It was said on Springwatch that ospreys hadn't nested in Wales for 400 years. In 2009 we visited a site just east of Pothmadog, probably Tan-y-bulch, where a pair of ospreys had just returned to their nest. Obviously they had been there before. It was not a new nest. This was at the end of March. It was called The Osprey Project. We couldn't find out any more about this and assumed that the nesting had failed. Do you know anything about this?
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At 12:27 22nd Jun 2011, Fairfax43 wrote:The breeding pair of ospreys near Porthmadog (known as the Glaslyn site) have raised 12 young 2005-10. The nest near Machynlleth is the second breeding pair in Wales.
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At 12:53 22nd Jun 2011, Mark wrote:Chris knows his stuff when it comes to wildlife but lets be honest here he's definitely a mad bugger ;)
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At 00:18 23rd Jun 2011, Heather Corfield wrote:The breeding pair of Ospreys near Porthmadog have in fact raised 15 fledged young to date (2005 to 2010). This year there is a further three young in the nest, ready to fledge very soon. There was another breeding pair of Ospreys near Welshpool in 2004, they succesfully raised one chick that year. This was the first known record of a Welsh born chick for over two hundred years.
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At 13:11 23rd Jun 2011, Horwood Beer-Master wrote:Don't blame Chris, he's just Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll.
Springwatch is surely the Epicentre of the TV year, I can't wait for the team to return later in the year for their Autumnsong.
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At 00:41 24th Jun 2011, MartinNW3 wrote:Please, there is no definite article in the band's name - it's simply "MANIC STREET PREACHERS".
Sorry to be such a saddo! :-)
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At 12:43 24th Jun 2011, colintron wrote:I'm pretty sure he said 'Yes', 'Emily' and maybe 'Yourself' in the series too!
Having compiled the Smiths lot for YouTube and being a Manics devotee, I was very vigilant, but 'Little Baby Nothing' eluded me until this compilation! Brilliant.
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At 19:55 7th Aug 2011, kayos wrote:having viewed the many great pictures posted on Summerwatch,
it seems that many of us take the same subject?
How would it be if say 10 pictures of a heron or badger or butterly or orchid could be shown towards the end of each programme?
Thanks
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At 20:42 7th Aug 2011, kayos wrote:oops wrong place good idea? sorry
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