but who would really wear that?

I've ordered it, and plan on wearing it.

I don't wear the "Fuck You, You're Irish" in William of Orange, which seemed like a good idea at the time, but...

Don't forget "Oxonians" (A native or inhabitant of Oxford).

My personal favourite isn't English though: Monégasque for someone from Monaco, anybody?

Can I just go OT and ask Paul what wax/product (if any) he uses on his 'tache - or do they just grow like that?

I'm growing mine at the moment and have one that goes up and one that goes down. So not a good look.

The difference between Franz Ferdinand and AC/DC is that AC/DC's riffs never seems to get stale.

Ding! Which is why I have about 10 hours of AC/DC in my collection, and only 45 minutes of Franzizzle Ferdinizzle.

And I'm totally not buying there only being a gradual change in the music of say, The Beatles or The Beach Boys, that's total hossshit. The difference between Yesterday and Helter Skelter is not gradual, it is radical. The difference between singing about surfing over Chuck Berry riffs and making music that was at the vanguard of American psychedelia at the time is not gradual. I get the point you're trying to make, but those aren't good examples.

There is a lot on The Darkness' second album that sounds like the first, they were just unafraid to experiment with different instrumentation, which is how you develop as an artist. Like when Pete Townshend programmed Meher Baba and Terry Riley's vital statistics into an ARP synthesizer to create Baba O'Riley. Although of course there's no difference between that and, say, Substitute.

Artists whose second albums did not suck:

Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
Kevin Rowland - My Beauty
The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell ...And Back
Kenickie -  Get In
Mogwai - Come On Die Young

In the UK very few people know of Calvin and Hobbes so these stickers are not prevalent.

They're becoming more common, particularly in the football domain. Gillingham fans can buy a Calvin pissing on a Millwall shirt, and vice versa.

* Why is there a giant picture of what appears to be Ralph Macchio in Ray's bathroom?

It's a Patrick Nagel, or an Onstad does Nagel. Think "Rio" by Duran Duran. A key signifier of the '80s. Pat Bateman probably has one on his wall.

Oh, hi. Long time reader first time poster, love the show.