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  • Genius Bonus: Any number of relatively obscure references, to everything from The Bible to Thomas Hardy to the history of English football.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: 'I Left My Heart In Papworth General' takes on a more sinister tone after the Jimmy Savile scandal.
    Stub out your King Edward and get that small boy off your knee
    And melt down your fingerwear and get yourself off my TV
    Jim, can you fix it for me
    To come down and suck out your kidneys?
    I've got this young brother, you see
    He wants to stay alive to watch Bilko...
    • Of course, this is probably the intention behind the song. Savile's crimes were an open secret.
  • Signature Song: Either "Joy Division Oven Gloves" or "National Shite Day".

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