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Here is this list for the "Drabble Challenge: 1-150", They are many (sorry), but you can mix several in the same story, right?It's just that I can not stand with just a few ideas, I would love to read them all :P, and several of these not only imagine them with Rae and Finn, I love it when the gang is involved :P so, these are the numbers: 10, 12, 17, 29, 41, 45, 49, 55, 58!!!!, 68, 73, 76, 93, 99, 128, 132, 148, 149. Thank you girl, you are the best!

Hello, my dear! Let’s just pretend that ithasn’t been 3 months since you sent me this ask request and I’m barely gettingaround to posting this now, alright? Cool! Now that we have that allsettled…for this story, I chose three of the prompts you suggested off ofthis list (#58, 68, and 76) and put them all into one story…I hope you enjoy! :)

(Side note: This story takes place in like2005/2006 but it’s safe to assume that most of the events leading up to thoseyears happened canonically as they did in the show itself.)

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The final notes of “Seven Nation Army” by TheWhite Stripes faded out as the song ended and the radio DJ sat up in his chairto transition to the next thing on the agenda for today’s show.

“Hello, ladies, gentlemen, and all you cool catsout there who know sound music when ya hear it! I’m Mad Matt and you’relistening to Mad Matt in the Morning on this lovely Saturday morning. If you’rejust tuning in to the show as you get your morning started, I have quite thesurprise for all of you listeners out there right after this commercial break,so go get yourself a cuppa and some toast and hurry back to your radio…you’renot gonna wanna miss this.”

After the short commercial break, Matt glancedover to the large window where his producer was sitting on the opposite sideoutside of the studio, waiting for his cue to begin talking.

“Welcome back to Mad Matt in the Morning! I knowI’ve been hinting at my surprise for you guys all week and I’ve been trying tokeep it a secret, but some of you callers seem to have already guessed what Ihad up my sleeve…well no matter…today in the studio we are so lucky to havean amazing and talented music producer from Lincolnshire. Please join me inwelcoming the one, the only…Finn Nelson!”

The radio DJ pressed the cheers and applausebuttons on the effects board in front of him as he shifted his focus over thetowards chair on the other side of the studio that has been occupied since thecommercial break.

“Hello, it’s such an honor to have ya on theshow this morning!” Matt said into the microphone with his body angled towardFinn in his desk chair.

“Good morning, Matt! It’s such a pleasure to behere!”

“Nonsense! The pleasure is all mine, Finn! Howare you this morning?”

“I’m alright. It’s a bit earlier than I’m usedto, but I’ll manage,” Finn replied with a slight chuckle.

“Wonderful! So I’m fairly certain that unlessyou’ve been living under a rock, everyone and their mums knows the name ‘FinnNelson’, but could you just give me a brief introduction about yourself, Finn?”

“Uh, yeah, of course…let’s see, I’m FinnNelson. I grew up in Stamford but I’ve been living in London for almost 5 yearsnow. I produce and record music professionally and sometimes when I have thetime or opportunity, I do a bit of DJing.”

“Thank you for that, Finn. In case the listenersout there aren’t aware, Finn is also very humble and has definitely downplayedhis talents and successes.”

Finn chuckled and shrugged, a motion that Mattknew was a subconscious response, since the gesture would not be picked up byany of the radio show listeners.

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but in the span ofonly a few short years, you’ve gone from a college student to an amateur DJ toa very popular DJ to one of the most successful independent music producers inLondon…all by the age of..?”

“Uh, I’m 28 right now.”

“Bloody hell, you’ve accomplished all that andyou’re not even 30 yet! Where did all of this start? Did ya just wake up onemorning and decide that you wanted to take the music world by storm or..?”

“Pretty much! No, I’m just joking, but I feellike I’m so lucky to be where I am right now, but I feel like I was alwaysgonna do something in music.”

“How so?” Matt asked, nodding for Finn toproceed with the story.

“Well, since I was a boy, I loved music andlistening to records with my da and Nan. I was never too good in school, but Iwas just there because everyone else was there. When I finished with college, Iworked days at a garage repairing cars and I had a friend of a friend thatwould DJ at some of the raves I went to and he offered to teach me a thing ortwo…

“I picked up on it all fairly quickly and beforelong I was getting my own DJing gigs at raves and clubs in the city.

“I moved from Stamford to Bristol for a fewyears and I kept DJing on a more regular basis, but in my spare time I begancreating music and recording some of the stuff I was creating,” Finn said,stopping the recounting of his life story for a moment while gathering histhoughts.

“I hate to butt in, but do you mean to tell methat you’re self-taught for producing music?” Matt asked when there was anatural pause in Finn’s story.

“Yeah! I liked playing music and when I startedmaking music I liked that too. At my DJing gigs I began playing some of myoriginal music and I started gaining popularity for it.

“One night after a gig I was approached by amusic producer that was trying to create a recording label of collaborativeartists and producers…He was starting this thing from the ground and he wasvery candid and told me that it was very likely that the label would be a flop,but if it worked it would give me full control of what music I was creating andhelp me get my music out there in a more formal sense.

“I wasn’t sure if I should take the risk, butsomeone that I care very deeply for convinced me that it was worth a shot, soless than a month later I was relocating my entire life from Bristol to Londonto help Jay and a few other artists such as myself to build this label up fromthe ground…and by some miracle, it worked!

“The label gained popularity quite quickly andnow here I am…living in London with my family, producing music, and gettingpaid to listen to music all day. I’m basically living 17 year old Finn’sbiggest dream!”

Finn and Matt chuckled at the conclusion ofFinn’s story when Matt looked up to see that his producer was giving him thecue to move onto the next thing that was planned, for the sake of time.

“That’s incredible! We’re gonna take a break andplay some music for a bit, but when we come back, we’re gonna take somequestions from listeners that are calling in. So Finn, would you care to do thehonors and introduce this next song?”

“Uh, yeah, sure! I’ve been a massive fan of thisband since I was a teenager and I still love them today, this is ‘BeverlyHills’ from Weezer,”

“And we’re out!” Matt said as the ON AIR signbeside the studio door went dim and he removed the headphones from over hisears.

Finn removed his own headphones as well and satback in his chair, away from the microphones on the large recording desk infront of him.

“Great job so far, Finn! We have about 10minutes before we’re back on the air, so you’re welcome to walk around, use thetoilet, and grab a snack…whatever you’d like to do for the next few minutes.”

“Great, thank you!”

“Hiya Matt, Dan wants to speak to you when youhave the chance—oh! Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt. Is now a good time?”

“No need to apologize, Bella, we just went offthe air. I’ll go chat with Dan right now. Can you go grab a couple waterbottles for Finn and me and bring them in here for when we’re back on the air?”

“Absolutely! I’ll be right back!” Bella noddedbefore quickly turning around and leaving the studio toward the long hallway onthe left.

“Heh, sorry about that. That’s Bella, one of ournew interns. She’s lovely and great at her job, but she can be a bit nervouswhen we have guests in the studio. She’d never admit to it, but I think she’s apretty big fan of yours,” Matt explained as he stood from his seat and grabbedhis cell phone from the studio desk beside him.

“A fan…of me? Wow, I’m flattered!” Finnreplied quietly.

Matt left the studio and Finn remained seated inhis chair, spinning idly in his desk chair out of boredom.

A few minutes later, Finn heard the door to thestudio open suddenly and jumped in surprise as he used his foot against thedesk as a brake to stop the movement of his chair.

“Oh! You surprised me!”

“Sorry! I was just bringing in the waters thatMatt asked for. Do you need anything else while I’m here, Mr. Nelson?” Bellaasked nervously as she placed the water bottles on the desk and retreated backtowards the studio door just as Matt walked back into the studio and sat backdown in his chair.

“Mr. Nelson makes me sound like an old man, youcan just call me Finn. And no, I think I’m alright, thank you!” Finn repliedwith a polite smile.

Bella smiled and nodded at Finn and Matt beforeturning away to open the door of the studio.

As soon as she opened the door, a young boy raninto the studio, dodging past Bella’s legs.

“Daddy!”

The young boy ran clumsily towards Finn and Finnquickly picked him up and placed him onto his lap.

“I’m so sorry, Matt. It looks like we may havefound ourselves a runaway,” Finn joked.

“No need to apologize! Who is this adorablelittle guy?”

“I’m Ian!” The boy replied with a wide grin.

“This is my son. He was supposed to be waitingin the lobby with his mum, but it looks like he managed to slip away from her,”Finn replied with a chuckle as he used a hand to tousle his son’s shaggy brownhair.

“Mummy said I could get a snack, butdaddy…guess what they have? Chocolate biscuits!” the boy exclaimed with awein his eyes as he opened his small palm to show his dad the half-eatenchocolate biscuit he was holding.

“Oh, you know how much your daddy loveschocolate biscuits! You still shouldn’t have ran away from mummy though, she’sprobably worried sick trying to find you right now!”

“I was a bit worried at first,” replied a voicefrom the doorway as a tall, curvy woman walked into the studio, “but then Ijust followed the trail of biscuit crumbs left behind and it led me right toyou!”

“Mummy!” the young boy called as his mumapproached him and lifted him from his dad’s lap and settled him on one of herhips.

“Sorry if this little rascal disturbed youguys,” the boy’s mum said as she gave Matt an apologetic smile.

“No need to apologize, we’re on a break rightnow, so it didn’t interrupt anything. He’s adorable, by the way. How old ishe?”

“I’m this many years old!” the young boy said ashe held up both hands with his all his chubby fingers extended fully.

“He’sfour years old,” his mum replied with a chuckle, “Sorry for not introducingmyself properly. I’m Finn’s wife, Rae!”

“It’s lovely to meet you, Rae! I’m Matt as in‘Mad Matt in the Morning’”

“Yeah, I’m a big fan of your show! I’m so happyto finally meet you!”

“Mummy…can we go now?” the small boy whinedquietly as he wrapped his arms around Rae’s neck and rested his head on hershoulder.

“Almost baby boy…Daddy just needs to finishthis and then we can go,”

“But daddy promised!”

“I know I promised you, Buddy, but I’m almostdone here. I pinky promise!”

“Aw, is the little guy getting tired?” Mattasked as he offered Ian another chocolate biscuit from the packet on his desk.

“Probably, yeah,” Rae replied as she used a handto gently stroke the back of her son’s head as he nibbled on the biscuit.

“Ian wasn’t happy to see me leaving early thismorning for the show today, so I made a deal with him that if he came with meto the show and was a good boy, we’d go to the zoo afterwards,” Finn explainedas he gazed affectionately at his young son cuddled up in the arms of his wife.

“Oh, I see! Well in that case,” Matt turnedtowards Ian and offered him the last biscuit in the packet, “I will try to makesure that your Daddy finishes up as quickly as possible so he can keep hispromise to take you to the zoo!”

The young boy perked up slightly and grinnedwidely.

“That’s very nice of Matt to do, don’t youthink, Ian? What do you say when someone does something nice for you?”

“Thank you, Matt!” Ian exclaimed.

“You’re welcome, little guy! It’s almost timefor your Daddy and I to go back on the radio, but what do you say to sittingwith my friend Dan on the other side of the window over there and watching usfrom there? He has lots of fun buttons and switches that I’m sure he will letyou press if you ask him nicely,”

“Yes, please!”

Dan walked through the door of the studio andsmiled at Rae and Ian.

“Good morning! I’m Dan, you two can follow me ifyou’d like and I’ll be happy to let little Ian here be my assistant for therest of the show, if he wants to, that is…”

Ian’s eyes lit up and he began squirming againstRae’s hip with excitement.

“I guess that’s my cue to leave too,” Rae saidas she walked over to Finn and leaned down to give him a quick peck on thelips, “I’ll be watching from just the other side of the window, so try not tomess up too badly,” Rae joked as she pulled away from the kiss.

“I’ll see you in a bit, my love,” Finn repliedwith a smile as Rae and Ian walked out of the studio and closed the door behindthemselves.

“Alright, Finn! The break is just wrapping upnow, are you ready to take some listener’s calls?”

“Yeah, that sounds good to me!”

Finn and Matt sat back down in their chairs andplaced their headphones over their ears as soon as they saw Dan on the oppositeside of the glass giving them a countdown before pointing at the switch for Ianto flip that turned the ON AIR sign back on.

“Hello, hello and welcome back to ‘Mad Matt inthe Morning’! I am Mad Matt coming at you live and in the studio with the oneand only Finn Nelson!”

“Good morning! I’m so glad to be here!” Finnadded conversationally.

“In case any of you listeners are just tuning innow, Finn started off the show by giving us a bit of a run-down of how he rosefrom an average college student in Stamford to a very well-known London musicproducer, and wow! What a great story that was!

“I said that when we came back Finn and I wouldbe taking some calls from listeners, so if you have any questions or commentsfor either of us, you know what to do! While we are waiting for the calls tocome in, I really need to tell you all about the cutest thing that happenedduring our short break,”

“Oh geez,” Finn chuckled lightly under hisbreath as Matt looked over at Finn and then at Rae and Ian where they sat onthe opposite side of the window.

“While we were on break, I had the pleasure ofmeeting Finn’s adorable young son, Ian, and his lovely wife and I have to saythat you have a beautiful little family, Finn.”

“Thank you very much! My family is my everythingand I know that I wouldn’t be where I am today without them—especially withoutmy wife, Rae, since she has and always will be my biggest supporter and I cannever thank her enough.”

“How long have you and Rae been together?”

“We met one summer before college when I was 17and before long we were dating. We stayed together for the rest of college andI moved with her when she was attending Uni in Bristol. After she graduated wegot married and moved to London and a little less than two years later Ian wasborn. Ever since I met her, my life has been so much happier and even now, 11years later, I’m so thankful for the first time that I asked Rae to go bowlingwith me and she was foolish enough to agree!”

Finn looked up at Rae through the window in timeto see Rae smile and blow him a kiss.

“I honestly can’t handle how cute these twolovebirds are! Alright, let’s go ahead and take some calls before I spend therest of our time on the show today just talking about how perfect your wife andson are…caller 1, what’s your name?”

“Hi! My name is Mary,”

“Thanks for calling in, Mary! Do you have aquestion or comment for Finn or I?”

“I just wanted to call in and say that I’m amassive fan of Mad Matt in the Morning and I was listening to your show at workand nearly screamed when I found out that the special guest for today was FinnNelson. I’m such a massive fan of yours too, Finn!”

“Thank you, my dear, I really appreciate it!”Finn replied in complete sincerity.

“You’re welcome! I remember seeing you DJ at oneof the clubs in Bristol a few years back and now you’re making music in Londonand I’m so happy that you’ve had the success that you have so far. I should getback to work now, but have a great day!”

“Thanks again for calling, Mary! Next caller,you’re on the air with Mad Matt and Finn Nelson!”

“Thanks for taking my call! My name is Paul andI had a question for Finn,”

“Sure thing, man. What’s your question?”

“I know that you’ve been a fan of music sinceyou were a kid, but now that you are producing music, do you have any specificinspirations that you look to when making music?”

“That’s a great question! I guess I just try tomake music that I would want to listen to myself. Growing up I listened to alot of Oasis, The Stone Roses, Bowie, but I don’t know that I’m trying to copytheir music by any means. I’m just trying to create something that I’m proud ofand that I think people would want to hear.”

“Thanks again for the question, Paul! I think wehave time for a couple more calls today, so we’ll take the caller on line 5,please!”

“Hiya, my name is Jenny and I just wanted to saythat I’ve really enjoyed Finn being a guest on your show today, Mad Matt! Doyou think you’ll be inviting him back again, perhaps to do a radio takeoverlike you’ve done with other guests in the past?”

“I’d love to have Finn back in the studio againas long as he is willing to be a guest on the show again. I was only able tobook his interview on the show today because I know a friend of a friend whohas connections with one of the other producers on Finn’s label and they owedme a favor, but of course I’d be more than happy to have Finn back again!”

“And I’d be more than happy to come back at somepoint, Matt! Maybe after the show today we can try to coordinate schedules tofind out when we could make this happen!”

“Wonderful! I look forward to hearing you backon Mad Matt in the Morning sometime in the future!”

“Thanks again for calling in, Jenny. And ourlast caller, I understand, is from Lincolnshire just like you, Finn. Isn’t thatright?”

“Yeah, hiya! I’m Ryan and I live inLincolnshire. I really look up to you as a mentor, Finn, and I’ve been tryingto make my way into the music business as well, but I’m not quite sure where tostart…do ya have any suggestions or words of advice?”

“It’s great to meet ya, Ryan! You sound prettyyoung. How old are ya?”

“I’m 16,”

“Ah, so not much younger than I was when I firstgot started in music. I would say that if you want to get into music, you needto really love what you are doing and want to learn about it all from thebottom up. If you just want to be famous, you might be able to gain somepopularity, but it likely won’t last. You have to keep working hard to become betterat what you do and honing your craft. I don’t know how helpful that really is,but…”

“No, that’s perfect! It really means a lot to mecoming from you, Finn!”

“No problem, Ryan! And look, I’ll tell you what:keep working and practicing and as soon as you have a demo or something to showoff, send it my way and I’ll have a listen. I’d love to have you in my studioand I’ll gladly help you out if you ever find yourself in London.”

“Are you serious? You’re practically like a godto my friends and I, so they are never going to believe this!”

“I appreciate the flattery, Ryan, but I’m reallynothing special. I’m just a guy with awife, two kids, and a Harley.” Finn replied with a laugh.

“Thanks for calling in, Ryan. That’s all thecalls we have time for today, but really quickly before we go…Did I just hearyou say that you had two kids, Finn?”

“I, uh…did I say that? I—uh, I meant,” Finnlooked up at Rae through the window who was currently hiding a smile behind herhand and Matt could clearly see her shoulders shaking slightly with containedlaughter.

“I, uh…Well, my wife Rae and I wanted to goabout this a bit differently, but thanks to my big mouth, I guess the secret isout.”

“Are you saying what I think you’re saying,Finn?”

“Indeed! I’m so happy to announce that my wifeis a little over four months pregnant with our second child and little Ian isgoing to be a big brother!”

“Congratulations to both of you! I can onlyimagine how exciting this must be for you and your family, even if this wasn’tnecessarily the way that you wanted to announce the news. That’s all the timewe have for on Mad Matt in the Morning today! I’m Mad Matt…”

“And I’m Finn Nelson,”

“And we are signing off! Be sure to join metomorrow morning and every weekend, right here on Mad Matt in the Morning onKISS 101.7…To end today’s show, let’s take it back to one of my favorite bandsof the 90’s…this is Oasis with ‘Champagne Supernova’!”

Matt looked up to see Ian flipping the switchand the ON AIR sign went dim again as Finn removed his headphones and rose fromhis chair into a stretch.

“Thanks again for coming on the show today,Finn! The listeners really seemed to love it and I really enjoyed chatting withyou!”

“Likewise! And I meant it when I said that I’dlove to be invited back on this show again in the future!”

“Great, I’ll be sure to talk to Dan and some ofthe higher ups that handle all the scheduling and we can try to work somethingout!”

Rae and Ian opened the door to the studio andIan bolted towards Finn as he leaned down to lift him into his arms.

“Did I do good, Daddy? Dan told me which buttonsto push and I tried my hardest to do a good job!”

“You were amazing, buddy! I’m so proud of you!”

Rae walked to stand behind Finn’s desk chair andleaned down slightly to rest her arms over his shoulders from behind.

“Rae! I’m sorry that Finn’s little announcementhappened the way that it did, but I just wanted to congratulate both of youagain for having a second child on the way!” Matt replied sheepishly, takingpart of the blame for their secret being exposed.

“Thank you, Matt! I knew it was only a matter oftime before Finn let it slip because it seems like that’s all he’s been talkingabout with me and my mum for the last month or two, but I’m so excited for thenew challenges this is going to bring!”

Finn turned his head to the side to place agentle kiss on Rae’s hand that was resting over his shoulder and Matt couldn’tresist smiling and the tenderness of the simple gesture.

“Mummy…can we go now? Please?” Ian asked,jutting out his lower lip slightly as he looked between the adults in the roomwith puppy dog eyes that cut through the resolve of even the toughest men.

“Yes, baby boy, we can go now. Do you want tosay bye-bye to Matt and Dan before we go?” Rae asked as she straightened up andadjusted the straps of the denim backpack she was wearing over her shoulders.

“Yeah!” Ian squirmed in Finn’s arms where he wasseated in the desk chair with this dad before Finn released him and helped himonto the ground to stand up in front of the chair.

“Alright, buddy. Go over to Matt and give him ahigh-five and knuckles and then we can go, alright?”

Ian ran to the chair where Matt was sitting andlifted his small hand outward for Matt to high-five before curling his chubbyfingers into a tiny fist for Matt to knuckle bump.

“Bye, Matt! Daddy and Mummy are taking me to thezoo, so we gotta go now,” Ian explained before running across the room to wherehis parents were.

Finn stood next to the door of the studio with onearm wrapped around his wife’s shoulders and used the other hand to push asidethe fabric of her unbuttoned flannel shirt to caress the well-concealed babybump through the black band tee that she wore underneath.

“Thank you again for having me on your showtoday, Matt, it was such a pleasure! I look forward to coming back again if I’minvited back and we can arrange it in our schedules!” Finn replied as he openedthe door of the studio and held open the door for his wife and son.

“Absolutely! Have fun at the zoo, Ian!” Mattcalled out to them from where he was sitting.

Rae gave Matt a wave and smile before reachingdown to offer her son a hand to hold as Finn and his family walked out of thestudio together.

THE END

A/N: Fun fact, some aspects of Finn/Rae’s child,Ian, were based on my 2 year old niece whom I love very dearly :)

These are the prompts I used, in case you missedthem during the story:

58) “I’m just a guy witha wife, two kids, and a Harley.”

76) “Daddy!”

68) “He’s four yearsold!”

#mmfd fanfic #my mad fat diary fanfiction #mmfd #my mad fat diary #My writing #finn-nelson-for-the-win #requested fanfic prompt #well...this may be 3 months late #but better late than never...I suppose #I hope you like it!!!! :)

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A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom? – Jay Leno • Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I’d knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog. – Billy Sunday • Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. – Matt Groening • Lucky Charms?” I asked. “Magically delicious,” he explained. “Requisite for any sort of building project.” I shook my head, still amazed at how he had managed to weasel his way over here. “This isn’t a date.” He cut me a scandalized look. “Obviously. I’d bring Count Chocula for that. – Richelle Mead • Mayor de Blasio has legalized ferrets. Now you can legally own ferrets in New York City. I want to tell you something. If I want to see anymore beady-eyed little weasels, I’ll just keep riding the subway. – David Letterman • Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally – the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra – but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person. – Nicole Hollander • My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire. – John Hodgman • My character on ‘I’m In the Band,’ Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That’s completely on the other end of the spectrum. There’s absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I’m having so much fun playing this egotistical, ’80s-era rockstar – everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar. – Steve Valentine • My first fight was a little weasel from American called Andre Dirrell. I say that because he runs and holds, and I hope Abraham bangs him out. – Carl Froch • Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds. – Bee Dawson • Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I’m by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra’zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den. – Christopher Paolini • Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there’s a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a band called the Flying Luttenbachers. Go see the Flying Luttenbachers when they’re in your town. He’s one of the greatest rock composers who ever lived, and he’s struggling and living like a poverty-stricken hermit. – Glenn Branca • Oh, he is cute!” Shane said in a fake girly voice. “Gee, maybe we can ask him out!” “Shut up, you weasel. Claire, hit him! – Rachel Caine • One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called “weasel words.” – Theodore Roosevelt • One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ”weasel words.” When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ”weasel word” after another there is nothing left of the other. – Theodore Roosevelt • One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die. – Justin Cronin • Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish. – Bill Bailey • Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe. – George R. R. Martin • Some men can be very rude. On the other hand, some clients are absolute angels. One john always brought me a gift every time he came to see me. He brought me a pearl necklace, a ring, a bra or something. But eventually, as much as I really loved all the gifts, he fell in love with me, and he tried to weasel his way into my life. It was too much and I sort of had to ‘break up with him.” – Annie Sprinkle • Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. – W. C. Fields

• Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels. – George R. R. Martin • Tea Party goers are just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don’t love their country. – Paul Begala • The coast’s a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn’t allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation.” “I had weasels instead,” said Philippa shortly. “Good God,” said Lymond, looking at her. “That explains a lot.- Dorothy Dunnett • The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine. – John Benfield • The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. – William Butler Yeats • The reason any conservative’s failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It’s an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites. – Ann Coulter • The weasel under the cocktail cabinet. – Harold Pinter • There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, “Mistakes were made,” you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.- Charles Baxter • There’s a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it’s where most of life happens. – Scott Adams • Those props are as cunning as a bag o’ weasels. – Bill McLaren • To err is human. To cover it up is weasel. – Scott Adams • Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face. – Kenny Smith • Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon. – Allen Tate • Want a cookie,’ Ra said. ‘What kind?’ ‘Weasel cookie.’ I’m here to tell you, that comment about weasel cookies probably saved the known universe. – Rick Riordan • War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force – to dominate our being. – Eric L. Haney • We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus. – Danny Baker • We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can’t let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of it by saying this is bulk collection. – Edward Snowden • We stepped back and looked at the king of the gods, slumped in his chair snoring, and cradling his crook like a teddy bear. I placed the war flail across his lap, hoping it might make a difference—maybe complete his powers or something. No such luck. “Sick weasels,” Ra muttered. “Behold,” Sadie said bitterly. “the glorious Ra. – Rick Riordan • Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial. – Theodore Roosevelt • Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals… except the weasel. – Matt Groening • Weasels–and stoats–and foxes–and so on. They’re all right in a way–I’m very good friends with them–pass the time of day when we meet, and all that–but they break out sometimes, there’s no denying it, and then–well, you can’t really trust them, and that’s the fact. – Kenneth Grahame • What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it by accident. It seemed like a waste of whatever detailed lie I was going to have to come up with. – Sloane Crosley • What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say ‘It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.’ – Lady Gregory • When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night. – Alice Hoffman • You’re alive!” Percy said to the others. “The giants said you were captured. What happened?” Leo shrugged. “Oh, just another brilliant plan by Leo Valdez. You’d be amazed what you can do with an Archimedes sphere, a girl who can sense stuff underground, and a weasel.” “I was the weasel,” Frank said glumly. – Rick Riordan

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http://www.internetunleashed.co.uk/?p=24952 Name and shame - six great bands who hate their own crappy name - http://www.internetunleashed.co.uk/?p=24952 Jimmy Eat World aren't the only ones with a dodgy moniker What’s in a name? Well, quite a lot, really. A band name is one of the first decisions any budding young group has to come to and – as some very famous musicians will gladly tell you – there’s a whole load of fuck-up potential. Take Jimmy Eat World, for example, who spent this past weekend lamenting their decidedly dodgy choice of band name. “Advice for new bands: When coming up with a band name, make sure it’s acronym displayed really large on your artwork or t shirts won’t be complicating matters. You’re welcome,” tweeted the band whose acronym is… right, yep. Probably worth a bit of a re-think, that one. The Twitter explanation went on to describe how, in February 1994, the band spent a grand total of “less than 5 min, no shit,” hastily coming up with a band name “so we could play this dumb ass party.” Shocker, mates. Hope you at least got a party bag. “So moral of the story: even seemingly small and insignificant decisions can be much bigger than you could imagine. Slow down sometimes and make sure it’s right,” they offered, wisely – advice that a bunch of other big-hitters would do well to heed. Below, we’ve rounded up a bunch of other bands who regret their choice of name. Learn from their mistakes, dear reader. Arctic Monkeys Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner (Picture: AFP/Getty Images) It’s a name that’s so ingrained into the top billings at festivals across the globe that we rarely give it more than a cursory nod, but take a step back for a second. Arctic Monkeys. What does that even mean? Was it a prescient nod to the IKEA Monkey and his big fluffy parka? Probably not, but it’s nice to pretend, isn’t it? As it turns out, even iconic, recently shorn frontman Alex Turner doesn’t card much for the name, blaming it on their youthful naïvety. “This is the first band I’ve been in,” he offered by way of explanation in 2011. A lot of people in bands have a few goes at it before they find the one that works but with us, we all started playing guitar and everything at the same time.” He continued: “There might have been other ideas for offshoots at the time, but the Monkeys was the first one. It sound like a first band name, doesn’t it? It’s so bad that the tribute bands don’t sound worse. I saw there’s an Aertex Monkeys, that’s pretty clever.” What’s more, he passed the buck on their dodgy moniker over to guitarist Jamie Cook, adding: “I’ve no idea where it came from. It was Jamie’s fault, he came up with it and he’s never even told us why. If he even knows, he’s keeping it a secret from me.” Probably not the IKEA Monkey then, we’ll admit. Foo Fighters Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters at Glastonbury 2017 (Picture: Matt Cardy/Getty Images) ‘Foo Fighters‘, you may or may not know, was the term used by US pilots during World War 2 to report UFOs. Pretty cool but of pub quiz trivia, that – not a particularly bad band name, either. Nice bit of alliteration. Rolls off the tongue. Could be worse. Could be Arctic Monkeys. Don’t try saying that to Dave Grohl, though – he’s not a fan of the name at all. He’s laid into the title on more than one occasion – in 2010, he admitted that he was obsessed with UFOs at the time of writing the first Foo Fighters tape, leading to him plucking the name out of a book on aliens. “Had I actually considered this to be a career, I probably would have called it something else, because it’s the stupidest fucking band name in the world,” he added – harsh words, which he backed up in 2014. “Had I imagined that it would last more than a month-and-a-half, I might have named it something else,” Grohl said in a CBS interview. “It’s the dumbest band name ever.” Mumford and Sons Mumford and Sons at Latitude 2017 (Picture: Bella Howard/NME) Some more pub trivia for you now – did you know the other members of Mumford and Sons aren’t actually the offspring of dear Marcus? Seriously. Not to get all ‘birther’, but trust us – look up their birth certificates, if you dare. It’s all a big fat fraud. Still, we won’t get too shitty with the ol’ banjo stringer – turns out he thinks it’s a dumb name too. He dubbed it a ‘ballache’, and admitted that he’s even thought about changing it. “I definitely regret the band name,” he said back in 2015. “If I’d known it was going to go this way I would have wanted to call it anything other than my last name.” Poor sausage. Japandroids Japandroids at SXSW 2013 (Picture: Pooneh Ghana/NME) This one’s a bit weird, really, isn’t it? What does Japandroids even mean? Well, it’s a portmanteau of two other suggestions – Japanese Scream (from drummer David Prowse) and Pleasure Droids (from guitarist Brian King). Both kinda crap, sorry lads. Not that Japandroids is much better. A democratic solution, though, we’ll admit. “Yeah, maybe we would have taken it a little more seriously if we knew what was going to happen,” King admitted in a 2010 interview. “But for a band like us, when you name your band, you’re looking for a name to just put on a flyer to play a show. You’re not thinking that anybody is going to know who you are.” He also admitted that it’s here to stay, and doesn’t think they’re alone in thinking their choice of moniker is a bit stinky. “I think there are a lot of bands that have become quite famous that wish they would have changed their name if they had just realised they would reach that level,” he added. “I mean, Radiohead. That’s a stupid band name – it’s not cool, it sounds terrible. If those guys had a chance to go back, what would they think? But it’s sort of like the band is bigger than the name now.” Fair point, Radiohead is a pretty dumb name too. We’ll let you off, Kingy! Smashing Pumpkins D’Arcy Wretsky and Billy Corgan with Smashing Pumpkins on SNL (Picture: Getty) Immortalised in a top-10-of-all-time Simpsons joke, Smashing Pumpkins is, regardless of punability, a properly crap name. Don’t worry, though – the band are more than aware of it. Former bassist-turned-Corgan’s-#1-scapegoat D’Arcy Wretzky admitted as much in a Washington Post interview, dubbing the phrase “a stupid name, a dumb bad joke and a bad idea.” Go on, D’arcy – tell us what you really think. Mogwai Mogwai (Picture: Brian Sweeney) Scottish post-rock titans Mogwai took their name from classic 80s horror Gremlins’ titular character. Don’t feed ’em after midnight, etc. What they didn’t realise at the time, was that Mogwai’s own name was adapted from the Chinese word mogui (魔鬼) – meaning demon. Fitting, really, for a band name they’ve been haunted by for a fair while. “The first time we got together and played properly as a band was June 1995,” Braithwaite said in a 2015 Irish Times interview. “We rehearsed just after Glastonbury in my parents living room. We always wanted to get a better name than Mogwai but, like a lot of things, we never really got around to it.” Not the most exciting excuse, really, considering the spooky connotations of the name. Make something up, Stu! Say you’re being haunted! Say it’s a curse and if you change it you’ll have to bring in a vocalist! Say something! Anything! Oh, whatever. Source link

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