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Viz is a British adult comic magazine founded in 1979 by Chris Donald.^[1]

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Mass media in Newcastle upon Tyne
Post-war period
Satirical magazines published in the United Kingdom
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Abdul Latif (restaurateur)

Abdul Latif, FRSA (আব্দুল লতিফ; 15 December 1954 – 20 January 2008) was a Bangladeshi-born British restaurateur and curry chef in Newcastle upon-Tyne who became famous nationwide because of his regular appearances in Viz magazine.

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Acne (comic)

Acne was a British fortnightly children's comic. Viz (comics) and Acne (comic) are comics magazines published in the United Kingdom.

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Adam Ant

Stuart Leslie Goddard, better known as Adam Ant (born 3 November 1954), is an English singer, musician, and actor.

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Adult comics

The catch-all term adult comics typically denotes comic books, comic magazines, comic strips or graphic novels that are marketed either mainly or strictly towards adult (or mature) readers.

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Advice column

An advice column is a column in a question and answer format.

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Annual publication

Annual publications, more often simply called annuals, are periodical publications appearing regularly once per year.

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Assassination of John F. Kennedy

On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.

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Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)

The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) is a non-profit organisation owned and developed by the media industry.

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Avro Lancaster

The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber.

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Baby Cow Productions

Baby Cow Productions Limited is a British comedy television production company based in London and Manchester, founded by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal.

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Back to Basics (campaign)

Back to Basics was a political campaign announced by British Prime Minister John Major at the Conservative Party conference of 1993 in Blackpool.

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Barnton, Cheshire

Barnton is a civil parish and village in the northwest region of England, just outside the town of Northwich, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire.

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Bartender

A bartender (also known as a barkeep or barman or barmaid or a mixologist) is a person who formulates and serves alcoholic or soft drink beverages behind the bar, usually in a licensed establishment as well as in restaurants and nightclubs, but also occasionally at private parties.

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Baywatch

Baywatch is an American action drama television series about lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, and Hawaii, starring David Hasselhoff.

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Belfast

Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Billy Connolly

Sir William Connolly (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish retired comedian, actor, artist, musician, and television presenter.

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Billy the Fish

Billy the Fish is a long-running cartoon strip in the British comic Viz that first appeared in 1983. Viz (comics) and Billy the Fish are viz characters.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Bob Hope

Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.

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Bonio

Bonio is a brand of dog biscuit sold in the United Kingdom.

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Bono

Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by the nickname Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter and activist.

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Boxing Day

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December).

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Boy George

George Alan O'Dowd (born 14 June 1961), known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, DJ, and the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club.

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Brain Damage (comics)

Brain Damage was a British adult comic that was published monthly by Galaxy Publications (later Tristar Publications) and edited by Bill Hampton from 1989 to 1992. Viz (comics) and Brain Damage (comics) are adult humour titles.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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British comics

A British comic is a periodical published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips.

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Busted (band)

Busted are an English pop-punk band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, consisting of James Bourne, Matt Willis and Charlie Simpson.

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Buster Gonad

Buster Gonad is a cartoon character in the British comic Viz. Viz (comics) and Buster Gonad are viz characters.

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Buttocks

The buttocks (buttock) are two rounded portions of the exterior anatomy of most mammals, located on the posterior of the pelvic region.

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Caravan (trailer)

A caravan, travel trailer, camper, tourer or camper trailer is a trailer towed behind a road vehicle to provide a place to sleep which is more comfortable and protected than a tent (although there are fold-down trailer tents).

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Cartoon

A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style.

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Celebrity

Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group as a result of the attention given to them by mass media.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Chess

Chess is a board game for two players.

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Chris Donald

Chris Donald (born 25 April 1960 in Newcastle, England) is the founder of, and one of the principal contributors to, the British comic magazine Viz.

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Christina Martin

Christina Martin (born January 1980) is a British writer and former stand-up comedian.

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City of London

The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world.

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Cockney Wanker

Cockney Wanker is a character created by Graham Dury and Simon Thorpe in Viz based on a stereotyped male Cockney. Viz (comics) and Cockney Wanker are viz characters.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is a British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry in response to the famine in Ethiopia.

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Constipation

Constipation is a bowel dysfunction that makes bowel movements infrequent or hard to pass.

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Council house

A council house, corporation house or council flat is a form of British public housing built by local authorities.

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Crash (magazine)

Crash, stylized as CRASH, is a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer, primarily focused on games.

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Crown Court (TV series)

Crown Court is a British television courtroom drama series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network.

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Danny Baker

Danny Baker (born 22 June 1957) is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter.

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David Irving

David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English author who has written on the military and political history of World War II, especially Nazi Germany.

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DC Thomson

DC Thomson is a media company based in Dundee, Scotland.

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Defecation

Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion, and is a necessary process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces from the digestive tract via the anus or cloaca.

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Del Boy

Derek Edward Trotter, more commonly known as Del Boy, is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses and one of the main characters of its spinoff series, Rock & Chips.

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Dennis Publishing

Dennis Publishing Ltd. was a British publisher.

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Desmond Llewelyn

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (12 September 1914GRO Register of Births: DEC 1914 11a 490 NEWPORT M. – Desmond W. Llewelyn, mmn.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Dick Dastardly

Dick Dastardly is a fictional character who has appeared in various animated series by Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1968 onward.

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Dilemma

A dilemma is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable.

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Dire Straits

Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Pick Withers (drums and percussion).

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Dispatches (TV programme)

Dispatches is a British current affairs documentary programme on Channel 4, first broadcast on 30 October 1987.

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Dry rot

Dry rot is wood decay caused by one of several species of fungi that digest parts of wood which give it strength and stiffness.

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Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, music producer and songwriter.

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Enid Blyton

Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies.

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Ernie Hudson

Earnest Lee Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor.

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Essex

Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.

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Esther Rantzen

Dame Esther Louise Rantzen (born 22 June 1940) is an English journalist and television presenter, who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994.

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Eurasian blue tit

The Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) is a small passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae.

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Falling A Records

Falling A Records is a British Essex, England-based independent record label, founded in the late 1970s by Barry Lamb and Peter Ashby.,Record Collector, October 2011, no 393, page 54 born out of the D.I.Y cassette movement.

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Fanzine

A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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Fat Slags (film)

Fat Slags is a 2004 British independent gross out comedy film based on the Viz comic characters of the same name.

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Father Christmas

Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas.

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Feces

Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.

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Fortean Times

Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort.

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Fred West

Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer, who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, the majority with his second wife, Rose West.

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Freddie Garrity

Frederick Garrity (14 November 1936 – 19 May 2006) was an English singer and actor.

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Freddy vs. Jason

Freddy vs.

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Fried egg

A fried egg is a cooked dish made from one or more eggs which are removed from their shells and placed into a frying pan and fried.

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Future plc

Future plc is a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Among its many titles are Country Life, Homes and Gardens, Decanter, Marie Claire, and The Week. Zillah Byng-Thorne was chief executive officer from 2014 to 2023, when she was replaced by Jon Steinberg.

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Garry Bushell

Garry Bushell (born 13 May 1955) is an English newspaper columnist, rock music journalist, television presenter, author, musician and political activist.

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Gateshead Millennium Bridge

The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist tilt bridge spanning the River Tyne between Gateshead arts quarter on the south bank and Newcastle upon Tyne's Quayside area on the north bank.

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Gavin Webster

Gavin Webster (born 13 November 1969 in Blaydon-on-Tyne) is a British stand-up comedian.

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George Best

George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United.

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George Michael

George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer-songwriter, record producer and philanthropist.

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.

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Gianni Versace

Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace (2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997) was an Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman.

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Golden Arches

The Golden Arches are the symbol of McDonald's, the global fast food restaurant chain.

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Graham Dury

Graham Dury (born 1962 in Clifton, Nottingham) is a British cartoonist.

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Gulf War

The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.

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Harold Shipman

Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English doctor in general practice and serial killer.

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Harpole

Harpole is a village west of Northampton, in the West Northamptonshire district, in Northamptonshire, England, along the A4500 road (formerly the A45) about east of the M1 Motorway junction 16.

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Harry Enfield

Henry Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer and director.

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In-joke

An in-joke, also known as an inside joke or a private joke, is a joke with humour that is understandable only to members of an ingroup; that is, people who are in a particular social group, occupation, or other community of shared interest.

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Jackie (magazine)

Jackie was a weekly British magazine for girls. Viz (comics) and Jackie (magazine) are comics magazines published in the United Kingdom.

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James Brown (editor)

James Brown (born 26 September 1965 in Leeds) is a British former journalist, author, radio host and media entrepreneur.

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Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris

Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris are a British comedy writing duo.

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Jenny Eclair

Jenny Eclair (born Jenny Clare Hargreaves; 16 March 1960) is an English comedian, novelist, and actress, best known for her roles in Grumpy Old Women between 2004 and 2007 and in Loose Women in 2011 and 2012.

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Jesmond

Jesmond is a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, situated north of the city centre and to the east of the Town Moor.

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Jimmy Hill

James William Thomas Hill, OBE (22 July 1928 – 19 December 2015) was an English footballer and later a television personality.

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Jimmy Savile

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile (31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English media personality and DJ.

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John Brown Media is one of the world's largest content marketing agencies.

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John Otway

John Otway (born 2 October 1952) is an English singer-songwriter who has built a cult audience through extensive touring.

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Johnny Vaughan

Jonathan Randal Vaughan (born 16 July 1966) is an English television and radio presenter and a film critic.

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Johnny Vegas

Michael Joseph Pennington (born 5 September 1970), better known as Johnny Vegas, is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director.

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Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Stephen Ross (born 17 November 1960) is an English broadcaster, film critic, comedian, actor, writer, and producer.

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Kappa (brand)

Kappa is an Italian sportswear brand founded in Turin, Piedmont, Italy in 1978 by Marco Boglione, as a sportswear branch of the already existing "Robe di Kappa".

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Kathy Burke

Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (born 13 June 1964) is an English actress and comedian.

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Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Leaning Tower of Pisa (torre pendente di Pisa), or simply the Tower of Pisa (torre di Pisa), is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of Pisa Cathedral.

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Lemmy

Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015), better known as Lemmy Kilmister or simply Lemmy, was a British musician.

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List of humor magazines

A humor magazine is a magazine specifically designed to deliver humorous content to its readership.

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List of story structures

A story structure, narrative structure, or dramatic structure (also known as a dramaturgical structure) is the structure of a dramatic work such as a book, play, or film.

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List of Viz comic strips

The following is a list of recurring or notable one-off strips from the British adult spoof comic magazine Viz. Viz (comics) and list of Viz comic strips are viz characters.

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Loaded (magazine)

Loaded is a men's lifestyle magazine, now positioned as a men's lifestyle brand and community.

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Lucozade

Lucozade is a British brand of soft drinks and energy drinks manufactured and marketed by the Japanese company Suntory.

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Mars bar

Mars, commonly known as Mars bar, is the name of two varieties of chocolate bar produced by Mars, Incorporated.

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Masturbation

Masturbation is a form of autoeroticism in which a person sexually stimulates their own genitals for sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure, usually to the point of orgasm.

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McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.

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Metropolis International

Metropolis International Group Limited, established in 1994, is a predominantly UK-based media and technology group that specializes in business, consumer, and travel media including awards, events, websites, business software, and reward and benefit programs.

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Millennium Dome

The Millennium Dome was the original name of the large dome-shaped building on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, which housed a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium.

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Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer and songwriter.

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Motörhead

Motörhead were an English rock band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and lead vocalist Lemmy Kilmister, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox.

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Mr. T

Mr.

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Narcissus (plant)

Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring flowering perennial plants of the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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News

News is information about current events.

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Newsnight

Newsnight is the BBC's news and current affairs programme, providing in-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines.

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Noddy Holder

Neville John "Noddy" Holder (born 15 June 1946) is an English musician, songwriter and actor.

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Noel Edmonds

Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948) is an English television presenter, radio DJ, writer, producer, and businessman.

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Nordic countries

The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.

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North East England

North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Nose art

Nose art is a decorative painting or design on the fuselage of an aircraft, usually on the front fuselage.

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Oink! (comics)

Oink! was a British comic book magazine for children which was published from 3 May 1986 to 22 October 1988. Viz (comics) and Oink! (comics) are comics magazines published in the United Kingdom.

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OK!

OK! is a British weekly magazine that primarily specialises in royal and celebrity news.

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Operation Chastise

Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis.

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Oxfam

Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent non-governmental organizations (NGOs), focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International.

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Pamela Anderson

Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian-American actress, model and media personality.

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Panorama (British TV programme)

Panorama is a British current affairs documentary programme broadcast on the BBC.

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Parthenon

The Parthenon (Παρθενώνας|Parthenónas|) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena.

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Paul Daniels

Newton Edward Daniels (6 April 1938 – 17 March 2016), known professionally as Paul Daniels, was an English magician and television presenter.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.

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Personal watercraft

A personal watercraft (PWC), also called water scooter, is a primarily recreational watercraft that is designed to hold only a small number of occupants, who sit or stand on top of the craft, not within the craft as in a boat.

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Peter Cook

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter.

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Phil Collins

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.

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Photo comics

Photo comics are a form of sequential storytelling that uses photographs rather than illustrations for the images, along with the usual comics conventions of narrative text and word balloons containing dialogue.

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Photocopier

A photocopier (also called copier or copy machine, and formerly Xerox machine, the generic trademark) is a machine that makes copies of documents and other visual images onto paper or plastic film quickly and cheaply.

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Plasma display

A plasma display panel (PDP) is a type of flat-panel display that uses small cells containing plasma: ionized gas that responds to electric fields.

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Political correctness

"Political correctness" (adjectivally "politically correct"; commonly abbreviated to P.C.) is a term used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.

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Post-war

A post-war or postwar period is the interval immediately following the end of a war. Viz (comics) and post-war are post-war period.

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 19219 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Profanity

Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or conversational intimacy.

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Pub

A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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Pun

A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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Punk zine

A punk zine (or punkzine) is a zine related to the punk subculture and hardcore punk music genre.

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Puppet

A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer.

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Pyton

Pyton was a Norwegian comic book series which was produced by the company Gevion, and afterwards Bladkompaniet, between the years 1986 until 1996. Viz (comics) and Pyton are adult humour titles.

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Q (James Bond)

Q is a character in the James Bond films and novelisations.

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Richard Littlejohn

Richard Littlejohn (born 18 January 1954) is an English author, broadcaster and opinion column writer, having started his career as a journalist.

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Ringo Starr

Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles.

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Robbery

Robbery (from Old French rober ("to steal, ransack, etc."), from Proto-West Germanic *rauba ("booty")) is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by use of fear.

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Rodney Bewes

Rodney Bewes (27 November 1937 – 21 November 2017) was an English television actor and writer who portrayed Bob Ferris in the BBC television sitcom The Likely Lads (1964–66) and its colour sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973–74).

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Roger Mellie

Roger Edward Paul Mellie ("The Man on the Telly - who says 'Bollocks!'") is a fictional character featured in Viz magazine. Viz (comics) and Roger Mellie are viz characters.

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Roger's Profanisaurus

Roger's Profanisaurus is a humorous book (and for a short period commencing 2011; mobile app), published in the United Kingdom by Dennis Publishing which is written in the style of a lexicon of profane words and expressions.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Christmas message

The King's Christmas message (or The Queen's Christmas message in a queen's reign, formally as His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, and informally as the Royal Christmas message) is a broadcast made by the sovereign of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms to the Commonwealth of Nations each year at Christmas.

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Russell Brand

Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian, actor, presenter, activist, and campaigner.

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Samaritans (charity)

Samaritans is a registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, often through its telephone helpline.

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Sammy Johnson

Ronald Samuel Johnson (14 May 1949 – November 1998) was an English actor.

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Sarah Millican

Sarah Jane Millican (King; born 29 May 1975) is an English comedian, writer and presenter.

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Sean Bean

Sean Bean (born Shaun Mark Bean; 17 April 1959) is an English actor.

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SEPECAT Jaguar

The SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French supersonic jet attack aircraft originally used by the British Royal Air Force and the French Air Force in the close air support and nuclear strike role.

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Sexual intercourse

Sexual intercourse (also coitus or copulation) is a sexual activity involving the insertion and thrusting of the male penis inside the female vagina for sexual pleasure, reproduction, or both.

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Shakin' Stevens

Michael Barratt (born 4 March 1948), known professionally as Shakin' Stevens, is a Welsh singer and songwriter. He was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s. His recording and performing career began in the late 1960s, although it was not until 1980 that his commercial success began.

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Shirley Crabtree

Shirley Crabtree Jr. (14 November 1930 – 2 December 1997), better known as Big Daddy, was an English professional wrestler.

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Shit

Shit is an English-language profanity.

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Sid the Sexist

Sid the Sexist (real name Sidney Aloysius Smutt) is a character from the British satirical comic Viz, first appearing in issue 9 in October 1982. Viz (comics) and Sid the Sexist are viz characters.

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Simon Donald

Simon Donald is a co-founder and former co-editor of the British comic magazine Viz.

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Simon Greenall

Simon James Greenall (born 3 January 1958) is an English actor, presenter and voice over artist.

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Simon Le Bon

Simon John Charles Le Bon (born 27 October 1958) is a British singer.

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Skwigly

Skwigly, also known as Skwigly Animation Magazine, is an independent British online magazine that focuses on animation, whether with interviews, reviews, videos, tutorials, news, or podcasts.

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Smut (comics)

Smut was a British adult comics magazine that was launched on 1 May 1989. Viz (comics) and Smut (comics) are adult humour titles and comics magazines published in the United Kingdom.

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Sodomy

Sodomy, also called buggery in British English, generally refers to either anal sex (but occasionally also oral sex) between people, or any sexual activity between a human and another animal (bestiality).

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Speed bump

Speed bumps (also called traffic thresholds, speed breakers or sleeping policemen) are a class of traffic calming devices that use vertical deflection to slow motor-vehicle traffic in order to improve safety conditions.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator, and writer.

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Stereotype

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.

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Steve Coogan

Stephen John Coogan (born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter.

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Steve McFadden

Steve Robert McFadden (né Reid; born 20 March 1959) is an English actor whose career has spanned three decades.

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Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known professionally as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor.

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Student Grant

Student Grant is a cartoon strip created by Simon Thorp for the British comic Viz. Viz (comics) and Student Grant are viz characters.

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Sunday Mirror

The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday sister paper of the Daily Mirror.

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Surreal humour

Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviors that are obviously illogical.

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Sussex

Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.

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Tabloid (newspaper format)

A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet.

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Tandoor

A tandoor is a large vase-shaped oven, usually made of clay.

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Teddy bear

A teddy bear is a stuffed toy in the form of a bear.

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Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, popular historian, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

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The Beano

The Beano (formerly The Beano Comic, also known as Beano) is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson. Viz (comics) and The Beano are comics magazines published in the United Kingdom.

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The Bootleg Beatles

The Bootleg Beatles are a Beatles tribute band.

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The Dandy

The Dandy was a Scottish children's comic magazine published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. Viz (comics) and the Dandy are comics magazines published in the United Kingdom.

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The Fat Slags

The Fat Slags is a British comic strip appearing in the alternative British comic Viz. Viz (comics) and the Fat Slags are viz characters.

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The Framley Examiner

The Framley Examiner is a parody of a newspaper in a small provincial English town, created as a website and later a book.

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The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 American epic religious film about the retelling of the Biblical account about Jesus of Nazareth, from the Nativity through to the Ascension.

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The Modern Parents

The Modern Parents is a comic strip from the British comic Viz created by John Fardell who both writes and illustrates it. Viz (comics) and the Modern Parents are viz characters.

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The Sun (United Kingdom)

The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lachlan Murdoch's News Corp. It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner.

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Thesaurus

A thesaurus (thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

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Toilet humour

Toilet humour, potty humour or scatological humour (compare scatology), is a type of off-colour humour dealing with defecation, diarrhea, constipation, urination and flatulence, and to a lesser extent vomiting and other bodily functions.

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Tonne

The tonne (or; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.

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Tony Blair

Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

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Tony Parsons (British journalist)

Tony Victor Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Tracksuit

A tracksuit is an article of clothing consisting of two parts: trousers and a jacket usually with front zipper.

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Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun or Tutankhamen, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Born Tutankhaten, he was likely a son of Akhenaten, thought to be the KV55 mummy. His mother was identified through DNA testing as The Younger Lady buried in KV35; she was a full sister of her husband.

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Usury

Usury is the practice of making loans that are seen as unfairly enriching the lender.

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Vagrancy

Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income.

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Virgin Books

Virgin Books is a British book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.

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Virgin Interactive Entertainment

Avalon Interactive Group, Ltd. was a British video game distributor based within Europe that formerly traded as the video game publishing and distributing division of British conglomerate the Virgin Group.

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Viz (comics)

Viz is a British adult comic magazine founded in 1979 by Chris Donald. Viz (comics) and Viz (comics) are 1979 comics debuts, 1979 establishments in the United Kingdom, adult humour titles, black comedy comics, comics anthologies, comics magazines published in the United Kingdom, fictional sports clubs and teams, magazines established in 1979, mass media in Newcastle upon Tyne, post-war period, satirical magazines published in the United Kingdom and viz characters.

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Viz: The Game

Viz: The Computer Game (also known in-game as "Viz: The Soft Floppy One" and "Viz: The Game" on the box cover) is a single player racing game based on the Viz adult comic which was released in 1991 by Virgin Interactive.

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Wacky Races (1968 TV series)

Wacky Races is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with Heatter-Quigley Productions.

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Whitley Bay

Whitley Bay is a seaside town in the North Tyneside borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Wig

A wig is a head covering made from human or animal hair, or a synthetic imitation thereof.

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Winker Watson

Winker Watson is a British comic strip, created by Eric Roberts, which ran in the British comic book magazine The Dandy for almost half a century.

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Woodlouse

Woodlice are terrestrial isopods in the suborder Oniscidea.

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Xenophobia

Xenophobia (from ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.

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XTC

XTC were an English rock band formed in Swindon in 1972.

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Year 2000 problem

The year 2000 problem, or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000.

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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is a line from an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church.

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Your Sinclair

Your Sinclair, or YS as it was commonly abbreviated, was a commercially published and printed British computer magazine for the Sinclair range of computers, mainly the ZX Spectrum.

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Zit (comic)

Zit was an adult British comic that was published by Humour Publications UK, beginning with a free sample issue in January 1991, and with issue 1 in February 1991, The final Issue, Issue 143 was published in May 2002 It was one of many such comics similar to Viz, and was also of lower production quality than its inspiration. Viz (comics) and Zit (comic) are adult humour titles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz_(comics)

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