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Blockhead is the name of a theoretical computer system invented as part of a thought experiment by philosopher Ned Block, which appeared in a paper titled ...
"Blockhead Hans" (Danish: Klods-Hans) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published in Danish in 1855. [ 1 ] An early English translation (as "Blockhead Hans") appeared in Andrew Lang 's 1894 The Yellow Fairy Book , although Lang gave no source for the tale.
Do It Yourself is a 1979 album by Ian Dury & the Blockheads. [5] [6] It was the first album to be credited to Ian Dury & the Blockheads rather than Ian Dury alone, although Dury had used the full band name for the "What a Waste" 7" single of 1978.
"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" (with the Blockheads) 1 2 14 22 3 9 7 3 9 79 Non-album single "Inbetweenies" (with the Blockheads; Continental Europe-only release) 1979 — — — — — — — — — — Do It Yourself "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3" (with the Blockheads) 3 65 — — 20 27 — — 24 — Non-album singles "I Want to Be ...
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is a 2004 American play written by Bert V. Royal. An "unauthorized continuation," the play reimagines characters from the popular comic strip Peanuts as degenerate teenagers .
Gumby was created by Art Clokey in the early 1950s after he finished film school at the University of Southern California (USC). [1]Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film, titled Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia. [10]
Dury himself, however, maintained that the song was not a punk anthem and said he was trying to suggest that there was more to life than a 9-to-5 existence (such as in his track-by-track comments in the sleeve-notes of Repertoire Records' Reasons to Be Cheerful: The Best of Ian Dury & the Blockheads compilation). The verses themselves are at ...
As the finale to Charlie Brooker's 2014 Wipe, The Blockheads played an adaptation called "Reasons to be Fearful '14", with Brooker providing alternative lyrics relating to the events of 2014. [ 9 ] The song provides the title for the 2010 [ 10 ] musical Reasons to be Cheerful by the Graeae Theatre Company .