meaning of the rather niche market :-)

To RT, you might want to add Wilco and the Blue Nile. Dare I say I'm in the 10% on each.

FPO - Fun Prevention Officer which means wife, girlfriend or partner of a member of the massive. An ironic reference which alludes to the fact that wives in seventies sitcoms never allowed their husbands to have any fun, which includes betting on horses, going to the pub or putting your feet on the table. Coined in one of the podcasts.

'Archie, Archie, Archie' = David Hepworth's equivalent of Michael Winner's "Calm down dear, it's only a commercial."

of young Islington = The services of Law and Order/Emergency response going about their workaday day

frank admission of failure to prevent oneself publishing a godawful joke or pun. Neither big nor clever.

Longer standing members also know that it is a natural law of threads that sooner or later the Bonzos get raised. I see you have the same problem with oyour trousers that I do.

The HORA = Hoary Old Rock Anecdote. Rock reminiscences used to conclude early podcasts. Sometimes very funny. Sometimes not.

removed - just rendered redundant by above post. Wierd synchronicity !

Young Mr Harrison coined it to describe all the 'here today, not here tomorrow' indie acts. It's now in the Collins English Dictionary.

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The Love Trousers and Egg Friday

Seem to get a few mentions.

Good lady wife has been abbreviated.

Sadly I have no need for such acronyms.... lame.

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That's an over-concise request for someone to unpack the meaning of the double full-stop post.

This means
I'm Larry David in Curb your Enthusiasm.

An excuse for everyone to fiddle with their ipods at work and then write about it on the internet.

OR

An easy way for Big Word Brother to monitor our listening at all times and make sure we have enough Dylan, Springsteen and RT in our heads.

Used to enhance any statement, the truth of which is thought to be self-evident to all readers/listeners. Derived from Geoffrey Willans & Ronald Searle's peerless Molesworth books.

a programme I still haven't watched

A law which states that as a discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Nazis or Hitler approaches 1, and that the person who finally makes the reference is deemed to have lost the argument.

As introduced to the Massive by Sir Archibald, I believe.

A mammalian rodent on which Andrew Collins (AC) is a world renowned authority.

Posted by any helpful soul when something good is on BBC4

A cue for most to avoid reading the original post.

is a fair reflection of the Word landscape, I feel. However, some things surprise me, such as the overwhelming support expressed for Elbow in a certain poll (can't remember specifically which one).

Can't help feeling this is block voting similar to that which always seems to ensure OK Computer romps 'best album' lists, no?

A phrase which often crops up as someone gently disagrees with a post, and sums up the general live-and-let-live politeness that makes this the most civilised corner of the interweb. Wallow in a warm, fuzzy feeling for a minute everyone...

to be heard on many a podcast (well a few anyway) - when Mr Ellen puts his foot down about some musical matter or other with the equally didactic Mr Hepworth

I propose:

Centre of Massive: The mythical point that the Randomiser and that tagging cloud below would like to sample, popularly believed to lie somewhere between the Beatles, Dylan, and RT ;-)

Wordist way of saying you agree with an already posted POV.

What that lot up in Norfolk do for exercise.

It is very late and I can't be arsed to come up with an Apple/PC gag. So I'll leave it up to someone else. But I'd like to put on record that it was my idea first.