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unusual facts about Parlour



2002 FA Cup Final

The match is remembered for Chelsea fan Tim Lovejoy's famous quote "It's alright, it's only Ray Parlour", who seconds later put the ball in the top corner from 25 yards.

A Band Called O

Formed in Jersey, Channel Islands, circa 1970, as "The Parlour Band", the early line up comprised brothers Mark Anders (bass and vocals) and Craig Anders (lead guitar and vocals) with Peter Filleul (keyboards and vocals) formerly of the Climax Blues Band

Abraham Cowley

His mother was wholly given to works of devotion, but it happened that there lay in her parlour a copy of The Faerie Queene.

Bombay to Bangkok

In Bangkok, his world turns upside down at a massage parlour where he bumps into Jasmine (Lena Christensen).

Bricktops

The walls of the Parlour Club were painted by artists Dame Darcy and Anthony Sunseri.

Cadavre Exquis première édition

The film is a collective project based on the principle of the Exquisite corpse parlour game.

Charles Pooter

The Pooters live at The Laurels, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, London, in a nice six-roomed residence, not counting basement, with a front breakfast-parlour, a little front garden, and a flight of ten steps up to the front door.

Darling Violetta

They also contributed another song to the Masquerade Universe which was in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines entitled "Smaller God" from the album Parlour.

Drawing room

During the US Civil War, in the White House of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, the drawing room was just off the parlor where C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis greeted his guests.

Eamonn Doran's

The venue also had an adjacent pizza parlour which was part-owned by Huey Morgan of the Fun Lovin' Criminals

George McCoy

In the summer of 2007 he brought out the 11th edition of his Parlour Guide, and his first national Dominatrix guide the McCoy's Guide to Corrective Services.

International Christian Church

Other directors include Cory Blackwell, Blaise Feumba, Roger & Kama Parlour, and Rob & Burgandie Onekea.

Morelli's

In 1932 Morelli opened an ice cream parlour and cappuccino bar on the seafront in Broadstairs, Kent.

Niall Ó Donnghaile

After taking office, he removed portraits of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Prince Charles from the Mayor's parlour, replacing them with a portrait of the United Irishmen and a copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

Parliament of England

From the 1540s the presiding officer in the House of Commons became formally known as the "Speaker", having previously been referred to as the "prolocutor" or "parlour" (a semi-official position, often nominated by the monarch, that had existed ever since Peter de Montfort had acted as the presiding officer of the Oxford Parliament of 1258).

Parlour music

Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, for instance, were traditional (or "folk") tunes supplied with new lyrics by Moore, and many arias from Italian operas, particularly those of Bellini and Donizetti, became parlour songs, with texts either translated or replaced by new lyrics.

Severe Exposure

A video released for the single, "Parlour Games," was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head.

St. Conrad's Inter College, Agra

Soon he was appointed to be in charge of the parlour (to receive visitors and guests) of the Capuchin Monastery at Altötting.

Stowey

About 1558 (former date on a fireplace) Bess of Hardwick and her second husband, Sir William St. Loe, added a north-east wing with a parlour and chapel, which includes Tudor buttresses.

Susan McFarland Parkhurst

Susan McFarland was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, and composed popular songs and parlour piano solos during the 1860s.

Truelove's Gutter

#* Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar, Atkin jumbo guitar, Gretsch 6196, Burns Nu-Sonic, cymbals


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