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Informally defined as the description of a pop group from the early days of rock and roll.
- ↑ OED Third Edition (December 2006). "popular beat combo, n.": " "humorous or ironic. Chiefly British."
- ↑ Julian Champkin (25 November 2011). "Editorial/Letters". Significance . 8 (4). Royal Statistical Society: 187–189. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00531.x .
- ↑ "Legal Banter". Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) "If anyone would like a magnum of champagne in return for a little literary sleuthing, Marcel Berlins, legal correspondent for the Guardian, has a competition. There are many references (check Google for confirmation) to a judge who once asked, during a case (perhaps in the 60s) "Who are the Beatles?". Berlins contends this is apocryphal and will award said fizz to anyone who proves otherwise." - ↑ "Marcel Berlins: Was this judge just too clever at playing dumb?". The Guardian . 20 May 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ↑ Davies, Christie. "Judges and Humour in Britain: From Anecdotes to Jokes" in Jessica Milner Davis and Sharyn Roach Anleu (eds.) (2018). Judges, Judging and Humour , p. 68. ISBN 978-3-319-76737-6
- ↑ The Times: Slow, but steady, move forward. "AGEISM in the legal profession seems an unlikely concept. The stereotype is of an aged — usually male — judge being informed that the Arctic Monkeys are “a popular beat combo, m’lud”. But at the commercial end of the profession, firms are gearing up for the discrimination regulations that come into force in October."
- ↑ "Google has eroded a judge's right to be heroically out of touch". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ↑ "1960: Lady Chatterley's Lover sold out". News.bbc.co.uk. 10 November 1960. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
