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THE WICKER MAN SKY PREMIERE, 10.00pm This is the remake with Nicolas Cage as the weirdo copper who investigates a crime on a remote island full of utterly weirdo weirdies. This is well worth checking out, even just for curiosity's sake.

From humble beginnings with just a few punters, it now attracts 10,000 beardy weirdies every summer.

'You're not going with those bearded weirdies,' he said."

"More importantly, thanks to our clean bill of environmental health, I can smoke my 60 Superkings a day whilst looking in the eye any of these self righteous, lentil noshing, beardy weirdies"***!"

In dramatizing conflicts in American culture, popular art can work in oblique and coded ways, and in retrospect it is difficult not to see in these "weirdies" from the fifties a veiled threat of fallout at home.

It stars Nicolas Cage in the Edward Woodward copper role, who probes a crime on a remote island full of utterly weirdo weirdies.

The thinking among campaign psychologists closely mirrors that in the BBC, where the "beardies means weirdies" creed also has some support.

BEWISKERED males are bristling over furniture firm Ikea's "beardies are weirdies" ban.

It might at least reverse the rot that set in when teachers changed from being disciplinarians to beardy weirdies in jeans trying to get on side with the big boys in class.

Once worn by beardie weirdies, they're now on sale at Harvey Nichols.