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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Alan Pemberton wrote:
Let's hope the town of S****horpe never acquires a local TV channel.

What about Ruf****ton or Sim****ton or even Shovitt-upper-Jacksey?

Bill

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Alan Pemberton wrote:
Let's hope the town of S****horpe never acquires a local TV channel.

What about Ruf****ton or Sim****ton or even Shovitt-upper-Jacksey?

Bill


There is a place near here called...
....well as there's a lady present I'll just post a link
http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/mbb/mbbc34.htm
Not too far from a place called Little Lever.
When I was young I wondered why the internationally
known pop-star who sang "The Locomotion" would
name herself after a small place near Bolton ;-)

--
Graham.

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"Alan Pemberton" wrote in
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"Felicity S." [email protected] wrote:

I guessed it was something like that but I still don't see what was
the
idea of their ****ty design. For example, YesTERDAY is more
affirmative,
while yesTERDAy is more proclamational with its implied fanfare.

Many years ago when vcrs were still a novelty, YTV ran a some trailers
that had the name of the day of the week rapidly zooming out of the
screen. What fun we had trying to pause the tape at exactly the right
moment half way through the saTURDay one. The BBC's 'Tonight' titles
(the '70s late-night one, not the '60s Fyfe Robertson teatime one, or
the unwatchable Trever Macdonut version) had something similar. The
letters imploded inwards on themselves until only TIT was visible,
usually followed by a shot of Austin Mitchell.

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Heck Alan, you really are old aren't you? I bet Bill can remember that
as well as me and you, and the prospect of having to watch Austin
Mitchell................yuck!


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

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Woody wrote:

Heck Alan, you really are old aren't you? I bet Bill can remember that
as well as me and you, and the prospect of having to watch Austin
Mitchell................yuck!

Was he related to Ford Prefect ?


--
Mark
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On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:24:26 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:

Heck Alan, you really are old aren't you? I bet Bill can remember that
as well as me and you, and the prospect of having to watch Austin
Mitchell................yuck!

Was he related to Ford Prefect ?

No, Maurice Binder. He did title sequences...

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"Graham." wrote in message
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http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/mbb/mbbc34.htm
Not too far from a place called Little Lever.
When I was young I wondered why the internationally
known pop-star who sang "The Locomotion" would
name herself after a small place near Bolton ;-)

Ahh, childhood misapprehensions. In infant assembly we sung 'There is a
green hill far away.' The headmistress had the absurd name of Miss
Greenhouse and I assumed we were singing a song that would somehow magically
make her 'far away' -- which I saw as being a common good. Later we should
have chanted "Hallowed be thy name . . " but since the Prime Minister was
Harold MacMillan we always said "Harold be thy name . . ". It seemed
reasonable to pray to such an important man. (Many years after this I was to
work for Mr MacMillan's nephew, who told me amusing stories about him. In
return I told him how we would pray to his uncle, which bemused him.)

In the summer holidays following the second year of infant school I was
apprehensive about the junior school. The boy next door, Tommy Scholey, was
two years older and thus was a hardened inmate of the Juniors. He was also a
bit of a joker. He and I walked down the road to look at the Junior school.
"You see that place up there," said Tommy, pointing to the tank room, which
looked like a shed on the flat roof, "That's the caning room." Seeing my
look of alarm he continued gleefully, "That's where they cane you." I'd
heard rumours that it was possible to get the cane in the juniors, so my
fear was immense and uncontrollable. When the first day of term came my feet
were leaden indeed.

Bill

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"Woody" wrote in message
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Heck Alan, you really are old aren't you? I bet Bill can remember that as
well as me and you, and the prospect of having to watch Austin
Mitchell................yuck!


Mitchell was better than the present insipid crew.

Bill

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Woody" wrote in message
...
Heck Alan, you really are old aren't you? I bet Bill can remember
that as well as me and you, and the prospect of having to watch
Austin Mitchell................yuck!


Mitchell was better than the present insipid crew.

Bill



Oh I wouldn't argue with that - which is why I never watch Calendar.
H'es usually quite entertaining these days and being a celebrated member
of the 'Awkward Squad' in the Westminster village he says what he thinks
and often speaks some good sense.

Doesn't stop me sympathising with Alan though if he had to be watched
every night!


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

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Graham. wrote:
Alan Pemberton wrote:
Let's hope the town of S****horpe never acquires a local TV channel.
What about Ruf****ton or Sim****ton or even Shovitt-upper-Jacksey?

Bill


There is a place near here called...
....well as there's a lady present I'll just post a link
http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/mbb/mbbc34.htm


This is a long way from Bolton:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X...1&Y=162421&A=Y

Terry

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"Terry Casey" wrote in message
...
Graham. wrote:
Alan Pemberton wrote:
Let's hope the town of S****horpe never acquires a local TV channel.
What about Ruf****ton or Sim****ton or even Shovitt-upper-Jacksey?

Bill


There is a place near here called...
....well as there's a lady present I'll just post a link
http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/mbb/mbbc34.htm


This is a long way from Bolton:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X...1&Y=162421&A=Y

Near here there's an area of country called Denaby Thicks, which always made
my sister laugh when she was a teacher at Denaby Junior School.

Bill