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charles wrote:


The Soviets tried that with Stalin, though. I had a school Russian
textbook which came to me second hand. The opening page had pictures of
Lenin & Stalin side by side. New copies only had Lenin.

My daughter's husband's mother came round here looking all furtive just
after my daughter and her husband married. She had a picture of the
happy couple and the friends and family, you know, a typical wedding
group shot. I was asked to remove one person from the group. This was
the daughter's husband's mother's brother-in-law. Just after the picture
was taken it had come to light (due to an unfortunate chance observation
from the top deck of the bus through the window of Waterstone's
cafeteria) that he had been guilty of serious marital infidelity lasting
many years, and was now persona non grata. In fact he was, as my
daughter's husband's mother put it, 'a slimy little **** what wants his
******** cut off.' Luckily there was no-one standing behind him on the
picture, so I simply had to remove his head and shoulders and extend the
shrubbery a bit. As for the ********, I believe they were also removed.

Bill

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"Roderick Stewart" wrote in
message .myzen.co.uk...
In article , Ian wrote:
I'm sure there are a few of us on here who would find it difficult to
erase "Uncle Mac" from our personal history.

He is of course too dead to be charged.

Really? Him as well? I never knew.

Were there ever any children's entertainers that were *not* involved in
something unsavoury?

Ant and Dec?
--
JohnT

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"Martin" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:57:41 -0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Ian wrote:
I'm sure there are a few of us on here who would find it difficult to
erase "Uncle Mac" from our personal history.

He is of course too dead to be charged.

Really? Him as well? I never knew.

We only have the Daily Mail's word for it. It's amazing that they
haven't discovered the relationships between Weed and the Flower Pot
Men, and Mr Mayor and Larry the Lamb.

Wasn't it John Simpson who made the oblique allegation, changing the name to
"Uncle Dick"?
And surely Weed and Flowerpot Men is troilism :)

--
JohnT

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In article , Rick wrote:
I've also noticed a lot more recently that give them a button which says
'replace colour with a blue cast' on a handheld camera which can be
jerked,
zoomed and rapidly panned, then almost unquestionably they'll use it to
its
maximum potential.

I wish they had one which said "remove green cast in the shadows designed
to
make it look like photographic film under fluorescent lighting", but sadly
I
suspect said "effect" was put there deliberately in the first place.



The BBC's 'Getting On' is a classic example, in fact it's so awful I can't
even watch it, this clip is an example which demonstrates what I mean.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0105mlk

We used to take a great deal of trouble over something we called "colour
matching", with the intention that photography would depict things so that they
reasonably resembled what they would look like in real life. We'd read books
and been to BBC training sessions all about how to line up cameras with this
aim in mind, then spent some time helping more experienced engineers before we
were regarded as competent to do it ourselves. Looking at this crap, I wonder
why we bothered. Pictures as off-colour as these would have had us checking for
a technical fault of some kind. A complete ignoramus could manage better with a
mobile phone, and probably hold the wretched thing steady too.

Rod.
--

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On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:48:51 -0000, "JohnT"
wrote:


"Martin" wrote in message
.. .
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:57:41 -0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Ian wrote:
I'm sure there are a few of us on here who would find it difficult to
erase "Uncle Mac" from our personal history.

He is of course too dead to be charged.

Really? Him as well? I never knew.

We only have the Daily Mail's word for it. It's amazing that they
haven't discovered the relationships between Weed and the Flower Pot
Men, and Mr Mayor and Larry the Lamb.

Wasn't it John Simpson who made the oblique allegation, changing the name to
"Uncle Dick"?
And surely Weed and Flowerpot Men is troilism :)

More to the point, botanality.

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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"Martin" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:57:41 -0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Ian wrote:
I'm sure there are a few of us on here who would find it difficult to
erase "Uncle Mac" from our personal history.

He is of course too dead to be charged.

Really? Him as well? I never knew.

We only have the Daily Mail's word for it. It's amazing that they
haven't discovered the relationships between Weed and the Flower Pot
Men, and Mr Mayor and Larry the Lamb.


Were there ever any children's entertainers that were *not* involved in
something unsavoury?

like Muffin the Mule?


Anyone else think that Sam Scrubbitt always seemed to be a bit over friendly
towards Jenny and Willie Woodentop?

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"Roderick Stewart" wrote in
message .myzen.co.uk...
In article , Rick wrote:
I've also noticed a lot more recently that give them a button which
says
'replace colour with a blue cast' on a handheld camera which can be
jerked,
zoomed and rapidly panned, then almost unquestionably they'll use it
to
its
maximum potential.

I wish they had one which said "remove green cast in the shadows
designed
to
make it look like photographic film under fluorescent lighting", but
sadly
I
suspect said "effect" was put there deliberately in the first place.



The BBC's 'Getting On' is a classic example, in fact it's so awful I
can't
even watch it, this clip is an example which demonstrates what I mean.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0105mlk

We used to take a great deal of trouble over something we called "colour
matching", with the intention that photography would depict things so that
they
reasonably resembled what they would look like in real life. We'd read
books
and been to BBC training sessions all about how to line up cameras with
this
aim in mind, then spent some time helping more experienced engineers
before we
were regarded as competent to do it ourselves. Looking at this crap, I
wonder
why we bothered. Pictures as off-colour as these would have had us
checking for
a technical fault of some kind. A complete ignoramus could manage better
with a
mobile phone, and probably hold the wretched thing steady too.


I note that at the top of the page they ask, "We are always looking to
improve the site and your opinions count. Do you have a few minutes to tell
us what you think about this site?" - maybe some of us should write and tell
them what we think about their ****e program techniques. :-)

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On 10/12/2012 19:04, John Hall wrote:
But for 80 or 90% of the audience that is going to be true. We aren't
going to get any TV programmes that only those with A-level maths can
understand, as they would attract audiences measured in the hundreds of
thousands rather than the millions. (I suppose the exception is OU
programmes. I confess that I have never seen any of those.)

I don't think that's true. Surely the few who watch these science
documentaries are those with some knowledge of science, even if only to
A-level standard?


--
Clive Page

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"Tim Streater" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Martin wrote:

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:57:41 -0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Grimly
Curmudgeon wrote:
I visited the old Edinburgh Observatory once and spotted a plaque on
the wall saying that the re-furbed building had been opened by one
P.Moore. I felt utterly humbled and awed to think I was standing in
the same spot as was once occupied by the world's baggiest suit.

He mentioned once in an off-air studio moment that he'd worn the same
one for 12 years. We found this entirely credible, despite our inability
to dismiss completely the possibility that he slept in it.

Do you remember the cartoon with of him, in PE, with a fly button
fastened to a button hole in his jacket?

Anyone remember him as one of the sketches in a Monty Python episode of
about 1969? As the more and more enthusiastic astronomy presenter getting
more and more excited at the new discovery that the Moon really is made of
... green cheese. He gets so excited he catches fire and they have to
douse him with a bucket of water.



Remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKX5Jh2ruho&playnext=1&list=PL878D9B0B4749 D424&feature=results_video

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In article en.co.uk,
Roderick Stewart wrote:
In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Roderick Stewart wrote:
Were there ever any children's entertainers that were *not* involved
in something unsavoury?

Sooty. If you ignore the hammer.

Hmm. Maybe not the best example, as you'd also have to ignore Harry
Corbett's hand up his bum.

I never heard Sooty complain.

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