Mr. Ed

B Hughes wrote:

We do not like TOP POSTERS in uf+dm. Please learn how to post proper should
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as has been already pointed out, read his sig.


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petetop wrote:

"Tim C" wrote:

Who here remembers this?

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Oh, a horse is a horse
Of course, of course
And this one'll talk 'til his voice is hoarse
You never heard of a talking horse?

Well, listen to this:
". . . I am Mister Ed

Yeah I remember the series, and My mother the talking car, and a real
old one Four Feather Falls, anyone remeber that one?

Both of them.

"My Mother The Car" was fairly obscure, though. I'd never heard of "Miss Ann
Sothern" (the voice of the mother/car) before seeing it.

Jerry Van Dyke was the "star", wasn't he?

Bill Wright wrote:
"Tim C" wrote in message
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Who here remembers this?


A horse is a horse
Of course of course
And no one can talk to a horse,
Of course
That is, of course
Unless the horse
Is the famous Mister Ed!

I remember it so well! And from the same era, Denis the Menace, staring Jay
North. And I Love Lucy!

The Dennis programme is often referred to as "Dennis The Menace", but there
seems to be little connection between them. The TV series was marketed here
in the UK as "Just Dennis".

I vaguely suspect that the USA strip cartoon may be called "Dennis The
Menace", but that the rights to that title here being held by the publishers
of The Beano meant that the TV programme had to be given UK-specific credits
and a new title.

Graham. wrote:
"petetop" wrote in message
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"Tim C" wrote in message
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Who here remembers this?


A horse is a horse
Of course of course
And no one can talk to a horse,
Of course
That is, of course
Unless the horse
Is the famous Mister Ed!

Go right to the source
And ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse
He's always on a steady course
Talk to Mister Ed!

People yakkity-yak a streak
And waste your time of day
But Mister Ed will never speak
Unless he has something to say!

Oh, a horse is a horse
Of course, of course
And this one'll talk 'til his voice is hoarse
You never heard of a talking horse?

Well, listen to this:
". . . I am Mister Ed

Yeah I remember the series, and My mother the talking car, and a real old
one Four Feather Falls, anyone remeber that one?
Pete
Four Feather Falls was Gerry (Thunderbirds) Anderson.
Anyone remember Phyllis Diller in The Pruitts of Southampton?

C. 1966?

A riches-to-rags story (the opposite of "The Beverly Hillbillies").

Not very engaging, not least (as so often twith USA sitcoms) because it was
laden with America-specific cultural references which meant nothing here.

Anyone remember Phyllis Diller in The Pruitts of Southampton?

C. 1966?

A riches-to-rags story (the opposite of "The Beverly Hillbillies").

Not very engaging, not least (as so often twith USA sitcoms) because it
was laden with America-specific cultural references which meant nothing
here.

Interesting point.
In the intervening 40 years we have become more leftpondian in outlook
due to the barrage of American sit-coms and the "celebraty culture"
I don't think the opposite is true.

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

"B Hughes" wrote in message
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We do not like TOP POSTERS in uf+dm. Please learn how to post proper
should you wish to return. You have been warned.

Who the **** are you, coming on here and laying the law down? 'You have been
warned' my arse. Pillock.

Bill

Four Feather Falls was Gerry (Thunderbirds) Anderson.
Anyone remember Phyllis Diller in The Pruitts of Southampton?

C. 1966?



I rather think Four Feather Falls was somewhat earlier than
that - possibly 1963-ish?

Having typed that I remembered that Google is your friend.....

1958!!!!!!! (well in the States anyway.) 1960 over here.

Geez, I feel old.


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Woody

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"Woody" wrote in message
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Four Feather Falls was Gerry (Thunderbirds) Anderson.
Anyone remember Phyllis Diller in The Pruitts of Southampton?

C. 1966?



I rather think Four Feather Falls was somewhat earlier than
that - possibly 1963-ish?

Having typed that I remembered that Google is your friend.....

1958!!!!!!! (well in the States anyway.) 1960 over here.

Geez, I feel old.

I remember FFF quite well. You no doubt will
have discovered Anderson had an earlier production
called The Adventures of Twizzle which I have no memory of.

After FFF he did Torchy the Battery Boy thereby setting
the space-travel trend.

Anyone remember Space Patrol? not an Anderson series
but produced by Roberta Leigh who wrote the scripts for twizzle
and Torchy.



--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Woody wrote:

Four Feather Falls was Gerry (Thunderbirds) Anderson.

Anyone remember Phyllis Diller in The Pruitts of Southampton?

C. 1966?

I rather think Four Feather Falls was somewhat earlier than
that - possibly 1963-ish?

I was only referring to "The Pruitts Of Southampton", which was shown in the
northern ITV region (then Granada/ABC) only from late 1966 (or maybe very
early 1967). Can't recall whether there was more than one series.

Having typed that I remembered that Google is your friend.....
1958!!!!!!! (well in the States anyway.) 1960 over here.
Geez, I feel old.

www.imdb.com credits "The Pruitts..." with a release of September 1966
(presumably in the USA).

That makes sense, becsuse the programme has the definite air of "an opposite
of the Beverly Hillbillies" about it.

"Froot Bat" wrote in message
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:25:30 GMT, Paul Heslop
wrote:

Matthew Maltloaf wrote:

"Graham." wrote in message
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"B Hughes" wrote in message
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We do not like TOP POSTERS in uf+dm. Please learn how to post proper
should you wish to return. You have been warned.

And you may wish to read Brian's signature, and be grateful he won't
wish his affliction upon you.

I read his signature. I suspect it is not Brian's wish he be treated
different from other posters, more likely your own view, you PC
jobsworth.

I'm sure he will speak for himself but if I remember rightly he uses a
speech program and obviously, without being able to see the posts it
is helpful for him if the message is at the top then he can just
'read' the relevant part.

The fact that B Hughes is a troll notwithstanding...

How is any of the above 'obvious'?

How is anyone supposed to know that a Usenet poster they don't know
uses a speech program?

How does him top posting affect the readability of other posts? Either
way he posts, top or bottom, the other posts are still where they
always were and where they should be: at the bottom, under a bunch of
quoted text.

Perhaps it is simply easier for him to top post. That's a different
argument altogether. It's probably easier for a lot of people to top
post. That doesn't mean they should do it. It's generally frowned upon
because top posting makes threads messy and harder to follow.

It's even worse when he replies because all previous posts end up
below his sig separator and are discarded in replies to him, so all
thread context is lost.

I'm all for 'accessibility' for people with disabilities, but I don't
see why just because someone has a disability they should get a free
pass from criticism when they post badly.

YOU may have read his sig but did the person who saw fit to chastise
him? I don't think so.

Why should someone be expected to read a sig? Do you read _all_ sigs
from _all_ posters? Only time I read sigs is by accident when they are
short one liners. A sig separator is a sign for most people to stop
reading.

As it is, I just read his sig. It says 'Blind user, no pics please'.

It does not say, "Blind user - that is why I am top posting. Sorry."


IAWTP.

Just say "no" to blind top posters.