Eric and Ernie

On Jan 3, 11:23*pm, JNugent wrote:
On 03/01/2011 20:56, CD wrote:

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:05:03 -0800 (PST), allantracy
*wrote:

I particularly liked the nude, I don t know what it was but I nearly
popped my cork at that particular performance.

I laughed out loud& *had to rewind that bit so my missus got the joke..
I don't remember the exact exchange, Ernie asked the name of the
stripper to which Eric responded "The 5 of spades" - all she was
wearing was black shoes& *black gloves,& *she had black hair.

The six of spades, surely?

Wouldn't that make her a contortionist?

G DAEB
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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JNugent wrote:

The television set bought new by Eric's parents in 1954 was a late
1940s
model, I think. I remember relatives' tellys that were bought before
ITV
started and none of them were less that 12".

If you are complaining that it was too small, I think you're probably
wrong. The actual set used in the film was clearly a period item, though
whether available in 1854 is a moot point.
Doubtful. 1854 would be too early. And 1954 would be too late. That telly
on the programme was one of the immediate post-war ones that had a round
CRT.

I can recall - just - sets
smaller than 12" - with a water-filled magnifying "glass" hung on the
front of them in some cases.
I think it was liquid paraffin in some of the lenses. I cracked one once
and the stuff that came out was thicker than water.

Blood?


The rabbit ears aerial didn't look at all right for the period. What's
more, at that distance from Holme Moss the dealer would surely have
sold
them a proper outside aerial...

Winter Hill / Rivington Pike for Morecambe, suurely?
You'd be lucky in 1954! Morecambe used Holme Moss, and big aerials were
needed. Winter Hill was never part of the Band I network.

Bill

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:49:53 +0000, Peter Duncanson
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As you suggest it was probably because he was being an ac-tor rather
than being Vic Reeves.

I was confused because I hadn't been able to put a name to him until
he started talking about Reeves & Mortimer.

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:23:15 +0000, JNugent
wrote:


The six of spades, surely?

I don't think he looked that far up, skip to 40 minutes in for the
scene...

http://bbc.in/fih3qh

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article ,
the_constructor wrote:


I was brought up on Morecambe & Wise and they are good clean or should I
say were, commedians.

You thought "It's cold out" was clean?... ;-

It was "Two old men sitting deck chairs - the first one says "it's nice
out"" to which Ernie always replied "you can't tell that one". Morecambe
gave the punchline on Parkinson "the other replies "yes it is - I think I
will take mine out too""


Slainte,

Jim

On 5 Jan 2011 15:37:12 GMT, wrote:

In uk.media.tv.misc GordonD wrote:

Speaking of Vic Reeves, any idea why he was credited as Jim Moir? I know
it's his real name but does he use that when he's an ac-tor rather than a
comedy performer?

Perhaps he's going through his midlife crisis and wants to be taken more
seriously, so used his real name. But then again Vic Reeves is just as
ordinary a name as Jim Moir, I would have thought. You'd think he'd even
have wanted to be credited as James Moir.

I've been trying to recall what he was known as when he was on "I'm a
Celebrity...". Both names were certainly used but I think he was mostly
addressed as Jim. His wife Nancy Sorrell was also on the show and she
addressed him as Jim.

The point is that "Vic Reeves" is a stage name. Vic is in effect a
character created by and acted by Jim. When he is not acting as Vic, Jim
is Jim.

I remember Mike Oldfield wanted to be known as Michael Oldfield for a while
when he got older, but soon grew out of it and reverted to Mike. Same
happened with Debbie Harry preferring Deborah for a while.

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On Jan 5, 3:54*pm, Peter Duncanson wrote:

The point is that "Vic Reeves" is a stage name. Vic is in effect a
character created by and acted by Jim. When he is not acting as Vic, Jim
is Jim.

Whenever lists of strange names for celebrities children are produced
David Bowie's son Zowie is always included because Zowie Bowie is
indeed rather wacky. But his actual surname is Jones from his father's
real name of David Jones and his given name was Duncan with Zowie
being just one of his middle names. He's now quite a successful film
director having made Moon a few years ago.
Cheers
Jeff

wrote:
In uk.media.tv.misc GordonD wrote:

Speaking of Vic Reeves, any idea why he was credited as Jim Moir? I know
it's his real name but does he use that when he's an ac-tor rather than a
comedy performer?

Perhaps he's going through his midlife crisis and wants to be taken more
seriously, so used his real name. But then again Vic Reeves is just as
ordinary a name as Jim Moir, I would have thought. You'd think he'd even
have wanted to be credited as James Moir.

I remember Mike Oldfield wanted to be known as Michael Oldfield for a while
when he got older, but soon grew out of it and reverted to Mike. Same
happened with Debbie Harry preferring Deborah for a while.



Michael Aspel was briefly Mike.

Another thing. That Charles Hazelwood always looks dead smart, but when
he came up north to do the clog dancing programme he left off shaving
for a week and dressed in a slovenly manner. He presumably thought he'd
stand out up here if he looked neat and tidy! He looked a right
scruffbag in the cloggy prog.

Anyway, want to see some classy clogging? Take a look at my sister's
monstrous regiment. If you have a bit of rough asphalt that needs
smoothing down they are available for hire. Cheaper than a roller.
http://web.me.com/domshirt/Yorkshire...of_dances.html

Bill

On 05/01/11 15:37, wrote:

I remember Mike Oldfield wanted to be known as Michael Oldfield for a while
when he got older

Wasn't so much that as he was ****ed off with his contractual obligation
to Virgin Records at the time. So he released his last album for Virgin
("Heaven's Open") with a few scathing songs and under the name "Michael"
rather than "Mike", so as to somewhat distance the result from his
previous body of work. He reverted to "Mike" for his subsequent,
post-Virgin album.

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In uk.media.tv.misc yaffle53 wrote:

Whenever lists of strange names for celebrities children are produced
David Bowie's son Zowie is always included because Zowie Bowie is
indeed rather wacky. But his actual surname is Jones from his father's
real name of David Jones and his given name was Duncan with Zowie
being just one of his middle names. He's now quite a successful film
director having made Moon a few years ago.

Which leads us neatly to Frank Zappa's daughter, whom he named Moon Unit.


And Rolan Bolan, who IIRC is one of the few to actually use his given name
in everyday life.
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Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."