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  1. Posted

    I didn't really know where to post this but as we don't seem to have a 'TV programmes' thread so I thought this may be the best place. I was delighted to read during the week that the BBC are finally releasing Tutti Frutti on DVD, 23+ years after it's original broadcast and subsequent repeat a few months later, it's never been released in any format or repeated since 1987/8. I watched some of it on the first showing and saw the full series on the second showing but missed the last episode due to the boyfriend I had at the time not setting the video recorder properly :P I've waited 22 years to see it again, I really hope I'm not looking back at it through rose tinted spectacles and it is indeed as good as I remember.

     

    I thought at first you were referring to this Tutti Frutti, Fruity Totty a mildly smutty German game show in which the contestants (the female ones anyway) had to remove articles of clothing if whatever activity they were competing in went against them. Then when I saw the later post mentioning Emma Thompson, I thought, "Not her!" Much more of a programme for Jenny Agutter.

    I thought that was "Italian Stripping Housewives", a show beautifully dubbed and shoved onto one of Skys more obscure channels.

    Hasnt been on for years.

    I had forgotten all about it. :)

     

    Sounds like the old Tutti Frutti/Colpo Grosso confusion. CG was the Italian version, which, as LFN notes, when presented in the UK had a marvellous Welsh-accented voice over, with the catch phrase "Ornly jorking" regulary delivered after the host made some leering comment to one of the contestants or dancers.

     

    Not that I ever watched or anything.

  2. Posted

    With the 65th anniversary of D-Day on the horizon, is it worth starting a WWII thread yet?

     

    No. There are still hundreds of survivors in each participating nation.

    Fair enough. My topic-initiating total shall remain resolutely at 1.

     

    I suppose if you really wanted you could open a thread for reporting the deaths of WW11 notables...

    Like who? Most of the notables are dead, except Vera Lynn who has her own thread. There are a few VCs covered elsewhere on the forum, the odd U-boat skipper, also covered elsewhere, a few survivors from high profile actions, also covered elsewhere.

     

    As you said we're nowhere near the last few as in the WW1 survivors. But most of those left of the notables are covered in other categories.

     

    Hitler's still living in Bolivia. Or his brain is, anyway. They saved it, I saw a film about it.

  3. Posted

    Yeah, he really does look on his last legs in that video I gotta say.

     

    :P

     

    I mean, just look at his hand, and the way his neck is bent over. Let's hope he survives until Saturday at least anyway.

     

    Question: Are the likes of WWI veterans, supercentenarians, etcetera eligible candidates for Death List? It's the "candidates cannot be famous purely for the fact they are likely to die soon" line that gets me. Would that mean that some especially notable supercentenarians (like Henry) might be eligible but others who are barely notable (and unlikely to get UK obit) would obviously not be suitable candidates?

     

    Also, does the rule 'UK obituary' apply to any mention of the person's death in mainstream UK media as a form of a passing news story, or only an actual full obituary that looks back at their life?

     

    It pretty much depends on how independently famous the person is in the the eyes of the DL committee. After 4-6 pints.

  4. Posted

    What is it with Gordon Brown commenting on these lowest common denominator reality TV stars? Firstly he made a statement when Jade Goody died, and now this? I mean seriously, are these people that important that the prime minister has to talk about them? (To his voter base, probably yes...)

     

    Brownie's not got much else on his plate at the minute, so he figured he'd address the nation's most pressing issue first. Apparently he'll be releasing a statement hoping Katie and Peter can patch things up later today.

  5. Posted

    I didn't really know where to post this but as we don't seem to have a 'TV programmes' thread so I thought this may be the best place. I was delighted to read during the week that the BBC are finally releasing Tutti Frutti on DVD, 23+ years after it's original broadcast and subsequent repeat a few months later, it's never been released in any format or repeated since 1987/8. I watched some of it on the first showing and saw the full series on the second showing but missed the last episode due to the boyfriend I had at the time not setting the video recorder properly :banghead: I've waited 22 years to see it again, I really hope I'm not looking back at it through rose tinted spectacles and it is indeed as good as I remember.

     

    I thought at first you were referring to this Tutti Frutti, Fruity Totty a mildly smutty German game show in which the contestants (the female ones anyway) had to remove articles of clothing if whatever activity they were competing in went against them. Then when I saw the later post mentioning Emma Thompson, I thought, "Not her!" Much more of a programme for Jenny Agutter.

  6. Posted

    This chick deserves a thread of her own. Tantrums, bizzare behaviour, emotional breakdown, booking in to the Priory clinic, advice from Max Clifford. Scotland's own Amy Winehouse could self distruct faster than it took her to come second on Britain's Got Talent.

     

    What a career arc. Mocked for her appearance, she becomes an international sensation literally overnight, then crumbles to pieces as she fails to win the show that made her all famous, and is now in rehab. All in the space of a month.

  7. Posted

    Oceanic flight 815 Air France plane gone missing somewhere between here and there and a wee bit further south than the Bermuda Triangle. No word as yet as to how many polar bears, hostiles or others were on board. News that all passengers are in fact related will be played out over the next 6 series of updates.

     

    Apparently there was a big flash which caused the plane to disappear. What the experts haven't yet realised was the aircraft got time skipped back to 1977. That's ok, Rousseau's crew should be able to look after them, and conveniently they all speak French.

  8. Posted

    Myself and young Maryport caught the 125 race of the NW 200 from Northern Ireland yesterday. Looks absolutely lethal, public roads with safety precautions that seem to belong in the 1970s and motorbikes dicing through areas of housing and alongside proper kerbs.

     

    Be a bit obvious of Deathlist sponsored an event there, wouldn't it?

    Mark Young died in hospital following a crash in the 250cc race earlier that day, while another rider is in a critical condition.

     

    To be added to the list of most lethal professions, along with K2 mountaineer, space shuttle astronaut, steeplechase racehorse, Tamil Tiger, Pakistani politician, and suicide bomber.

     

    When's the Isle of Man TT, that's usually good for a few fatalities?

  10. Posted

    We've been doing a pretty fair job for the past 400 years.

     

    And yet they're the only ones who ever vote for Team GB. You'd have thought the Frogs, Belgies and Dutch would show a little more gratitude, what with Blighty winning them the war and all.

     

    [Edit - way-hey, 100 pages for this thread, and what better way to mark it than a post that has nothing to do with football?]

  12. Posted

    :rolleyes: at tonight's result. I know the omens were bad as the match clashed with my other passion, the second semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest.

     

    I thought last night's result was alright. Leeds, going out in front of their own fans, to a late-ish goal from the beloved Millwall. Shame it didn't kick off a bit more at the end, and where was the pitch invasion from the wussie home supporters? At least the Isle of Dogs Massive threw things at the Leeds keeper in the first leg.

     

    Now we just need Millwall to lose in the playoff final so they can do it all over again next season.

     

    How's GB looking in the Euros, VT? If we could just politically or socially offend the Irish we could be on for nul points.

  13. Posted

    So when was the fist report of liver cancer? I'll re-aprease my prognosis to five weeks tops from that date.

    She was one of the hottest women from the 70's in my book.

     

    Hopefully the pages were laminated.

  15. Posted

    'Nazi' pope's latest tour dates include some opportunities to give it the old clasped hands and fixed grin routine in Israel. The tour press talks about trying to forge links between Jews and Moslems in the Middle East and support the beleagured Christian communities in the region....in other words 'stirring it bigtime,' in the eyes of fanatics on all sides.

     

    Obviously the man has security on a par with the best, right?

     

    Does anyone know if any pope in history has ever been assasinated ? Just my curiosity lol....

     

    First match on Google for "assassinated popes"

     

    Pontofficating

     

    From the article:

     

    "John VIII (872-882): Poisoned and clubbed to death

    Adrian III, St. (884-885): Rumored poisoned

    Stephen VI (896-897): Strangled

    Leo V (903): Murdered

    John X (914-928): Suffocated under a pillow

    Stephen VII (VIII) (928-931): Possibly murdered

    Stephen VIII (IX) (939-942): Mutilated and died from injuries

    John XII (955-964): Suffered a stroke while with a mistress

    or murdered by an outraged husband

    Benedict VI (973-974): Strangled by a priest

    John XIV (983-984): Starved to death or poisoned

    Gregory V (996-999): Rumored poisoned, probably malaria

    Sergius IV (1009-1012): Possibly murdered

    Clement II (1046-1047): Rumored poisoned

    Damasus II (1048): Rumored murdered

    Boniface VIII (1294-1303): Died from abuse received while a

    captive of the French in Anagni"

     

    According to wikianswers, Poped their clogs it's:

     

    "Eight: John VIII, Hadrian III, Stephen VI, Leo V, John X, Sergius IV, Benedict VI, Urban VI."

     

    All but one of those eight appear on the first list, so presumably there's some truth out there. Except for the last one, that's just an Urban legend.

  16. Posted

    Well if you're willing to take a chance, the illustriously named Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (born July 10, 1912) is The Netherlands' oldest living Olympian. Despite finishing 14th, she has some claims to fame that might help her garner an obituary including holding highest ranking in Olympic skiing reached by a Dutch national.

     

    Impressive that Holland would have anyone finish as high as 14th in skiing, given the tallest mountain in the whole country is apparently Vaalser hill at a modest 1053 ft. It would be like an Egyptian finishing in the top 15 in speed skating. Which gets me to thinking, what's the most geographically unlikely medal winning performance in Olympic history?

  20. Posted

    One down for Band on the Run.

     

    What a fantastically eclectic grouping that is. Of the remaining four non-Wings (John Conteh, Michael Parkinson, Christopher Lee and Kenny Lynch), surely Dracula must be next.

     

    Not to split heirs MPFC, but Emma Freud isn't actually married to Richard Curtis, so he wasn't quite a son-in-law. But the number of celebrity connections is making my head spin.

  22. Posted

    Other Australians you could add to the list of potentials:

     

    Alf Howard, sole remaining member of Mawson's Antarctic trip in 1920s. He's over 100.

    Sir Marcus Loane, former Archbishop of Sydney, aged about 96

    Greg Page, Wiggle with health issues

    Doug Anthony, former Deputy PM

    Lady Sonia McMahon, had a recent tumble

    Brian Burke, former WA Premier (or am I just hopeful putting him on this list)

    Kel Nagle, golfer in late 80s

    Sara Douglass, author

     

    As predicted just one week ago... Archbishop Sir Marcus Loane died today aged in fact 97.

     

    Good shout AC/DU, but he'd never have passed the DL fame test.

  25. Posted

    The last note of Lana Clarkson (to the music of Da Doo Ron Ron)

     

    I knew one day that he would make my heart stand still

    My daddy said, "Just run girl, run, run, run"

    Somebody told me that his name was Phil

    "That nutter's got a gun, girl, a gun, gun, gun"

     

    Yes, my heart stood still

    Yes, his name was Phil

    And when I saw that gun

    Shoulda been a good girl, a nun, nun, nun

     

    I knew what he was doin' when he caught my eye

    He said his favourite surf song was "Fun, fun, fun"

    He was so evil, I knew I'd die

    Evil as Hitler, the Hun, Hun, Hun

     

    Yes, he caught my eye

    Yes, it's time to die

    And when I went to his home

    He told me how he once scared Joey Ramone

     

    Drank his rum, rum, rum, he got a gun, gun

    Shoulda listened to his first wife, Ronnie, Ron, Ron

     

    Picked me up at seven and his hair was huge

    Now I'm gone, gone, gone, now I'm long gone

    My face lost all its colour, I needed rouge

    He molested his son, son, son, his poor son, son

     

    He made that wall of sound

    Now, I'm in the ground

    And long after I'm gone

    I'll miss the sun, sun, sun, the hot sun, sun

     

    Drank his rum, rum, rum, he got a gun, gun

    Shoulda listened to his first wife, Ronnie, Ron, Ron

     

    (repeat and fade out away)

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