Cerberus
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With "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" McFadden & Whitehead became one of the great one-hit wonders. I recall I was at school at the time and I seemed to be the only one who admitted to liking that sort of music - with everyone else it was either prog or punk.
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Thanks for posting that link, Tempus. I had no idea Ronald Searle was still alive. Sometime in the early 1970s I was given a copy of How to be Topp, one of the classic Molesworth books (think a 1950s version of Adrian Mole with atrocious spelling). For a while there I was back in the grim world of St Custards, with Grabber, Fotherington-Thomas et al. I lost my copy a long time ago chiz. Sadly the co-author Geoffrey Willans died shortly after publication, in 1958.
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The chap that draws Bristow in the Evening Standard must be getting on now. Frank Dickens I think his name is. You got me thinking about the newspaper strips of the 70s and 80s. There was Fred Basset, the Gambols, Sporting Sam, not to mention George and Lynn who seemed to live in a permanent state of undress ... I'm pretty certain Giles is deceased though. How would you describe a dead cartoonist - de-syndicated?
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Does anyone have any tips on how to live a long life?It says here that exercise can help prevent Alzheimers.
I always understood it was exercising the mind which was the key to warding off senile dementia. So doing a regular crossword or Sudoku would help, watching Big Brother for hours on end would certainly not.
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Embalmed with Gordon's gin, was she?
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Watching it now. Dennis and Jessica are tonight's models. Not quite sure why it was necessary for him to shave "downstairs" but not her.
As for the unfortunate subjects, they appear to have dead for several days at least, so not too much blood and gore. Fascinating viewing.
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Has anyone considered adding Tony Hart (81) for next year? he hasn't really done much for a few years.Phantom, you will find a Tony Hart thread here.
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Diane Keen can be seen on BBC1 every day in "Doctors" - where you can often see ageing stars turn up for a guest slot as a grumpy old codger or bewildered Alzheimers patient.
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It's funny how all the people that disliked him come crawling out the wood work and give him a glowing epitaph.The crocodile tears don't fool Saint Peter.
I wonder what they will say about me when I hit the wooden box
There was a tribute to him on the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2 on Monday - JV went so far as to describe him as "a great man," which I thought was going a bit over the top.
Then yesterday Andy Kershaw came on batting for the Lib Dems, so perhaps they're all nailing their colours to the mast. What next I wonder - Terry Wogan fronting a PPB for the Tories?
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And still spelling his name, more conventionally, as Richard.
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Shaw Taylors programe was called POLICE 5And the theme music was the middle eight of Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain. Saturday and Sunday afternoons before the wrestling and Hart to Hart respectively.
That's interesting - "World in Action" used that tune as well. Or was it "Weekend World?"
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I wonder if anyone remembers his "classic" Christmas single:
" 'Old up, 'ere comes Chisholm."
"He's giving me a funny look!"
Note: this thread was relegated to page two just four hours after the last post. It's easy to miss 'em nowadays!
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Ah, belated happy birthday BS. I was travelling from one end of California to the other yesterday...Were you now? Byt train or by horse?
Come now Mr. Brimley, you know better than that. I'm from Canada.
By dog sled of course.
And I thought you were just standing on a big map ...
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British TV presenter of yesteryear. His 1970s (and early 80s?) programme, whose title escapes me, sought the help of the public in solving recently committed crimes. Hence his catchphrase - "keep 'em peeled."
He didn't say "don't have nightmares" though, did he - that was the other one.
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I didn't know he'd taken a peerage - so much for all those years at Loony Left Lambeth council.
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Australian actreess Sophie Heathcote has died suddenly aged 33.Very tragicI can't honestly say I'd heard of her, or anything she'd been in, but where did you hear she'd died? IMDB don't seem to be aware of it.
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The only thing that would persuade me to watch Big Brother or its celebrity equivalent would be if they burned down the house with all inmates inside.
[cut to shots of onlookers pointing and laughing]
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He's doing quite well if he went through Hogmanay without so much as a sip. More than I could manage.
Who is going to contest the leadership? I wonder if Simon Hughes is going to stand again. They do have 64 MPs I believe, but not many who are familiar to the general public.
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Quick! He's on TV right now, in "The China Syndrome" on Channel 4.
For anyone who wanted to know what he looked like in 1979.
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Does anyone still die of a "broken heart?" (other than literally, of course)
Or is that only in tabloids and womens magazines nowadays?
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In my opinion, there is no cause for alarm,I thought about it, but I thought nah, too obvious.
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Just played some poker with the girls. One word= POORgrr..
Are we to understand that you were the only one to end up with no clothes on?
Bit cold for that sort of thing.
But yes the mods can be a little hasty with their delete buttons sometimes - a couple of weeks ago we had some twunt trying to flog phones, and he got shown the door pretty sharpish, but a thread such as this harms no-one.
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The same to you, your Ladyship - those of us who can't be arsed to post more than a couple of times a week have greatly enjoyed your numerous contributions.
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That's interesting, if it's true - I heard a few years ago he'd emigrated to Australia.
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I reckon Near Misses was the right place for it though.