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Martle, I cannot believe that you actually took the time to track down a picture of white dog poo!!  Hang on, what am I saying? Of course I believe it!  |
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« Reply #61 on: 13:54:04, 21-01-2008 » |
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Mort, Poogle Google is a wonderful thing.  |
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« Reply #62 on: 13:58:53, 21-01-2008 » |
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Poogle - isn't that the search site where the geeks paint themselves blue?
Using Poogle's wode, naturally!
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« Reply #63 on: 14:11:52, 21-01-2008 » |
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Mr Dough, that may be the worst pun that I`ve heard this year! However, to return to redundant matters .... the mangle. I never used one but my mother did. All that wrestling and getting hot and bothered trying to get sheets through and, oh, the mess! Water all over the place and you still ended up with an armful of sodden, heavy sheets. No thank you.  |
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« Reply #64 on: 14:27:36, 21-01-2008 » |
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Copper and mangle, replaced by the twin-tub, Mort: thankfully that piece of machinery is also virtually a thing of the past now - except in theatre wardrobe departments, where they're still standard issue.
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« Reply #65 on: 14:48:36, 21-01-2008 » |
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...replaced by the twin-tub, Mort: thankfully that piece of machinery is also virtually a thing of the past now - except in theatre wardrobe departments, where they're still standard issue.
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« Reply #66 on: 14:59:02, 21-01-2008 » |
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Ha! Maybe for the starry soloists! For us plebs it's more like this:  |
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I'm afraid that all that Lottery cash spent on theatres went only as far as the pass door, GG: there are many theatres in the UK whose backstage areas (apart from lighting and machinery) have barely changed since I started slogging round them in the 70s, working with actors who claimed that things had hardly changed since the end of the war (which means in effect the beginning of it, I suppose). Sadly no one at the Arts Council ever seems to have grasped the fact that money spent on venues is to a certain extent dead expenditure, and that a groundbreaking small company on a shoestring in a barn or a battered old flea-pit can bring far more joy to an audience than an extravagantly renovated Palace which stands dark and empty for most of the year because there's no money left to fund performances therein.
Star dressing rooms are another matter: I've worked with a few 'names' who wouldn't even walk into a theatre at the beginning of a run unless their room had been refurbished to their exact specifications. In the early 80s the Palladium had one room with jacuzzi, four more with showers, and the rest with nothing but very basic sinks and very little ventilation - just a small window opening out onto a light well. When I returned five years later, nothing had changed. I was back again five years after that, and I was still exactly the same....
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I was back again five years after that, and I was still exactly the same....
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« Reply #69 on: 16:01:48, 21-01-2008 » |
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I was back again five years after that, and I was still exactly the same....
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« Reply #70 on: 16:05:09, 21-01-2008 » |
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The Palladium Dressing Room of Dorian Dough. |
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« Reply #71 on: 17:05:00, 21-01-2008 » |
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* Actually, in practice, it's much more expensive. What I han't realised when I signed up with Mick the Milkman is that he is always doing things like having all his hair cut off or sitting in baths of baked beans for charity. It puts the unit price per pinta up to alarming levels.  |
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« Reply #72 on: 17:06:31, 21-01-2008 » |
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And while we are being scatological, hard lavatory paper. Now that really gives my age away.
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« Reply #73 on: 17:17:57, 21-01-2008 » |
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And while we are being scatological, hard lavatory paper. Now that really gives my age away.
A step up from sun-dried corn-cobs though. My family aspired to such luxury! Alas, we were too poor. We`d to make do with cinders from the Poorhouse. |
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« Reply #74 on: 17:25:00, 21-01-2008 » |
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I can understand white poo becoming scarce. How has white poo become redundant? Is there something else that adequately and interchangeably replaces white poo? I hate to be a pedant in this regard.
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