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By the time the Clangers came along I had reached nearly my present level of metropolitan sophistication, so it was rather kids' stuff, but I remember being delighted by the line from there "How would you feel slaving all day over a hot volcano ?"
Oh, I don't know about kids' stuff. Postgate had a wonderfully sharp eye and a sly sense of humour, which is why his creations have lasted. (I could talk about the episode where the strange machine lands on the Clangers' planet and starts pouring out plastic junk as a searing indictment of market capitalism, but I guess that's more for the M and S boards ....)  |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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Spotted this on a Times webpage about I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: 'Mr Dewhurst's Tongue in Cider' surely? Otherwise it wouldn't be a double entendre, would it? George Garnett, St Albans, UK referring to: "And the night’s offending joke, delivered by Lyttelton with the same enthusiasm that he might have given to reading out Yellow Pages? It was a Samantha one, which had the frisky scorer going to the butchers and ending up “with Mr Dewhurst’s tongue in cider”." |
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« Reply #2237 on: 23:55:40, 22-12-2007 » |
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Oh! I wonder whether that was the George Garnett we all know and love, or whether the 'real' George Garnett (he of the Times Literary Supplement history pages, inter alia) has upped from Oxford and decamped to Snorbens.
Or (a hush descends) whether they are in fact one and the same ...
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #2238 on: 23:58:52, 22-12-2007 » |
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« Reply #2239 on: 14:09:39, 23-12-2007 » |
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Spotted this on a Times webpage about I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: 'Mr Dewhurst's Tongue in Cider' surely? Otherwise it wouldn't be a double entendre, would it? George Garnett, St Albans, UK referring to: "And the night’s offending joke, delivered by Lyttelton with the same enthusiasm that he might have given to reading out Yellow Pages? It was a Samantha one, which had the frisky scorer going to the butchers and ending up “with Mr Dewhurst’s tongue in cider”." One of the Mr Garnetts has asked me to point out that his comment possibly made a bit more sense before the Times corrected the article to which he referred in the way that he suggested. IIRC it said 'Tongue in Ale' before.  More importantly, just popping in briefly from a cybercafe further north even than Ron (but waaaaay further south than Milly in Lapland) to wish all a very Happy Christmas.  |
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« Reply #2240 on: 14:15:30, 23-12-2007 » |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #2242 on: 15:08:15, 23-12-2007 » |
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his comment possibly made a bit more sense before the Times corrected the article to which he referred in the way that he suggested. I thought I'd missed something obvious because that made No Sense To Me At All! Thanks for clearing that one up George. And Merry Christmas!  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #2245 on: 13:53:24, 24-12-2007 » |
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Very many felicitations of the season to GG and everyone else too.
My dog has impeccible timing. Not only does he unfailingly ask to go out to the garden whenever I sit down for a meal, but he has just, with 2 shopping hours left, asked me to get a present for his cat friend, Odin.
I am not of a feline persuasion, and haven't a clue where to start.
So, Catpeople, what do you recommend?
Thanks
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #2246 on: 14:14:36, 24-12-2007 » |
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Maybe one of these ....?  Tommo, you can`t go wrong with a little bag of catnip. They go absolutely ape for it!! |
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« Reply #2247 on: 14:30:14, 24-12-2007 » |
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Ours seem to be very fickle in their choice of toys. We have various fluffy things on springs that don't generally get much attention, but the sheets of crepe paper that were sitting on the kitchen table have been the focus of a good deal of play over the last few days. Other toys that have been in and out of favour have included: - rolled up tinfoil
- kitchen towels (very popular)
- the dogs' tails
- cardboard boxes (very good if you have more than one cat; one can hide inside, and the other can try to get them out
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #2249 on: 15:15:15, 24-12-2007 » |
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Ours is happy at the moment sleeping in a small square washing up bowl... no paper, rug or anything, just the plastic. She did also have a quick run around the box that we had just taken out a new vacuum cleaner... so... anything that is not directly bought for them will do just fine tommo!!!!!
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Well, there you are.
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