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#301 JohnM

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Posted 18 February 2013 - 04:25 PM

Sign outside our local butchers. Watership Down: You've read the book...you've seen the film..now eat the stew.

Briers has been in so many things: The Good Life, Ever Decreasing Circles, Monarch of the Glen, Morse, and many many more. He also played Bertie Wooster and Bob The Builder. Sadly missed but sure of an enduring presence on the repeat channels,

#302 Futtocks

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Posted 18 February 2013 - 04:59 PM

He also played Bertie Wooster


He's done some other Wodehouse stuff too; Uncle Dynamite, for one.
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#303 Futtocks

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Posted 20 February 2013 - 02:52 PM

Soft Machine founding member Kevin Ayers.
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones

"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore

"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes

#304 gingerjon

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Posted 20 February 2013 - 03:23 PM

Richard Dawkins

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=hrcQAYS9JtY

Well, not really. Given that he tweeted this.
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#305 Wolford6

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Posted 20 February 2013 - 07:12 PM

Soft Machine founding member Kevin Ayers.


One of the lost talents.
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#306 tonyXIII

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Posted 20 February 2013 - 07:19 PM

Soft Machine founding member Kevin Ayers.


Sad to hear that. I always found his music a bit 'mixed' - some of it was almost nursery rhyme like - but his good stuff was great. The track "May I" on Shooting at the Moon is brilliant and I find the lyrics really appealing. "May I sit and stare at you for a while? I'd like the company of your smile." Exactly how I feel when near a beautiful girl: I want the company of her smile. Brilliant.

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#307 Futtocks

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Posted 22 February 2013 - 04:18 PM

It's been a bad week for Roobarb & Custard - Radio 5 have just announced the death of animator Bob Godfrey.
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones

"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore

"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes

#308 terrywebbisgod

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Posted 22 February 2013 - 06:50 PM

It's been a bad week for Roobarb & Custard - Radio 5 have just announced the death of animator Bob Godfrey.

Time to dig out the Henry's cat videos as a fitting memorial.
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#309 Jeff Stein

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Posted 22 February 2013 - 11:04 PM

Bad news for blues music fans with the deaths of Magic Slim and Cleotha Staples

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Posted 23 February 2013 - 07:56 PM

Obituary: Richard Briers

I am very upset about this, I only watched the first programme in Ever Decreasing Circles this week, and thought how brilliant he was, Roobarb & Custard was the only programme my brother & I watched together, apart from the Clangers.
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#311 longboard

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Posted 28 February 2013 - 01:58 PM

Bruce Reynolds, one of the Great Train Robbery gang.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21617926

#312 l'angelo mysterioso

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Posted 28 February 2013 - 05:50 PM

Bruce Reynolds, one of the Great Train Robbery gang.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21617926



Old thieving thug dies
there are those among us
who think that life is but a joke

#313 longboard

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Posted 28 February 2013 - 07:56 PM

Old thieving thug dies


Not forgetting his other life as a drug dealer........................

#314 l'angelo mysterioso

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Posted 28 February 2013 - 09:26 PM

Not forgetting his other life as a drug dealer........................

aye
there are those among us
who think that life is but a joke

#315 Futtocks

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 09:40 AM

Temptations singer Richard Street.

Edited by Futtocks, 01 March 2013 - 09:40 AM.

"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones

"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore

"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes

#316 Ex-Kirkholt

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 01:23 PM

Bruce Reynolds, one of the Great Train Robbery gang.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21617926

After his national service in the Army, he returned to a life of crime and served four jail terms, mainly for breaking into shops.

But I thought National Service sorted all that kind of thing out ?

Edited by Ex-Kirkholt, 01 March 2013 - 01:36 PM.

Looks like it wer' organised by't Pennine League

#317 Ullman

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 01:34 PM

But I though National Service sorted all that kind of thing out ?

Giving violent criminals military training.

What could possibly go wrong?
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#318 longboard

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 02:02 PM

Giving violent criminals military training.

What could possibly go wrong?


Aye. A great idea to make them fit and give them an experience of discipline and working as a team. Weapons training would also be inspirational............

#319 Griff9of13

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 02:18 PM

I'm sure more than one criminal of that era got their weapons and explosives experience from their time doing national service.
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#320 l'angelo mysterioso

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 02:30 PM

http://www.dailymail...-kept-bars.html

this one certainly did.

he was th subject of a football chant at the tim: "harry roberts is our friend, he kills copper"

sorry it's from the Mail
there are those among us
who think that life is but a joke




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