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@toybulldog wrote:

@esmeralda wrote:

JUST FOR MEN (because you’re worth it?)

nNO

how can you be winning you seems mostlya bit fick ??

I resemble that remark! :twisted:

P.s you are having Mao Tse-Tung’s chin wart on your head.

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I shop online and have done my main Christmas shopping in tandem with birthday present buying, this past week.
Admittedly i’ve been pulling my hair out, buying threeways and splitting my choices between the PDSA, the RSPB and John Lewis…and throwing a hissy fit with the girl on the switchboard at the PDSA when the online service wouldn’t take orders and having my my charitable affiliations well tested when she announced that they had run out of free ‘mystery gifts.’
Still. it was my own stupid fault for ordering at the tail-end of Mercury-retrograde..i’ll be lucky if I recieve half my stuff by next Whitsun and doubtless the personalised items when they DO arrive will be spelled in Lithuanian and the Hampers will be minus the cognac and we’ll still be beating down the doors of Victoria Wines at midnight on Christmas Eve and mugging hapless santa’s for their sacks as they stagger home from Toys R us , merry on 100% proof mince pies. :twisted:

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@rubyred wrote:

@prettypink wrote:

@*Dawny* wrote:

@prettypink wrote:

@*Dawny* wrote:

Aint been out in soooooo long

Get the PP one up, I will meet you in Edinburgh, get bladdered with ya both!

God! not today though eh? I gotta go get me shoes :wink:

Hahaha no not today hen, you go get your shoes :lol:

Phew! fought i was gonna have to pack! lol! will do it one day though Dawny..xx

I could have brought you a pair of odd shoes Pip.. as i have a habit of losing one ,, well apart from the foxes who demolished an entire pair o embroidered pumps ! kunts ! You would be all the rage walking around Edinburgh in one high heel and one flattie.. especially in the Gay quarter :)

ESPECIALLY in the gay quarter? Ha..they’re all gay in Edinburgh! :P

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@toybulldog wrote:

Have to pretty much agree with Esme.

Spike’s 70 tv series (Milligan has not been mentioned yet ?)

Boosh
Fawlty Towers
Steptoe
bits of Rab C
peep show
early Fools + Horses
Benny Hill
python
father ted

Yep..the Q series were anarchic and brilliantly hit or miss. Remember that the likes of Python and Q were not by definition actual sitcoms though.

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I have to be honest and say that most of the sitcoms mentioned on here so far, have acquired a status that comes only with looking back through rose-tinted-glasses. Most..when examined up against the cold light of 2008, fall into the comfy and twee categories, rather than genuinely clever and belly-laugh funny.
Piled up in the C&T corner are the likes of the ON THE BUSES, TERRY AND JUNE, ROBIN’S NEST, GEORGE AND MILDRED et al. Indeed most of the stuff produced in the sixties and seventies with the exceptions of HANCOCK’S HALF HOUR, STEPTOE, DAD’S ARMY, REGGIE PERRIN, and FAWLTY TOWERS, rarely rose above the “more tea, vicar?” quaintness of English suburban niceness.
So if it’s nostalgia which lends the canned laughter to RISING DAMP or MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE…what is it that quantifies the genuinely funny article from the mildly heartwarming?
Intelligence, sharp biting wit, a sense of the absurd played out against normality..all of these scamper and tumble through the best that the eighties, nineties and noughties brought to the bigger, better and sharper screens in the corners of our sitting-rooms.
Enter YES MINISTER, BLACKADDER,ONE FOOT, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED.
Oh and perhaps I should make mention of FATHER TED, arguably the most adroit and nimble of comedies this side of anywhere, ever.
An honourable mention to GREENWING and BOOSH and then I really must retire for a cup of Mrs. Doyle’s tea. I don’t really want one..but she insists.

TED CAN’T SLEEP

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It’s uplifting to know Sunny hasn’t lost any of her humour. Thanks for keeping us posted, Pats. x

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Here, old meets new with a games video accompanying a beautiful Burns song which is a partypiece of mine that maybe I’ll get around to youtubing one of these fine days..in the meantime..

Ca’ the Yowes
Chorus
Ca’ the yowes to the knowes,
Ca’ them where the heather grows,
Ca’ them where the burnie rowes,
My bonie dearie.

Hark, the mavis e’ening sang
Sounding Clouden’s woods amang
Then a-faulding let us gang.
My bonie dearie.

Chorus

We’ll gae down by Clouden side,
Thro the hazels, spreading wide
O’er the waves that sweetly glide
To the moon sae clearly.

Chorus

Yonder Clouden’s silent towers
Where, at moonshine’s midnight hours,
O’er the dewy bending flowers
Fairies dance sae cheery.

Chorus

Ghaist nor bogle shalt thou fear
Thou’rt to Love and Heav’n sae dear
Nocht of ill may come thee near,
My bonie dearie.

Chorus

Meaning of unusual words:
yowes=ewes
knowes=knolls, hills
burnie=small stream
rowes=rolls along
mavis=song thrush
a-faulding=put in a sheep fold
gang=go
gae=go
ghaist=ghost
bogle=demon

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@cymorill wrote:

Congrats mims :D , i always knew you had talent. *hugs* xxxx

I think i will keep my stuff where it is, my mindless drivel is best getting buried and lost at times lol.

That’s a shame, Cymorill, I particularly enjoyed your last poem.

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@toybulldog wrote:

as long as we get to choose ourn own titles, and ther better not be any travel plans lying around for siberia from thomas cook.

cos my gulag stuffs staying where it is

I’m in.
x

Good that man! Now choose your title and get posting :P

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