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well, other than the ones mentioned..... Life & Death of Colonel Blimp is a masterpiece, albeit only partially about WW2. Small Back Room another classic about the war back home, bomb squad n all that. Thirty Second Over Tokyo is a cracker, about the first US attack on Japan. And one has to...

Kanda: too lazy to grind. Electric grinders are strictly for Thora Hird types, or people with Beadle-like hand issues.

Arthritic actually.

Oh i'd also like some classic Victoria Wood stuff *awaits abuse* :D. Maybe some Wood & Walters that was made for Granada as i haven't seen them since i was a kid. Loved the sketch where Julie Walters is the assistant in the boutique with a machine gun :D :cool: Oh and Alan Bennetts 'Talking...

I haven't watched it since Thora Hird died. While she was on I used to watch it every week for my regular sunday wank.

I don't believe that for a second. :D Racist namedropping here, was on first-name terms with ex-NF chairman Ian Anderson when I lived in Epping. Seemed such a nice bloke who we'd meet down the pub, until somebody mentioned a far-right connection then a Google search. :eek:

Dunno what the OP is on about but shall we have a list of celebrity racists? ....and then we could vote on it or summut... Please bear in mind these are just unsubstantiated rumours and that... 1/ Sir Patrick Moore - apparently set up his own far right party and advertised his house as...

I've heard the Saudis are quite interested in getting Harry Secombe and Thora Hird over to Mecca to sing a few hymns at the end of Ramadan. Unfortunately they're both dead. :(

... But he also gave us Thora Hird!

Anyone seen A Boy a Girl and a Bicycle? it was filmed in 1949 in and around Hebden Bridge and starred Diana Dors, Honor Blackman, Anthony Newley and Thora Hird. It used to get shown in Hebden Bridge every year during the arts festival. :cool:

The sleeping giants got a little closer to waking up this morning . . . Tottenham agree fee for Berbatov: Tottenham have agreed a fee of £10.9m for Bayer Leverkusen's Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov. He has agreed personal terms and will sign on 1 July, subject to being granted a work...

bwahaha. sleeping giants?!?! you came fifth last year mate! would that not suggest you have woken up? and yeah, you need at least six other players, otherwise you'd only have 453 on your books. and where do you get this money from? you seem to have an awful lot of it.

I think there's a lyricism, and a cadence in northern working class comics' speech, from Kay to Wood to Dawson, which appeals to the north-west, I like to think because we're nearly all Irish in some way, and we have an ear for it! :D I can hear a lilting tension in northern comics voices...

Top post Wookey! Thanks mate, there's a lot of food for thought there. I agree about the brashness and entrepreneurialism not being as common up north. I liked what you said about finding words funny just for the sake of them. I think sometimes, they're the bits that I don't "get". Some of that...