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Post by jean on Apr 1, 2011 17:29:59 GMT
If you're talking about the Dimbleby Spaghetti thing, it was 19 57. Hardly anybody had heard of pasta... Not quite true. They knew it came in tins - they just weren't quite clear where it had been before. I always regretted that I only knew of both of these after the event (we didn't have a TV in 1957), so I don't know if I'd have been fooled.
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Post by Weyland on Apr 1, 2011 18:29:45 GMT
If you're talking about the Dimbleby Spaghetti thing, it was 19 57. Hardly anybody had heard of pasta... Not quite true. They knew it came in tins - they just weren't quite clear where it had been before. Not quite quite true. We knew about tinned spaghetti (and macaroni), but not the word pasta. My daughter practically lives on pasta — all kinds, with all kinds of sauces. My son hardly eats it, unless he's in Britain, and then he wants Heinz tinned spaghetti — regular, hoops, or alphabetti. Beats me. We got TV in 1955. Me dad had got a bonus from the shipyard — Swan Hunter. Those were the days. Stuck in my mind: KB, 105 guineas at Bainbridges (John Lewis).
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Post by riotgrrl on Apr 1, 2011 19:49:29 GMT
But again, it's pointless and not funny. The point is to fool you. And what is funny is the fact that you were fooled. If the set-up is too funny in itself, it'll be a good joke maybe, but it won't work as a hoax, because you'll spot it too easily. But why would you want to do that? (To fool me). It's not clever enough to be a wind-up. What's funny about persuading someone that a name has changed when it hasn't?
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Post by riotgrrl on Apr 1, 2011 19:51:21 GMT
But even if people were momentarily fooled (perhaps they were not familiar with printer vocabulary?), why didn't they just look at their atlas/globe and realise that no such place existed? They didn't, though. Remember it was a long time ago (1977 to be exact) when it was the height of adventure just to get as far as Benidorm. It was revisited in 1999 In 1977 I was listening to the Sex Pistols. I was fooled by nothing.
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Post by aubrey on Apr 1, 2011 20:59:52 GMT
Apart from The Sex Pistols ( "ever get the feeling you've been 'ad?") This wasn't a bad one. It fooled me until about 3/4 of the way through - it is just like the kind of piece that they have in that section. The whole thing, though bizarre, is not really unbelievable. I was told a couple of days ago that, seen at the Van Der Graaf Generator concert at the Barbican on Sunday were Stewart Lee (which I might have expected, him being a Fall fan - Mark E Smith likes VDGG) and Simon Calder, which is just as weird as Derek Dougan liking psychedelic groups. (I might have gone to the VDGG concert myself, but I'd have had to book it too early to be sure that I could go.)
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Post by Weyland on Apr 1, 2011 21:34:58 GMT
They didn't, though. Remember it was a long time ago (1977 to be exact) when it was the height of adventure just to get as far as Benidorm. It was revisited in 1999 In 1977 I was listening to the Sex Pistols. I was fooled by nothing. Yes you were. You were listening to the Sex Pistols. OK, so it's not as foolish as listening to Oasis, or Britney Spears, or Elton John, but it's bad enough.
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Post by aubrey on Apr 2, 2011 9:05:41 GMT
The Sex Pistols were good, Weyland, especially when you first heard them.
One of my big regrets is that we didn't go to see them playing at a pub in Scunthorpe in 1975, I think it was - maybe 76.
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Post by Weyland on Apr 2, 2011 9:53:39 GMT
The Sex Pistols were good, Weyland, especially when you first heard them. I'll have to take your word for it, Aub. I'm set in my musical ways. Having said that, I had an inexplicable sudden irresistible craving for Manhattan Transfer the other week. Scoured the Web to no avail, and even Amazon didn't seem to have the track I needed. Eventually I did find it, on Amazon, and downloaded it. Bliss. Smooth Operator. By Sade. Peculiar thing, is the brain. I still have no idea why I got this craving. Perhaps unseen Higher Powers are playing with me. If it's any consolation, nobody on this Board made it to the legendary Scunthorpe extravaganza. (I can remember being on a Board once which auto-censored the word Scunthorpe. Anyone else ever see that?)
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Post by aubrey on Apr 2, 2011 9:57:10 GMT
I wondered about that as I wrote it.
If you lived in Gainsborough, Scunthorpe was a big day out.
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Post by Weyland on Apr 2, 2011 11:09:18 GMT
I wondered about that as I wrote it. If you lived in Gainsborough, Scunthorpe was a big day out. My late wife's late parents-in-law lived in Gainsborough. They weren't at the gig either. (I assume. Never met them.)
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Post by everso on Apr 2, 2011 14:53:33 GMT
What was it censored to? Sladiesbitshorpe?
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Post by Weyland on Apr 2, 2011 15:01:24 GMT
What was it censored to? Sladiesbitshorpe? Of course not. That would be silly. Scockhorpe.
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Post by aubrey on Apr 2, 2011 15:29:37 GMT
You know the joke about the three football teams with a swear word in their name don't you? I think I've even done it on here.
Arsenal.
Scunthorpe.
Fucking Man United.
(I love it for the glee with which my brother told it to me.)
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Post by Weyland on Apr 2, 2011 15:52:49 GMT
You know the joke about the three football teams with a swear word in their name don't you? I think I've even done it on here. Arsenal. Scunthorpe. Fucking Man United. (I love it for the glee with which my brother told it to me.) I LOVE that. I LOVE your brother. I LOVE you, Aub. (I do not love Leeds United, but that's another story.) I think I've mentioned this before, but what the hell . . . There's a pub in Byker, The Glendale Arms, that has two arrow signs in the Gents: <==<< Urinal and Arsenal >>==>
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