From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #23 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, January 17 2002 Volume 11 : Number 023 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Reggie Perrin ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Brit comedy... [grutness@surf4nix.com] BreederBirds ["Redtailed Hawk" ] Re: BreederBirds [Michael R Godwin ] RE: BreederBirds ["Larry O'Brien" ] RE: BreederBirds ["Larry O'Brien" ] UK Fegs: Beware ["Poole, R. Edward" ] Re: UK Fegs: Beware ["matt sewell" ] Re: UK Fegs: Beware ["Mike Wells" ] ambient priests ["Natalie Jane" ] RE: UK Fegs: Beware ["Poole, R. Edward" ] Rubbish TV [tblackman@amadeus.net] RE: fegmaniax-digest V11 #22 ["SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Sonoma,ex1)" ] Hamish-a-go-go ["Mike Wells" ] Re: Rubbish TV [gSs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:20:16 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Reggie Perrin Rob wrote: > > PS Pauline McLynn (Mrs Doyle in Father Ted) is not unattractive when out of > character. She can also write (wrote a chapter in a book written by a number > of Irish authors in aid of Amnesty International). and has a Robyn number of 1; for as far as I can remember, she was also on Boothby Graffoe's "The Condition of The Virgin" on BBC radio. Stewart (who has a CD and MP3 of the whole show -- in only slightly ropey quality too) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:09:21 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Brit comedy... ye gods what memories! >Chelmsford 123 - bliss! Jimmy Mulville as the Roman occupier and Rory >McGrath as the ancient Briton. Lapped it up. Strangely resonant (whoops!) >of the Goodies because JM looks like T B-T and RMcG like BO. 'oh the pleasant village of Rom Ford!' Does it list the sketch show that McGrath, tony Robinson and others did (I think it was called "Who Dares Wins"?)? >Do not adjust your set. Everybody's favourite show, another pre-Python >offering including Bonzo Dog, Palin and Jones, and most eccentric of all, >David Jason as Captain Fantastic in 'Captain Fantastic and the Blit Men'. >Who would have thought he had a career ahead of him? the first TV comedy show I can remember. Very vaguely. (I must have been about five) >The Good Life - not a sensible prog, but worth watching for Paul >Eddington. a friend of my mum's (or, at least, his wife Tris is, although I think she knew Paul as well). >The Goodies - just my sort of thing. Remember the one where they started a >pirate radio station, but had only one record ("A walk in the Black >Forest" by Horst Jankowski)? oh yes. A classic. Somewhere I have their Christmas show on video, where - among other things - they compete in an "It's a knockout" contest that has them climbing Mount Everest via Jack's beanstalk. >Goodness Gracious Me - really just one sketch (the English Meal). But I >like the 2 old ladies who sing songs as well. very patchy show, but some of the running gags are hilarious (such as the guru who knows nothing at all about mysticism so fakes it by explaining myths such as Puff the Magic Dragon to his devotees). >Hancock: Anything by Tony Hancock is all right by me, but I prefer the >early Sid James / Patricia Hayes ones to the later solo efforts. "it is ah-not raining here also!" >Kenny Everett. Great, love it. Repetitive, Kenny? Surely not. Remember >that one with the Bee Gees? oh yes. >The Likely Lads. They're reshowing the 'Whatever happened to' series again >at the moment, but they aren't as good as the first series. James Bolam is >fab, but I've seen them maybe five times too often. I think Bolam's finest hour was the three Beiderbecke series (The B. Tapes, The B. Affair, The B. Connection), where he played opposite Barbara Flynn. A weird but wonderful set of series. >N) Not the nine o'clock news. Whatever happened to Pamela Stephenson? She married Billy Connolly and recently completed a biography of him. She's also working as a psychologist. The stereo shop sketch and 'telephones for the deaf' are amongst that series's highlights for me. >Porridge. I can watch this repeatedly, and do, because it's Ronnie Barker. >Obviously nicked from the film Two Way Stretch, with Barker playing the >Peter Sellers role, Richard Beckinsale taking Bernard Cribbins, and Fulton >Mackay in the Lionel Jeffries part. Series fell apart after Richard >Beckinsale died. "We 'ad a bet on how many bricks there were in the cell wall... there were at least thirty seven!" >Ripping Yarns. Some of them were funny, but others weren't. Palin is >good-natured but lacking in some quality or other. Incisiveness? viciousness probably. Comedy needs at times to be un-good-natured! >Rising Damp. Fun. I like the scenes between Rossiter and de la Tour best. another classic >Yes Minister. Scintillating, spot-on satire. The late Nigel Hawthorne at >his oleagenous best. Paul Eddington on top form. Solid supporting cast. >The later Yes Prime Minister progs were not quite up to the same standard. brilliant. Haven't checked the site to see what's there and what isn't but... others have pointed out a lack of Reggie, and I'd have mentioned (as well as those I mentioned above): - - A bit of Fry and Laurie, - - Alexei Sayle's Stuff (Alexei, of course, also appeared in "Didn't you kill my brother?" - the Comic Strip's finest half-hour). - - Big Train - - Not only but also - - Hm... can't remember the name of it, but the cop show spoof with Jasper Carrott and Robert Powell. - - Only fools and horses. - - Are you being served? (very un-PC and dated now, but...) - - Open all hours - - Shelley. The early series were grat, the last couple crap. - - Red Dwarf - - One foot in the grave I'm intrigued by The Strangerers (by the creators of Red Dwarf, IIRC) and, from the deep dark recesses of my memory, something which was called something like "Never mind the quality, feel the width" with...hm... Milo O'Shea and Alfie Bass? My memory of this is very dim indeed. Anyone help? Sadly you've all probably never seen that Australian masterpiece "The Games" - a fly-on-the-wall documentary following the organisers of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games as they deal with such day-to-day problems as a diving board which has no corresponding pool, Marathon runners having to wear full-length coats to avoid problems from the ozone hole, and a copyright issue raised by a Mr. Syd Games. Very very funny. >Has The League of Gentlemen made it across to the US yet? Now there's a >series to look out for, very sinister and very funny. Includes the first >appearance of a merkin on UK tv to the best of my knowledge. This is a Local shop! For Local people! We'll have no shouting here! >PS Pauline McLynn (Mrs Doyle in Father Ted) is not unattractive when out >of character. She can also write (wrote a chapter in a book written by a >number >of Irish authors in aid of Amnesty International). amazingly, Ardal O'Hanlon (Father Dougal) is an award winning novelist. So I guess that labrador-puppy-like stupidity is all a bit of an act... :) James PS - Steve, those ten tips are some great thoughts to ponder. James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= .-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= You talk to me as if from a distance =-.-=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:35:04 +0000 From: "Redtailed Hawk" Subject: BreederBirds Drew: >Does that make any sense? Yes it does. Very much common sense, as usual. What threw me was the term "screaming breederfag." I figure that's a amalgamationm of the most common hetro/homo insults? Or am I, as usual, slang-retarded? - -------------------------------- Steve: Thanks for the Onion link. I wuv it. But where do the words to live by come from? - ------------------------------- Birds: This week, as Im waiting for my carpool in the morn(meaning right after dawn) a torrent of birds flock along the rosy-lighted treetops of our street. They make a melodious whirring sound, not quite a song but still sweet. My husband thinks maybe they're thrushes. All I can tell is that they're not any our usual visitors: sparrows, crows, robins or morning doves. They seem to have brownish bodies with lighter undersides. Anyone(Nat?) know what they are or what they're doing? - --------------------- Hal--great pics, especially the river ones. - ----------------- Kay Tip # 10 --It's not a circle, it's a spiral. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:04:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: BreederBirds On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Redtailed Hawk wrote: > Birds: > This week, as Im waiting for my carpool in the morn(meaning right after > dawn) a torrent of birds flock along the rosy-lighted treetops of our > street. They make a melodious whirring sound, not quite a song but still > sweet. My husband thinks maybe they're thrushes. All I can tell is that > they're not any our usual visitors: sparrows, crows, robins or morning > doves. They seem to have brownish bodies with lighter undersides. > Anyone(Nat?) know what they are or what they're doing? If you were in the UK, I'd say they were starlings, which flock and whirr in large numbers (or did until the population dropped during the last 10 years). The starling (sturnus vulgaris) hs also been introduced to the US, so it could well be: http://www.yankeegardener.com/birds/starling.htm (but take no notice of that 'jittery squeak' business, they whirr too). Our latest excitement is that a pair of blackcaps (sylvia atricapilla) have turned up in the garden. Don't recall having seen them before. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:14:24 -0500 From: "Larry O'Brien" Subject: RE: BreederBirds Except Starlings are not brown with white underbellies. We have our share of Starlings here in the states as well. Where was the sighting? Did these birds have crests? If they were tan with crests and lighter underbellies then they could be Cedar Waxwings. I have included a picture of one. - -----Original Message----- From: Michael R Godwin [mailto:hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:04 AM To: Redtailed Hawk Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: BreederBirds On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Redtailed Hawk wrote: > Birds: > This week, as Im waiting for my carpool in the morn(meaning right > after > dawn) a torrent of birds flock along the rosy-lighted treetops of our > street. They make a melodious whirring sound, not quite a song but still > sweet. My husband thinks maybe they're thrushes. All I can tell is that > they're not any our usual visitors: sparrows, crows, robins or morning > doves. They seem to have brownish bodies with lighter undersides. > Anyone(Nat?) know what they are or what they're doing? If you were in the UK, I'd say they were starlings, which flock and whirr in large numbers (or did until the population dropped during the last 10 years). The starling (sturnus vulgaris) hs also been introduced to the US, so it could well be: http://www.yankeegardener.com/birds/starling.htm (but take no notice of that 'jittery squeak' business, they whirr too). Our latest excitement is that a pair of blackcaps (sylvia atricapilla) have turned up in the garden. Don't recall having seen them before. - - Mike Godwin [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of CWpyra[1].jpg] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:16:39 -0500 From: "Larry O'Brien" Subject: RE: BreederBirds I guess the listbot stripped out the picture. Here's a link to a picture of a Cedar Waxwing http://www.yankeegardener.com/birds/cedar.htm - -----Original Message----- From: Larry O'Brien Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:14 AM Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: RE: BreederBirds Except Starlings are not brown with white underbellies. We have our share of Starlings here in the states as well. Where was the sighting? Did these birds have crests? If they were tan with crests and lighter underbellies then they could be Cedar Waxwings. I have included a picture of one. - -----Original Message----- From: Michael R Godwin [mailto:hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:04 AM To: Redtailed Hawk Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: BreederBirds On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Redtailed Hawk wrote: > Birds: > This week, as Im waiting for my carpool in the morn(meaning right > after > dawn) a torrent of birds flock along the rosy-lighted treetops of our > street. They make a melodious whirring sound, not quite a song but > still sweet. My husband thinks maybe they're thrushes. All I can tell > is that they're not any our usual visitors: sparrows, crows, robins or > morning doves. They seem to have brownish bodies with lighter > undersides. > Anyone(Nat?) know what they are or what they're doing? If you were in the UK, I'd say they were starlings, which flock and whirr in large numbers (or did until the population dropped during the last 10 years). The starling (sturnus vulgaris) hs also been introduced to the US, so it could well be: http://www.yankeegardener.com/birds/starling.htm (but take no notice of that 'jittery squeak' business, they whirr too). Our latest excitement is that a pair of blackcaps (sylvia atricapilla) have turned up in the garden. Don't recall having seen them before. - - Mike Godwin [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of CWpyra[1].jpg] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:18:39 -0500 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: UK Fegs: Beware I just found out I'll be crossing the pond next week and will be in London Wednesday to Sunday (23-27). [here's the nice thing about making your living suing insurance companies that don't pay -- Lloyd's almost never pays big claims and, if you are lucky, you get free trips to London to negotiate]. My business will be done Thursday evening, but my research discloses that airfare drops from $1250 to $350 if I stay over until Sunday. Since I'm always looking to save my clients' $, I proposed that they pay for my hotel for a few extra days -- and still save $400 net -- and they went for it. Anyway -- I've been to London a couple of times before, but I'm looking for suggestions of the "must see" or "must do" type, particularly ones I'm not likely to find in a travel book. I understand that this Hitchcock fellow is playing at The Garage on Friday, so I think I'll check that out. (any London area Fegs planning to attend? I'd love to see the faces behind the words I read each day! Will I have any trouble getting in, or can I buy tickets at the door? The garage's webpage has a "buy tickets" feature, but it doesn't work yet.) If you have any other suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them. thanks. ============================================================================This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. This communication may contain material protected by attorney-client, work product, or other privileges. If you are not the intended recipient or person responsible for delivering this confidential communication to the intended recipient, you have received this communication in error, and any review, use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, copying, or other distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to postmaster@dsmo.com Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP http://www.legalinnovators.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:38:20 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: UK Fegs: Beware I'll be at the Garage... and I reckon Jim Davis & Tony Blackman will be there... anyone else? Godders? Brian? Rob? I'll be checking the ticket situation out this week or next - if pre-booking is required (which it may well not be), then something can be sorted I'm sure (ie. I can book you one to be collected on the door). Cheers Matt >From: "Poole, R. Edward" >Reply-To: "Poole, R. Edward" >To: "Conewatch (E-mail)" >Subject: UK Fegs: Beware >Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:18:39 - -0500 > >I just found out I'll be crossing the pond next week and will be in London >Wednesday to Sunday (23-27). [here's the nice thing about making your >living suing insurance companies that don't pay -- Lloyd's almost never pays >big claims and, if you are lucky, you get free trips to London to >negotiate]. My business will be done Thursday evening, but my research >discloses that airfare drops from $1250 to $350 if I stay over until Sunday. >Since I'm always looking to save my clients' $, I proposed that they pay for >my hotel for a few extra days -- and still save $400 net -- and they went >for it. > >Anyway -- I've been to London a couple of times before, but I'm looking for >suggestions of the "must see" or "must do" type, particularly ones I'm not >likely to find in a travel book. I understand that this Hitchcock fellow is >playing at The Garage on Friday, so I think I'll check that out. (any London >area Fegs planning to attend? I'd love to see the faces behind the words I >read each day! Will I have any trouble getting in, or can I buy tickets at >the door? The garage's webpage has a "buy tickets" feature, but it doesn't >work yet.) If you have any other suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them. > >thanks. > >============================================================================This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. This communication may contain material protected by attorney-client, work product, or other privileges. If you are not the intended recipient or person responsible for delivering this confidential communication to the intended recipient, you have received this communication in error, and any review, use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, copying, or other distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. > >To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to postmaster@dsmo.com > >Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP >http://www.legalinnovators.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:53:36 -0600 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: UK Fegs: Beware > Anyway -- I've been to London a couple of times before, but I'm looking for > suggestions of the "must see" or "must do" type, particularly ones I'm not > likely to find in a travel book. Suggestions from a tourist: Eat at Geale's or The Upper Street Fishmarket Pay the fee and take the Verger Supertour (at least that's what it used to be called) at Westminster Abbey. Last time it was something like US$16 but worth every pence for a very informative and behind-the-scenes tour. I've taken it each time over. Wander Hampstead Heath and around Highgate Cemetary. It was made widely known via Roger Ebert's "The Perfect London Walk," but I have to agree that it's a wonderful day, especially if the weather's foggy. Be sure to make time for the 'old' side of the cemetary, it's fantastically overgrown (the 'new' side has Karl Marx, Mary Ann Cross, etc) but call ahead as it's only open certain days/times. If you have time, BritRail over to Canterbury and visit the cathedral there. Attend Evensong if at all possible. Avoid venturing near Old Trafford wearing an Arsenal jersey, and vice-versa. Visit the museum at Lord's Cricket Ground. Settle into a nearby pub and have the game explained to you. When sufficiently confused, offer to talk about American car engine sizes. Michael "an American in Preston" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:56:37 -0800 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: ambient priests The last time I was in England (almost five years ago), my Geordie host and his Irish pal were OBSESSED with "Father Ted." I was forced to hear endless quotes from it and was compelled at gunpoint to watch the show itself. It totally passed over my head, due to a combination of British humor and the fact that the show seemed to be based around the notion that priests are inherently funny. They aren't. Not to this heathen, anyway. But kudos for the episode with "Father Eno" - I think I just saw a clip from that. He's very short. As for other British shows, I liked a show called "Rising Damp" when I was a young 'un - this also starred Leonard Rossiter, as I recall. For some reason, my parents allowed me to watch "The Benny Hill Show" which I utterly adored (very juvenile humor). My favorite sketch was a Dickens parody where everyone had ridiculous Dickensian names, e.g. a guy would enter the pub and everyone would cry, "Ah, Mr. Grimblefrubbness!" I graduated to Monty Python, AbFab, and "The Young Ones" when I was older. I remember liking a cartoon called "Bananaman" which featured the voice of some British comedy worthy - someone connected with Monty Python. They showed it after "Dangermouse" sometimes (which is the best cartoon ever). - - Penfold _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:04:46 -0500 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: RE: UK Fegs: Beware Wells: >Pay the fee and take the Verger Supertour (at least that's what it used to >be called) at Westminster Abbey. Last time it was something like US$16 but >worth every pence for a very informative and behind-the-scenes tour. I've >taken it each time over. I did this on my Honeymoon in 1994 (which was 10 days London and 5 days Paris -- in retrospect, we spent too much time in Paris, by about 4 days). My wife was something of a "teacher's pet" on this tour -- every time the guide asked a question, e.g. "so who do YOU think killed the Princes?" -- my wife, the Anglophile that she is, had the answer for him. By the end of the tour, she was literally acting as a co-tour guide -- the "official" guide seemed pleased as punch that he had actually discovered an American who knew some English history. >If you have time, BritRail over to Canterbury and visit the cathedral there. >Attend Evensong if at all possible. Excellent suggestion -- I will try to do so. >Visit the museum at Lord's Cricket Ground. Settle into a nearby pub and have >the game explained to you. When sufficiently confused, offer to talk about >American car engine sizes. I reckon that most of the people in the pub will know more about American car engines than I do. Perhaps I could expound on the Electoral College system, or maybe "The Dangers of Salty Snack Foods Amongst American Political Leaders"? BTW -- I just this moment mailed your Monks of Doom (and some Camper) discs. Shockingly, the Zappa discs made it here on Saturday (so take back all those mean things you said about Illinois postal carriers! Thanks again.) - -ed ============================================================================This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. This communication may contain material protected by attorney-client, work product, or other privileges. If you are not the intended recipient or person responsible for delivering this confidential communication to the intended recipient, you have received this communication in error, and any review, use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, copying, or other distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to postmaster@dsmo.com Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP http://www.legalinnovators.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:20:08 +0000 From: tblackman@amadeus.net Subject: Rubbish TV Probably one for Britfegs only, just in case it's not been mentioned (only get chance to speed read digests these days as they're expecting me to do some work for my money). The best rubbish TV site.... and loads of themes on MP3 too. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:52:28 -0700 From: "SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Sonoma,ex1)" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V11 #22 > nope, that can only go to Absolutely, which did start in 1989 or so, but > ran to four series. STONEYBRIDGE! With it's stoney bridge. (Twinned with the Yetts o' Muckart) > Father Ted was funny, but not really my sort of thing. Feck off ya big hairy bollocks! ;) > The Goodies - just my sort of thing. Remember the one where they started a > pirate radio station, but had only one record ("A walk in the Black > Forest" by Horst Jankowski)? Never understood why they never rebroadcast that. 'specially given the tripe they put on UK Gold! > Morecambe and Wise. Overexposed since they died, but some of the sketches > are still funny. One was a comedy genius, the other was Ernie Wise! > Porridge. I can watch this repeatedly, and do, because it's Ronnie Barker. Another genius! Even "Clarence" was funny. > Has The League of Gentlemen made it across to the US yet? Now there's a series to look out > for, very sinister and very funny. Includes the first appearance of a merkin on UK tv to the > best of my knowledge. "What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here. This is a decent town and a local shop. There's nothing for you here." BBC America on occassion. I'd be interested to see how well it translates to a US audience. > BBCAmerica shows it often. It's one of their staple shows. > They also have some great things that you don't see on > PBS (at least, they don't run on PBS here and didn't in > Chicago that I recall) like "Jonathan Creek" and "Hamish > Macbeth". Both of which only have like, what, 20 episodes? Ah, the heavy weights of British drama (I don't think). And NOBODY in Scotland is called "Hamish"!!! err, Hamish ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:58:05 -0000 From: "Matt Browne" Subject: Memento again Flipping back to a conversation from a couple of weeks ago, apparently the UK retail DVD release of Memento (ie not the rental release) features the ability to watch the film in chronological order. "Most mind-boggling of all, however, is the 'Memento Mori' option in the special features menu, which allows you to play a specially re-edited version of the movie in chronological order, beginning with the end credits running backwards!" Wasn't this something US fegs were complaining about? I'm afraid I skipped most of the original thread. - -- Matt Browne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:25:41 -0600 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Hamish-a-go-go > Ah, the heavy weights of British drama (I don't think). And NOBODY in > Scotland is called "Hamish"!!! Weird...I was just watching the Special Edition DVD version of "Holy Grail" and in one of the alternate vocal tracks (I think the Cleese, Idle, and Palin one), it was noted that the mountaineering 'ranger' - or whatever the region administrator is called - for Glencoe had built the bridge used in the Bridge of Death scene. His name was Hamish MacInnes. Which if you climb, or follow climbing, or even read about mountain climbing at all gives you a bit of a start...as Hamish is one of the world's more reknowned climbers. Tales of and by him can be found in "The Games Climbers Play" at your local bookzeller (an excellent collection even for non-climbers). Intersting that he happened to help out a bunch of nutballs floundering around in the Scottish upcountry by building them a perfectly safe yet rickety-looking mountain bridge. And I've always wondering, what is the correct pronounciation of Hamish ("Ahm-ish," "Ammish"?) Michael "people talk about the dangers faced by professional mountaineers, but what about the dangers of professional Yorkshiremen?" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:52:20 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: Rubbish TV Cool, maybe I can find a copy of the fools and horses theme song. I would like to include the song in a set. It seems like they used originally one song and then switched to another. Or maybe I'm getting the intro confused with the ending. On another note. Has anyone every installed or have experience building a floor protector or hearth pad? Could I use a piece of cement board or wonderboard covered with ceramic tiles in place of a hearth pad on which to place a wood burning heater? On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 tblackman@amadeus.net wrote: > Probably one for Britfegs only, just in case it's not been mentioned (only > get chance to speed read digests these days as they're expecting me to do > some work for my money). The best rubbish TV site.... and loads of themes > on MP3 too. > > ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #23 *******************************