Posted on January 28, 2009 by pop&crisps
I was watching the comedy channel the other night and Man About the House came on. It took me right back! I remember more clearly Robin’s Nest and George and Mildred (both spin-offs for MAtH sharing the characters).
I probably wasn’t allowed to watch the original program as it was considered quite risqué. Watching it in [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2009 by pop&crisps
The Two Ronnies show featured a short film series within the regular sketch show. One of these was a spoof sci-fi The Worm That Turned, this was 1980 but I’m thinking of it as Seventies. Watch it and you’ll see what I mean. Those leather hotpants are pure Seventies.
A highlight for my fevered prepubescent lesbian [...]
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Posted on January 14, 2009 by pop&crisps
Does anyone know why the Brotherhood of Man had two women in it? I never understood that as a child, why wasn’t it the Siblinghood of People? Or if it were the Brotherhood of Man then it should all be men, shouldn’t it? Of course, the whole ‘two men two women’ thing was modelled on Abba [...]
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Posted on January 7, 2009 by pop&crisps
Kim P Moody watches Formula One Racing
Well done to Lewis Hamilton for winning the 2008 F1 World Championship, with McLaren, and his ensuing MBE. We won’t mention his friends in the Toyota team …
But back in the 70s we had real F1 heroes, like Niki Lauda. Lauda’s first F1 race was the Austrian Grand Prix [...]
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