yer man on the panel there seems to say something like "it's a Spitting Image nightmare". Spitting Image back in the 80s was the only show i recall ever actually having a pop at him, constantly having the puppet Jimmy refer to himself as "You sad man".
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
Who are the Fraiser Crane and Johnny Vaughan lookalikes on the panel?
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
I sort of recognise the JV lookalike but I forget who he is.
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link
Andrew O'Connor
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
FC lookalike is James Whale
― Meine Damen und Herren, Kraf-twerk (snoball), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
Andrew O'Connor ended up producing Peep Show - at least I think it's the same guy.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW6qfB-Z3mg"Say everything twice, say everything twice"
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
aye, this is the one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_O%27Connor_(actor)
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
i think that's Coogan doing the voice! never twigged that before.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link
It's Hugh Dennis doing the doctor voice.
― Meine Damen und Herren, Kraf-twerk (snoball), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:33 (ten years ago) link
i venture Kate Robbins as the nurse too maybe.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
That sweatshirt! "I am an animal and I will eat you if I have to" - is that a mid 90s reference I'm missing there or just an utterly bizarre thing to wear on a light entertainment show?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
Not a mid 90s reference AFAIK, just an example of the kind of bizarre stuff Savile would have written on his sweatshirts.
― Meine Damen und Herren, Kraf-twerk (snoball), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
I'd like to kill Jimmy Savile
... from 1978
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:34 (ten years ago) link
I read the comments thread under there. Why did I do that?
― Tim, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
lol @
No wonder his career was over by 1980.
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
so DLT, Rolf Harris and Ken Barlow are all in court today. wtf.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
Dave Lee Travis described as 'opportunist' sex offenderRolf Harris denies 12 indecent assault chargesCoronation Street's William Roache on trial not Ken Barlow, jury told
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/14/dave-lee-travis-trial-fame-target-vulnerable-young-women
Grimly banal:
"Another incident took place in Travis's dressing room as he appeared in a pantomime in Crawley in 1991, the court heard, when the DJ pinned a woman up against the door before shoving his hand down her jogging bottoms.
The assault lasted a matter of seconds, the jury was told, before Travis was interrupted by one of the Chuckle Brothers walking past his dressing room."
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
Roache 'sent autograph after attack'
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Just noticed the three news stories mentioned by snoball on the Guardian's (website) front page. Feels quite ... I dunno ... perhaps anagram nailed it with wtf.
― djh, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
dunno what his defence case is like but this dlt trial is all sorts of horrible
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Friday, 17 January 2014 13:25 (ten years ago) link
Read this in 'The Captive' by Proust just today, struck a chord:
"Lying, though it is so often deceptive and is the basis of all conversation, conceals less thoroughly a feeling of hostility, or of self-interest, or a visit which one wants to appear not to have paid, or a short-lived escapade with a mistress which one is anxious to keep from one's wife, than a good reputation covers up - to the extent of not letting its existence be guessed - sexual depravity."
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 January 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
Does Proust explore the idea of lying being the basis of all conversation more in this book? Sounds interesting
― badg, Friday, 17 January 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
well a large part of that particular volume is about the narrator's obsession with the lies that he and Albertine, his on-off love person, tell each other other, all the time, and that quote feeds into a larger theme about social duplicity and malice amongst the french aristocracy in times past - conversation in proust is p much always a snakepit of deception, snobbery, stupidity etc., all rendered as v. malcious comedy.
sorry this is a way away from rolf roache & DLT
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 January 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
That quote also stood out for me when I re-read The Captive a couple of months ago, more for the "Lying...is the basis of all conversation" is such a hook.
Awesome how you've quoted it here, comes off as even more savage...
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeBwTzzIEAA3qp9.jpg
― piscesx, Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:12 (ten years ago) link
The phrase "rock and hard place" is not remotely adequate
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
Irrelevantly, RIP Lord McAlpine. A man of unimpeachable integrity.
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 18 January 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
So, was there any fire behind the smoke, or was the mistaken identity thing true?
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 18 January 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
lol or maybe he's faked his death to smoke out more internet libellers... wonder how the law stands on that- can you libel someone you reasonably believe to be dead, if they turn out not to be?
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 18 January 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
poor janice
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 18 January 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
On the bright side, Savile clearly not interested.
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
oh god.wish i could unsee that picture ..
― mark e, Saturday, 18 January 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
I was going to say that Savile's motto was "as long as it's got a pulse" except it didn't even need that (if rumours are true)
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 January 2014 12:40 (ten years ago) link
sorry mark!
― piscesx, Sunday, 19 January 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25917895
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
Ken Barlow not guilty
― cyfytlapdbfr? (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 February 2014 12:28 (ten years ago) link
So, DLT and Rolf verdicts to come.
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 February 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
KB was a certainty to be not guilty, i would have put money on it. I reckon DLT will be not guilty too, not sure about Rolf
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
DLT acquitted
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 13 February 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
no justice
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 13 February 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
How do you reckon that, exactly?
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 13 February 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
just being stupid.
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 13 February 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
seriously though, does the CPS need to take a look itself? That's what the papers will be saying I would guess, though of course it was the same moral panic they created that caused allegations like the DLT/Roache ones to come to court.
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 13 February 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
Close Shave For Hairy Cornflake
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 February 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26322552
Love that the picture looks like it was taken just as they told him.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 24 February 2014 11:10 (ten years ago) link
Quack quack oops.
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Monday, 24 February 2014 11:18 (ten years ago) link
https://audioboo.fm/boos/602753-quack-quack-oops
given his acquittal for the other offences there might be an argument that the CPS are being willfully stubborn here
― we sold our Solsta for Rock'n'Roll (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 February 2014 11:22 (ten years ago) link