https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XFITZY3mfHk/maxresdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EmKCLju7gto/hqdefault.jpg
― soref, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 11:00 (one year ago) link
A wonderfully random collection of celebs (Rod Hull and Emu, Scorpio, Roy Castle, Ronnie Corbett, Faith Brown, Henry Cooper, Michael Fish) were out and about during a British Turkey Christmas Charity event in 1991. pic.twitter.com/1rGYRQHzp0— Archivetvmusings (@archivetvmus71) December 3, 2019
pictures that look like they could have been created by a DALL-E prompt:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EK2mF_sWsAEwReS?format=jpg&name=medium
(the proper version and not the basic free one obviously, because otherwise they'd all have Francis Bacon faces)
― soref, Thursday, 23 June 2022 07:07 (one year ago) link
rod hull looking like he has two fake arms
― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 23 June 2022 07:18 (one year ago) link
If you click through, the first reply to that tweet says "Jesus. Apart from Michael Fish, the rest are all dead", however I've checked and Scorpio from Gladiators is alive, well and due to appear at St Albans Comic-Con next month. Faith Brown is also still with us.
― soref, Thursday, 23 June 2022 07:31 (one year ago) link
http://www.tvcream.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/1980.jpg
Although it's a reference to For Your Eyes Only, with Janet Brown as Margaret Thatcher, this was apparently set up to advertise the fact that The Man with the Golden Gun was first shown on UK TV on Christmas Day, 1980. What a bleak, bleak world it was back then. Given the era, the film probably had something like twelve million viewers, or something. This was back when the Argos catalogue had topless women in the sunbed section. I used to like looking at the women in bikinis wearing those muscle training pad things. And then many years later Kink.com appeared and I realised I would never be lonely.
What was the BBC's big film on Christmas Day, 1980? The premieres of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which came out in 1954, and Airport '75, which was the one where a light aircraft crashes into an airliner and Charlton Heston has to rescue everybody.
The BBC was also in the process of showing Battle of the Planets, which for many people my age would have been the first exposure to the popular Anime look, and also panties and gender ambiguity. "Princess is in great danger from Zoltar when she loses her special G-Force shoe", apparently. The episode was of course "Museum of Mystery", although in the United States it probably had a different name because the whole thing was hacked together from a different cartoon:https://www.battleoftheplanets.info/ep74.html
That was how the establishment eased us into the first year of Margaret Thatcher's reign. The sex, the perversity, fucking in the streets, the wanton cruelty, the lust, the tight skirts - that came later.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 23 June 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
https://ibb.co/Dp6nPDkhttps://ibb.co/5RMv2ct
― the life of a rebo band is always intense (emsworth), Thursday, 23 June 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
Ha whoops
― the life of a rebo band is always intense (emsworth), Thursday, 23 June 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
This was back when women were alien space creatures that didn't exist. They were the other. It's disappointing that Jimmy Saville's answer to the question of "What I Want in a Wife" wasn't more creepy. People will probably laugh at us in thirty years.
Sidney Shipton is a man after my own heart. "She should be reasonably attractive and intelligent, but not more intelligent than me". I can get behind that. He seems to have been one of those quasi-celebrities who might have been familiar to people who read the newspapers in 1975, but not otherwise.
When they asked Ian McKellen what he looked for in a wife I'm curious as to whether McKellen made a pact with the interviewer to go along with the charade, or whether he went along because he felt he had to.
Oh, this was covered on this very website in 2017. It's from Cosmopolitan:What I Want In A Wife article from Cosmopolitan (April 1972) - least vile man on this list?
There was a third panel:https://emmapeelpants.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/wife3.jpg
Sheila Ravenscroft was indeed shorter than John Peel.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 24 June 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
The Rod Hull and friends shoot couldn’t have been 91 as UK Gladiators only started in 92
(Really important correction)
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 24 June 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
"she doesn't exist" is barely going along with the charade, though.
― soref, Saturday, 25 June 2022 11:20 (one year ago) link
The Rod Hull and friends shoot couldn’t have been 91 as UK Gladiators only started in 92(Really important correction)― Master of Treacle, Friday, 24 June 2022 23:00 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 24 June 2022 23:00 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
looks like the Rod Hull/Scorpio Turkey photoshoot is from 1 December 1992, the other pictures with Faith Brown, Ronnie Corbett etc are a different photoshoot from 20 November 1991
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-rod-hull-and-emu-seen-here-atttacking-gladiator-scorpio-during-british-82136624.html
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-rod-hull-and-emu-seen-here-attacking-ronnie-corbett-as-left-to-right-82137706.html
― soref, Saturday, 25 June 2022 11:36 (one year ago) link
If only Immanuel Velikovsky was still alive. He would come up with a theory that the 1991 British Turkey Christmas photoshoot was actually the same photoshoot as the 1992 British Turkey Christmas photoshoot, and that our current dating of UK Gladiators was incorrect. And that the year 1990 did not happen. And that Not with a Bang and Lazarus and Dingwall were in fact the same television programme.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 25 June 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
Mr Pastry Pop A Part Target Game
https://i.imgur.com/ZANPHRc.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 9 July 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
You could hold up an old style barbers with that replica shooter there...
― Mark G, Saturday, 9 July 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
I don't know how anyone could bring themselves to point a gun at Mr Pastry's poor hapless face
― soref, Saturday, 9 July 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/gavin-campbell-gives-cleo-rocos-a-wheelie-wobble-test-in-london-at-a-photocall-for-the-television-programme-thats-life-2775949a
https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/preview/2775949a/daef6fea/Shutterstock_2775949a.jpg
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:09 (nine months ago) link
a lost world for real
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:20 (nine months ago) link
that's life
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:26 (nine months ago) link
Before I saw the link text I was wracking my brain trying to remember who Gavin Campbell was
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:43 (nine months ago) link
Plainly a very talented man.
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:49 (nine months ago) link
the lost world of British light entertainment still lives on via Jess Conard's twitter account
https://i.imgur.com/jHMIy10.png
― soref, Sunday, 3 September 2023 10:34 (six months ago) link
Was going to say he's missed out "Diddy" David Hamilton but maybe "Diddy" David Hamilton doesn't have a twitter account.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 September 2023 10:41 (six months ago) link
don't think David's 1974 book David Hamilton's Beauty Tips for Women has been posted yet
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/K4sAAOSwECRg-UZT/s-l400.jpg
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UZQAAOSw0c1g-UZV/s-l400.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 3 September 2023 10:59 (six months ago) link
Errrrrr.....
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 September 2023 11:04 (six months ago) link