My friend Alan, who is not a dodo, is a WWII expert.

It's generally best not to get him started... ;-)



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

There were definitely at least two differing versions of 'The Wooden Horse' itself published. When I read the 'revised edition' quite recently it had a foreword by Willaims in which he explained this and mentioned at least one particular ficitonal scene (about the killing of a German sentry) which he'd deleted during the revision. The one that Skiffle has a copy of would probably be from before this change.

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Random quote time (no idea where from though)

"yes it's that time for Ice Cubes down my cleavage... better known as the Colditz Story!"



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

PSD: yours was the leather jacket, wasn't it?



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I was just hoping somebody could identify the quote for me, as I can't place it.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

just googled it, it was on "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again"

8/8 23-12-73 (25-11-73)
Ministerial Broadcast ; Nursery Memories (Cleese solo), resulting in Cleese defecting to Radio Terrapin - Cooking/Gardening/Sport - Eddie Waring Impersonation - Three years later - Radio Hatch takes over; Bring Back Brian Clough ; Ice Cubes Down My Cleavage, or, The Coldtitz Story.

Bring Back Brian Clough! Gosh, I actually remember that one...



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

My name is Angus Prune and I always listen to I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again - as sung each week by Bill Oddie!

Gosh - age has not whithered her memory!

Que?



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Sorry - it's the first lines from the signature tune of a very old BBC radio show called I'm sorry I'll read that Again - in the late 60s/early 70s. Had Bill Oddie (later from the Goodies) and John Cleese and was very funny and weird and brilliant!

Basically my rememberance of this just shows how incredibly sad I really am!

Are you older than Jon, then? Because if so, we have a new oldest member of the Fforum, and my position in the age rankings drops to third. :-)



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Didn't I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again spawn ISIHAC? AS soon as they realised they could get away frothat horrible scriptwriting business...



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Well, age wise I'm at the age where life begins. So, do I take first prize?

I think Clue's been going 32 years now - I certainly remember the first ones very clearly. I've a feeling that David Hatch (as a producer) played a big part in its birth and of course, David Hatch was one of the ISIRTG players. Have been lucky enough to see some of the Clue's being recorded - unfortunately never got to see it before the sad loss of Willie Rushton. If you get the chance, take it.

Damn. Still the oldest by three years. I remember ISIRTA, and I have been a fan of ISIHAC for many, many years (gratuitous Round the Horne reference). But I have never been to a recording, *Jealous fumes*.

ISIRTA did indeed spawn ISIHAC, although only Tim Brooke-Taylor was a regular cast member of both. And, yes, David Hatch can take most of the blame. It was as Ben says an almost completely cynical exercise in building on the success of ISIRTA without the bother of writing a script, but for some reason it (eventually) worked brilliantly. What I want to know is, who had the inspired but not obvious idea of making Humphrey Lyttleton the chairman?

- "Hurry up. I've got a gig in Hull on Thursday ... " - Humph, ISIHAC.

[Note to Americans and other furriners .... it's too long to explain.]



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Well, after Saturday I'll be only 3 years behind Auntysassy, so we seem to be nicely spaced, at least.
So if Sarah is older than I, that would make me fourth, I suspect.



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I'm probably 5th...I'm 33, almost 34

I'm one step behind you
life begins next April
is life good?

Re putting fforumites in order of age _
Ahem. You all seem, despite the fact that my age was one of those discussed only a few months ago, to be forgetting me... Being 43 years old(since March) puts me up in the oldest two or three, doesn't it? At least out of those who are admitting their ages, anyway...

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Simon, for some reason I had you pegged as a University aged guy...LOL
Maybe you just think young or something! (not meant as a bad thing!)

You're right Simon, I'd forgotten. So that puts you pretty close to Jon, actually, and it looks like I'm down to at least 4th or 5th.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith