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- 20 Jul 2016, 20:46
- Forum: General Natter
- Topic: Last Song You Listened To
- Replies: 7386
- Views: 420307
Re: Last Song You Listened To
Harry Chapin's W*O*L*D. The music is pretty, but the lyrics are rather depressing. With very few exceptions, deejays spend most of their careers moving from station to station across the country... "That's how this business goes." The character in Harry's song wasted most of his life tryin...
- 18 Jul 2016, 07:23
- Forum: The Books
- Topic: Characters' First Names in the Books
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8094
Re: Characters' First Names in the Books
Binkie might just come from Binkie Stuart (real name: Elizabeth Alison Fraser) a British child actress who was marketed as the British answer to Shirley Temple. Sadly, a planned move to Hollywood never eventuated because of World War II. Here's Binkie at the height of her career in Moonlight Sonata ...
- 16 Jul 2016, 14:37
- Forum: General Natter
- Topic: Dr Who
- Replies: 855
- Views: 46430
Re: Dr Who
The major problem with "The Enemy of the World" is, as has been pointed out, Troughton frequently visits the 21st century, yet no-one ever says "Hold on, you look just like Salamander, that world saviour/dictator who iinexplicably vanished in 2017."
- 15 Jul 2016, 18:01
- Forum: Other Authors
- Topic: E. Nesbit - The Railway Children, etc.
- Replies: 143
- Views: 21623
Re: E. Nesbit - The Railway Children, etc.
Nostalgic, innocent yet poignant at the same time, The Railway Children was a beautifully made film.The idea of a father being wrongly imprisoned and the family falling into despair was touching. This was what I would call a quintessentially 'English' film.
- 15 Jul 2016, 11:35
- Forum: General Natter
- Topic: Dr Who
- Replies: 855
- Views: 46430
Re: Dr Who
Chris Eccleston recently gave an interview supporting an anti-bullying campaign and revealing that as a child he had both been bullied and been a bully himself.
- 15 Jul 2016, 11:33
- Forum: The Books
- Topic: What do you think about the fagging custom at St. Clare's?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 5410
Re: What do you think about the fagging custom at St. Clare'
MJE has never seen the Muppet Show, i gather?
- 14 Jul 2016, 14:00
- Forum: Blyton On TV
- Topic: Gary Russell Speaks
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7687
Re: Gary Russell Speaks
If Gary was almost three decades younger, he would have been excellent for a role in the Harry Potter movies.
- 12 Jul 2016, 06:57
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Lines you would never hear in Enid Blyton!
- Replies: 922
- Views: 130788
Re: Lines you would never hear in Enid Blyton!
"Moonface, why did the Land of Little Old Ladys have to land on top of the tree?!"
- 12 Jul 2016, 06:53
- Forum: General Natter
- Topic: General Natter Room
- Replies: 11266
- Views: 381135
Re: General Natter Room
Yes, hence the joke of a female Dr Who visiting the Planet of Shoes and Shopping as much as Earth
- 08 Jul 2016, 23:23
- Forum: The Books
- Topic: What Enid Blyton book are you reading right NOW!
- Replies: 8276
- Views: 554454
Re: What Enid Blyton book are you reading right NOW!
I remember reading both Enid Blyton and Arthur Ransome and often finding hard to imagine how the adventures would work out if the protagonists were in possession of a bladder and bowel!
- 04 Jul 2016, 14:59
- Forum: The Books
- Topic: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
- Replies: 6221
- Views: 356833
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Re-reading MT and SC, it's hardly a flattering portrayal of English social attitudes in the 1940s and 50s, is it? If anyone is interested in this, there is an excellent story that I read about the end of WWII in Britain told through the eyes of a 12 year old girl who was evacuated to the States at a...
- 03 Jul 2016, 21:38
- Forum: General Natter
- Topic: General Natter Room
- Replies: 11266
- Views: 381135
- 03 Jul 2016, 11:44
- Forum: General Natter
- Topic: General Natter Room
- Replies: 11266
- Views: 381135
Re: General Natter Room
I think me and my brother would have qualified as Blyton villains or at least in need of a visit from the brownies, because when we were 10, we were at a local fete and a guy in a costume was handing out lolly bags to kids who put 20 cents into the hole in the costume. Well, we didn't have 20 c so w...
- 02 Jul 2016, 10:12
- Forum: The Books
- Topic: The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2512
Re: The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters
No. I'm more like Darren Gregory from DW fandom who has made stuff up about missing episodes since the 1980s. I stayed on the legal side of making stuff up to get interest.
- 01 Jul 2016, 17:38
- Forum: The Books
- Topic: The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2512
Re: The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters
I know but Bets is also eight... her version of nasty letters would be somewhat different from June Johns.