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Isn't that just this thing from a few years ago?

I thought that said Des O'Connor at first.

Is Des dead, or is that Bob Monkhouse, and Des is of the many whose death will be reported and everyone will go ‘I thought he already was’.

cosmictanya wrote:

Is Des dead, or is that Bob Monkhouse?

As far as I'm aware, they both are.

I have no trouble differentiating those two, it's the O'Connor/Doonican confusion I can't resolve.

Bill Oddie being one of the only ever people to initially refuse to appear on This Is Your Life. I remember seeing this at the time.

Refusal from 1:36

YouTube knows me so well.



It has become a favourite.

Butterfield wrote:

Bill Oddie being one of the only ever people to initially refuse to appear on This Is Your Life. I remember seeing this at the time.

Refusal from 1:36

I’d refuse too. I hated everything about it. The theme tune, the studio set, the lighting, the presenters, the self indulgent C list mawkishness of the whole thing. Having to sit there smiling while people you’d met a few times decades ago paid tribute as if you were dead. The whole concept is just unspeakable. Even if they’d livened it up from time to time by having someone appear to say ‘yeah I remember her well, what a bitch’, but they never did. It was just something to be got through before whatever was on after.

It was just basically a funeral. A televised funeral for a living person. Horrible. By the time an episode was over, you felt the same as if you’d emerged from back row of a crematorium.

What use would anyone have for an old book of bull about how great you are, replete with anecdotes about the time you made everyone cups of tea backstage at Crewe Theatre.

Learning to count sheep (the Lincolnshire way).



A haunting reminder of the true language of this land.

It makes you think to realise those are words Julius Caesar would have heard when he landed in 55 BC.

Ooh, dwi ddim yn hoffi edrychiad hwn

Wikipedia wrote:

Yan Tan Tethera or yan-tan-tethera is a sheep-counting system traditionally used by shepherds in Northern England and some other parts of Britain. The words are numbers taken from Brythonic Celtic languages such as Cumbric which had died out in most of Northern England by the sixth century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan_tethera

Yan, tan, tetheran, heathera, leathera, weathera, feathera, bothera, brother anothera