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Forum: Home Base 04-12-2020, 10:08 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
By strange coincidence, I was talking to Dad...

By strange coincidence, I was talking to Dad about that very episode just minutes ago.

I don't think that it would have travelled well though. :)
Forum: Home Base 04-12-2020, 09:01 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
I hadn't heard that. Poor old Tim. He was...

I hadn't heard that. Poor old Tim.

He was also great in 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' with John Cleese amongst others, and a long running panellist on 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' both on the...
Forum: Home Base 03-16-2020, 01:07 PM
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Posted By Carruthers
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Forum: Home Base 11-28-2019, 05:15 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
Not only have Clive James and Jonathan Miller...

Not only have Clive James and Jonathan Miller departed this mortal vale of tears, but celebrity chef Gary Rhodes has also made his last souffle.

I do hope no one is unkind enough to dance on his...
Forum: Home Base 09-16-2019, 03:56 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
A couple of extracts from his obituary in this...

A couple of extracts from his obituary in this morning's Daily Telegraph.







BiB I doubt very much that I would have gone anywhere near an aircraft ever again after an experience like...
Forum: Home Base 08-26-2019, 01:28 PM
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Posted By Carruthers
I remember Capt. Haynes and the Sioux City...

I remember Capt. Haynes and the Sioux City accident.

It was a remarkable feat of airmanship to have put the aircraft down under the circumstances without greater loss of life.

By coincidence,...
Forum: Home Base 08-20-2019, 05:15 PM
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Posted By Carruthers
He's brought down the curtain and joined the...

He's brought down the curtain and joined the choir invisible...

He is an ex-actor, he is bereft of life...
Forum: Home Base 03-01-2019, 02:25 PM
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Posted By Carruthers
Don't worry! :thumb:

Don't worry! :thumb:
Forum: Home Base 02-28-2019, 04:59 PM
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Posted By Carruthers
It's to become convulsed with laughter to the...

It's to become convulsed with laughter to the extent that it is impossible to deliver your own lines.
Generally the greater the effort not to laugh, the worse it becomes.

I'm on my iPad at...
Forum: Home Base 02-28-2019, 01:23 PM
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Posted By Carruthers
I always liked Andre Previn. I think it's fair to...

I always liked Andre Previn. I think it's fair to say that classical music conductors are rarely known for their sense of fun but Previn was cast in a different mould.

He famously appeared with...
Forum: Home Base 02-17-2019, 11:06 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
A few years ago there was a Ch 4 documentary...

A few years ago there was a Ch 4 documentary about an excavation of the Stalag Luft III site.
I recall that the archaeologists found a number of the powdered milk tins that were used to dig the...
Forum: Home Base 02-15-2019, 09:45 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
If you've ever toiled within or beneath your car...

If you've ever toiled within or beneath your car with spanner and Haynes Manual to hand, you'll be sorry to hear of the death of John Haynes.

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Link...
Forum: Home Base 05-27-2018, 03:20 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
Alan Bean, lunar module pilot on Apollo 12 and...

Alan Bean, lunar module pilot on Apollo 12 and fourth man to walk on the moon.
Bean was a former test pilot who went on to command the second manned mission to Skylab.

Link...
Forum: Home Base 03-28-2018, 04:46 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
Borne of a wish never to offend. Which is why I...

Borne of a wish never to offend. Which is why I voted for them.

The SDP that is, not the agnostics. Just once.
Forum: Home Base 03-22-2018, 06:14 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
Given Stephen Hawking's atheism, it's a puzzle...

Given Stephen Hawking's atheism, it's a puzzle that his ashes are to be interred in Westminster Abbey.

As has been posted, it doesn't matter to him but all the same...



Westminster Abbey...
Forum: Home Base 03-17-2018, 02:58 PM
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Posted By Carruthers
If Hawking finds out that there really is a life...

If Hawking finds out that there really is a life hereafter, the first thing he will do is seek out Albert Einstein and Max Planck to compare notes.

And ask what they thought of 'A Brief History of...
Forum: Home Base 03-14-2018, 01:56 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
He'll be remembered for all eternity. Or perhaps...

He'll be remembered for all eternity. Or perhaps even longer.
Forum: Home Base 03-05-2018, 01:49 PM
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Posted By Carruthers
Trevor Baylis:...

Trevor Baylis: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43290756) Wind-up radio inventor dies aged 80.

His springs have finally wound down.

RIP Old chap.
Forum: Home Base 03-04-2018, 06:18 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
Sir Roger Bannister...

Sir Roger Bannister (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/mar/04/sir-roger-bannister-first-athlete-to-run-a-mile-in-under-four-minutes-dies-aged-88)
Forum: Home Base 03-04-2018, 04:43 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
David Ogden Stiers...

David Ogden Stiers (https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/03/entertainment/david-ogden-stiers-dies/index.html)
Forum: Home Base 02-21-2018, 11:56 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
Well, he was better connected than most of us. ;)

Well, he was better connected than most of us. ;)
Forum: Home Base 02-21-2018, 10:44 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
I thought he was immortal.

I thought he was immortal.
Forum: Home Base 02-13-2018, 09:58 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
As a child, I always thought that his name was...

As a child, I always thought that his name was Victor Moan.

No honestly, I did. :blush:
Forum: Home Base 01-29-2018, 08:42 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad dies in Sweden at 91....

Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad dies in Sweden at 91. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42851668)

I understand that his funeral has been delayed while they work out how to put his coffin...
Forum: Home Base 01-15-2018, 04:58 AM
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Posted By Carruthers
Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly His isn't a...

Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly

His isn't a household name, but I remember him being interviewed in the Falklands after the Argentinian surrender.

This extract from his obituary gives an indication...
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