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Post by marispiper on Mar 28, 2017 8:12:00 GMT
My dad used to say "It's like Fred Karno's circus in here..." 😁
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Post by rondetto on Mar 28, 2017 16:00:46 GMT
Does anyone remember Saveen and his talking dog? I loved this act when I was young. I found it hard to believe that he could train a dog to do such things.
A short clip:
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Post by ARENA on Mar 29, 2017 7:44:15 GMT
Ruby Murray (29 March 1935 – 17 December 1996) was one of the most popular singers in the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1950s. In 1955 alone, she secured seven Top 10 UK hit singles. Ruby Florence Murray was born on the Donegall Road in south Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her voice's unique sound was partly the result of an operation on her throat in early childhood.  Forever remembered in the slang name for a curry. |
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Post by clioseward on Mar 29, 2017 10:40:51 GMT
I used to like her.
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Post by aubrey on Mar 30, 2017 7:08:17 GMT
John Allen Astin (born March 30, 1930) is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television shows, as well as a television director and voice artist and is known for the role of Gomez Addams on The Addams Family.  |
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Post by marispiper on Mar 30, 2017 8:12:06 GMT
Saveen..it used to say "Shut that ruddy dog up!" 😁😁😁
Yes, it must've been an illusion, but an excellent one!
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Post by ARENA on Mar 30, 2017 8:35:57 GMT
Albert Pierrepoint (30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) is the most famous member of the family that provided three of the United Kingdom's official hangmen in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Clayton, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and lived in Bradford, Lincoln, Oldham and the seaside resort of Southport.  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 31, 2017 6:11:57 GMT
Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. [aside - no, the greatest]  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 31, 2017 7:47:47 GMT
Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is a Scottish-born Australian guitarist best known as a co-founder, lead guitarist, and songwriter of the Australian hard rock band, AC/DC. Known for his energetic performances, schoolboy-uniform stage outfits, and his popularization of Chuck Berry's duckwalk, Rolling Stone magazine has ranked Young as the 24th greatest guitarist of all time.  |
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Post by rondetto on Mar 31, 2017 16:54:09 GMT
Albert Pierrepoint (30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) is the most famous member of the family that provided three of the United Kingdom's official hangmen in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Clayton, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and lived in Bradford, Lincoln, Oldham and the seaside resort of Southport. My uncle who passed away recently at the age of 93 was a detective sergeant with the Merseyside police. He was one of the officers whio arrested Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Anyway over the years he had escorted Albert Pierrpoint to his "job" and they became very good friends. When Pierrpoint retired he ran a pub in Bolton and when my uncle went on a visit to see his old friend he was amused to see a sign above the bar in the pub which read. "NO HANGING AROUND THE BAR" |
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Post by ARENA on Apr 1, 2017 8:31:33 GMT
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels. In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him.
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Post by ARENA on Apr 2, 2017 7:44:32 GMT
Penelope Anne Constance Keith, CBE, DL (née Hatfield; born 2 April 1940) is an English actress. Having started her television career in the 1950s, Penelope Keith became a household name in the United Kingdom in the 1970s when she played Margo Leadbetter in the sitcom The Good Life. This role earned Keith her first of two BAFTAs, the second being in 1978 for The Norman Conquests............  ...............meanwhile ,in Aberdeen, I was being born. |
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Post by ARENA on Apr 3, 2017 8:21:17 GMT
 Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934) is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. |
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Post by ARENA on Apr 4, 2017 8:07:03 GMT
David "Pick" Withers (born 4 April 1948 in Leicester, England) was the original drummer for the rock band Dire Straits and played on their first four albums, which included hit singles such as "Sultans of Swing," "Romeo and Juliet" and "Private Investigations." He first played a drum in the Boys Brigade taught by a childhood friend Richard Storer of now knocked-down Argyle Street in Leicester.  |
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Post by aubrey on Apr 5, 2017 5:25:08 GMT
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American independent film producer, director, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Admired by members of the French New Wave and Cahiers du cinéma, in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award. Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese and James Cameron.He also helped to launch the careers of actors Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson.  (In Bloody Mama, 1970) |
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