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Post by ARENA on Jul 8, 2016 7:57:20 GMT
My boyhood hero was.........  Johnny Weissentarzan. |
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Post by honeybear on Jul 8, 2016 8:37:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 9:07:54 GMT
My childhood hero had me glued to the radio
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 11:25:18 GMT
Oh yes, Dick Barton. I used to listen to that and the extreme punishment was not to be allowed to listen. Yet somehow I used to be allowed to listen to the repeat! My dad was not quite as hard as he pretended to be! And don't forget Biggles. Somewhere I have a signed first edition of one of the 101 books he wrote. I think my favourite non pc title was this one:  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 11:41:41 GMT
Oh yes, Dick Barton. I used to listen to that and the extreme punishment was not to be allowed to listen. Yet somehow I used to be allowed to listen to the repeat! My dad was not quite as hard as he pretended to be! And don't forget Biggles. Somewhere I have a signed first edition of one of the 101 books he wrote. I think my favourite non pc title was this one: Ok "Algy", how's "Ginger" these days?  |
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Post by clioseward on Jul 8, 2016 12:10:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 15:17:25 GMT
I'm ashamed to say Peter Wyngarde? He had a spectacular fall from grace after being caught in public toilets doing things he shouldn't have been doing He also had a long relationship with Alan Bates
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Post by aubrey on Jul 9, 2016 9:53:40 GMT
Peter Wyngarde - I don't know - that LP he did was much worse than anything he might have got up to in a public toilet. My heroes are both collectors and preservers of trifles, dirty jokes, gossip, etc. John Aubrey and Gershon Legman:  And  |
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Post by lana on Jul 24, 2016 15:21:21 GMT
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Post by aubrey on Jul 24, 2016 16:17:01 GMT
^^^
Isn't that Charlotte Brontë?
edit Someone's got it on Pinterest as Jo March as well, so... But it's a colour version of a small copy I had pinned on the wall over my desk for years, and there is was Charlotte (from the Radio Times, I think).
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Post by lana on Jul 25, 2016 9:20:39 GMT
^^^ Isn't that Charlotte Brontë? edit Someone's got it on Pinterest as Jo March as well, so... But it's a colour version of a small copy I had pinned on the wall over my desk for years, and there is was Charlotte (from the Radio Times, I think). Apologies to Charlotte if that is her likeness.  I did get it from Pinterest.. uk.pinterest.com/pin/63402307224454983/ |
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