Originally posted by Pegleg
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Never took it. Read it waiting for piano lessons, I remember..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I believe that was also on offer at my piano teacher'sOriginally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostI'd have imagined you reading the DANDY, Caliban!
In fact I think Desperate Dan was my favourite character of all... My relationship with the pork pie, familiar to some here, perhaps stems from that...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Point of order, m'lud: wrong animal, surely? Desperate Dan was partial to cow pies, wasn't he?Originally posted by Caliban View PostIn fact I think Desperate Dan was my favourite character of all... My relationship with the pork pie, familiar to some here, perhaps stems from that...
(With apologies to anyone deprived of a good D C Thompson education.
It must have been awful for you.)
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Yes I know ferns... but when did you last encounter a cow pie dahn Waitrose? Porkies is the nearest I gets, see?Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I can remember four so-called comics, Wizard, Adventure, Hotspur & The Rover. Swopping with friends allowed one access to all of them each week.
All I can remember & rather vaguely at that, was the Wolf of Kabul & his Clickiba. Seems with present conditions in that part of the world he'd be very useful today !Comment
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Ah! The older children's titles!Originally posted by gamba View Post
Beano, Dandy, Beezer, Topper, Sparky and, later, Whizzer & Chips ("two comics for the price of one!" - perhaps many a kid's introduction to the duplicitous world of Capitalist exploitation) all punctuated my childhood from aged about six 'til secondary school age. (The Topper used to have cartoon adaptations of Dickens, Stevenson, Ballantine etc. Very Classy!)
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from 1955 when i was taking the pleasure boats down the river to see the shipsLast edited by aka Calum Da Jazbo; 07-06-12, 20:18.According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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Thanks Calum - That will be a really interesting film. I am looking forward to seeing it.
ferney - At last. Someone mentions Whizzer and Chips. I did love the Beano, Dandy, Beezer and Topper. Was Topper a broadsheet? I think it probably was. But I thought Whizzer and Chips was fantastic when they started publishing it. It was my favourite. I still like cartoons now and have a big collection of the Giles books which I have bought over many years from second hand shops.
One person's sad is another's unrepentant.
More to the point, have these photos by Don McCullin been shown on this site before? If so, my apologies - this is probably where I was introduced to them - but they are no doubt worth a second viewing:
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Don McCullin - Homeless Irishman, Spitalfields, London 1969. That face, it could 1869 or any century really. Did you listen to the short video of MCullin talking about this?
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Shame there's no sound on some of those clips. Someone slipped up there. I'd have loved to hear the girls from the provinces working in London in 1956, and the characters along the 31 bus route, so familiar from my childhood.Comment
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also (if you are in London) its well worth a look at the stuff in the BFI Mediatheque which has lots of fascinating archive stuff to browse ! (and a rather good cafe !)Comment
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