That’s it. He was the jumper twat from TV AM. Likely the inspiration for Colin Hunt from the Fast Show
Is there still any footage of that. I have a feeling that it’s one of those apocryphal stories although probably quite typical of Johnny.
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“Remember Folks, Always Make Your Do-Nuts Like Fanny’s”
Bernard Manning when praising the chef Fanny Craddock…
Ok Ok it will never be written into the annals of history, but it makes me chuckle each time
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I remember my dad telling me the story. FC and BM were on Parkinson. Disgusted to realise someone from the gutter like BM could actually breathe the same air as her, she was being all hooty tooty and looking down her nose at BM during the show, with a few snidey remarks/digs aimed at BM. The above line was uttered by BM a moment before the credits started to roll so she FC had no time to respond… Parkinson after hearing BM say it ended up on the floor rolling around laughing… :0)
Been looking for the clip but haven’t found it just yet…
Series 2. Ep 2… Jun 10th 1972
Flood Summer was a really well written book. Just the perfect level of detail that it seemed so accurate, but not so much that it detracted from the story. A pleasure to read.
I’d recommend it, but it seems like it’s not very easy to get a hold of these days.
In one of those weird coincidences, I started The Night Ocean last night and the author died, perhaps today.
Edit - So, apparently he died the day i started reading it. I’ve owned it since August 2019.
Please read this next:
Thanks.
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I’m surprised at you promoting such a book 
If he writes as well as he speaks I’m sure it will be a popular wipe.
It doesn’t appear on the best buy list
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I wasn’t promoting it. 
I have been searching this book for 35 years. I would recommend this one and the second part The Enchanted Prince.
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I had a similar thing with leaders, sadly Sunak doesn’t have any books about them, probably be about 5 pages long.
But you can thank me for Trump and err the Queen 
I’ve got a lot of the recommended books on Warren Buffett on my book shelf but still unread.
Have started Yefei Lu’s ’ inside the investments of Warren Buffett’.
Really fascinating look at some of his best known investments - detailing what information would have been widely known or available to other investors at the time, economic climate etc and what likely prompted the purchase.
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Just finished the Warlow Experiment. An interesting idea for a novel. The execution was decent but could have been better.
FUCK MODERN AUDIENCES.
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Seems hard to believe anyone actually wants this. I agree with Philip Pullman, if you don’t like the language just don’t read it and let it fade away.
I didn’t grow up reading Dahl, never been much a fiction fan, so I don’t know the source material but I’m sure there are lots of other stuff to read for people who don’t like the word ‘fat’.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of the first books that I actually sort out as a kid. It was constantly out on loan and my mother, who was a local librarian, refused to put it aside as it would be “unfair on the other children”. So much for fucking nepotism!
When my kids read it, I noticed that it had been updated somewhat because the cost of the chocolate bars had been decimalised and Charlie finds a 50p coin instead. I suppose this is fair enough given the age that the books are aimed at. However, I was surprised to find out how much it was revised by Dahl himself:
I can’t honestly see that the latest changes are doing anything positive. By all means, keep cultural references up to date but part of the appeal of Dahl has always been the dark satire and a sense of childish anarchism.
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Part of the magic of books (and film [where such things are harder to change]) is how they freeze culture in time for us to later consider. Should we take the n-word out of Huckleberry Finn in consideration of our sensibilities?
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That’s quite a tough one (and I am assuming that we are referring to the offensive racial slur here). Certainly in the book it should be left as an artefact but would it give a wrong sense of characterisation if a modern film version was produced? Different media require different treatments.
Certainly, Thomas Bowdler is widely regarded to be well meaning but wrong-headed. I’d suggest that newer reprints would be better served with an appendix that could give historical context to the use of language.
In terms of film, I’ve noticed that Disney simply stick a disclaimer on older films (Dumbo and the like) although they completely withdrew Song of the South some years ago. That was problematic even in the 1940s, although it is still a pity as it has one of the best known Disney tunes in it.
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They also repurposed a ride at Disneyland based upon the film, although the ride had nothing offensive about it. Splash Mountain, it was called.
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Fine if they want to update literature for the sake of being PC…
but re-write them as an alternative only, NOT as a replacement.
That way you can be left with a choice of what version to read