funniest TV series
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David Wulff wrote: Ian's right, it's the soap/gossip generation - an entire sub-species of our race that thrive on living other people's lives through television and magazines. I guess it's to make up for the lack of life of their own. I mean not everyone gets to have: an affair with your wife's sister (or sister's wife?), fights in bars, death threats, murders, back-garden burials, weddings (where someone runs off), weddings (where there's a fight), weddings (where miraculously, nothing happens), calling someone a "slag" (pronounced "slaarrrgggghh"), having sextuplets, drinking beer with your worst enemy in the pub, drinking coffee with your worst enemy in a greasy spoon, buying newspapers from your worst enemy in the newsagents, doing business with your worst enemy.... ....and finding a lost cat in the space of half an hour. Where as I did a fair few of those before going to work this morning. Slow day. I'll need to crash a car into my enemies house or something to liven it up.
Ian Darling "A girl can't be perfect all of the time." - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe
You forgot: Having the entire street/square journey up to Scotland only for half of them to get lost in the back of beyond with someone who is injured and when they eventually find a telephone box to dial for an Ambulance their description of their location is "I dunno! Somewhere in Scotland" only for the ambulance to miraculously turn up 10 minutes later.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September
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You forgot: Having the entire street/square journey up to Scotland only for half of them to get lost in the back of beyond with someone who is injured and when they eventually find a telephone box to dial for an Ambulance their description of their location is "I dunno! Somewhere in Scotland" only for the ambulance to miraculously turn up 10 minutes later.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: You forgot: Having the entire street/square journey up to Scotland only for half of them to get lost in the back of beyond with someone who is injured and when they eventually find a telephone box to dial for an Ambulance their description of their location is "I dunno! Somewhere in Scotland" only for the ambulance to miraculously turn up 10 minutes later. :laugh:
Ian Darling "A girl can't be perfect all of the time." - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe
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Rob Manderson wrote: Blackadder Rob Manderson wrote: Am I showing my age with some of these? Don't worry mate! You still have the taste of a young man. :-D -- Booohoo!
And might I note that I'm pleased to see that the Royal Wedding has made you very Australian aware :) I happened to mention it to my wife the other day - she asked 'Royal Wedding? What Royal Wedding - has Charles done it again'. After I stopped laughing I took the opportunity to remind her that the British don't have the only Royal Family in the world :) Alas, I've seen no mention whatsoever of the Danish Royal Wedding in the US (but I should also say that neither of us watch TV news - I get my news from a compendium of Australian, European and US websites). Now if only I could find some sources of Danish news that I can read in the only (alas) language I'm fluent in, English :) Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++
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Rob Manderson wrote: Am I showing my age with some of these?:~ Rob Manderson wrote: The Arthur Haynes Show:omg: Rob Manderson wrote: Hugh and I:wtf: I suppose I should allow for age, since you are almost 6 months older than me, but not even :bob: remembers The Arthur Haynes Show:sigh: John Hudson Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted. :omg: http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]
JohnJ wrote: The Arthur Haynes Show It used to run on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) Friday evenings in either 1964 or 1965 (I can't remember which). We used to watch it avidly whilst enjoying our fish and chips of a Friday Evening* :) The same actor who played O'Reilly the Builder in Fawlty Towers was in it and for some reason he's stuck in my mind (and has been for 40 odd years) :) We will pass over the psychological implications of that confession :) JohnJ wrote: Hugh and I What can I say? :) *We weren't Catholics but in a pre Vatican 2 world the local fish shops (3 of them) did a roaring trade Fridays. My mother had about 2 hours to do the weeks shopping on Friday afternoon and after an 8 hour day at the factory and a further 2 hours of frantic shopping the last thing she wanted was to cook dinner - hence the fish and chips Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++
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JohnJ wrote: The Arthur Haynes Show It used to run on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) Friday evenings in either 1964 or 1965 (I can't remember which). We used to watch it avidly whilst enjoying our fish and chips of a Friday Evening* :) The same actor who played O'Reilly the Builder in Fawlty Towers was in it and for some reason he's stuck in my mind (and has been for 40 odd years) :) We will pass over the psychological implications of that confession :) JohnJ wrote: Hugh and I What can I say? :) *We weren't Catholics but in a pre Vatican 2 world the local fish shops (3 of them) did a roaring trade Fridays. My mother had about 2 hours to do the weeks shopping on Friday afternoon and after an 8 hour day at the factory and a further 2 hours of frantic shopping the last thing she wanted was to cook dinner - hence the fish and chips Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++
Rob Manderson wrote: It used to run on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) Friday evenings in either 1964 or 1965 You mean to say Australians had TV back then:omg:;P JohnJ ducks behind sandbags & takes cover:-D John Hudson Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted. :omg: http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]
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Rob Manderson wrote: It used to run on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) Friday evenings in either 1964 or 1965 You mean to say Australians had TV back then:omg:;P JohnJ ducks behind sandbags & takes cover:-D John Hudson Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted. :omg: http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]
Cheeky bastard!!! :) Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++
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Hi, Which one do you think is the all time funniest TV series? My vote goes to Seinfeld. Pankaj Without struggle, there is no progress
Fast Show was pretty good IMO Joel Holdsworth Wanna give me a job over the summer? View my online CV and Job Application[^]
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David Wulff wrote: Ian's right, it's the soap/gossip generation - an entire sub-species of our race that thrive on living other people's lives through television and magazines. I guess it's to make up for the lack of life of their own. I mean not everyone gets to have: an affair with your wife's sister (or sister's wife?), fights in bars, death threats, murders, back-garden burials, weddings (where someone runs off), weddings (where there's a fight), weddings (where miraculously, nothing happens), calling someone a "slag" (pronounced "slaarrrgggghh"), having sextuplets, drinking beer with your worst enemy in the pub, drinking coffee with your worst enemy in a greasy spoon, buying newspapers from your worst enemy in the newsagents, doing business with your worst enemy.... ....and finding a lost cat in the space of half an hour. Where as I did a fair few of those before going to work this morning. Slow day. I'll need to crash a car into my enemies house or something to liven it up.
Ian Darling "A girl can't be perfect all of the time." - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe
Not my car, you won't... (Ian can't drive, so him crashing is quite likely.) Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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And might I note that I'm pleased to see that the Royal Wedding has made you very Australian aware :) I happened to mention it to my wife the other day - she asked 'Royal Wedding? What Royal Wedding - has Charles done it again'. After I stopped laughing I took the opportunity to remind her that the British don't have the only Royal Family in the world :) Alas, I've seen no mention whatsoever of the Danish Royal Wedding in the US (but I should also say that neither of us watch TV news - I get my news from a compendium of Australian, European and US websites). Now if only I could find some sources of Danish news that I can read in the only (alas) language I'm fluent in, English :) Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++
Well, unlike the Danes, I was well aware of Australia before the prince married Mary. :rolleyes: :-D (I'm a Swede.. ;)) -- Booohoo!
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Ah, so many :) The Arthur Haynes Show Fawlty Towers The Vicar of Dibley Shelley Filthy, Rich and Catflap Bottom Coupling Hancock's Half Hour Red Dwarf One foot in the grave Hugh and I Blackadder As time goes by Spike Milligan's Q series Am I showing my age with some of these? :) Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++
Rob Manderson wrote: Am I showing my age with some of these? Probably not as much as I am by admitting to liking The Smothers Brothers Show and Soupy Sales.:-O Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Hi, Which one do you think is the all time funniest TV series? My vote goes to Seinfeld. Pankaj Without struggle, there is no progress
"And now for something completely different, a man with two buttocks. Oh is this the BBC? Can we say buttocks?" Monty Python's Flying Circus. Nothing has ever made me laugh like that show. :) Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] I think people should be required to have an operator's permit to use the internet. John Simmons
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: a young man Heh :) I'm pushing 50 but I don't look a day over 48 :) Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++
Rob Manderson wrote: don't look a day over 48 :laugh::laugh: I was accused of being not more than 35 last week. In daylight! :omg: I probably should have kissed her, but her husband's awfully big. Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Hi, Which one do you think is the all time funniest TV series? My vote goes to Seinfeld. Pankaj Without struggle, there is no progress
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Well, unlike the Danes, I was well aware of Australia before the prince married Mary. :rolleyes: :-D (I'm a Swede.. ;)) -- Booohoo!
Where's that oops icon when you need it? Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++