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mystic fred 
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 Posted: September 22 2006 at 14:17 |
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Fawlty Towers is excellent stuff! I have just got my kids into it (we have the series on vhs) and they find it hilarious...............although they did work out where my partner gets most of his best jokes/quotes from!
Black Adder is also a favourite in this house, and Monty Python of course!
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like "don't mention the war" (oops - i mentioned the war but i think i got away with it..)
i also used to love "not the nine o clock news" and the Harry Enfield shows. remember "OTT" in the early 80's??? "Loadsamoneyyyy" 
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 13:39 |
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Fawlty Towers is excellent stuff! I have just got my kids into it (we have the series on vhs) and they find it hilarious...............although they did work out where my partner gets most of his best jokes/quotes from!
Black Adder is also a favourite in this house, and Monty Python of course!
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 13:37 |
haven't seen much humour from other countries in Europe, i'm not really a fan of American humour - except Phil Silvers' "Sgt.Bilko", that was absolutely brilliant!!
i heard an example of Russian humour - a friend of mine was working in Moscow, where they wear those fur hats with the ear flaps - for a joke the Russians told him if you wore the hat with the flaps down it meant you were gay. his poor ears were nearly frost-bitten before he realised he was having his leg pulled!!!
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 13:31 |
Pfff, that's not an easy question, yes the absurd types and absurd situations. They are very popular over here. The typical dry English humor. Have you ever watched German humor on German TV, it's terrible ( hope MikeEnragalia is not reading this  )
The Dutch are not much better.
( banging his head at Nighttrain - G n R while typing this. )
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 13:25 |
i am amazed British comedy shows are so popular around the world, perhaps people share a love of the absurd? what do you find funny about them? all satirical comedy is popular in every nationality, that could be the key!
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 13:06 |
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Yep, that hasn't changed, if you want to watch great comedy shows watch the English ones. The Young Ones, dad's Army and such.......
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 12:58 |
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Oh, come on, daddy Fred, wanna watch that hotel guy with the grazy guy from Spain.........I forgot his name. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! |
okay if you're VERY good.....now where were we..??
...hotel guy with the crazy guy from spain??????? 
do you mean FAWLTY TOWERS..????
PS sorry i been busy compiling "other bands" list on another thread! 
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 12:20 |
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 12:16 |
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You heard your father!
Now get to bed, or no supper tomorrow!
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 12:12 |
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Oh, come on, daddy Fred, wanna watch that hotel guy with the grazy guy from Spain.........I forgot his name. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 12:01 |
isn't it past your bedtime Tony...??
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 11:49 |
He old f***s, It's even friday for us. Nothing to say?
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 01:54 |
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That all sounds a bit complicated - would it work if I held the negatives up to the window & took a digital photo...? |
I very much doubt it, Jim, scanning negs isn't very complicated at all, printing b&w in a dark room is rocket science in comparison!
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 15:55 |
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That all sounds a bit complicated - would it work if I held the negatives up to the window & took a digital photo...?
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 12:54 |
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I would like to see some of your work Jim!
...do you still print/have prints made on bw photo paper Jim, or use a film scanner? |
Film scanner? God, I'm not that advanced  - nah - all my old negatives are archived in acid free wallets & if I wanted to print them again, I'd have to send them off & entrust them to a commercial printer... 
The best I can do is to try to scan the prints as best I can & upload them (I like to think of myself as a good photographer, but when it comes to technology...Duh! ) |
i have an Epson Perfection 124OU which comes with a free film scanner, it has a little scanner unit you fit on top in place of the lid, and includes plastic frames for loading and scanning all sizes of film, from 35mm, 6mmx 6mm, even up to large format, it does reversal film too, and works a treat! all your existing negs, colour and monochrome, can be digitised. when i get my Photobucket account sorted (forgot me password as usual) i'll put up a few snaps.
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 12:05 |
mystic fred wrote:
I would like to see some of your work Jim!
...do you still print/have prints made on bw photo paper Jim, or use a film scanner? |
Film scanner? God, I'm not that advanced - nah - all my old negatives are archived in acid free wallets & if I wanted to print them again, I'd have to send them off & entrust them to a commercial printer...
The best I can do is to try to scan the prints as best I can & upload them (I like to think of myself as a good photographer, but when it comes to technology...Duh! )
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 12:00 |
And we'll never run out of things to say, because we're so bloody old, we keep forgetting what we were...
what we were...
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Oh bugger, I've wet 'em again 
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 11:57 |
mystic fred wrote:
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ANY topic is on-thread in the Grey Room! : What do you mean with this? |
you can talk about any thing here, any topic is a good topic!
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It will just reflect our wizened perspective. 
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 11:23 |
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ANY topic is on-thread in the Grey Room! : What do you mean with this? |
you can talk about any thing here, any topic is a good topic!
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 11:21 |
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mystic fred wrote:
yes i would think a tour of North America would involve a lot of travelling - it's vast! come to England - everything's much closer together! when i lived up in the north-east we'd travel 20 miles to visit a pub or go shopping and think nothing of it, but in London 10 miles is a long way!
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That's because of the flippin' traffic - it can easily take an hour to drive 10 miles. I often travel round the M25 to visit family and friends, it's a 50 mile trip, mostly motorway and it can take anything up to 3.5 hours. A couple of weeks ago I drove to Buxton, about 210 miles door to door. It took about 5 hours of driving and it's mainly motorway! That was because there were a load of warning signs on the way saying "congestion between junctions 27 and 30" and I was coming off at 26 so I foolishly carried on. Where did I hit the congestion - junction 22!!! There are cameras all over the motorway, so why are these f*&%ing signs always wrong?
Ok, rant over. Going for a lie down now. |
i only use the M25 if i have to - and only Sunday mornings!, like the M1 it seems to be one endless line of bollards to the next. last year, the hottest day in July, i drove on holiday to South Devon - a trip normally taking 5 hours. The M5 was closed due to an accident (like a fool i went up the M4 and hoped it would be clear by then), i got stuck in traffic in Bristol, blew a hose, called the AA , continued down along A roads circumnavigating the M5 until i reached my destination, total journey eleven hours - phew!!
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