On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:00:17 -0700 (PDT),
hulahoop <sweeneyged@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 19, 5:50 pm, "solar penguin" <solar.peng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> hulahoop <sweeney...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > On Mar 19, 11:54 am, "solar penguin" <solar.peng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > wrote:
>> >> Yads said:
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>> >>> In article <frqu8q$89...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> >>> solar penguin <solar.peng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >>>> There's no such person. It's just Graeme Garden in disguise!
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>> >>> Must you make light of the late Arthur of 2001: A Space Odyssey?
>>
>> >> And yet another shared cultural reference is wasted on you!
>>
>> >> For such a devoted anglophile you really do know very little about
>> >> classic British comedy, don't you?
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>> > Was that BBC Goodies or ITV Goodies?
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>> IIRC it was the only really good episode of the ITV Goodies.- Hide
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> They never quite managed to replicate the sophistication of the BBC
> series when they transferred to ITV did they? Mind you I also felt
> that Morecambe and Wise were better on BBC than on ITV. And while I
> am moaning about the poor state of ITV comedy why did they never
> succeed in producing the number of good comedies that the BBC did? In
> fact the only decent ITV comedy I recall was Rising Damp,
Only When I Laugh, The New Statesman, early Benny Hill before it got
into a rut. Chance In A Million (or was that Channel 4?). Whatever
it still isn't a particularly long list.
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Andy Leighton => andyl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials"
- Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_
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