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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Malc on June 13, 2007, 05:11:31 PM
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I think this actually won an award quite a while ago for the Funniest Commercial Ever. In the intervening 15 or 20 years I haven't seen anything to top it. Simple, very inexpensive, and hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNLtzKdci_A&mode=related&search= (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNLtzKdci_A&mode=related&search=)
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I agree, Malc. A simple idea, beautifully done. Hamlet ads went through a purple patch with some great stuff. I believe they also gave each ad a briefish lifespan which kept them highly watchable.
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Brilliantly acted. It looks effortless, but the expressions and timing are priceless!
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All one take as well. Of course that was the marvellous Gregor Fisher as The Baldy Man.
I was commissioned by the Sunday Times Scotland section to draw a 'Profile' illustration of Gregor Fisher in his three most famous guises of Baldy Man, Rab C Nesbitt and Para Handy. His wife called me, and bought the original as a birthday present for good ol' Gregor.
Anyone else got any good name-dropping stories?
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*sounds of McGookin clearing throat*
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*sounds of McGookin clearing throat*
Other than sharing several forums with Nigel Sutherland, Malc...
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*sounds of McGookin clearing throat*
Well? We're waiting.
Make it good - we don't want any of yer F-list celebs in here.
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I've met David Jason. A few times. We actually got on nodding terms. I was then forced by my mother to get his autograph.
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My wife and I had a few sherbets with Scotland and Everton player James McFadden while on holiday in Tenerife a few years ago.
This was when he was still at Motherwell.
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Malc, I'd already heard how you and David were best buddies - I thought we were in for something new.
Colin, that could be anyone and his wife with James McFadden.
Here's me with George Bush on holiday in Skegness...
(http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0SQAsGVoW3kGWX6Uy0ubbNbuwUCa66HpxAH!NvOds4QXZDgrAY4!pARzdLLmJGkrYS5FhOeZ04!Yp2GILtHJ6jZoLNVXz32krHYHEc6JNDFMI9fcp7CQD1Q/P?dc=4675626929624075231)
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TTTTT, your right, it could be, but why would I do that, what would be the benefit to me in saying that if it weren't true?
Regular readers of this or the old forum know that I go to Tenerife every year and have been for quite a few years (14).
Its amazing the people you see when you go on holiday.
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TTTTT, your right, it could be, but why would I do that, what would be the benefit to me in saying that if it weren't true?
Sorry, Colin, but you'd be amazed at the number of people who want to leech off the immense fame of James McFadden.
I apologise for any suspicion, and can clearly see that it is indeed you and your good lady...well, not clearly exactly...
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Oh, and thanks for including all of my Ts. ;D
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I've micturated with Patrick Stewart.
Come on Roger. Deliver the killer blow.
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I've micturated with Patrick Stewart.
Come on Roger. Deliver the killer blow.
Ooooh! I can't wait. John Noakes? Dennis Law? Charlie Drake? Marillion? Marilyn Manson? Neil Diamond? Hank Marvin?...
Oh...hang on...we'll have to wait. I do believe Roger is on an aeroplane right now, on his way to our dinner date tomorrow evening.
How's THAT for name-dropping? ;D
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Patrick Stewart is quite impressive, Fyodor - do elaborate!
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Not on the plane yet, Tarks.
Fyodor is referring to my oft-told tale of meeting President Bill Clinton in a Montana bar/grill in 1995.
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Did he recognise you?
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I met Norman Vaughan in 1965. He was a "comedian"/gameshow host who was big on "Sunday Night at the London Palladium". He was judging a beauty contest which I didn't win. (I'm over it now). Norman's catchphrases were "swinging" and "dodgy" - I suppose you really had to be there.
Apart from him (and Roger and Andrew of course) I have met no one famous in the intervening years....
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He also did "Roses grow on you-ooo" if memory serves, Elizabeth. Didn't he also present The Golden Shot after Bob Monkhouse?
Knocks Patrick Stewart and Bill Clinton into the proverbial cocked hat!
Marvellous!
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It may be that Monkhouse took over after Norman Vaughan, but I am happy to stand corrected on that one.
I may have told you about some of these before, but here goes:
Billy Connolly
AC-DC
Jimmy Johnstone
Bobby Lennox
Mike Harding
Paul McGann
Mike McShane
Roald Dahl
Sir Geoffrey Howe
Sue Johnstone (Royle Family)
The Vindscreen Vipers (including Malky McCormick, naturally)
John Martyn
I'll remember some more later.
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It may be that Monkhouse took over after Norman Vaughan, but I am happy to stand corrected on that one.
Please stand corrected, Malc - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Shot - Bob was first.
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Oh, and thanks for including all of my Ts. ;D
I had to use my fingers ;D
On the same note, my wifes granny is related to Ian McShane of Lovejoy.
Well she used to be, she's dead now, but she was related to him when she was alive.
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Okay, it's already documented that I've appeared on Countdown, so that's Richard Whitely, Carol Vorderman and Sylvia Syms in one fell swoop. I would have been more than happy with that 15 minutes of semi-fame, and I wasn't best pleased when my ex-sister-in-law decided to include me in the group she assembled to audition for Family Fortunes at an hotel in Edinburgh, but I couldn't let the side down so I swallowed what little pride I have and went along.
No, I didn't meet Les Dennis (;D apparently he's way too important to attend the auditions - but we did have to address his stand-in as Les...she was much better looking than him), but there was something very familiar about the appointed 'head' of the opposing family. The penny dropped when they introduced themselves as the Hood family from Glasgow, led by dad Harry.
Non-Scots may not have heard of the great Harry Hood before, but Malc will know exactly who he is. Thankfully, we turned out to be much too intelligent to pass the audition, but it was worth the effort for the reward of an hour spent with my kid brother and Harry Hood in the bar afterwards, as he fondly remembered all the great goals (his words) he'd poached for Glasgow Celtic against our beloved St Johnstone. Fine chap!
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Elizabeth I remain uncorrected!!, It says at the bottom of the Wiki page that Monkhouse resumed as host of The Golden Shot after Norman (and Charlie Williams) were unsuccessful. Therefore the statement "Monkhouse took over after Norman Vaughan" is true.
And Bob wasn't first, as Wiki points out.
So nyah.
*Malky dopts smug pose, raises glass to lips but keeps beady eye out for missiles*
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Point of order, Mr. Chairman.
Was Norman Vaughan having a pee at the time?
Oh, by the way, my best friend at school was Ian McDiarmid, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in Star Wars and he spelled his name Iain in those days.
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When I was a kid, Norman Vaughan opened a fete in Broadstairs.