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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on August 01, 2008, 07:46:55 PM
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Tonight for dinner, I had marrow stuffed with mince....
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There used to be a great jingle for those "marrow mince marrow mince...do de do de do...marrow mince marrow mince...do de do de do" [best I could come up with]
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Murray Mints!!! Good Grief, that dates you!
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My Mum used to do that recipe when I was a kid. She'd get a marrow from the garden, slice it up, hollow out the centres, stuff with mince ( ..0 ), and bake on a tray in the oven.
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Murray Mints!!! Good Grief, that dates you!
No, it doesn't. He didn't remember that the 'do de do de do' was 'the too good to hurry mint(ce)'! ;D
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If I was a supermarket manager, knew Mince was wanting to do this recipe, and saw him bending over inspecting the vegetable section, I'd grab a marrow and stick it up
to twice the normal price.
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Wow vulture that could make you older than me [or at least means a better memory], and technically older than me doesn't actually involve walking the earth any more...
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Wow vulture that could make you older than me [or at least means a better memory], and technically older than me doesn't actually involve walking the earth any more...
Yes, I have a fairly good memory. In the days of Murray Mints there was only two television channels and we kids used to compete to see who could sing an ad all the way through. (I had a deprived childhood!)
No, I very rarely walk the earth: car or bus.
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So it was just me who was singing:
"marrow mince, marrow mince,
riding through the glen...
marrow mince, marrow mince,
with his band of men..."
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So it was just me who was singing:
"marrow mince, marrow mince,
riding through the glen...
marrow mince, marrow mince,
with his band of men..."
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Yes, it was. Most of these youngster never had the pleasure of seeing Robin Hood in black and white.
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I thought he wore Lincoln Green.
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I thought he wore Lincoln Green.
Only if Lincoln was free that day.
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Black and White telly...then you used to know it was true...maybe we should have a top ten B&W movies of all time, my suggestion would be Robert Donat [forgive if spelt wrong] in "Mr Chips"...if I wasn't such a masculine fellow I'd admit a tear or two for that one..but naturally I used to watch it whilst eating an entire deer...raw.
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The thirty nine steps
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Was The Thirty-Nine Steps in black and white? The first one I remember seeing was in colour and it starred Kenneth Moore.
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Robert Donat's Mr Chips is excellent. Peter O'Toole's is even better (though admittedly also more colourful).
Best black and white movie ever? Same as the best book ever - 'To Kill A Mockingbird'.
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That's the second time I've heard that statement this week and it's only Monday (here in Oz, that is).
I'm illustrating a book at the moment, and the author and I have become quite chatty over the phone. He has offered the opinion more than once that To Kill A Mockingbird is the best book ever writ. According to him, Harper Lee never wrote another, and I just Googled to confirm that.
Oddly, Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind) also only wrote one novel. Mind you, if you're only going to write one, write that one.
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Was The Thirty-Nine Steps in black and white? The first one I remember seeing was in colour and it starred Kenneth Moore.
No it was Robert Dona't 1935
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I thought Gone with the wind was wrote by Micheal Rennie
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Just been to my first Muslim birthday party. musical chairs was a bit slow but F... me Past the parcel was frantic.
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Just had my car hit by one of those new Skoda's.
There was jam and sponge all over the place
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Jim Davidson Lives!!!!
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Quite! :-X
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I agree with Peter, one of my top 3 favourite films is Hitchcock's 39 Steps. I've always wondered if the places in Scotland where Hannay has to go really exist and were used as locations in the film. I think they were called Alt-na-Shellach and Killin.
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I can't say whether they were the locations used in the film or not, Rob, but both certainly exist. I've been to Killin many times in my life, being a lovely little village at the western end of Loch Tay. There is an Alt-Na-Shellach about 50 miles away from Killin, near the village of Guildtown, north of Perth. But it looks to be no more than a few fields on Google Earth, which perhaps doesn't tie in with the novel.
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No, Google Earth isn't even mentioned in the novel.
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My sister, Diamond Lil, lives in Killin. It is, indeed, a glorious location.
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I've never been there, but I've heard of the Killin Fields. Didn't they make a movie about them?
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Took this from the IMDB,
Filming locations for
The 39 Steps (1935)
Big Water of Fleet Viaduct, Dromore, Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK
Forth Bridge, South Queensferry, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Glen Coe, Highlands, Scotland, UK
Lime Grove Studios, Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK
One day I will visit the locations of "Scottish" films like "The Bridal Path", anyone remember that?
Especially the part when the hero runs away because the girls are Campbells.
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...maybe they were chunky.
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;D
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Campbells, chunky.. geddit geddit... ;D
This afternoon I sat and watched "Geordie", another wee (twee) favourite.
On old b&w movies, can anyone remember "The Maggie"?