Can I have a blue peter badge....?

[Will Hay]

The seal?

Johnny Morris and some other guy. You must remember, surely?

Yep, him who always dressed as a zoo keeper, right?
Please, please, please tell me he's dead
I didn't know he was linked to seals, but there you go.
I nearly wet myself laughing at the take on The Smiths 'Reel [Wheel] Around The Fountain.
I need this job, I have a son, I have to go
This is turning into one funny thread, and the poor yanks must think we're insane!
Will

[rhegedus]

I regret to be the one to confirm your 'fears':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/337622.stm

Regards,

Rob

[Will Hay]

Thanks, but which one's Jonny?
Will

[Will Hay]

I really, really, really wish I'd seen the poor bastard who swore all the time, the torretts (spelling?) syndrome sufferer.
I hate to admit that that kind of stuff, on a daytime TV kid's programme (and a conservative one at that), cracks me up everytime.
Will

[rhegedus]

There was a '10 years on' follow-up documentary on the TV the other night. The guy comes across as a really genuine and likeable bloke. I think there's been some improvement in his condition, but it is still 'noticeable'.

Unfortunately, his childhood ambition of joining army special forces was not achieved due to his condition potentially compromising their secrecy on a stake-out. He's now a caretaker/groundsman at a leisure centre near Gala/Selkirk.

Regards,

Rob

[Will Hay]

nfortunately, his childhood ambition of joining army special forces was not achieved due to his condition potentially compromising their secrecy on a stake-out. He's now a caretaker/groundsman at a leisure centre near Gala/Selkirk.

These emoticons do not demonstrate my current state, insofar as I guess I'm two chuckles away from the dole queue.
Will

[rhegedus]

Yeah, cracked me up, too!

Want a reference for your soon-to-be-updated CV?

Regards,

Rob

[i_am_dave]

silky,

Found you one on e-bay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3324147870&category=32997]

Currently going at $10

Auction ends in 4 days, bettery hurry!!

[Will Hay]

silky,

Found you one on e-bay
Ebay Blue Peter Badge

This is what I really want:
Did you have one of these as a kid?
I had the tommohawk, I wasn't old enough for this little beauty!
Will

[rhegedus]

Yeah, I had one, but most of my mates had Grifters.

Regards,

Rob

[mmmbeer]

I think Sophie Aldred has the last one.

[EddyH]

a generation behind but still recognise most these references (cross-gen leakage ) and have laughed my rear off at this thread

did joey get any international fame? i'm wondering if he's the inspiration for Timaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!! (who is surely his playground replacement)

[tgpo]

I didn't follow a single reference.

[Will Hay]

I didn't follow a single reference.

Yeah, and I'm truly sorry you've missed out, as you especially tgpo would have loved this thread.
The Blue Peter show was wonderful in it's surreality.
It wasn't like anything on at the same time, and was capable of the most amazing comic moments - totally by accident.
It basically involved three presenters who sat on a couch and talked utter crap, introducing a man who owned a sheep dog, a women who was about to attempt the fastest hill climb in some obscure meadow and of course, not forgetting the best part:
On what I think was a daily slot, one of the poor presenters was tackled with making something from all the hoursehold crap your mother had thrown out the day before.
One week it might be grade 2 nuclear powered submarine (for action man - GI Joe for you guys) from a washing-up bottle, some glitter and dog shit left behind by many of the many pets that regulary appeared on the show. Another week it might be a telephone system with answering-machine and call-waiting facility - all from a baked bean tin and some bacon rind.
A nation of children, routing through the bins cleaning congealed food from egg cartons in an attempt to improve the satellite signal for their anticipated 'MIR Space Station'.
Then there was the garden.
Oh my!
Some bright spark at television centre came up with the insane idea of building a 'Blue Peter Garden', complete with pond and huge fish.
It was the most boring peice of shit ever broadcast and tried to introduce a nation of ten year olds to gardening.
For crying out loud!
Gardening?
And then it got trashed.
Some vandals (substitute the word 'vandals' for 'heroes' back in the 1970's) jumped the wall, pissed in the fish tank, shat on the marrows and kicked over a couple of plant pots.
(Actually, it was never that bad, certainly there was no evacuating of bodily waste but that's how I like to remember it )
The national outrage was immense, at one point we thought we were going to get sent home from school as a day or mourning.
Wonderful, wonderful days.
But then, the presenters started to die off and we were left with some chirpy f*ckwit who wasn't as good as their predecessor.
A whole nation got bored. He-man and transformers appeared and the Blue Peter viewing figures dwindled.
The last I heard Percy Thrower was doing some gay porn with the cucumber's he'd produced three seasons earlier.
Very, very sad
The next generation haven't got a chance, what chance has the world without 1970's Blue Peter?
Will Hay

[jdizzy40]

Blue Peter Badge, Harmless, give him one. I lived in the U.K. for 5 years 83' to 89'. Hunington, Cambridgshire south of Peterbourogh and Ramsey. No the U.S. networks never picked up on that kid's program broadcast on British TV. You already made us watch the Tel-tubbies. That's punishment enough. Cheers and don't ask for another Blue Peter Badge, OKAY?

[jdizzy40]

Hey is Ceilly Black still alive? And please kill the Coranation Street re-runs. And lastly did Eric Bristow ever recover from Dart idious? John Lowe old stoney face thre the first nine dart 501 out and I was there to see it. Long live Jockey Wilson.

[andydd]

Bloody hell..£400 quid for a tommahawk piece of shit..prob the must unstable bike ever to exist and those horrible gear changes bewteen ya legs..ha..Still i should of kept mine for that sort of money.

I WANTED a grifter..it was the forerunner of BMX, come to think of it ..I never had a BMX but I do remember I sat next to Craig Schoefield at school and he was BMX world champ or something at one time and i borrowed his a few times (I think he was sponsered and had the most complete dog bollocks bike their was) and went n showed off to my mates.

Plus everyone thought he was the schools hardest kid which was pretty handy coz no-one fucked with me ....ha !

On another note the Tourettes Syndrome prog was bloody hilarious..this guy is now older n working at a youth club/caretaker type post..what was funniest is his outbursts would just go ignored by those who knew him..it was like..'Hi john hows the weather ?'..'Well it rained a bit this morning and ...YOU ******* **** !.......it looked like it would be sunny this afternoon'..ha

[andydd]

1985: 4th I.BMX.F. World Championships, Whistler - Canada
Superclass 20", Craig Schofield, England
Superclass 24", Phil Hoogendoorn, Holland


See..its true.........aahh..the joys of the internet to provide irrelevant information from yesteryear !

[Will Hay]

Blue Peter Badge, Harmless, give him one. I lived in the U.K. for 5 years 83' to 89'. Hunington, Cambridgshire south of Peterbourogh and Ramsey. No the U.S. networks never picked up on that kid's program broadcast on British TV. You already made us watch the Tel-tubbies. That's punishment enough. Cheers and don't ask for another Blue Peter Badge, OKAY?

No, I won't.
One is enough.
Thanks.
W.

[Will Hay]

Hey is Ceilly Black still alive? And please kill the Coranation Street re-runs.

You mean Cilla Black, right?
Her with the foul voice?
Yeah, unfortunately for us, the old cow ain't dead yet.
Coronation re-runs?
I didn't know they were on.

And lastly did Eric Bristow ever recover from Dart idious? John Lowe old stoney face thre the first nine dart 501 out and I was there to see it. Long live Jockey Wilson.

Hate the game.
Fat, unkempt blokes throwing sharpened arrows?
No, thanks, I'd rather back-scuttle Cilla.
W.

[i_am_dave]

I never had anything this cool, most of my bicycles were assembled from pieces of other bikes. .One of my friends had a Crate. I think it was the Cotton Picker.
Disc brakes on bicycles was really cool to a kid in the early 70's

[rhegedus]

Hey is Ceilly Black still alive? And please kill the Coranation Street re-runs. And lastly did Eric Bristow ever recover from Dart idious? John Lowe old stoney face thre the first nine dart 501 out and I was there to see it. Long live Jockey Wilson.

I've pissed next to Jockey Wilson in the gents toilet of the Halfway Inn pub in Swansea! He was doing some darts tournament, taking on the locals and generally having a good laugh and a chat with them. That night he drank 19 (NINETEEN!!!) bottle of Newcastle Brown - I was amazed.

Regards,

Rob

[DonVito]

Damn.... I wish I knew what the hell you guys are talking about.

[Hardcoreruss]

One the darts subject remember that Barry George bloke, had more gold than the queen.

Well he was interviewed once and someone asked how he warmed up, his response: -

(In Barry White, cockney) Well, some people like two or three pints to settle down, me I need about twelve to nicely ease me into it !!.

Nicely ease into it !!!!!, sod arrows it would be more like projectile yakking !!!

[rhegedus]

That guy scares me!

If he'd have been playing in my local, I wouldn't have gone to the toilet all night!

[energy80s]

I've pissed next to Jockey Wilson in the gents toilet of the Halfway Inn pub in Swansea!

Thanks for sharing that with us!! Do you remember when Dexy's Midnight Runners had a hit with "Jackie Wilson Said" and Top Of The Pops (another well known British institution) had a massive blowup of JOCKEY WILSON in the background!! Taking the piss or what!

[scottymac]

I was too wee for the grifter, I had the boxer

(Haven't been in the UK for 20 years. boy this thread brought back some memories!)

[Will Hay]

Did I dream it or was there a UK show called 'pipkins'?
Some mangey old rabbit/hare behind a counter in a DIY store (or something?)
Will

[rhegedus]

Yep, and Ludwig, Jamie and the Magic Torch, The Banana Splits, The New Schmoo, Animal Crackers, Chorlton and the Wheelies - the list goes on and on!

[energy80s]

The Magic Roundabout, undoubtedly the best pro-drugs kids show ever! A dog that eats dubious sugar lumps, a stoned rabbit, a cow that lives in a tree, a very "relaxed" snail and a weird thing with a spring up its arse ... with a quality children's programme like that, how can you loose!!