Another good 'un gone.
RIP.
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Bring on the repeats, I say!
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>> Bring on the repeats, I say!
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Guessing you don't have access to the channel "Gold" where its shown every day
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RIP, Trigger.
The broom sketch was one of the finest bits of comic timing I've ever seen.
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A very funny actor, my favourite character from the series.
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>> RIP, Trigger.
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>> The broom sketch was one of the finest bits of comic timing I've ever seen.
His broom outlasted him. The new heads and sticks helped, but none the less it outlasted him.
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Genius. I confess to a wet eye. Will be sadly missed. The 'modern' comedians just don't cut it for me.
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Do Reeves and Mortimer count as modern, MD? House of Fools had three of us helpless to the point of unintentional (and possibly multiple) fluid loss via iPlayer last night.
The Beestlings are getting OFH via Lovefilm Instant and appreciating it for the quality it is. Absolutely is on there too.
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Well Sir I guess maybe I don't get enough Telly time, but from some of the stuff I've seen I have drawn that conclusion, which perhaps is both incorrect and unfair. Mind you Sarah Millican could turn my mind if you get my drift.
I seem to spend virtually all of my time working at something or another and a huge problem is with me as with others I have talked to is this. Sit down in comfy chair after a hard days graft and it seems to have a strange effect on the eyelids! I keep working I stay awake. I relax then Zzzzzzzzzzz.
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>> I confess to a wet eye.
You're not the only one!
Totally shocked at the news, probably because he has been on TV throughout my adult life in Only Fools and Vicar of Dibley.
Last edited by: zippy on Thu 16 Jan 14 at 18:27
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>> I confess to a wet eye.
Get on with you. Some bloke off the telly's died. Who's next?
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>> >> I confess to a wet eye.
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>> Get on with you. Some bloke off the telly's died. Who's next?
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Off the telly? He was never 'on' it. When I saw him he was always inside it. :-)
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I haven't had a "wet eye" over anything since I was about 7 years old. Such conduct was absolutely not permitted at home and certainly not at school where showing any kind of "weakness" was punished physically and violently by our teachers. Odd really given that our parents were paying quite a lot of money for that facility.
Couple that with regularly having seven shades of blue kicked into you by the kids from the local state schools if you were caught outside school alone in your "posh kid" uniform and having to show no pain or fear or it got worse and you can perhaps see why.
There have of course been occasions in life since when it might well have been appropriate but that early conditioning precludes it to this day.
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There is always the day called 'catchums' for bullies and oiks and I have had my own back on several occasions. It just takes time, the memory of an Elephant and determination. There's still one or two to go, but they'll keep for now.
A tear (as opposed to a rent) is only a pressure release valve doing its job.
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>> The broom sketch was one of the finest bits of comic timing I've ever seen.
www.vidoosh.tv/play.php?vid=15083
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I guess 'Triggers broom' will be one of those euphonysisms (is that the right word?) that'll go down in history, without later generations knowing why.
Thank you Roger.
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Oh dear. Have to confess I have never seen an entire episode of Only Fools - the little I have seen left me entirely cold. I've just watched the broom thing linked above - and it left me entirely cold. Was obvious where that was going from the first few seconds.
I think in this case, though, it IS just me.
I thought he was good in Dibley though, what I saw of it.
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It ran on for about seven seasons I think - about five too long in my opinion. Mind you I have never rated David Jason. All the characters he plays are basically the same.
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I bet sales of boxed sets of DVDs of OFAH will go through the roof!
tinyurl.com/loq9qx2
I have a birthday this year, would anyone like to treat me?
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>> Oh dear. Have to confess I have never seen an entire episode of Only Fools
>> - the little I have seen left me entirely cold. I've just watched the broom
>> thing linked above - and it left me entirely cold.
I think that OFAH, and its ilk are simple, unsophisticated humour. If you like it - jolly good, if you don't like it - well, there there are plenty more fish in the sea.
Although I have found that I like David Jason less and less as the years have gone by.
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It's in interesting thing, humour. I'm not sure that sophistication on its own, for me, is the answer. I can chuckle quite happily at Tim Vine at his most puerile, or enjoy the unsubtle farce of One Foot. I think I even cracked a smile at a Benny Hill sketch once (which he almost certainly filched from someone else.)
But I can't put my finger on why something is funny or not. Actually there's an episode of The Good Life where everyone but Margo gets the joke and she keeps wailing "but why is it funny?", and they can't explain it either.
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>> Oh dear. Have to confess I have never seen an entire episode of Only Fools
>> - the little I have seen left me entirely cold.
One of the best episodes I liked was the singing dustman who couldn't prownouce his rrrrr's.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJj2ei6WNQs
It's enough to make you cwy (with laughter)
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Never fancied it. Didn't watch it. Wasn't a Jason admirer. Sorry chaps, no offence.
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I didn't own a TV set for pretty much all of the 1980s and early 90s. Just never been very good at sitting in front of one to be honest. It was only when my girlfriend and eventual wife moved in and she wanted one that we got a small one in the kitchen.
Even now, although we have most of the trappings of suburban living ( if that's what it can be called ) and have TV sets in what seems to be every corner of the house, I rarely watch them with any degree of regularity.
Having said that, I like QI, Mock The Week and Never mind the Buzzcocks. I can't stay awake long enough to watch a film, life is way too short to waste it on reality shows, sitcoms or soap operas and as for detective serials well, I don't really want to spend my leisure time looking at fake dead bodies.
I did make the effort and indeed I'm glad I did, to watch that Stargazing Live thing with Brian Cox and I liked Ray Mears although he might be a pyromaniac.
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>> Never fancied it. Didn't watch it. Wasn't a Jason admirer. Sorry chaps, no offence.
Me neither. He was very good in his early days on week ending but, although Open All Hours was amusing it depended heavily on the brilliance of Ronnie Barker. Never to to OFAH at all.
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But he was good in Danger Mouse :-)
Roger Lloyd pack was one of the good supporting characters though RIP
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>> Never fancied it. Didn't watch it. Wasn't a Jason admirer. Sorry chaps, no offence.
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Don't worry about it.
It isn't important.
It doesn't make you a bad person.
Takes all sorts etc.
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Photo overload by the Daily Wail at his funeral.
tinyurl.com/oc5f8dv
Press invasion or what!
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They're all luvvies, so probably lapping it up.
Was the pink hearse significant, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
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Apropos of absolutely nothing at all section.
Trigger's brother is the father - by artificial semination - of Sandy Toksvig's partner's children.
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There was a nice piece by Trigger's daughter Emily Lloyd shortly after his death; she shot to stardom in 'Wish you were here' but then it all went downhill:
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2541943/A-moving-farewell-Roger-Lloyd-Pack-star-daughter.html
(yes it's the DM again but written by Ms Lloyd)
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>> Was the pink hearse significant
I first thought it was his way of putting a smile on people's faces once more. That and also the wicker made coffin.
But alas, no.
www.driving.co.uk/news/news-trigger-goes-out-in-style-in-pink-hearse/18264
"He was carried to his funeral Thursday in a hearse whose colour perfectly reflected his life-long socialist views: pink"
p.s. The scruff award goes to Nicholas Lyndhurst.
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>> That and also the wicker made coffin.
Environmental friendly.
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I don't care what colour my hearse is. Pink will do fine.
But I'm sure it will cheer me up if the hearse and anyone else who comes touch 100mph on the way to the cemetery. !20 if possible.
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>> I don't care what colour my hearse is.
My Father wasn't a car enthusiast. He drove what the company gave him then Hondas 'cos people said they were good cars.
I'm sure however I once heard him say he wouldn't be seen dead in a Volvo.
He was, courtesy of the funeral directors choice of hearse.
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I had a nephew who said he wouldn't be seen dead in a Skoda, then one cold and wet evening when I was passing in mine................................
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RIP Trigger - VxFan
