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#21
General Discussion / Re: Wordle - may contain spoil...
Last post by Thenop - March 28, 2024, 09:29:24 AM
Like the esthetic
Wordle 1.013 4/6

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#22
General Discussion / Re: Wordle - may contain spoil...
Last post by Fishy - March 28, 2024, 09:19:11 AM
Wordle 1,013 4/6

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5 mins
#23
General Discussion / Re: Wordle - may contain spoil...
Last post by Slim - March 28, 2024, 12:22:50 AM
Wordle 1,013 4/6*

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About 2 mins. Good feedback from the second go.
#24
General Discussion / Re: Holidays 2024
Last post by David L - March 28, 2024, 12:02:52 AM
A fortnight ago we had a week in Hinterglemm in the Austrian Alps. First snowboard trip for four years. Lovely hotel, absolutely delightful food. Snow not all that but a fantastic holiday nevertheless.
No plans for summer yet. I may save my leave as I'm retiring at the end of August so I could go a week or two earlier if I don't use it.
We've already had a couple of weekends away in the motorhome. We are off to Bakewell tomorrow for the Easter weekend. Cycling and beer on the agenda.

From September onwards, everyday will be a holiday!
#25
Moving Pictures / Re: Monty Python's Flying Circ...
Last post by Slim - March 27, 2024, 09:49:03 PM
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A very good one. Consistently very funny, except for an overlong sketch about "slenderising garments".

I remembered a fair bit of this one - a very funny spoof of Blue Peter, the short piece featuring Mrs Niggerbaiter speaking to a government minister as if he were six months old, and the famous, short but funny fish-slapping sketch. I recall from Michael Palin's diaries that he was provided with brandy immediately after being dunked in the Thames. I remember him mentioning it in an interview in Melody Maker about 50 years ago as well.

Lulu and Ringo have cameos in a brief sketch at the very end. More than fifty years later, they're still both household names.

One thing that struck me (again) about this episode is the amount of material that might be considered politically incorrect in the present day. Apart from Mrs Niggerbaiter, there's a sketch with ridiculous homosexual stereotypes. Someone (Pailin I think) does a ridiculous cartoon-Chinese accent for one of the animations. And Cleese appears dressed as a "red indian" very briefly.

Palin plays an outlandishly camp TV presenter in one sketch. He played a very similar character in a guest appearance on OTT about ten years later, but for some reason he doesn't write about that in his diaries, or at least the published version. I wonder if he came to regret it.
#26
General Discussion / Re: Holidays 2024
Last post by Nickslikk2112 - March 27, 2024, 09:47:10 PM
Had a couple of nights in Birmingham  :P
Got a midweek break in York in April
Got a weekend break in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in June

Not done more than a couple of night's away since about 2012  :(

And I agree with Fishy, Corfu's a nice place, certainly was nice place, not been since 1992...
#27
General Discussion / Re: Holidays 2024
Last post by captainkurtz - March 27, 2024, 09:46:36 PM
Athens next week.
Thailand in December - Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai
4 day London break in August - seeing Taylor Swift and PJ Harvey...
#28
General Discussion / Re: Holidays 2024
Last post by Fishy - March 27, 2024, 09:16:32 PM
Quote from: Matt2112 on March 27, 2024, 08:01:13 PMStill scheming and planning about which Greek island to visit in August - one that would be new for me (Corfu, Skiathos, Mykonos) or somewhere we already adore (Pefkos in Rhodes, Kos, Santorini)? We shall see.

I certainly also want revisit Athens for a city break around the end of October - two nights last year wasn't enough and there's a strong sense of us having unfinished business in that place.

Do corfu.  It's ace
#29
General Discussion / Re: Holidays 2024
Last post by Matt2112 - March 27, 2024, 08:01:13 PM
Still scheming and planning about which Greek island to visit in August - one that would be new for me (Corfu, Skiathos, Mykonos) or somewhere we already adore (Pefkos in Rhodes, Kos, Santorini)? We shall see.

I certainly also want to revisit Athens for a city break around the end of October - two nights last year wasn't enough and there's a strong sense of us having unfinished business in that place.
#30
General Discussion / Re: Wordle - may contain spoil...
Last post by R6GYY - March 27, 2024, 06:31:49 PM
Wordle 1,012 4/6*

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Thought I had it in 3 dagnabit. Under 5 minutes.