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Re: Who is the man with the spade?

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Brian Watson

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Oct 28, 2012, 6:28:39 AM10/28/12
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"Dry Gulch Pete" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> "Jill Mills" <mills...@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> wrote in message
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>> "Dry Gulch Pete" wrote in message news:k6gvr0$ge8$1...@dont-email.me...
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>> http://z2.ifrm.com/10701/5/0/p1043791/cap071.jpg
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>> Not a lot of people would recognise him!
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>> Btw, I'm not being rude about black people.
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>> DGP
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>> Looks like Michael Caine to me. I think he was in some 'William Tell'
>> episodes. Is that what this is?
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> Yes, correct, Michael Caine appeared in an episode of ITC's 'William Tell'
> called 'The Prisoner' and he played 'Number 6'!

Thank goodness he didn't get Patrick McGoohan's gig.

Imagine it in Caine's "you're a big lad but you're out of condition" voice;
"I am NOT a number; I am a free man."

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Brian
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Dry Gulch Pete

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Oct 28, 2012, 8:19:20 AM10/28/12
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"Brian Watson" <Br...@imagebus.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hmm - needs the posh, methinks, like he did in Zulu!

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redcat

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Oct 28, 2012, 7:13:43 PM10/28/12
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"What's it all about, Number 6?"

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Dry Gulch Pete

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Oct 28, 2012, 10:57:29 PM10/28/12
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On Oct 28, 11:13 pm, redcat <red...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/2012 8:19 AM, Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
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> > "Brian Watson" <Br...@imagebus.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >> "Dry Gulch Pete" <pacif...@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> >>> "Jill Mills" <mills.j...@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> wrote in message
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> >>>> "Dry Gulch Pete"  wrote in messagenews:k6gvr0$ge8$1...@dont-email.me...
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> >>>>http://z2.ifrm.com/10701/5/0/p1043791/cap071.jpg
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> >>>> Not a lot of people would recognise him!
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> >>>> Btw, I'm not being rude about black people.
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> >>>> --
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> >>>>   DGP
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> >>>> Looks like Michael Caine to me. I think he was in some 'William Tell'
> >>>> episodes. Is that what this is?
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> >>> Yes, correct, Michael Caine appeared in an episode of ITC's 'William
> >>> Tell' called 'The Prisoner' and he played 'Number 6'!
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> >> Thank goodness he didn't get Patrick McGoohan's gig.
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> >> Imagine it in Caine's "you're a big lad but you're out of condition"
> >> voice; "I am NOT a number; I am a free man."
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> > Hmm - needs the posh, methinks, like he did in Zulu!
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> > --
> > DGP
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> "What's it all about, Number 6?"

<g> Aways thought that was horrible as sung by Cilla, but Cher
improves it no end!

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Dick Spanner

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Dick Spanner

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On Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 10:28:39 AM UTC, Brian Watson wrote:
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