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Von Gibbling

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Apr 24, 2005, 10:43:06 AM4/24/05
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OK, so TV will have been an antiquated medium for decades by the year 2105 -
but there'll still be some comparable broadcast medium.

Any candidates from where you're standing ?

Obviously Coronation Street, but what else ?


Bill Godfrey

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Apr 24, 2005, 11:06:19 AM4/24/05
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"Von Gibbling" <vongi...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Obviously Coronation Street, but what else ?

The news.
The last ever 'only fools and horses'.

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Jim Barker

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Apr 24, 2005, 11:11:58 AM4/24/05
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Bill Godfrey wrote:
> "Von Gibbling" <vongi...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>>Obviously Coronation Street, but what else ?
>
>
> The news.
> The last ever 'only fools and horses'.
>
Countdown

The Sky at Night

Both still with their original presenters

JimB

Fr J. Hackett

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Apr 24, 2005, 11:11:28 AM4/24/05
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Bill Godfrey wrote:
> "Von Gibbling" <vongi...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Obviously Coronation Street, but what else ?
>
> The news.
> The last ever 'only fools and horses'.

Countdown.
And posters saying that a 144 or whatever-she-will-be-by-then Carol
Vorderperson is a fucking MILF.

Farther Hackett.

Marcus Houlden

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Apr 24, 2005, 11:18:42 AM4/24/05
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:11:58 GMT, Jim Barker <j...@magneticscotland.com>
wrote the following to uk.media.tv.misc:

Ditto Last of the Summer Wine. How many more of the cast need to die before
they take it off?

mh.
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Trevor

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Apr 24, 2005, 12:26:35 PM4/24/05
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Casualty. Only a nuclear apocalypse could stop the BBC making
another series.

Jason

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Apr 24, 2005, 1:44:32 PM4/24/05
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"I love 2006...2104"

Gordon Davie

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Apr 24, 2005, 2:45:19 PM4/24/05
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And Ken Barlow will still be in it!
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A. J. Moss

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Apr 24, 2005, 5:02:49 PM4/24/05
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Jim Barker <j...@magneticscotland.com> wrote:
>Countdown
>
>The Sky at Night
>
>Both still with their original presenters

You'll have noticed that Chris Lintott bloke from UCL,
whom the BBC are grooming as TSAN's new presenter.

Another bloody Tory boy!
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Johannes

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Apr 24, 2005, 6:28:15 PM4/24/05
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Can anyone remember those TV advertisements for video tapes, can't
remember the make. But the point was that the tapes would last so
long that a skeleton enjoyed watching them again and again. Quite
creepy, really.

Marcus Houlden

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Apr 24, 2005, 6:41:56 PM4/24/05
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:28:15 GMT, Johannes <jo...@spamblock3sizefitter.com>

wrote the following to uk.media.tv.misc:

> Can anyone remember those TV advertisements for video tapes, can't


> remember the make. But the point was that the tapes would last so
> long that a skeleton enjoyed watching them again and again. Quite
> creepy, really.

I'm pretty certain it was Scotch, with the catchy "rerecord not fade away"
slogan.

Fr J. Hackett

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Apr 24, 2005, 6:49:02 PM4/24/05
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Marcus Houlden wrote:

> I'm pretty certain it was Scotch, with the catchy "rerecord not fade
away"
> slogan.

It was defintely Scotch and it did use the "Not Fade Away" track,
slightly changed.

And it was about twenty years ago.

And I know that you possibly shouldn't start off sentences with "And".

And various other mistakes in the above message.........

Fr Fuckwit.

John Rowland

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Apr 24, 2005, 8:56:50 PM4/24/05
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"Von Gibbling" <vongi...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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Doctor Who?
Film 2105
Newsround
Blue Peter
Star Trek

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Bill Godfrey

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Apr 24, 2005, 9:25:46 PM4/24/05
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"Fr J. Hackett" <dontbesob...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> It was defintely Scotch and it did use the "Not Fade Away" track,
> slightly changed.

I'm going to tell you how its going to be.
With Scotch's new lifetime guarantee.
Something somethingg something night and day.
Then re-record not fade away.
Re-record not fade away.

The tape's lifetime? My lifetime? A may-fly's lifetime?

Live, Bill.

Deano

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Apr 25, 2005, 3:27:19 AM4/25/05
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I get quite upset when I see sentences ending in "of".

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Daniel Titley

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Apr 25, 2005, 4:25:57 AM4/25/05
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Don't know about TV; but if there is still radio, the Archers will
still be on.

Andy Turner

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Apr 25, 2005, 8:25:08 AM4/25/05
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On 25 Apr 2005 01:25:46 GMT, bill-g...@sunny-daventry.invalid (Bill
Godfrey) wrote:

>"Fr J. Hackett" <dontbesob...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> It was defintely Scotch and it did use the "Not Fade Away" track,
>> slightly changed.
>
>I'm going to tell you how its going to be.
>With Scotch's new lifetime guarantee.

So what are Scotch gonna do when you take a knackered tape back to
them now?


andyt

Halmyre

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Apr 25, 2005, 10:52:29 AM4/25/05
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Marcus Houlden wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:28:15 GMT, Johannes <jo...@spamblock3sizefitter.com>
> wrote the following to uk.media.tv.misc:
>
>
>>Can anyone remember those TV advertisements for video tapes, can't
>>remember the make. But the point was that the tapes would last so
>>long that a skeleton enjoyed watching them again and again. Quite
>>creepy, really.
>
>
> I'm pretty certain it was Scotch, with the catchy "rerecord not fade away"
> slogan.
>
> mh.

But who did the voice? I'm thinking Derek Guyler, but I'm pretty sure
that's wrong.

Halmyre

Thanatos

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Apr 25, 2005, 12:23:57 PM4/25/05
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I'd have said Derek Guyler too.


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mat...@angelfire.com

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Apr 25, 2005, 1:10:55 PM4/25/05
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Bill Godfrey wrote:
> "Fr J. Hackett" <dontbesob...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > It was defintely Scotch and it did use the "Not Fade Away" track,
> > slightly changed.
>
> I'm going to tell you how its going to be.
> With Scotch's new lifetime guarantee.

I don't think there was a "new" in it.

> Something somethingg something night and day.

Tape what you want both night and day

> Then re-record not fade away.
> Re-record not fade away.

MattLB

Fr J. Hackett

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Apr 25, 2005, 1:21:04 PM4/25/05
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mat...@angelfire.com wrote:

> I don't think there was a "new" in it.

I'll try and have a look through my 80's ads DVD later tonight
(recording from VHS onto DVD) and check if it's on there - I'm not
promising anything though.

How dreadfully dreadfully sad I am.

Fr Hackett.

JNugent

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Apr 25, 2005, 1:50:37 PM4/25/05
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Marcus Houlden wrote:

> Johannes <jo...@spamblock3sizefitter.com> wrote:

>> Can anyone remember those TV advertisements for video tapes, can't
>> remember the make. But the point was that the tapes would last so
>> long that a skeleton enjoyed watching them again and again. Quite
>> creepy, really.

> I'm pretty certain it was Scotch, with the catchy "rerecord not fade
> away" slogan.

Correct.

And the VO was done by the late Derrick Guyler.


JNugent

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Apr 25, 2005, 1:54:41 PM4/25/05
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Thanatos wrote:

> Halmyre <nos...@this.address> wrote:
>> Marcus Houlden wrote:

>>> Johannes <jo...@spamblock3sizefitter.com> wrotw:

>>>> Can anyone remember those TV advertisements for video tapes, can't
>>>> remember the make. But the point was that the tapes would last so
>>>> long that a skeleton enjoyed watching them again and again. Quite
>>>> creepy, really.

>>> I'm pretty certain it was Scotch, with the catchy "rerecord not
>>> fade away" slogan.

>> But who did the voice? I'm thinking Derek Guyler, but I'm pretty sure
>> that's wrong.

> I'd have said Derek Guyler too.

As would I (though I spelled his Christian name incorrectly in another
post). The correct rendition is: Deryck Guyler.

A single-term Google (UK) search under either name returns his name within
the top ten hits (the very top in the case of "Guyler").


secret squiddle

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Apr 25, 2005, 3:04:53 PM4/25/05
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"Marcus Houlden" <sp...@nukesoft.co.uk> wrote in message
news:slrnd6ne6...@neutron.nukesoft.co.uk...

> On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:11:58 GMT, Jim Barker <j...@magneticscotland.com>
> wrote the following to uk.media.tv.misc:
>
>> Bill Godfrey wrote:
>>> "Von Gibbling" <vongi...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Obviously Coronation Street, but what else ?
>>>
>>>
>>> The news.
>>> The last ever 'only fools and horses'.
>>>
>> Countdown
>>
>> The Sky at Night
>>
>> Both still with their original presenters
>
> Ditto Last of the Summer Wine. How many more of the cast need to die
> before
> they take it off?
>

Last Of The Summer Wine. Full of actors who everyone thought was dead.

**SS**


Mike Plowman

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Apr 25, 2005, 4:16:47 PM4/25/05
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On 25 Apr 2005 01:25:46 GMT, bill-g...@sunny-daventry.invalid (Bill
Godfrey) wrote:

>"Fr J. Hackett" <dontbesob...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> It was defintely Scotch and it did use the "Not Fade Away" track,
>> slightly changed.
>
>I'm going to tell you how its going to be.
>With Scotch's new lifetime guarantee.
>Something somethingg something night and day.
>Then re-record not fade away.
>Re-record not fade away.
>

And IIRC it was Brian Wilde (Foggy Dewhurst in LOTSW) who did the
voiceover.
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but it didn't amount to much." Russell Harty

Peter Bradley

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Apr 26, 2005, 5:06:45 AM4/26/05
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How about Neibours? I bet Harold and Lou will still be there!
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