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Michael Bentine video clip from 1963.

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Bruce Atchison - author

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Jun 14, 2011, 10:28:07 PM6/14/11
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Hello folks of world and around the bend;

I have discovered a hilarious video clip on YouTube of It's A Square World
where Michael Bentine plays a presenter giving a lecture. While he's
talking, the little people on the slide are getting up to no good. It's at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWomdkwtoY if you need a good laugh and
maybe a change of underware. I nearly laughed my head off. It's a good
thing I have a thick neck. Some folks say it matches my head but what do
they know, eh?

Sponcerely,

Bruce Atchison - the centre of his own underpants.


Frederick Williams

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Jun 15, 2011, 11:59:00 AM6/15/11
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Bruce Atchison - author wrote:

> Bruce Atchison - the centre of his own underpants.

It must be hell in there!

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by
this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

Roger the Saurus

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Jun 16, 2011, 5:30:22 PM6/16/11
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"Bruce Atchison - author" <batc...@mcsnet.ca> wrote in message
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> Hello folks of world and around the bend;
>
> I have discovered a hilarious video clip on YouTube of It's A Square World
> where Michael Bentine plays a presenter giving a lecture. While he's
> talking, the little people on the slide are getting up to no good. It's
> at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWomdkwtoY if you need a good laugh and
> maybe a change of underware. I nearly laughed my head off. It's a good
> thing I have a thick neck. Some folks say it matches my head but what do
> they know, eh?

Ah, that takes me back (and me knees). The Chinese junk destroying the
House of Commons, BBC announcers escaping to ITV by tunneling under the BBC
centre, the mole wars with Percy Thrower, the attacks on the President of
Slobodia, the art of nurdling, the apologies for news misreading "We should
have said Mr. MacMillan the Prime Minister was a gleaming wit, not, as we
said earlier, a steaming nit" A brilliant programme and now, alas, there is
practically no evidence of it.
--
Roger the Saurus
(remove bollix to reply)

MartinS

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Jun 17, 2011, 12:41:23 AM6/17/11
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"Roger the Saurus" <roge...@bollixbtinternet.com> wrote:
> "Bruce Atchison - author" <batc...@mcsnet.ca> wrote...

>> Hello folks of world and around the bend;
>>
>> I have discovered a hilarious video clip on YouTube of It's A Square
>> World where Michael Bentine plays a presenter giving a lecture.
>> While he's talking, the little people on the slide are getting up to
>> no good. It's at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWomdkwtoY if you
>> need a good laugh and maybe a change of underware. I nearly laughed
>> my head off. It's a good thing I have a thick neck. Some folks say
>> it matches my head but what do they know, eh?
>
> Ah, that takes me back (and me knees). The Chinese junk destroying
> the House of Commons, BBC announcers escaping to ITV by tunneling
> under the BBC centre, the mole wars with Percy Thrower, the attacks on
> the President of Slobodia, the art of nurdling, the apologies for news
> misreading "We should have said Mr. MacMillan the Prime Minister was a
> gleaming wit, not, as we said earlier, a steaming nit" A brilliant
> programme and now, alas, there is practically no evidence of it.

I used to love his flea circus.

I also remember "Round the Bend" on the wireless. The sole introduction
was: "This is the BBC", and the end credits were: "For the past 30
minutes you have been Round the Bend. An attempt at production was made."

Judith Chalmers was also in Round The Bend and It's a Square World;
currently (at 74) she is in an ad on Canadian TV for a leg circulation
stimulator.

--
Martin S.

Dick Rasch

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Jun 17, 2011, 3:28:32 PM6/17/11
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snippeeeee

> Judith Chalmers was also in Round The Bend and It's a Square World;
> currently (at 74) she is in an ad on Canadian TV for a leg circulation
> stimulator.
>


At �200 for a flat vibrator, I know where I would tell her to stick it (at
74).

Bleedin' rip off.

MaD DaN (with no circulating legs - not yet at 74).
--
There are worse things in life than death.
Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?


SFD

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Jun 30, 2011, 5:20:13 AM6/30/11
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"Bruce Atchison - author" <batc...@mcsnet.ca> wrote in message
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Though it was crap, actually.


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