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Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by Smug in Boots, Jun 13, 2022.

  1. RTB

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  2. OldNewtown

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    Is it a home game?
     
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  3. The Exile II

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    How did Wet Leg win two Grammies last night? They're the indie version of 2Unlimited.

    It's just the same line,
    Just the same line,
    the same line line,
    Same line line line.
     
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    Cant be so it must be an away venue <doh>, strange choice, or maybe not.
    My old man used to talk about Carter and Gurney from those days, and he saw some great displays from us in London, in fact he saw as many games in the smoke, as he did at Roker, being mainly on coastal runs, spiced up with the odd Translantic and Russian convoys, before, during and after WW2.
    Superb portrait tho, and reminiscent of the times, full of character. <ok>
     
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    Dont take it so seriously its only gift wrapped advertising, but then again, just like everything else, people fall for it.
     
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  6. The Exile II

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    Speaking of the Grammies, Sam Smith turned up in a Spanish inquisition cosplay. Nobody expected that.
     
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    What’s this crap about him been given a jail sentence
    He’s been let off man
     
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    £61,000 fine.

    Think I'd rather go to jail

    But seriously, what a ****
     
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  10. Gordon Armstrong

    Gordon Armstrong Just another S.A.F.C. fan Forum Moderator

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    Will this work, I wonder :emoticon-0112-wonde
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64563839 . . . . which says
    Fawlty Towers: John Cleese to revive series with daughter Camilla
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    Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese, will be returning to our screens in a new series
    Comedy series Fawlty Towers is set to be revived after more than 40 years.

    John Cleese, who played Basil Fawlty, will be returning to write and star alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.

    The two-series show, which featured on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979, followed the lives of Torquay hotelier Basil and his wife Sybil as they tried to keep their business and marriage afloat.

    The new series will explore how the cynical and sarcastic Basil navigates the modern world.

    Castle Rock Entertainment announced on Tuesday that it had agreed a deal with Cleese to bring back the television series.

    The revival will also see Basil and his daughter, who he has only recently discovered is his, team up to run a boutique hotel.

    Fawlty Towers was named the greatest British sitcom of all time by a panel of television experts for Radio Times magazine in 2019.

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    The original cast of Fawlty Towers - Andrew Sachs, Prunella Scales, John Cleese and Connie Booth - on set in 1975
    The new series will see actor Rob Reiner, his wife and actress Michelle Reiner, director and producer Matthew George and Derrick Rossi all act as executive producers.

    Cleese, one of the original members of Monty Python, said that when he first met George "he offered an excellent idea" which led to "one of the best creative sessions that I can remember".

    "By dessert we had an overall concept so good that a few days later it won the approval of Rob and Michele Reiner" he said.

    "Camilla and I look forward enormously to expanding it into a series."

    Director George said that he was "obsessed with Fawlty Towers" and meeting Cleese and his daughter was one of the "great thrills" of his life.

    "I've watched the first two seasons so many times that I have lost count," he said. "I dreamed of one day being involved in a continuation of the story, and now it's come true."

    Reiner described the Fawlty Towers star as a "comedy legend". "Just the idea of working with him makes me laugh."

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    John Cleese and his daughter Camilla will both be starring in the new series
    In 2020, Cleese had a disagreement with the BBC after it temporarily removed a classic episode of Fawlty Towers because of "racial slurs."

    The 1975 episode, called "The Germans" featured the Major Gowen character using offensive language and Basil saying "don't mention the war."

    Cleese criticised the decision, saying: "I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of human behaviour.

    "One is to attack it directly, and the other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour."

    Streaming service UKTV temporarily removed the episode while it carried out a review, but it was reinstated with a warning about "offensive content and language."

    The original show was written by Cleese and Connie Booth.
     
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    We love bacon and eggs,steak and chips,cheese and pickle....and I give you....ham and pease pudding...very excellent!
     
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    I used to love pease pudding until I worked for my uncle at Peter’s bakery (Peter is my uncle for thise old enough to remember the company). I used to mix Pease pudding every morning and the smell now makes me wretch!!
     
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    :emoticon-0102-bigsm I'm very sorry to have caused you such problems marra! Gaviscon is the answer!:emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  16. Blond Bombshell

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    That's the cost of living crisis right there
     
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    I always suspected that God was a black lesbian paraplegic mouse.
     
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  19. Gordon Armstrong

    Gordon Armstrong Just another S.A.F.C. fan Forum Moderator

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    That top doesn't go with the bottom, does it :emoticon-0112-wonde
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    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    Looks like a school kid :emoticon-0119-puke:
     
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