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Post by babyzoomer on Nov 23, 2017 2:32:21 GMT
Here's a foto of JL from the Warbling Trilburys era....
As you see, JL is wearing a shirt with a list of names on it.
The list is of a fictitious football team 'Barnstoneworth United' from an episode of "Ripping Yarns" (1979) called 'Golden Gordon'.
Ripping Yarns was a short-run comedy series on the BBC in the late '70s written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones (from Monty Python).
Like much of the output of the Pythons, various bits of Ripping Yarns became the subject of rote-learned quotes for fans - including the list of football players on JL's shirt.
What IS interesting is that the photo must date from the late 80's, ten years after Ripping Yarns was broadcast.
The episode in question:
(cameo of John Cleese at 22.50).
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Post by Timeblue on Nov 23, 2017 5:25:25 GMT
Love 'Ripping Yarns' I have the box set of all the shows.
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Post by babyzoomer on Nov 23, 2017 12:18:14 GMT
Love 'Ripping Yarns' I have the box set of all the shows. 'Howard Moleson's got a new shovel...he put it next to the other one!'
My favourite episode was "Murder at Moorstone Manor"; I can remember watching it as a late teenager (with my parental family) - I was rolling on the floor with laughter, peeing myself, while the rest just sat there in stony silence.
They're all dead now, but I suspect they were already dead then.....
I suppose JL was wearing that shirt as a private gag with R.O. - Roy was reportedly a big Python fan too.
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Post by Timeblue on Nov 23, 2017 15:00:05 GMT
Love 'Ripping Yarns' I have the box set of all the shows. 'Howard Moleson's got a new shovel...he put it next to the other one!'
My favourite episode was "Murder at Moorstone Manor"; I can remember watching it as a late teenager (with my parental family) - I was rolling on the floor with laughter, peeing myself, while the rest just sat there in stony silence.
They're all dead now, but I suspect they were already dead then.....
I suppose JL was wearing that shirt as a private gag with R.O. - Roy was reportedly a big Python fan too.
It were always raining in Denley Moor, except on days when it were fine; and there weren't many of those - not if you include drizzle as rain. And even if it weren't drizzling, it were overcast and there were a lot of moisture in the air. You'd come home as though it had been raining, even though there had been no evidence of precipitation in the rain gauge outside the town hall...... |
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Post by babyzoomer on Nov 23, 2017 21:47:22 GMT
Black pudding were soooo black, even the white bits were black.  |
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Post by unomusette on Nov 23, 2017 22:57:16 GMT
I was going to say that - my Mum and I still quote it at each other when something is very black  I think Tomkinson's Schooldays was my favourite though. |
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Post by babyzoomer on Dec 3, 2017 13:13:15 GMT
I suppose a fitting ELO version of JL's t-shirt would be this list of names....
Robin Hood
William Tell
Ivanhoe
Lancelot
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Post by eloneen on Dec 3, 2017 13:20:23 GMT
I suppose a fitting ELO version of JL's t-shirt would be this list of names.... Robin Hood William Tell Ivanhoe Lancelot ...and rounding out the list would be Horace Wimp and Mr. Blue Sky  |
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Post by elophile on Dec 3, 2017 13:58:34 GMT
I suppose a fitting ELO version of JL's t-shirt would be this list of names.... Robin Hood William Tell Ivanhoe Lancelot oh my god! That's a really good idea babyzoomer !!! |
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Post by Timeblue on Dec 3, 2017 15:28:17 GMT
Black pudding were soooo black, even the white bits were black. Shut up you boring little tit..... |
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Post by unomusette on Dec 3, 2017 20:00:46 GMT
But Howard Moleson's got a new shovel!
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Post by Horacewimp on Dec 3, 2017 20:25:03 GMT
But Howard Moleson's got a new shovel! Spear and Jackson number 5? |
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Post by unomusette on Dec 3, 2017 20:48:22 GMT
Yes! Coming up to check the rain guage?
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Post by Timeblue on Dec 3, 2017 21:11:53 GMT
Yes! Coming up to check the rain guage? See my post above.... |
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Post by unomusette on Dec 3, 2017 21:28:18 GMT
*whacks with Spear & Jackson No. 5*
Sacre Bleu! (as me Dad would say)
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, but we're OK. 
Apparently it's quite hard to see them with the naked eye, you need to be looking through a camera or other type of lens?