Boats Are For Idiots

i dont know who ned and eccles are,,,but they sound like my grandfather and father

 

Top secret radio show restricted to English speakers. Played on the BBC in the days where radio performers were expected to wear coat & tie etc. "The Goon Show".

Well worth digging up for a listen - will prepare you for active participation in the drivel thread.

 

Here’s a good start http://www.thegoonshow.net/

Another of my favourites…

Sound effects: Clink clink clink…

Henry Crunn: Excuse me sir, what are you doing?

Neddy: I’m tuning this piano

Henry Crunn: Oh, I see... Min, he’s tuning the piano you know

Minnie Bannister: But Henry, we don’t have a piano!

Henry Crunn: YES! That’s right modern Min. (addresses Ned) Sir, we don’t have a piano, you’re probably meant to be tuning the one next door…. [thinks] – We used to have a piano but it was stolen. What colour are the keys?

Ned: Black and white

Min and Henry: It’s ours, it’s ours!

 

Thanks trev, Much appreciated site.... Again "must spread myself around first Sorry no brownie points though. I tried, Honest

 

My uncle Dick was a ventriliquist on the BBc radio service, back in 1955.

 

A dick that could have been seen & not heard - magnificent for radio (or is it the other way round? heard & not seen) - pity about the pay-cheque - in the post, never delivered...

 

Must have been before the advent of "voice overs"

 

Whenever I get all stressed about about the fiddly bits of the design of Bottle of Smoke, my yet-to-be-built concept for a really fast kite-powered, beachable commuter catamaran, I remember the incomparable chorus of Walk Away off Bad Religion's tour de force record Against the Grain:

Walk (walk away)
I'll lead a parade
And I'll be determined that no one should dissuade
Walk away I'll take my sweet time
And burn all the bridges that I'm leaving behind....

Mostly because I'm all punk rock like that, yo; and I gotta get into the tao of it.

 

heys,,,the other day i was sailing around the world,,,and right in the middle of the atlantic,,i,,,saw,,,,ELVIS!!,,,i tell ya,,,him and morrison was sailing an apogee 55 singing x-mas carols heh

 

Wow Ive always wanted to see Elvis, --ya didnt take any photo's by any chance did ya?

I knew he was'nt dead ,--I just knew it. When was this? Wednesday?

 

Ye heard elvis was detain in area 51 playing poker with a few alien... Indian maybe... or chinese... without passport...

 

it was tuesday,bout 3 pm. and he was playing old maid with a mexican who he picked up on the rio grande,,,, i tried getting a pic, but they kept holding up "howdy doody" masks every time
next time i'll get his autograph