26-06-2013, 08:13 PM
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No Idea PatsCG. You don't think I write this tosh do you?I have a team of scriptwriters who even now as we type our offerings & oblations are racking their brains to keep my name in al fresco. al denteco, al capela & ad libbing (shh) al the while.
AS the inebriate Lord Whatsisname said on live radio at the last noteworthy review of the fleet at Spit head
"ooooooooooh, they're all lit up"
26-06-2013, 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Junior
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No Idea PatsCG. You don't think I write this tosh do you?I have a team of scriptwriters who even now as we type our offerings & oblations are racking their brains to keep my name in al fresco. al denteco, al capela & ad libbing (shh) al the while.
AS the inebriate Lord Whatsisname said on live radio at the last noteworthy review of the fleet at Spit head
"ooooooooooh, they're all lit up"
I think Robert matey, that that was Wynford Vaughan-Thomas who was commentating on the event for the BBC at the time.
27-06-2013, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Robert Junior
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No Idea PatsCG. You don't think I write this tosh do you?I have a team of scriptwriters who even now as we type our offerings & oblations are racking their brains to keep my name in al fresco. al denteco, al capela & ad libbing (shh) al the while.
AS the inebriate Lord Whatsisname said on live radio at the last noteworthy review of the fleet at Spit head
"ooooooooooh, they're all lit up"
Now - I was amazed to see you quote that posh fella doing a live broadcast - absolutely plastered ... because - we had a tape of 'out-takes' and his broadcast was on it, it was so funny ......
'Theyre all lit up by fairy lights ... ooooooo - lit up
'Fabulous .....
27-06-2013, 12:23 PM
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Well, I have to admit, two things that irke me are the fact that my eyesight is no longer as good as it used to be. It was just reading glasses for years but now its varifoculs for the paper, tv and computer. The second is getting out of the bath is not as easy as it once was. I am not overweight in any way but I find now that when I want to get out of the bath it's much harder to do now I am not so supple as I once was boo hoo. and then I have to sit on the edge of the bath to get my breath back and also congratulate myself that I did it without falling back in and knocking myself unconscious.
27-06-2013, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Uncle Joe
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I think Robert matey, that that was Wynford Vaughan-Thomas who was commentating on the event for the BBC at the time.
Thomas Woodrooffe (1899–1978) was a British naval officer, broadcaster and writer.
In the Royal Navy he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. After his retirement he became a commentator for BBC Radio. He was one of its main commentators during the 1930s, covering amongst many other events the opening ceremony of the 1936 Summer Olympics and Neville Chamberlain's return from Munich in 1938. He is best remembered though for two gaffes.
In 1937 he was to describe the Spithead Review from his old ship the battleship HMS Nelson. Apparently he met some of his former colleagues before the broadcast and drank to the extent that his broadcast, still known today by his repeated phrase "the fleet's lit up", was so incoherent he was taken off air after a few minutes and suspended for a week by BBC Director-General John Reith. [1]. Woodroofe's comically rambling commentary has regularly been rebroadcast. The phrase "lit up" can also be a euphemism for drunkenness, which may explain Woodrooffe's comment, "At the present moment, the whole fleet is lit up. When I say 'lit up', I mean lit up by fairy lamps.
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