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Edited by Doug Nye, 07 November 2012 - 22:40.
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Edited by Doug Nye, 07 November 2012 - 22:40.
Posted 07 November 2012 - 17:09
Posted 07 November 2012 - 17:25
Private? Lance-corporal, if you don't mind!Oh - for all UK Nostalgists - how sad. Private Jones - Clive Dunn - has finally passed to the great saloon bar in the sky...aged 92.
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Reinhard, there is a certain delicious irony that a German should ask that question... and the relevance to this forum is what?
Posted 07 November 2012 - 17:31
Private? Lance-corporal, if you don't mind!
Reinhard, there is a certain delicious irony that a German should ask that question
Posted 07 November 2012 - 17:35
Posted 07 November 2012 - 17:42
'They do NOT like it up 'em!'
Posted 07 November 2012 - 18:04
Private? Lance-corporal, if you don't mind!
Edited by Doug Nye, 07 November 2012 - 22:40.
Posted 07 November 2012 - 18:15
Mein Gott! Whadda mistaka to maka... but, as always, I meant well...
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Posted 07 November 2012 - 18:42
... and the relevance to this forum is what?
Posted 07 November 2012 - 18:57
But it has nothing to do with motor racing.It really is a British thing.
Posted 07 November 2012 - 18:58
Posted 07 November 2012 - 19:18
Edited by David Birchall, 07 November 2012 - 19:26.
Posted 07 November 2012 - 19:55
But it has nothing to do with motor racing.
Edited by Giraffe, 07 November 2012 - 19:56.
Posted 07 November 2012 - 19:59
... and the relevance to this forum is what?
Posted 07 November 2012 - 20:18
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Posted 07 November 2012 - 21:58
So the Dad's Army curse strikes again
RIP
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Posted 07 November 2012 - 22:44
Ah. Well done, Vitesse. I wondered who would be the first to spot that.Private? Lance-corporal, if you don't mind!
Posted 07 November 2012 - 22:54
Posted 07 November 2012 - 23:03
Edited by Doug Nye, 07 November 2012 - 23:07.
Posted 07 November 2012 - 23:29
Posted 08 November 2012 - 00:00
In 1964 I stood beside Frensham Great Pond and gave my girlfriend a hug--I heard the sound of running water-she had wet herself! THERE'S nostalgia for ya!
Posted 08 November 2012 - 00:17
One of the best characteristics of TNF is, to me, its participants' breadth of interest amd enthusiasm beyond the core subject. Nostalgia embraces so much, and TNF has always seemed to embrace good guys in all kinds of activities. I just felt that Clive Dunn and the illustriously British character he played so impeccably embodied for many of us a genuinely 'good guy' whose passing deserved mention - and tribute. If it's a waste of Haymarket's electrons I am confident this thread could be erased at a key stroke...
Oh yes, 'The Fast Lady' herself - the 3-litre chassised Bentley with 4 1/2-litre engine - is owned by a friend of mine down the road here to the west. A couple of miles to the south lies Frensham Great Pond into which the Bentley rolled while the movie was being shot there. We do, therefore, have a tenuous link...
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Posted 08 November 2012 - 01:30
" I am confident this thread could be erased at a key stroke..."
Just like the much-missed "Blood Pressure" thread?
Posted 08 November 2012 - 07:40
One of the best characteristics of TNF is, to me, its participants' breadth of interest amd enthusiasm beyond the core subject. Nostalgia embraces so much, and TNF has always seemed to embrace good guys in all kinds of activities. I just felt that Clive Dunn and the illustriously British character he played so impeccably embodied for many of us a genuinely 'good guy' whose passing deserved mention - and tribute. If it's a waste of Haymarket's electrons I am confident this thread could be erased at a key stroke...
Oh yes, 'The Fast Lady' herself - the 3-litre chassised Bentley with 4 1/2-litre engine - is owned by a friend of mine down the road here to the west. A couple of miles to the south lies Frensham Great Pond into which the Bentley rolled while the movie was being shot there. We do, therefore, have a tenuous link...
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Edited by Dipster, 08 November 2012 - 07:43.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 08:10
But it has nothing to do with motor racing.
"The Fast Lady" doesn't count.
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Posted 08 November 2012 - 08:58
and a few of us Aussies,its still on prime time TV here,i watched it last night,the one where the yanks come to town.Doug did start his post by making it clear it was aimed at UK TNFers. It really is a British thing.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 09:00
A friend of mine has just told me, and he's a member of the "Dad's Army Appreciation Society" (honestly, and the one for "Only Fools and Horses"!!), that Brooklands was mentioned in one script, so I'm sticking with it!
I read somewhere, that when Clive joined the cast, he was one of the youngest actors in it!
Posted 08 November 2012 - 09:02
some big drinkers in that group.Of the main cast, he was third youngest (48) after Ian Lavender (22) and James Beck (38). Arthur Lowe was 53, only one year older than me!
Then it was John Le Mesurier (56), John Laurie (71) and Arnold Ridley (72). Laurie and Ridley were old enough to be Dunn's father.
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Posted 08 November 2012 - 09:20
And over the years quite a few other classics, including a camouflaged Rolls Royce: http://www.imcdb.org...Dad-s-Army.htmlOne edition of Dads Army did feature a Vauxhall 30/98 and and Austin 7 Chummy.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 09:20
Of the main cast, he was third youngest (48) after Ian Lavender (22) and James Beck (38). Arthur Lowe was 53, only one year older than me!
Posted 08 November 2012 - 09:46
Never squeeze a bird when she's just tucked away eight pints of scrumpy.Good grief Must have been some hug.
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Posted 08 November 2012 - 09:51
And, if I'm not mistaken, one of Clive Dunn's earlier TV roles was as a caretaker "Old Johnson" in a comedy set in a gentleman's club "Bootsie & Snudge" with Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser. A spin-off series from the earlier "The Army Game" I believe.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:00
Ah. Well done, Vitesse. I wondered who would be the first to spot that.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:18
Well actually... When I was a young lad in the seventies, "Dad's Army" was my introduction to English humor, her Majesty's language and quite a chunk of British culture.It really is a British thing.
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Posted 08 November 2012 - 15:12
RIP Clive. I can see how non-UK TNFrs won't "get" this thread, but I'm so pleased it was started.
My memory? At the end of the feature film, just before the credits start, Mainwaring and Wilson stand alone on top of the white cliffs on the south coast.
The camera slowly pans away as they say:
Wilson - " It's a beautiful evening, sir."
Mainwaring - "It's a beautiful country, Wilson. (Superbly timed pause), They're not going to have it, you know".
Priceless to Brits of a certain age.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 15:29
I always liked that Croft and Perry would sometimes give the characters a little bit of grit in their personalities - Mainwaring facing down some German soldiers with an empty gun, Godfrey crawling through a mined beach to help a colleague, Fraser threatening an MP with a past discretion in order to save Godfrey's cottage, and so on.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 15:44
I recall that the series "Allo Allo" was a hit with German viewers when it was screened there, presumably with sub-titles. I wonder what they would have made of "Dad's Army"?
Posted 08 November 2012 - 15:53
It's having a long run on Saturday evenings in the UK at the moment. In marked contrast to most other 70s sit-coms, it just seems to get better with each passing year. It doesn't matter that I've heard every gag before; I just delight in the delivery.and a few of us Aussies,its still on prime time TV here,i watched it last night,the one where the yanks come to town.
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Posted 08 November 2012 - 18:07
We'll show those damned Nazis Wilson!. And they, and others very like them, did!.RIP Clive. I can see how non-UK TNFrs won't "get" this thread, but I'm so pleased it was started.
My memory? At the end of the feature film, just before the credits start, Mainwaring and Wilson stand alone on top of the white cliffs on the south coast.
The camera slowly pans away as they say:
Wilson - " It's a beautiful evening, sir."
Mainwaring - "It's a beautiful country, Wilson. (Superbly timed pause), They're not going to have it, you know".
Priceless to Brits of a certain age.