euan2020 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33914037 On the busses - "Blakey" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 (edited) My old boss is a Blakey lookalike. On the subject of On the Buses Reg Varney made the first withdrawal from an ATM. Edited August 13, 2015 by Charlie Endell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 My old boss is a Blakey lookalike. On the subject of On the Buses Reg Varney made the first withdrawal from an ATM. Urban myth. It was an NCR engineer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Urban myth. It was an NCR engineer. Spoilsport - of course someone had to test it first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Spoilsport - of course someone had to test it first. Actually, I think NCR just did the first one on Scotland. Don't know who made the ones used down south. They were used in other countries a while before they were used in the UK. So, your Reg Varney factoid probably only applies to the UK, i would guess. I don't think he was very famous in New York? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9461/1/MPRA_paper_9461.pdf "Despite these issues, the DACS (marketed by the bank as “Barclaycash”) was the first cash machine ever deployed when installed at the Enfield branch of Barclay’s on June 27, 1967, beating the Westminster’s Chubb system by a month [18]. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 RIP Stephen Campaigned alongside Tony Benn Good Guy who stayed loyal to his roots unlike certain scousers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilser Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Bad month so far for ITV stars from the 70s and 80s - first Cilla, then Arfur Daley and now Blakey. Anyone got a theory yet?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnbruman Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Loved the On the Buses series and films in their day. Saw the one a few months ago where they end up at a holiday camp - not hilariously funny but good fun to watch. I saw Stephen Lewis's son doing his comedy act in a Benidorm pub last time we played Spain. He was good. Stephen Lewis's character was brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Loved the On the Buses series and films in their day. Saw the one a few months ago where they end up at a holiday camp - not hilariously funny but good fun to watch. I saw Stephen Lewis's son doing his comedy act in a Benidorm pub last time we played Spain. He was good. Stephen Lewis's character was brilliant. The films always pass the time on those boring Sunday afternoons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 88. He had a decent whack at it then. Amazing how roles like his still echo in the public consciousness, even 40 odd years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robroysboy Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 RIP, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robroysboy Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 RIP, hitler and jimmy hills love child ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 hitler and jimmy hills love child ? It may have been possible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robroysboy Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 It may have been possible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwta2007.com Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 RIP Blakey Loved the "character". Miss the the "innocence" of the 60's & 70's sitcoms that made us all Brit. Scarborough & Great Yarmouth holidays etc in the 60's/70's blended us into Britness. The reality was a con. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Aye, Love thy Neighbour and Till death us do Part were the epitome of "innocence". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan cake Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 RIP Blakey Loved the "character". Miss the the "innocence" of the 60's & 70's sitcoms that made us all Brit. Scarborough & Great Yarmouth holidays etc in the 60's/70's blended us into Britness. The reality was a con. for innocence read casual racism and misogyny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Aye, Love thy Neighbour and Till death us do Part were the epitome of "innocence". I was always under the impression that Till Death us do Part was an attack on racist values. It's just that people in the 70's generally weren't enlightened enough to realise the message behind the programme. Certainly Warren Mitchell was/is no racist, and the guy who wrote it detested racism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Absolutely, mind seeing an interview with Warren Mitchell when he said fans of the show would come up and say how much they appreciate him making fun of minorities, to which he would reply in no uncertain terms that it was idiots like them he was showing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YORKIE PAM Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 One of the best comedy characters of all time was Blakey, his expressions were brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 "Get that bus 'aht" The number 11 to the cemetery gates ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andymac Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Got to be Olive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Wibble has some more risqué ones (so I've heard...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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