All ye oul wans and oul fellas out there! Wakey wakey, rise and shine!

Layinghen

Think we can safely say you have done very well this birthday.


Roll on 60!!!!!!!!!

Chucken

Layinghen wrote: »

Think we can safely say you have done very well this birthday.


Roll on 60!!!!!!!!!

Didn't do too badly at all. Got a new laptop as well :pac:

Layinghen

You are beyond spoilt...................

Which of course is the way it should be.

Chucken

Ah it'll be all back to normal by next birthday

Jellybaby1

Stop Chuckie, you're making me jealous!

Rubecula

Krakow? Does this mean Borsch is on the menu again? LOL LOL

BrensBenz

Just remembering the sponsored programs on Raidio Eireann from fado fado.
Can any of yiz identify the program which used this piece, not as its main theme but as a sort of epilogue?

Hint: Everything that ever went wrong anywhere in the Cosmos since Time began was the man's fault so we'll have to play a Sinatra record to put things right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvfG9uFswis

Layinghen

Dear old Frankie Byrne?

looksee

Didn't she do the one about 'the problems you have heard here today may not be your problems, but they could be some day' or words to that effect? On behalf of...Jacobs?

Layinghen

That's her.

BrensBenz

looksee wrote: »

On behalf of...Jacobs?

"Baking a better biscuit better every day."

"Now, my next correspondent has a truly terrible dilemma, one which.....I hope.......we can resolve. She writes:

Deeeeeeer Frankie,

I think my husband of twenty wan years may be seeing another woman because he only said "morning" to me yesterday and not the usual "good morning". And when I confronted him with this he just grunted and went to work. I'm sick with worry, Frankie, and you're the only wan who can help me. Whatever will I do?"

"Well, he is a man and I bet your mother warned you about him. Of course it's not for me to say but, reading between the lines, he certainly sounds like a ghastly monster and a drunken filthy womaniser with a gambling problem who picks his nose and sometimes misses Mass so I'd end the relationship immediately. Pack some essentials - Jacobs Cream Crackers, Custard Creams maybe - and leave town today."

Da dih da da daaaa (dum dum dum) da da da daditty dah.....

Chucken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1nfNqROrZ4

Jellybaby1

I wonder who Frankie could have written to about her own secret. She must have been a lonely lady.

Layinghen

Indeed, it must have been an incredibly lonely life.

roran

Jeepers creepers, ye're all talking of 'Frankie Byrne' as if (she) that was really so long ago...I well remember the 'Light' Programme ...guess I'm really shovin' on :(:(

Jellybaby1

Yeah, we were great listeners to the Light Programme too, also the Home Service. Women's Hour, Beyond our Ken, Goons, Clitheroe, Billy Cotton, Ted Ray, Navy Lark, Music While You Work. How we laughed at the comedy shows. Hardly bears thinking of now that a family would sit down and listen to the wurless and fall about laughing. With the rubbish on TV these days, maybe its time to go searching along the ould dial again!

roran

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Yeah, we were great listeners to the Light Programme too, also the Home Service. Women's Hour, Beyond our Ken, Goons, Clitheroe, Billy Cotton, Ted Ray, Navy Lark, Music While You Work. How we laughed at the comedy shows. Hardly bears thinking of now that a family would sit down and listen to the wurless and fall about laughing. With the rubbish on TV these days, maybe its time to go searching along the ould dial again!

Now you're talking, real radio! The Goons, what trailblazers they were...and wasn't Billy Cottons catch call 'Wakey-Wakey'? Those were good days then when radio could be listened to by everyone as you say. Today we are all 'individual' which seems good for some folk....a bit like having a superb birthday bash, by yourself!

OldGoat

/Holds hand up
I have no idea who Frankie Byrne is.

roran

OldGoat wrote: »

/Holds hand up
I have no idea who Frankie Byrne is.

"Dear OldGoat,
Never mind. You will find out more as you grow up...." (an example from Frankie's Letters)

0lddog

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Yeah, we were great listeners to the Light Programme too, also the Home Service. Women's Hour, Beyond our Ken, Goons, Clitheroe, Billy Cotton, Ted Ray, Navy Lark,....... maybe its time to go searching along the ould dial again!

Ah, JB many of these go through phases of being rerun on radio 4 extra

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra/programmes/schedules/this_week

As y'all are talking about Dear Frankie :

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/the-lonely-passion-of-frankie-byrne-26404014.html

BBDBB

its bright blue skies, 28 degrees, all the doors and windows are open, argos is sold out of electric fans and the fridge is full of cold drink..............its time to uncover the BBQ and spark that bad boy up!

Chucken

It's bucketing down rain. 28 degrees. Thunder and lightning.:mad:

roran

Chucken wrote: »

It's bucketing down rain. 28 degrees. Thunder and lightning.:mad:

+1 here in Mid-West. Horrendous afternoon. Just clearing now and much fresher

Chucken

roran wrote: »

+1 here in Mid-West. Horrendous afternoon. Just clearing now and much fresher

Ohhhhh another Mid- Wester

*Waves*

Layinghen

Heavy grey skies here in the Kingdom. Not a puff of air which is just not normal here by the side of the sea. Think thunder might be heading this way.

Ramette

Fabulous evening in our fair capital

looksee

Glorious day in Waterford, I spent it with several other people doing an exhibition of Viking crafts and my own kit comprised two layers of full length, long sleeved linen dresses and a wool over-thingy. It was warmish. Good day though, two more to go!

Rubecula

El Scorchio in Anglesey

BrensBenz

Chucken wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1nfNqROrZ4

The "rent-an-opinion" experts in this link don't seem to have noticed that every letter had the same style, same tone, same grammar, same rhythm as Frankie's answers. Duh, Frankie WROTE ALL THE PROBLEMS HERSELF!

And she never answered my letter so I still don't buy Jabob's Cream Crackers.

Rubecula

A bit of fun for Chucken as requested.

http://www.playbuzz.com/wesleyt10/what-rodent-are-you

Chucken

I'm a rat

You're quiet, sensitive, and to yourself, but that won't stop you to be courageous! You may not speak up much, but you're independent!

Ramette

I'm a guinea pig!!!

You may get scared easy, but with your friends you're stronger! You enjoy company, and won't turn down a chance to be with your buddies. You love food, but... WHO DOESN'T!

Layinghen

I'm a beaver :eek::eek:

Apparently in between building walls around those close to me I don't mind getting wet!!

If I don't succeed at once my creativity and boldness will lead me to try, try again.

Never knew until now I was creative:D:D

Jellybaby1

I'm a blimmin' mouse!

"You may be small, but your strong in spirit! You're sweet and sensitive, but not afraid to explore! Though most of the time you just like to sit back, observe, and listen to people."

OldGoat

I'm a goat.


:cool:

Jellybaby1

OldGoat wrote: »

I'm a goat. :cool:

So which type OG, Boer, Anglo-Nubian, Saanen, Pygmy, Alpine, Nigerian Dwarf, Toggenburg, Cashmere, Angora, Russian White or any of the others here?
https://www.google.ie/?gws_rd=ssl#q=different+types+of+goats

My money is on Alpine!

OldGoat

Just an "Old" one.

Jellybaby1

Old Alpine? That's just your cologne.

OldGoat

oooh, to be in the first flush of youth again...

Jellybaby1

Never knew goats gambol just like sheepseses do!

OldGoat

Mad for the oul gamboling are goats.

looksee

I'm a rat. 'You may not speak up much' - huh, how little they know me!

BrensBenz

Here's another moose loose aboot this hoose.

You may be small, but your strong in spirit! You're sweet and sensitive, but not afraid to explore! Though most of the time you just like to sit back, observe, and listen to people.

Don't know about most of these attributes though - after another chemodose on Friday, I'm feeling like the mouse who ate all of the wrong cheese.

There is a cabinet full of remedies here for side-effects but, so far, the best remedy of all is sitting on my garden bench, in my Superman dressing gown and tartan slippers, at 5:30 AM (......like, in the morning like, todally ossum), feeling a cool, gentle, sea breeze removing what remains of my brand new hair, with the woof's chin (and halitosis) on my lap, listening to the birdies snoring, then yawning, stretching and coming to the bird table for their breakfast and watching the dog decide if these birds merit a bark.

Isn't Life grand when it's fray an' aizy!

Jellybaby1

We have experienced 28 degrees for the last couple of days which was lovely, blue skies and all that, but I can't take that for too long, so I've arranged for a change.

Weather warning.........Its cool here in the capital right now and it has begun to rain. At last I can breathe! Ahhhhh! :P

Chucken

I should be singing about Friends in low places right about now :(:(

Retrovin

Wont be long till Christmas. Only around the corner!!!!

Rubecula

Chucken wrote: »

I should be singing about Friends in low places right about now :(:(

Is there a song about False Friends in Low Places?

Yer other half can explain xxxx

Jellybaby1

There is a C & W song about friends in low places but can't think of the name of it. Might have something to do with a fella in a cowboy hat who won't be in Dublin this year! (yay!.....and runs away!)

All I can think of is high tea on a low table, but I usually have tea on my mind after all so that's not much help in this present quandary.

BrensBenz

Retrovin wrote: »

Wont be long till Christmas. Only around the corner!!!!

Well, after a huge effort to clear my head of that "High Friends in Low Places" [EMAIL="cr@p"]cr@p[/EMAIL] by the Sangin' Mushroom, Retrovin has managed to replace it with Bing Bloody Crosby's slimy rendition of "White Christmas".

So, let's form a posse. Track down this Retrovin, clap him / her in irons, give him / her a fair trial before hangin'g 'im. I know knots!

PS: I worked in Yeehawland, USA for several years. The reason THEY called him the Sangin' Mushroom is because of the size of his ridiculous hats, big enough to keep his gittore dry in a rainstorm.

OldGoat

Retrovin wrote: »

Wont be long till Christmas. Only around the corner!!!!

Can I ban Retrovin for earworming us with Christmas? Actually, can I add Christmas to the last of Banned words?