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    Ripping Yarns

    Is back with a 35 year anniversary box set.

    35 years....
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

    #2
    Originally posted by cojak View Post
    Is back with a 35 year anniversary box set.

    35 years....
    Aye. I wanted to live Tomkinson's Schooldays (and sometimes I did)
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      #3
      Originally posted by Zippy View Post
      Aye. I wanted to live Tomkinson's Schooldays (and sometimes I did)
      "Barnstoneworth!!! Barnstoneworth!!!"

      “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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        #4
        Originally posted by cojak View Post
        Is back with a 35 year anniversary box set.

        35 years....
        Yikes! Is it so long?

        Looking at the Wiki List of Ripping Yarns episodes I think I missed the first series. I only remember the 1979 series.
        Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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          #5
          I think it was GK Chesterton who once said "The folly of mens' youth is in glorious retrospect......"

          Anyone remember the rest? I frigging do!!

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            #6
            Originally posted by cojak View Post
            35 years....


            Originally posted by Zippy View Post
            Aye. I wanted to live Tomkinson's Schooldays (and sometimes I did)
            The sports notice board contained a great sight gag in Tomkinson's School Days, when his gaze is wandering across it and there's a notice on the periphery:

            Shooting
            The following boys have been shot:

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              #7
              Originally posted by cojak View Post
              Is back with a 35 year anniversary box set.

              35 years....
              Not 45 minutes ago I was watching a program with Chris Evans in it, and he was talking to none other than Michael Palin about those very yarns!

              I think you are linked in psychic way to Chris Evans.

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