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Ha ha..Another story re Saville..

With news that Steve Coogan is to play Jimmy Savile in a new BBC drama, talk has predictably turned once again to who knew what at the Beeb and when.

People point to John Lydon's interview in 1978, and Jerry Sadowitz's stand-up in the 80s, but it wasn't just gobby outliers who were talking about it. Larry Grayson, the original host of the Generation Game, is reputed to have gladly told strangers all the things he'd heard concerning Savile's hospital work – even going so far as to do an impression of Savile in a morgue.

And just in case the voice he did while acting it out didn't make things entirely clear, he'd end by saying "He won't be able to fucking fix that if it ever gets out!"

 

The only "Jangle Jangle" he should have heard was the keys locking the cell in prison..

 

I like this one today, fellas...



Nature strikes back!

 

They keep coming... (tell me off if I'm boring any of you)

 

Ta dum..Tish...

You have been at the Bob Monkhouse joke book again..

 

ha ha... Can be so true but not here, Serena and I are IT gods (hell, I even have qualifications )

 

Lol...

 

PMSL!

 

Ah...the vid author added this rider... apparently we've remembered it wrong!

https://orchardoo.com/TWCompactDisc.htm

 

Bang on, Paul.

Tell you what, Bev and her mates had a lucky escape in the 80s writing in to Jim'll Fix It.

He loved the idea of her and her 14yr old mates being the new Charlie's Angels and dressing up in tight fitting costumes.

Unfortunately it was budget that prevented him flying them out to wherever in the States it was filmed to meet the producers and stars such as Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith...and then sitting on the tw*t's knee back in his dressing room etc.

HOW CLOSE WAS THAT?

 

Too true, Paul.

He was clearly a very odd man with very devious and perverted ideas and somehow (the mind boggles how) he managed to successfully hide all of his heinous crimes from the establishment and the law.

Or did they know all along and Jim was just too charitable and wonderful (and oiled too many big cogs) to bring to book?

Discuss!

 

I'm 100% nailed on agreed with thee here, bud.

He was that controlling, he had weekly meetings with heads of West Yorks police - round for tea and biscuits at his residence in Leeds - to discuss what he believed where the issues the police needing to concentrate their time and resources on.

Plus, of course, he had the KEYS to Broadmoor high security mental hospital (yet those in the know knew he was a paedophile who also preyed on vulnerable people who were incapacitated/unable to fend for themselves), but hey ho - Jim's a bloody good chap / fund raiser and we've no-one with a higher profile to run this place so WTF!

Yep, this world is a totally fecked up fouled up place and the more we uncover the truth about unsavoury specimens such as Saville who were given full control of folks' lives, the more important we realise we really must query and question everything and anything which doesn't sit right, feel right or smells distinctly of bull or rat shit as the system has been proved, all too often, to be rotten to the core.

Reet, I'm off me soapbox now and away for a walk before these ever-shortening afternoons pull in and become night again.

Have a good weekend, fellas.

 

Back in Maplin days we got the BBC studio staff in the shop all the time because they we just down the road and I became matey with a Sound bloke and a floor manager called 'Mac'. Not only did me and Cindy get to meet Les Dawson and Cindy was given the Cosmo Smallpiece 'Knickers, Knackers, Knockers' line with the trademark glasses thanks to Mac, but he was also a wannabe Atari pirate. He hoped that because of my connections in the scene that I could open a few doors, sadly he miss judged what power he thought I had in the scene. Anyway, when the stories about Saville started to appear I called Simon and Mac up to ask how much they had heard at the time, boy, cracking a safe would have been easier. Even tho they were no longer with the Beeb or retired, all I could get after ages was a "big people knew" and that was it re Jimmy, I did get reminded of the Xmas sound reel that they played, made up of mistakes, out takes and the best being an on live mic of Sue Lawley being given one in the back passage by one of the studio lads. I used to have the tape, but it got lost in my many moves.

 

Wonderful times, Paul.

Thank god we have these to hark back to as they truly were such happy times for us lot growing up, working and playing through these golden days in home computing.

For you it must have been like "I've been given the keys to an Aladdin's Cave" with so much fantastic hardware and software coming out every month to play test and and having Joe Public (and the rich and famous) to interact with and help out with their computing needs. Plus, knowing you, I bet you had a great team of enthusiastic staff working under you also sharing in the fun and giving out great advice - every day must have been like "can life get sweeter than this?!"

I just loved going through to Hull and experiencing the thrill of WHSmiths in those days and the independent retailers plus Dixons, Boots, Rumbelows, Granada, Comet and Currys and seeing all this new hardware in the windows and lined up on the shelves, just waiting to be played on... such a buzz, mate, saving up a tenner each week and piling through at the weekend and buying a new game or two for the old Sinclair, Oric, Beeb or Atari (in which case you'd need to save up £20-30!)

Bloody great days and I just wish you'd collared Christopher Reeve - it would have been a pleasure for him to have met you, buddy, as well as vice versa.

 

Again, some more great anecdotes - lurve a bit of Feargal and a Good Heart not to mention Teenage Kicks and My Perfect Cousin etc. My 1st music centre - a PYE - I thought I was the bees knees and a was ready to leave home and get my 1st flat (OK, so I was 14 and champing at the bit, but there you go!)
As you say, the areas where we used to go and hang out, enjoy Saturday shopping for our fave music, software and fashions etc... all long gone and it's either boarded up or charity / pizza shops these days.
So sad to see the death of the high street and we've kind of gone along with it these days and transferred our shopping habits to online options instead.
I'm a saddo, I know, but I miss the bloody old days... can you tell?

 

I've dated muppets (and Miss Piggy) before - and been confused for Kermit - so it was right up my street, fellas!

 

Absolutely, Paul, yet somehow the worm seemed to wriggle his way out and laugh these allegations off as if to say "I'm such a lad - they're just jealous of my fame and charity work and need to find a way to have a go and pull my leg with these comments" (which are so scandalous they cannot possibly be true) and so the shyster managed to wrong-foot and double bluff his way out of many of these revelations... aided and abetted - of course - by the powerful and influential whom we often term as "the establishment". He must have been protected at the very top. For sure.

 

So bloody, true.

Thank you, Sir Hendrix...

 

So bloody true...