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Thread ID: 89366	2008-04-28 22:27:00	A bomb from the Goon Show	Scouse (83)	PC World Chat

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663715	2008-04-29 06:03:00	Just a sample of Goon humour for the younger readers :)... bloodnok.net	Terry Porritt (14)
663716	2008-04-29 06:13:00	The guy Hankey that is quoted ..........is he the one they call Hankey Panky ?? Misty :lol:	Misty (368)
663717	2008-04-29 11:22:00	The boat moves, therefore this is not a practical method. When boat fishing, I have always marked good fishing spots with a cross on the water. Much better KenHard to get the paint to stick to the water though - I guess you didn't use a water-based paint...	johcar (6283)
663718	2008-04-29 21:58:00	It's fallen in the water! (in a high pitched voice . ) :p Little Jeem! Little Jeem! KenJ: I too, had a crystal set which, at the time, was all the rage . LOVED The Goon Show . I note that the article reported that the lost bomb was costing them thousands . Reminds me of one Goon Show episode called "The Spon Plague . " Neddy: "Just lie him on his back, face down . Now, run a stethoscope over his pockets . Gad, this man is suffering from poverty . Take this bottle of pound notes and inject them into his wallet three times a day . " Moriarty: "Owwwwwww . . . Lovely medicine . ":groan: Terry: Noticed that The Goon Show site did not seem to mention Eric Sykes, the unsung member of the Goon Show writing team . When Spike Milligan was in the nut house Eric Sykes wrote quite a few of the episodes . Although there were other writers, notably Larry Stevens, Maurice Wiltshire and John Antrobus, I understand it was Eric Sykes that wrote most of the episodes during Spike Milligan's time incarcerated .	Roscoe (6288)
663719	2008-04-29 22:11:00	Ooops, we are showing our age!! I used to listen to it on my crystal set on Sunday nights - if my memory is correct? Then talk about it at school on Mondays. Ken Indeed, my friend and I were often late for school as we were delayed by critical issues such as trying to rig a new and improved leather aerial to power my crystal set. Crystal sets were not good for my health - I woke up several times with the cord of my headphones wound tightly around my throat from falling asleep when listening to something. Also, my later life heart problems probably derive from my attempts at achieving a state of silent listening, strangling my laughter at the Goon Show so my dreaded stepmother didn't hear that I was still awake... I also heard Gerard Hoffnung's "The Bricklayer's Story" (?The Bricklayer's Letter?) for the first time on my crystal set. Steam radio via a crystal set was a pretty good antidote to the unmitigated boredom of small town life in 1950's NZ, and the Goon Show was tops...	John H (8)
663720	2008-04-29 23:09:00	I also heard Gerard Hoffnung's "The Bricklayer's Story" (?The Bricklayer's Letter?) for the first time on my crystal set. Steam radio via a crystal set was a pretty good antidote to the unmitigated boredom of small town life in 1950's NZ, and the Goon Show was tops... Aaah, that is where "The bricks came down, I went up" etc, etc. I was lucky. I had a outside room at the back of the garage and could laugh my head off without disturbing anyone. Didn't think life was boring though. I grew up in New Lynn, Auckland, opposite where the New Lynn Mall is now. Always had lots to do. Two paper runs, swimming in the Whau creek (probably polluted now), Exploring the New Lynn/Blockhouse bay/Titirangi area on our bikes, sport, school etc. Great life as a young fellow. Ken :clap	kenj (9738)
663721	2008-04-29 23:29:00	That is correct. One of the funniest things written, and delivered in such a droll voice it was screamingly funny. You are correct about the tons of physical things we could do then without being stuffed around by safety regulations. Two of us went off on a bike tour around the top of the South when I was 16 - out of touch with my father for three weeks or so, without questions asked. Later got a deer shooting permit for a forestry block in the Hollyford Valley by lying about our age, and we were in the bush playing Barry Crump for a couple of weeks at the age of 17. With .303 ammunition liberated on a school cadet trip to the army range at West Melton... Apart from the physical activity in small town NZ, most of the rest of our life at that time was boring. Everyone had to conform to a post WW11 norm, even in things like haircuts; stand up for some foreign ruler at the beginning of the movies; eat the same food as everyone else etc etc. Intellectually and culturally, pakeha NZ was a desert. Still, the other stuff was good, and kept me reasonably sane.	John H (8)
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