Monday stays alert

[AGinAg (37)]

Tinky Winky for me

Obviously they were all real so I don’t want to upset anyone but which costume was Toyah Willcox in?

Next up: FLUMPS RATE

OMG I LOVED THE FLUMPS.

I had the same 3 comics in my grandads house from about 1983 to 1993 and The Flumps featured heavily.

 

[Lucille]

Po was the baby.

Died in 2009.

Did she actually?

Tinky Winky died a very tragic death in 2018.

 

[Zu]

Back on topic shortly but who’s responsible for the ‘Das Modell’ tags? I’m guessing @Kate or @octophone

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Did she actually?

You know what I was being glib, but as I recall one of the actors is actually dead.

 

[lolly]

Tinky Winky for me

Obviously they were all real so I don’t want to upset anyone but which costume was Toyah Willcox in?

Next up: FLUMPS RATE or RANK if you prefer

POOTLE FTW!

 

[ButterTart]

Teletubby Rate

1. La La
2. Tinky Winky
3. Dipsy
4. Po

1. Dipsy - proper bad lad
2. Tinky Winky - like a purple Peter Tatchell
3. La La - bit nothingy, pleasant enough
4. Po - notorious bastard off-set. Noo Noo got off with a caution for strangling her to death.

 

[ButterTart]

You know what I was being glib, but as I recall one of the actors is actually dead.

You’re thinking of Are You Being Served.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

You’re thinking of Are You Being Served.

You're thinking of Brittas Empire.

 

[Zu]

I’m not sure that Dipsy would come to mind if I was asked to name all four of them in the street for a cash prize of £1.75

TUBBY FAIL

 

[ButterTart]

You're thinking of Brittas Empire.

Shit, you’re right. The bit where she put her baby in the drawer every week was well funny, it’s where Karen Matthews got the idea.

 

[Zu]

POOTLE FTW!

Actually all my family use the expression “just going for a pootle” which makes me feel a bit sick TBH but OMG maybe they’re talking in FLUMPSPRACHE!

 

[Kate]

Back on topic shortly but who’s responsible for the ‘Das Modell’ tags? I’m guessing @Kate or @octophone

I've been having a Kraftwerk afternoon

 

[Zu]

I've been having a Kraftwerk afternoon

Me too (now)!

 

[Kate]

My top ten has got as far as

1. Numbers
2. Spacelab

MORE DECISIONS REQUIRED

 

[Kate]

Special offer on cases of Prosecco from the Wine Society, you say? Oh you've TWISTED MY ARM

 

[octophone]

I dug out my dodgy bootleg CD of the "Ralf & Florian" Kraftwerk album last night - it's a wonky listen but good for the soul.

Today, in common with my reputation, I have some Nurse With Wound on. "Automating Volume Two", since you asked.

 

[Mats]

Po was the baby.

Died in 2009.

dead babies go in the tags

 

[dmlaw]

Wikipedia suggests that the second actor to play Tinky Winky is actually dead. He fell into a well whilst drunk, which may be the most Moopy tag death I have ever encountered.

 

[Suomi]

Me on payday:

Special offer on cases of Prosecco from the Wine Society, you say? Oh you've TWISTED MY ARM

Me at the end of the month:

I'm going to walk the 12 miles to work.

 

[SDF]

Has anyone heard anything about any gigs they were supposed to be going to?

I was supposed to go to a gig during lockdown, which has been rescheduled to december and heard nothing from the ticket web throughout the whole thing

And ticketmaster still appear to be selling tickets for things that are absolutely not going to happen like Diana Ross in July.

 

[Indie]

I just accidentally deleted all the tags in this thread whilst testing something, before anybody asks. SOZ

 

[Lucille]

Yeah I have Diana Ross tickets and find it odd it hasn’t been cancelled/re-scheduled yet.

 

[floppet]

Actually all my family use the expression “just going for a pootle” which makes me feel a bit sick TBH but OMG maybe they’re talking in FLUMPSPRACHE!

I use pootle when it's car related "I was pootling along at 70mph in the slow lane" but use bimble when it's person related "just going for a bimble".

No idea why because nobody else that I know says these things

 

[Zu]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard BIMBLE before

 

[Zu]

Well @Floppet, you definitely have some fellow pootlers in Devon and Essex

 

[Sheena]

I’m hoping rescheduling puts lots of people off- particularly for Diana as I want to take my Mum but I need disabled tickets which just disappeared instantly.

 

[ButterTart]

I use pootle when it's car related "I was pootling along at 70mph in the slow lane" but use bimble when it's person related "just going for a bimble".

No idea why because nobody else that I know says these things

I use 'tootling along' and 'going for a womble', which must be connected.

 

[Shirley]

I've just found a Youtube video of my favourite fruit machine. When I worked in the arcade for the lovely DEBBIE MEADEN I discovered you could open the back and fill the NUDGE BANK and they'd still be there when you closed the door and reset it which meant you'd soon be WINNING ONE POUND FIFTY. I used to have a map of the REELS too to keep handy if I was on the ones in town. The things you'd do for £1.50. Sorry about the FRAUD Debs. I never used to skim the 10ps out of the pusher either. Honest.

 

[octophone]

"Going for a Womble" evolved into "going for a wobble" up here which says a different but related thing...

 

[Zu]

I've just found a Youtube video of my favourite fruit machine. When I worked in the arcade for the lovely DEBBIE MEADEN I discovered you could open the back and fill the NUDGE BANK and they'd still be there when you closed the door and reset it which meant you'd soon be WINNING ONE POUND FIFTY. I used to have a map of the REELS too to keep handy if I was on the ones in town. The things you'd do for £1.50. Sorry about the FRAUD Debs. I never used to skim the 10ps out of the pusher either. Honest.

Oh do share video please. My favourite arcade attraction was MORGANA



I’d hope that she’s still terrorising impressionable and slightly weird children on the pier in Walton-on-the-Naze but maybe someone called Social Services

 

[Shirley]

I wouldn't put 10p in her slot

 

[Kate]

I just accidentally deleted all the tags in this thread whilst testing something, before anybody asks. SOZ

OUTRAGE!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Deborah Meaden RAN AMUSEMENT ARCADES?

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Why are so many topics being CLOSED at the moment? Is this a new policy?

 

[Kate]

Fixed the tags

 

[Kate]

Deborah Meaden RAN AMUSEMENT ARCADES?

Holiday camps innit? Obviously quality establishments if they had arcades

 

[AGinAg (37)]

We were TOO POSH for holiday camps.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Which I always thought was a SHAME.

 

[COB]

Oh do share video please. My favourite arcade attraction was MORGANA



I’d hope that she’s still terrorising impressionable and slightly weird children on the pier in Walton-on-the-Naze but maybe someone called Social Services

This is incredible!

 

[Kate]

We were TOO POSH for holiday camps.

Even middle class mums' fave Centre Parcs?