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#4060 - 09/22/00 03:47 AM Re: What this board needs
RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/23/00 Posts: 2204	"Jim", I am certainly not Glaswegian - a fact gratefully acknowledged by all of the residents of that fair city that I have met. "Jim" was a name in constant use in "The Goon Show" by almost any given character to any other. As in "Hello, Jim", pronounced in the high-pitched, slightly nasal voice that was the hallmark of the Goons. An analogy is the Londoner's use of "John" as a form of casual greeting to anyone he has not met before (Yes, "he" - I have never heard a female use this form of greeting) And, yes - I am a sort of Londoner - County of Middlesex in fact, which has long since been absorbed into Greater (!) London.
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#4061 - 09/22/00 04:02 AM Re: What this board needs
Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409	"Jim" was a name in constant use in "The Goon Show" by almost any given character to any other. As in "Hello, Jim", pronounced in the high-pitched, slightly nasal voice that was the hallmark of the Goons. Oh for audio! As soon as I read this, I could Bluebottle whining "hello, Jeem" - time to ddust off my cassetes (if they haven't "fallen in de water") and have another listen, thanks
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#4062 - 09/22/00 05:41 AM Re: What this board needs
RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/23/00 Posts: 2204	Oh for audio! Does its lack account for the ommission of "hear" ?
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#4063 - 09/22/00 06:13 AM Re: What this board needs
Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409	Does its lack account for the ommission of "hear" ? Mais naturellement - damn your eyes!
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#4064 - 09/22/00 08:31 AM Re: What this board needs
RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/23/00 Posts: 2204	- damn your eyes! I will take that as a compliment - from one who "knows"
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#4065 - 09/29/00 04:33 AM Re: What this board needs
jmh Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/22/00 Posts: 1981	I've been looking for a BBC radio archive which, I'm sure exists but is lost in the ever expanding and quite wonderful bbc.co.uk website (check out this week's "Letter from America" - "The problem with English") In the meantime there are Goom MP3 files featured in this site: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~robertd/GoonShow.html
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