tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post4438789889837172613..comments2024-01-18T05:18:48.819-05:00Comments on Wombat's World <small>(a blog for writer K. A. Laity)</small>: UK Trip Week Three (Part One)K. A. Laityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-69579033780304696962009-08-11T14:36:59.614-04:002009-08-11T14:36:59.614-04:00LOL -- bet you got more writing done than I have, ...LOL -- bet you got more writing done than I have, too, Helen. It's a trade off.<br /><br />See, I haven't even got to the next part of this travelogue!C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-33635679043751003172009-08-11T13:57:01.597-04:002009-08-11T13:57:01.597-04:00Clearly, I am a total stick in the mud. You are ou...Clearly, I am a total stick in the mud. You are out and about and having fun. I think I went to the movies one time last month. Bleh.<br /><br />Helen<br /><a href="http://straightfromhel.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Straight From Hel</a>Helen Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794759602654727110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-29400789404607858052009-08-11T11:38:46.834-04:002009-08-11T11:38:46.834-04:00LOL! Enid, you are correct. It has been difficult ...LOL! Enid, you are correct. It has been difficult getting back to work since my return from all these trips.<br /><br />Patti -- Both Cook and Moore gone far too soon.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-10552018994440026352009-08-11T08:30:10.771-04:002009-08-11T08:30:10.771-04:00You seem to have a lot of fun, soaking up the cult...You seem to have a lot of fun, soaking up the culture scenes in UK. Such lucky gal! So no work done at all? Huh.<br /><br /><a href="http://steamyfantasy.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow"> Bargain with the Devil</a>Enid Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12248877161249788607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-3357891538259807422009-08-11T08:13:48.282-04:002009-08-11T08:13:48.282-04:00We saw THREE SISTERS and CYRANO at our Stratford i...We saw THREE SISTERS and CYRANO at our Stratford in Canada, but I miss seeing the ones in England.<br />Cook and Moore were very funny. Tragic end to Moore's life.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-59973673553691998332009-08-09T16:02:54.471-04:002009-08-09T16:02:54.471-04:00My introduction to Doctor Who came when I first mo...My introduction to <i>Doctor Who</i> came when I first moved to Boston in 1988 and was for a time unemployed. I read Shelley by the Charles and loafed around, watching DW and <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</i> in the afternoon until I got my first job with the telephone survey company.<br /><br />Of course you're just trying to bait me with that remark about "something called BEYOND THE FRINGE" as you well know. I won't give in and post links to things like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofUZNynYXzM" rel="nofollow">the original miner sketch</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5YW4qKOAVM" rel="nofollow">the Aftermyth of War</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPykIzmXj4s" rel="nofollow">one of Dud's songs</a>. And you'll think I'm just playing up to the news surrounding Ronnie Biggs' release if I link to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUrhdIxTJSA" rel="nofollow">the Great Train Robbery sketch</a>.<br /><br />Yeah, no fooling me.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-80780466001170771942009-08-09T14:52:10.096-04:002009-08-09T14:52:10.096-04:00Yes, THE GOODIES got a bit of play in New England,...Yes, THE GOODIES got a bit of play in New England, or at least Boston, on WGBH as a result of the Eastern Educational Network's smashing success with importing PYTHON and some others (THE TWO RONNIES, etc.) for national distribution (their early importation of DOCTOR WHO filtered out a bit more slowly), so I had a sense of them as well when one of the concert videos you mention (before the SECRET POLICEMAN, probably AT HER MAJESTY) featured primarily Pythonites, the Goodies, and these other fellows from something called BEYOND THE FRINGE...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-22153922038170896642009-08-09T09:36:31.029-04:002009-08-09T09:36:31.029-04:00This was also my introduction to the fabulously fu...This was also my introduction to the fabulously funny side of Eleanor Bron -- who is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtAGwqibKHc" rel="nofollow">hilarious</a> on the LP and of course, in <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au9_vfx6t6c" rel="nofollow">Bedazzled</a></i>, but whom I has known as "the girl" in the Beatles' <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz7IjXu0DfQ" rel="nofollow">Help!</a></i>.<br /><br />It was my introduction as well as to the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjX1kpUP0Hg" rel="nofollow">Goodies</a>.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-10933606855186190742009-08-09T09:24:23.639-04:002009-08-09T09:24:23.639-04:00I don't know how people write memoirs with any...I don't know how people write memoirs with any sense of accuracies (and suspect there is very little) because I can seldom sort out the timing of things. I do know it was (IIRC she weasels) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Poke_in_the_Eye_(With_a_Sharp_Stick)" rel="nofollow"><i>A Poke in the Eye with a Sharp Stick</i></a> (1976), the soundtrack to what became the Secret Policeman's Balls benefits for Amnesty. This was the first one and was also a film <i>Pleasure at Her Majesty's</i> but I know I had the LP long before I saw the film. The real showpiece was his miner monologue ("I never had the Latin for the judging" so he became a miner, "they only ask you one question, 'who are you?' and I got 75% on that").<br /><br />Python came before it, because I picked up the LP because of the Python names I recognized, but it's hard to sort out the timing between Python and the Goons because they were on about the same time on our local PBS television and radio stations respectively (as well as "I'm Sorry I'll Read that Again"). For a time there was this complete immersion in British comedy from which I have never recovered. This LP led to my picking up the <i>Beyond the Fringe</i> Broadway soundtracks -- the second one first, oddly enough, so by the time Cook & Moore appeared on SNL, they were already known to me.<br /><br />So, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Wazoo and Flat, Black & Circular, two great record shops across town in East Lansing.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-53699566752047926952009-08-09T00:11:27.602-04:002009-08-09T00:11:27.602-04:00Kate, if you've told me how your love of Cook ...Kate, if you've told me how your love of Cook began, it's slipped behind the mental couch...BEYOND THE FRINGE? SNL? BEDAZZLED? Presumably PRIVATE EYE wasn't your first exposure.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-76095577701317123142009-08-08T21:21:40.758-04:002009-08-08T21:21:40.758-04:00Well, Patricia, a road trip is a road trip. You ne...Well, Patricia, a road trip is a road trip. You never know what adventure it might bring!C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-35169672469415901692009-08-08T19:56:18.079-04:002009-08-08T19:56:18.079-04:00Kate, The closest I'm going to get to your adv...Kate, The closest I'm going to get to your adventure this year is a road showing of To Kill a Mockingbird later this fall. I'll pretend I'm in London though.Patricia Stolteyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17192369425956406122noreply@blogger.com