Is Desperate Dan Riding Into The Sunset?
By Alessandra Prentice THE WRITING may be on the wall for Britain’s longest-running comic The Dandy – home to much-loved characters like cowboy Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat – after its publisher said it was considering retiring the magazine due to lacklustre sales. The Dandy sold more than two million copies a week in [...]
Looking At Britain’s Real Austerity Olympics: 1948
ATHLETES bought their own uniforms, and some their own food. They stayed in private homes, schools and military barracks. If eggs appeared on the training menu, it was a cause for celebration. When London hosted the Olympics in 1948, organizers did it on the cheap – and they made no apologies about it. “We talk [...]
DELIVER US FROM BOBBY
This is a story sent to us from former sign-writer and illustrator, David Holroyd (a well-known dolphin trainer from the 1970s) of Swinton, Lancashire, telling the amazing tale of a sea lion who comes to his keeper’s rescue after a row over a parking space is a true story. “You couldn’t make it up!” said [...]
Beanz Meanz Heinz Named Best Advertising Slogan Of All Time
THE HEINZ catchphrase “Beanz Meanz Heinz”, which was conceived over a pint in a London pub in 1967, has bagged the title of best advertising slogan of all time, outshining Nike’s Just Do It. The slogan was the brainchild of retired advertising executive Maurice Drake. “I still find it incredible that over 40 years later, [...]
British Band Stackridge to Appear on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
STACKRIDGE www.stackridge.net, the British band that became a cult favorite in the 1970′s and recently reunited to critical acclaim, is scheduled to appear as musical guests on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Monday night, March 14, 2011. The program, which will feature the band’s first-ever performance in the United States, will air [...]
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !!
Submitted by subscriber Brian Crewe Congratulations To All My Friends Who Were Born In The 1930′s 1940′s, 50′s, 60′s and early 70′s ! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos… They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads [...]
Great TV Commercials from the 50s, 60s and 70s
DID YOU ever think you’d hear The Sun newspaper referred to in the same sentence as intelligent? Do you remember the Bond-like-man going through hell on earth just because “the lady loves Milk Tray”? Remember Fannie and Johnnie? . . . or “She Fly’s Like A Bird . . .” Nimble commercial? Well, if any [...]
‘Thinking’ About Football . . . Classic Monty Python Sketch
WITH THE the 2010 World Cup well under way, we thought it very appropriate to view the classic Monty Python sketch, Philosophers’ Football Match, depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the sketch are Archimedes (John Cleese), Socrates (Eric Idle), Hegel (Graham Chapman), [...]
