Re: Let's All Play 'Spot the Sindo Reader'!


"Terry" <terrywhatever@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:47:58 -0000, "michael adams"
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I don't know if Michael Tabor inherited the Arthur Prince chain
or what.

He bought them himself. They weren't in the family. He bought them off
some poor bookie who'd gone bankrupt. Ahhhhhhhh....

I dunno what Tabor had done before. Rag trade is the favourite though

Apparently he was an apprentice ladies hairdresser, who became a
bookies clerk in his mate's dad's shop. He then bought two shops
off of the bankrupt Arthur Prince (presumably)in the 60's which he
turned into a 160 shop chain, by the time he sold out to Coral in
the 90's.

Ahh right. Just shows ya. He was in at the beginning of the off-track
bookie business more or less, and statistics inevitably took care of
the growth.

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I just remebered Michael Tabor is mentioned somewhere in Ken Paynes
autobiography "Coup", I think he used to bet heavily when he first got
into ownership in the early 70's. I'll have to look it up, only
the book has no index - once I've found it. Tabor was in partneship
with another character.

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It's much more difficult to break into a traditional business and grow
so massively unless you're doing things in a very different way.
Wetherspoons are a good example.

Then again there's some businesses that are owner run where it's more
profitable to sell than run it. That doesn't happen in the same way in
PLCs. They just have to grow and grow or be taken over. There's just
no other option.

I know people who bought property on the Dublin Quays to run what were
relatively small businesses in the early 1980s. By the time the 90s
came the capital growth in the value of their property was so great
that it massively outstripped any potential business profit.

They sold, and lived on at leisure and without stress.

It's these sorts of things are the big difference between the
proprietorial Capitalism of the 19th century that Marx was talking
about, and the thing we have today.

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They were maybe more like aristocratic landowners who found themselves
sitting on major coal seams or a latterly possible routes for railway
lines.

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Aye. It's seen far better days that place. The once mighty Thames
Television reduced to a recycling factory for cheapo cheapo telly of
the satellite variety.

Looking it up, it was a main London Studios for maybe LWT.

It was both Thames and LWT. Thames broadcast during the week and LWT
took over at the weekend

I think Benny Hill lived nearby so as to be near the studios as well.

That's right. Died there too. He could often be seen shopping in the
Tescos on the High St. The papers tried to make out that he died in
poverty and that it was all Ben Elton's fault with the PC jibes.

BH was in a good position as he wrote all his own material and all
his stuff sold well in the States and overseas as a lot of
it was visual - rather than verbal. Same as with Norman Wisdom's
clowning being poplualr in Albania, etc

There's no doubt that he made loads of money in terms of his time. We
don't know what ownership he had of that material. The TV company
might have owned it. Contracts can be funny things.

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IMO Benny Hill would have been careful about those sorts of things.
Not just through professionalism but on account of his being tight.
He knew his own worth and could read the ratings. He was poached
from the Beeb early on don't forget. I very much doubt if anyone
ever got the better of him business or money wise. I don't know
if he ever dealt with Lew Grade - that would have been a match
maybe.

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Specially wills....

But
he had loadsamoney. There was a good programme about it recently, and
all the scumbags who'd hung around them hoping to get a cut. He told
them they'd all get something. One of the dancers from Pan's People
even used to do him the occasional favour in vain hope of that
promise. It's well worth getting a copy if you can. And watch out for
his producer, the slimiest git who has ever appeared on TV in a long
time.

It may have been repeated and slotted into a series "Whatever happened
to X's Millions".

That is it. That's where I saw it. I don't think it was done before
and slotted in. It was just another in that series.

Marc Bolan was another subject.

Ride a white swan like the people of the bell tower

When ya come on baby come along....


He was a big influence on our adolsecent lives...

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Did you see the brother in the programme?

Mind you Bolan was putting on the weight himself. He probably
crashed at just the right time.

Or maybe it was a put up job. A conspiracy and the real
Marc Feld\Bolan has actually been running a woman's hairdressers
in Esher High Street since 1988 or whenever. The body in the car
was bought off a mortuary attendant.

You heard it here first.

The truth is out there somewhere.

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Here's an interesting philosophical question:

Am I a paedophile if I remember with fondness and loss all those 14
year old girls I snogged in my youth, and never saw again?

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Not if your teacher at the time, Mr Woodhead, "call me Chris"
stole them off you, no.

Next question.

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I'll never forget the time Susan Stranks came on Magpie in a see-thru
chemise and quite matter of factly pointed out to all us teenyboppers
that she wasn't wearing a bra. And it was about making some point
about an item on the show, would you believe. Anyway, I was at that
age where you didn't need to be told. You just gawped in an
uncontrolled ecstasy.

They had Susan Stranks on a remember the 70's type programme a while
back.

I half remember seeing something like that. They're always doing these
nostalgia shows.

The thing that annoys me is that they have a load of young celebs who
couldn't possibly even have been born at the time commenting on the
thing as if they were there.

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They sometimes have Julie Birchill on those things. Talking about
yoghurts being unusual in the 1970's. In the Bristol council estate
where she lived.

Pass the sickbag.

I think her and Parsons should get back together again.

Or maybe team up with Janet Street Porter for a threesome.

They had a Han*** tribute - in sorta the same vein - where one of
the main fans was Jefffrey Archole.

Han*** was very limited compared with the likes of people like
Sellers - on a recent Galton-Simpson thing - the ever shrewd Ray
Galton - the thinner one - said it had come as no real surprise
to him to hear that Han*** had topped himself in Oz.

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The scumbag. HTF they have him on the BBC, unless they really
are in the Govt's pocket, and Brillo is being rewarded for
past favours.

The BBC has just returned to its Reithian roots.

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Just reading my way through loads of media and telly books at the
moment. An early impetus for the BBC's cultural and educational
impetus was Matthew Arnold, and "Culture and Anarchy". The
need to draw in the masses to the dominant bougeoise culture.
Knew that, already but unaware of - or forgot the role of Matthew
Arnold. The BBC remains the largest single Cultural Institution
in the UK by far. Pea*** was talking of scrapping the licence
as far back as 1985 but its not quite as simple as that, as they
came to realise.

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Mine's a Tesco cheapo. Just to get the odd text.

Yeah well, at your age that's OK

Obviously my stret cred would dim ever so slightly were I to be caught
using a Tesco mobe.

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Its the chaepest Nokia around £30 with a ten pound Tesco card
thrown in quite a while back now.

Only kids send texts IMO, but they're all mad on texting one another
over there like fekkin teenagers. Phone companies must make tens of
billions out of teenagers and women.

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What with his mountaineering, its not as if he was stuck in a
wheelchair or anything. Then an obsession with his past might be
understandable.

I'd always thought that he was in fact seriously injured in the North
and that's what led to his obsession. You know, nothing else to do, no
life to live, a deep sense of loss and persistant hatreds. The
pointlessness of British Army terrorism in the North etc.

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The piccies from the high hill\mountain finally put the
kybosh on the wheelchair idea. Unless they can carry him
up there in a rucksack or something.....

Maybe he's only the head... or maybe a sort of Steven Hawking type
effort.

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I think he was in Signals. A electrical technician or something
like Telmey.

Yeah well. We're not interested in that sort of intel anymore. We're
just monitoring the rather slow and steady withdrawal of the Brits
from our country.

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He'll probably have been repairing the mobile walkie talkie things they
carried strapped to their backs. That sort of stuff. Its just they all
like to give the impression they were all carrying rifles around,
rather than boxes of pliers and screwdrivers.


michael adams

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Oh and eh. Don't tell the DUP....


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