I remember, as if it were yesterday, seeing a particular engine City of London at Crewe. It sticks in the mind because I had a model of it,
It cannot have been later than 1964. And that is 61 flipping years ago!
'Language, Timothy!'
Now where (oh where) did that come from?
Sorry - fairly limp sitcom with Ronnie Corbett as a middle aged man still living with his mother.
By “fairly limp” I assume you mean “crap and totally unfunny”. This sort of thing is also often referred to as “gentle comedy”
Either that or ‘comedy drama’.
"Gentle Comedy" - set in the same middle class suburban semi as a good 50% of the last 60 years of UK Sitcoms and totally unfunny.
"Comedy Drama" - we tried to be edgy by making up for a shortage of laughs by having some serious stuff happen as well.
I liked 'The Beiderbecke Affair' quite a lot - remember that one? I wonder where that fits in the scheme of things, I might have said 'gentle comedy' before I read these comments. I even think it still holds up OK. I await the deprecation of the internet.
A young man is giving me a ride to the dentist this week. He called to tell me that he can get me there on time, but might be a bit late picking me up after my appointment, as he has another stop to make during my appointment. I said," No problem, we will play it by ear." He had no idea what I was talking about.
A young man is giving me a ride to the dentist this week. He called to tell me that he can get me there on time, but might be a bit late picking me up after my appointment, as he has another stop to make during my appointment. I said," No problem, we will play it by ear." He had no idea what I was talking about.
That's in common circulation where I live...though most of my friends are older
I remember, as if it were yesterday, seeing a particular engine City of London at Crewe. It sticks in the mind because I had a model of it,
It cannot have been later than 1964. And that is 61 flipping years ago!
'Language, Timothy!'
Now where (oh where) did that come from?
Sorry - fairly limp sitcom with Ronnie Corbett as a middle aged man still living with his mother.
By “fairly limp” I assume you mean “crap and totally unfunny”. This sort of thing is also often referred to as “gentle comedy”
Either that or ‘comedy drama’.
"Gentle Comedy" - set in the same middle class suburban semi as a good 50% of the last 60 years of UK Sitcoms and totally unfunny.
"Comedy Drama" - we tried to be edgy by making up for a shortage of laughs by having some serious stuff happen as well.
I liked 'The Beiderbecke Affair' quite a lot - remember that one? I wonder where that fits in the scheme of things, I might have said 'gentle comedy' before I read these comments. I even think it still holds up OK. I await the deprecation of the internet.
I do remember the Beiderbecke Affair. I think it is gentle comedy drama - it is definitely a drama, but with humour. It was also very good.
I think I would put differently:
Gentle comedy: Not very funny, not in the slightest bit offensive, highly predictable. You will watch it but it will fail to interact with you in any way.
Comedy Drama: A drama that would never get made, because it is niche and edgy, and occasionally will provide offense. But because it can be pushed as a "comedy" it does get made. You will only really get it 2 years later.
Our fathers were contemporaries - mine would have been 112 in June. He came at the end of a family of 9 siblings and had brothers - my uncles - who were killed in the First World War. I'm aware this will sound like history from the dawn of time to my two-year-old granddaughter.
My mother's father was born in 1887 and (in the early 1900s) taught in a one-room school. During the Depression, he kept teaching, unpaid, and still had a job when it ended.
I was born in 1964. My parents were born in 1918 and 1919. They had 3 children soon after getting married and then I came along after quite a long gap. I was an uncle at the age of 8. My eldest nephew is actually closer to me in age than my youngest sister and only a year younger than my wife.
Most of the kids I went to school with had grandparents who had seen active service in WWII and parents who had been evacuated. I was unusual in that my dad had served in the RAF during the war as a navigator on Wellington bombers. He died at the age of 61, the age I am now, when I was only 15.
I am on the end of a rather spread out family. My father would have been only 98 this year, but my oldest uncle (married to my father’s oldest sister) would have been 136.
My father would have been 110 this year, and my mother was 2 years younger. They got married in September 1939.
My father did not serve in the armed forces as he was a toolmaker and was told his skills we're needed in the production of munitions.
My paternal grandparents were born in 1897. My maternal grandmother was born in 1916.
I remember telling Dad that I was about to turn 70, and he looked at me and said, "Well! What does that make me?" He died just before his 94th birthday, and Mom died on the date of their 70th Anniversary. She was 87.
Almost forgot to add that my oldest granddaughter will turn 20 in January. Doesn't that make me feel ancient!!
I have just read my original copy of Alice. I was my mums copy - bought shortly after she was born - the edition is dated 1933.
This was over 90 years ago. But the story was only 70 years old when that was produced. That means that proper childrens stories, as we know them were only 70 years old at that time.
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I liked 'The Beiderbecke Affair' quite a lot - remember that one? I wonder where that fits in the scheme of things, I might have said 'gentle comedy' before I read these comments. I even think it still holds up OK. I await the deprecation of the internet.
That's in common circulation where I live...though most of my friends are older
I do remember the Beiderbecke Affair. I think it is gentle comedy drama - it is definitely a drama, but with humour. It was also very good.
I think I would put differently:
Gentle comedy: Not very funny, not in the slightest bit offensive, highly predictable. You will watch it but it will fail to interact with you in any way.
Comedy Drama: A drama that would never get made, because it is niche and edgy, and occasionally will provide offense. But because it can be pushed as a "comedy" it does get made. You will only really get it 2 years later.
Most of the kids I went to school with had grandparents who had seen active service in WWII and parents who had been evacuated. I was unusual in that my dad had served in the RAF during the war as a navigator on Wellington bombers. He died at the age of 61, the age I am now, when I was only 15.
My father did not serve in the armed forces as he was a toolmaker and was told his skills we're needed in the production of munitions.
I remember telling Dad that I was about to turn 70, and he looked at me and said, "Well! What does that make me?"
Almost forgot to add that my oldest granddaughter will turn 20 in January. Doesn't that make me feel ancient!!
This was over 90 years ago. But the story was only 70 years old when that was produced. That means that proper childrens stories, as we know them were only 70 years old at that time.