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Post by Telemachus on Jul 3, 2017 21:17:05 GMT
Piss taking aside, how did the 5 minute's of fame go? Yea not bad, Jeff took them down to the junction, turned round and chugged back again. The presenter said " ... and we didn't even touch the sides!". He's obviously been watching too much Tim and Pru! But it turned out he'd lived on a boat for 10 years at Hockley Heath. They also lost comms going under Watling St bridge - the presenter said "21st century technology beaten by 18th century technology!" Which I thought was quite good.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 3, 2017 21:18:25 GMT
Anyway, Jeff has explained that it's pronounced Telemachus, not Telemachus. So that's him sorted. What you have to realise is that if everybody calls your boat TellyMackus, then it's called TellyMackus. But not everybody calls him TellyMackus. Only the thickos.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2017 22:30:06 GMT
Piss taking aside, how did the 5 minute's of fame go? Yea not bad, Jeff took them down to the junction, turned round and chugged back again. The presenter said " ... and we didn't even touch the sides!". He's obviously been watching too much Tim and Pru! But it turned out he'd lived on a boat for 10 years at Hockley Heath. They also lost comms going under Watling St bridge - the presenter said "21st century technology beaten by 18th century technology!" Which I thought was quite good. Good stuff! What was the aim//why were they running the feature?
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 4, 2017 8:01:06 GMT
Yea not bad, Jeff took them down to the junction, turned round and chugged back again. The presenter said " ... and we didn't even touch the sides!". He's obviously been watching too much Tim and Pru! But it turned out he'd lived on a boat for 10 years at Hockley Heath. They also lost comms going under Watling St bridge - the presenter said "21st century technology beaten by 18th century technology!" Which I thought was quite good. Good stuff! What was the aim//why were they running the feature? Something called their "summer tour" so a bit of a roadshow, visiting different sites all week. I guess FMM was one of the venues to agree to them turning up at 6am (or presumably before, as the programme started live at 6), in return for some free publicity. So no great agenda, just an excuse to get out and about.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 4, 2017 8:11:00 GMT
Anyway, Jeff has explained that it's pronounced Telemachus, not Telemachus. So that's him sorted. What you have to realise is that if everybody calls your boat TellyMackus, then it's called TellyMackus. It doesn't matter what some 3,000 year old Greeks might call it, because Birmingham isn't ancient Greece. 'Telemachus' being the Ancient Greek meaning 'fake rivets'.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 4, 2017 8:31:47 GMT
What you have to realise is that if everybody calls your boat TellyMackus, then it's called TellyMackus. It doesn't matter what some 3,000 year old Greeks might call it, because Birmingham isn't ancient Greece. 'Telemachus' being the Ancient Greek meaning 'fake rivets'. I guess you didn't learn the classics at your school, presumably too busy with highland dancing lessons, baking tartan shortbread and deep frying techniques in Domestic Science, and hunting haggis for outdoor pursuits?
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 4, 2017 9:27:32 GMT
No Latin, no Shake-yer-Spear, but I did read Dickens' Great Expectations, and Vines and Rees Plant and Animal Biology.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 4, 2017 9:37:24 GMT
No Latin, no Shake-yer-Spear, but I did read Dickens' Great Expectations, and Vines and Rees Plant and Animal Biology. And lots of William Mcgonagall no doubt!
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 4, 2017 9:44:44 GMT
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