Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Last Hussar]

the one about the naked magician really made me laugh

You are easily amused though.

[fsn]

Disaster!

Last night I thought I would give some hoplites I'd been working on a bit of a FSN patented wash - 4 parts brown ink, 1 part black, diluted x2. This morning the poor thinks look like they've been down a coal mine. 

I'll have a look tonight, may be able to salvage with a surface wash.

Not a happy bunny.   

[paulr]

 

[Orcs]

Disaster!

Last night I thought I would give some hoplites I'd been working on a bit of a FSN patented wash - 4 parts brown ink, 1 part black, diluted x2. This morning the poor thinks look like they've been down a coal mine. 

I'll have a look tonight, may be able to salvage with a surface wash.

Not a happy bunny.   

I hate it when that happens.

[FierceKitty]

Silver mining was a rather ugly staple of the Athenian economy.

[Techno]

For Nobby & Westie...

Re Radio shows.....taking the waffle from the thread that it was in.

This is really not very interesting.

When Von and I lived near Newark, I used to try and win the cost of the TV licence fee back from the BBC by entering as many competitions as I could.
I won loads of cr*p...but it was still a lot of fun. (Anyone like a Jim Davidson CD ?... )

The local radio station that I listened to a LOT of the time was BBC Radio Lincolnshire....although we lived just over the border in Notts.
I just found 'Lincolnshire' far more interesting than 'Notts'.

I used to help some of the quizzes, or come up with ideas for the quizzes. (This worked well.....I obviously couldn't enter a quiz if I'd actually set the question/questions....But I'd know how the actual quiz worked.....and then know the best time to enter.)

I'm sure I was on 'Lincs' anything up to four times a day....Which sounds a bit daft..(It became a hobby of sorts)..But there were perhaps two dozen regular callers to the station...Me being one of them.
I also kept trying to enter the Radio 2 Comps.....Which were a lot harder to get on, as there were probably thousands of folk who were phoning through at the same time, as opposed to the local station, where it was probably a dozen at most, at one time.
I was probably one of the longest serving champions on Steve Wrights 'Big Quiz'.....'Cos I lasted a fortnight.....But that was down to circumstances.....I won my first day.....The next day 9/11 happened....So, naturally, for the rest of the week they didn't do the quiz....Then Steve Wright went on holiday the next week.

I've done a couple of other comps on Radio 2.....Got the best prize I've ever won on one of those....A digital radio, in the early days of digital radio,.....Still got that !

I also used to like sending emails into Terry Wogan.....I think my record was three read out in a week.

So.....Hardly a radio celebrity.....Just a sad g*t who phoned radio stations far more times than he should.

(I did join in with a 'Children in Need' skit with one of the presenters of radio Lincolnshire, where we did our version of Monty P's 'The Argument Sketch'...recorded in the presenter's car, which was parked in the car park at MacDonalds, in Newark......That's probably my favourite memory of 'being on the radio'.)

Cheers - Phil

[Westmarcher]

This is really not very interesting.

Mrs Westie and I found it interesting, Phil.  Mrs Westie used to enter lots of competitions. Got so 'good' success wise that there was some prizes she never took advantage of (e.g., 3 months membership of a gym 40 miles away etc.) and eventually (we think) got blacklisted by one of the Scottish newspapers. Won some great prizes, however - one was an appointment with a top London hairdresser, overnight stay in a 5 star London Hotel and invite to the BAFTAs (wasn't the full bhoona - we were next door, watching on the big screen drinking free beer and got to talk to Jason Isaacs and Michael Sheen). She was wondering if the digital radio was won on Pop Master and, as one of the TOGs on Terry Wogan, what your nom de plume was. For my part, I was wondering, you don't happen to have a recording of the Children in Need stint, do you?

P.S. btw, in the other thread, you were concerned that your enquiry about the depiction of the human form in art in Islam would cause a row. My response was, Aren't you already in trouble, Phil? I'm sure I once heard your name mentioned on the since cancelled radio show, "Fatwahs on Air." I wasn't asking about your radio career (you must have been desperate to tell us   ) but interesting nevertheless.  

[Techno]

Hi Westie.

No I didn't win the radio on Popmaster.....Though I did have a go on that....I lost on a tie-break question...I think.

The radio came from a different 'Steve (or Stephen) Wright' on radio 2. Never heard of that chap since.

I used the nom de plume, Mad Phil from Caunton....But once the producer, Paul Walters, left owing to ill health, I didn't feel like joining in so much.

Yes....somewhere in the cupboard I DO have a copy of the Argument Sketch. 

Cheers - A sad g*t.

[fsn]

Sometimes I think that my little Michael-extractions of Techno aren't nearly bizarre enough. I may have intimated that he left the house to buy a Sunday paper, turned right and ended up in the band of an Italian milita, but he then trumps that with the Argument Sketch done, in a car*, mark you, not even in a building, and broadcast on Radio Lincoln.  

Everyone you name, he's got a connection to

• Princess Grace of Monaco - "I once reheeled one of her shoes when she fell of a kerb in Swannage high street."
• Lead singer of Hawkwind - "snogged him"
• JRR Tolkein -  "Saw some of my little men and said it made him think of a story."
  
• Richard Burton - "Saw him in the school play and said he was quite good."
• Benito Mussolini - "Was teaching him to play 'Leaning on a Lamppost' on the ukelele. He soon got into the swing of it."

And they are all just throw away comments, leaving you wanting the backstory - and I do not doubt for one moment that they are all true.

Life is stranger than fiction, and both of those look at the life of Techno and say "well that's a bit strange."





"Excuse me gentlemen, could you explain what you are doing in the car park of a McDonalds car park at 2 in the morning, and why the car is rocking so violently? "
"Why certainly officer, we're re-enacting the famous Monty Python Argument sketch."
"Fair enough Gentlemen. Carry on. ... Oh and if you come to do the Lumberjack song, I know all the words."

[Techno]

Right then, Nobby.

No....Never met Princess Grace of Monaco. (Played golf against a former British Ambassador to Portugal....That's the nearest I can get to that)
Hawkwind ?..... When they visited GW, I apparently (I don't believe this) called them 'Love' when I was taking piccies of them.
JRR Tolkien... A piccy I took of my dear old Dad was mistaken for the author. (Dad did bear some slight sort of resemblance, I have to admit.)

The last two......Nah !.......Can't get anywhere near those.

The 'Argument Sketch' was recorded at lunchtime.....not at two in the morning. 
I'm going to have to burn you a copy...aren't I ?

Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

I love these "Six Degrees of Separation" type threads. It's amazing the connections people have that one would never expect.

[Techno]

So do I, Mike.

Decades ago I could get to the then President of the USA in just two steps. (I don't think that would have been of any significance at all, though.) 

People don't realise that they know people.....'Who know people.....who know other people.')

What do they say ?.....In six steps...you can get a connection to anyone in the World ?

(Ignoring the few remaining 'tribes' who have no contact with the 'outside World' at all.)

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Six steps to Techno?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon

[Techno]

But I can get to you in a single step, Will. (Or does that even count as a step, when I've got your phone number ?  )

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

Decades ago I could get to the then President of the USA in just two steps.

Were you in the Secret Service?