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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:22 pm
by Robin Summerhill
Post deleted and re-entered with a quote because it appeared on the next page so didn't flow properly!
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:23 pm
by Robin Summerhill
buxton4472 wrote:Robin Summerhill wrote:.... The thinking might be "Portillo is going from a puncutre-mending festival in Hereford to a bell-polishing club in Worcester ... )
Oh, for a spoof episode!!!!....
(scene 22 : Foregate street, Worcester - enter stage left Mr. Portillo sporting lime-green jacket and turquoise trousers fresh from best-apponted hotel in Hereford and a Dunlop puncture patch stuck jauntily across forehead, enter stage right octegenarian bell-polisher Mr. Bong brandishing an empty polish can held in verdigris-stained wizened hand)
Mr Portillo : So what effect did the coming of the railway have on the bell-polishing industry in Worcester?
Mr. Bong : Oh, it was incredibly important - it meant that supplies of Brasso took one-tenth the time it used to take .....blah blah blah zzzzzzz
(exit stage left Mr. Portillo, to best-appointed hotel in Worcester, exit stage right Mr. Bong to ironmonger's store) (cut to Babbacombe cliff railway)
I like your sense of humour!
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:09 pm
by simon
buxton4472 wrote:Robin Summerhill wrote:.... The thinking might be "Portillo is going from a puncutre-mending festival in Hereford to a bell-polishing club in Worcester ... )
Oh, for a spoof episode!!!!....
(scene 22 : Foregate street, Worcester - enter stage left Mr. Portillo sporting lime-green jacket and turquoise trousers fresh from best-apponted hotel in Hereford and a Dunlop puncture patch stuck jauntily across forehead, enter stage right octegenarian bell-polisher Mr. Bong brandishing an empty polish can held in verdigris-stained wizened hand)
Mr Portillo : So what effect did the coming of the railway have on the bell-polishing industry in Worcester?
Mr. Bong : Oh, it was incredibly important - it meant that supplies of Brasso took one-tenth the time it used to take .....blah blah blah zzzzzzz
(exit stage left Mr. Portillo, to best-appointed hotel in Worcester, exit stage right Mr. Bong to ironmonger's store) (cut to Babbacombe cliff railway)
But you need to add in Mr P making a ham fisted attempt to polish a bell then thanking Mr Bong for the chance to try.....
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 2:29 pm
by buxton4472
simon wrote:
But you need to add in Mr P making a ham fisted attempt to polish a bell then thanking Mr Bong for the chance to try.....
Ah - I think he must have been 'trying his hand' during the zzzzzzzzzz phase of the scene! (that was where I would have fallen asleep).