British Gas in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s

[George 1978]

It's a lot more convenient, and to cut a long story short, it stopped my birthday celebrations from being cancelled this year....

[George 1978]

That title rings a bell - wasn't there a song that went with it?...

[George 1978]

I think I know what you mean - I gave my nephew a personalised storybook for his third or fourth birthday which had his name and his birthday written throughout. And in the mid 1980s I received a Christmas themed book with family names printed inside it from a company that did those sort of books. I...

[George 1978]

It's still a terrifying thing though - not having it in the first place is better than getting it and beating it....

[George 1978]

Have a look at the Christmas 1990 edition of Saint and Greavesie where Jimmy was unwell and so they had to bring in his Spitting Image puppet in instead - should be on YT....

[George 1978]

I know that the Wimpy in Nottingham Broad Marsh only closed a year or two ago due to the redevelopment - no doubt that McDonald's would more likely to have taken it over.

I was in a Wimpy which later became Burger King (and is now empty with a TO LET sign outside) and I went on my birthday...

[George 1978]

Electricity is interesting but gas isn't, it seems....

[George 1978]

I keep thinking of the colour-coordinated "carpet" that was put on the top of the toilet seat that I used to see in John England and other mail order catalogues in the 1980s - the toilet seat was the same as the carpet underneath....

[George 1978]

I wonder whether it will pick up from where it left off six years ago? - I suppose that it will be unrecognisable if it does come back.

I have a feeling that as Holby City will end next year that it was probably go in the Tuesday 8.00 pm slot that Holby has had for years....

[George 1978]

I am just saying that washing powders can do their job if you want them to. ...

[George 1978]

"Cook, cook, cook, cookability - that's the beauty of gas" so went the television advertisement of the 1980s, with white letters on a black background, surrounded by a tasteful blue flame alight. We looked at electricity board companies a couple of months ago, and so prior to British Gas also...

[George 1978]

The tune does sound like that BBC Schools series Zig Zag.

[George 1978]

I assumed that two earrings would make one's face more symmetrical which means more feminine; hence just the one earring?

One decade later, but I know that Michael "Kevin Webster" le Vell had both his ears pierced, but then again he had so much feedback from gay Corrie viewers...

[George 1978]

One other thing I would like to say is that people like Marcus Rashford that I admire - he is someone who is known for other reasons than being just a celebrity footballer. His philanthropism during the lockdown last year, supporting vulnerable people is a celebrated thing.

I would like...

[George 1978]

It does remind me of that gentleman who lost his son in the 7 July bombings in 2005 - he was interviewed on Newsnight around a decade ago just after the NOTW had closed down for good, and he was annoyed that the Leveson Inquiry was hijacked with celebrities i.e. Hugh Grant, and compared it to OK Magazine...

[George 1978]

Cheers! ...

[George 1978]

Sorry to hear about Jimmy Greaves and your own illness, Pussywilow. My late mother had the disease and died from lung cancer as well, although she had smoked for decades.

Did he really say "it's a funny old game" or was that the impressionists that concocted that?

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[George 1978]

I wonder how many appearances he made on Tomorrow's World during the 1980s and 1990s?

Yes, I suppose we wouldn't have the internet as we now know it without Sinclair's influence in technology....

[George 1978]

I maybe a few years younger than you, Tex, but I do agree with you with regards to the celebrity culture - the Fantasyland of Reality TV which most of them I don't watch anyway. Strictly is coming back this weekend (it is Marmite in its adjective form), and that means more of that sort of thing - while...

[George 1978]

We (or should I say, Sir Paul) knows a song about that, don't we?

"When I get older losing my hair, many years from now..."...