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[Tom Waits For No One]

Connie Booth is married to the son of the bloke who played the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz!

John Lahr who wrote a biography of Joe Orton.

'Prick Up Your Ears', which was the source material for Alan Bennett's screenplay for the film of the same name, which is pretty fabulous.
John Lahr is played by Wallace Shawn who is the voice of Rex in Toy Story, a sort of prehistoric plastic cowardly lion.

[Charlie O.]

Lahr (John) was the drama critic for The New Yorker for years and years. The profiles he wrote were amazing. Wonderful writer.

[Minnie the Minx]

Lahr (John) was the drama critic for The New Yorker for years and years. The profiles he wrote were amazing. Wonderful writer.

I didn’t know that! Might seek some of those out.

[souphound]

Well well well! I just learned that World Contraception Day 2023 will be celebrated on September 26th. Should I be offended that that happens to be my birthday?

https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/world-contraception-day-2023/#:~:text=September%2026,where%20every%20pregnancy%20is%20wanted.

I guess I just shouldn't be a big baby about it, huh?

[Minnie the Minx]

Grapes, straight from the freezer, are something else

[Samoan]

The Crown Princess of Spain began her 3 years National Service last Thursday.

[Minnie the Minx]

I’m sat in Bradford waiting for the chemist to open and there is a pretzel stand with a woman busily rolling out pretzel dough. I am finding it hard to believe that there is enough interest in pretzels in Bradford to keep this shop alive but I am very obviously wrong. Have pretzels taken off in a way I hadn’t been informed of?

[BARON CORNY DOG]

Lufthansa = Luft Hansa

In the past few years I’ve come to know “Hansa” as German (I guess) for Hanseatic League. But never made that connection. Which I like.

[Limpin' Jez McKenzie]

I’m sat in Bradford waiting for the chemist to open and there is a pretzel stand with a woman busily rolling out pretzel dough. I am finding it hard to believe that there is enough interest in pretzels in Bradford to keep this shop alive but I am very obviously wrong. Have pretzels taken off in a way I hadn’t been informed of?

A plain pretzel is £5 at the Westfield in Stratford (maybe more now - I haven't bought one for a year).
If you want cinnamon and stuff it is even more.
It is like printing your own money.

[Limpin' Jez McKenzie]

Lufthansa = Luft Hansa

In the past few years I’ve come to know “Hansa” as German (I guess) for Hanseatic League. But never made that connection. Which I like.

Everyone thinks the Luft part refers to air, but actually it was the name of one of the early German aviators. Judy Garland's daughter Lorna Luft is distantly related to the guy...

[The Fish]

Lufthansa = Luft Hansa

In the past few years I’ve come to know “Hansa” as German (I guess) for Hanseatic League. But never made that connection. Which I like.

Everyone thinks the Luft part refers to air, but actually it was the name of one of the early German aviators. Judy Garland's daughter Lorna Luft is distantly related to the guy...

Not convinced this is true. Luft does mean air and so is an obviosu derivation for the name.

I couldn't find a single reference to a German aviator being involved in the founding of the company

By the mid-1920s, there were a number of small civilian passenger services in Germany, although only a few survived the massive inflation and poor economic conditions of the time. In January 1926, the German government combined two of these, Deutsche Aero Lloyd (DAL) and Junkers, into a new company named Deutsche Luft Hansa (DLH)

The 1926 company was rebranded as Lufthansa in 1950s in attemp to lose its nazi associatins.

Lorna Luft's father Sidney was an aviator but flew with the Candian Air Force and was born in New York City in 1915,

[BARON CORNY DOG]

Controversy!!

[Limpin' Jez McKenzie]

Lufthansa = Luft Hansa

In the past few years I’ve come to know “Hansa” as German (I guess) for Hanseatic League. But never made that connection. Which I like.

Everyone thinks the Luft part refers to air, but actually it was the name of one of the early German aviators. Judy Garland's daughter Lorna Luft is distantly related to the guy...

Not convinced this is true. Luft does mean air and so is an obviosu derivation for the name.

I couldn't find a single reference to a German aviator being involved in the founding of the company

By the mid-1920s, there were a number of small civilian passenger services in Germany, although only a few survived the massive inflation and poor economic conditions of the time. In January 1926, the German government combined two of these, Deutsche Aero Lloyd (DAL) and Junkers, into a new company named Deutsche Luft Hansa (DLH)

The 1926 company was rebranded as Lufthansa in 1950s in attemp to lose its nazi associatins.

Lorna Luft's father Sidney was an aviator but flew with the Candian Air Force and was born in New York City in 1915,

[Samoan]

I once used to happily work in a local wine bar and restaurant and I recently found out (via her obituary - RIP Hanna aged 101) that the proprietor, my Austro-Hungarian boss, once took issue with Fergie -

She served simple, heavy-duty fare but no desserts – “if you vont a fucking cake go to a coffee bar!” – with cats lying on the bar and prices so low that customers often insisted on putting them up.

If Hanna liked you she was charming and extremely generous – if not she could be outrageously rude. In the 80s she famously threw out Sarah Ferguson (later Duchess of York) for making too much noise, saying: “I don’t like riff-raff at either end of ze social scale.”

[C]

That Kevin Whately, actor from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Lewis auditioned for Blue Peter but was unsuccessful.

I learnt that from Konnie Huq on Pointless today

Further, that Konnie was the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, presenting it from 1997 to 2008




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[The Fish]

That Kevin Whately, actor from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Lewis auditioned for Blue Peter but was unsuccessful.

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What??? You'll be telling me next that Steve Stills auditioned for The Monkees

[Limpin' Jez McKenzie]

I once used to happily work in a local wine bar and restaurant and I recently found out (via her obituary - RIP Hanna aged 101) that the proprietor, my Austro-Hungarian boss, once took issue with Fergie -

She served simple, heavy-duty fare but no desserts – “if you vont a fucking cake go to a coffee bar!” – with cats lying on the bar and prices so low that customers often insisted on putting them up.

If Hanna liked you she was charming and extremely generous – if not she could be outrageously rude. In the 80s she famously threw out Sarah Ferguson (later Duchess of York) for making too much noise, saying: “I don’t like riff-raff at either end of ze social scale.”

very good

[C]

That Kevin Whately, actor from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Lewis auditioned for Blue Peter but was unsuccessful.

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What??? You'll be telling me next that Steve Stills auditioned for The Monkees

Meaning it was common knowledge Paul....?



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[The Fish]

That Kevin Whately, actor from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Lewis auditioned for Blue Peter but was unsuccessful.

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What??? You'll be telling me next that Steve Stills auditioned for The Monkees

Meaning it was common knowledge Paul....?



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The Whately wasn't. the Stills was. Make of that what you will and apply the interesting information/pathetic attempt at sarcasm where you will

[C]

The difference between inquire and enquire




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