Claim to fame :

[zotz]

I was also going to mention that one of my friends that I saw at the weekend was going out with a bona fide pop star earlier this year.

Yes, my mate's shagged a Tweenie. I don't know which one. Hopefully not one of the dogs.

(Small picture of said TV personalities)

Comments

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

You are scaring me again.

[ex-wendles389.livejournal.com]

lordy, I'm speechless! but my housemate says "is that with or without the costume?"

[zotz]

Without, one assumes. I didn't actually pry too deeply. It was fairly disturbing news, to be honest.

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

I didn't know what a Tweenie was before. Now I wish I still didn't...

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

What is it about British children's television that makes it so appalling? Thomas the Tank Engine, with its scary grinning dead faces on the fronts of trains, the dystopian nightmare of the Teletubbies, and these creatures... Man. Do you all grow up traumatized, or what?

[zotz]

Dunno what you're talking about *twitch*.

More E, vicar?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

they're deeply disturbing.

They released an irritating single last year called 'best friend forever', which without the helium-enhanced voices, could have been a Spice Girls or All Saints tune.

The theme tune to their TV show runs 'come and play with the Tweenies'. Which presumably Graham's mate took too literally.

[ex-wendles389.livejournal.com]

http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/tea.htm
and check out the link at the bottom of the page too...

[zotz]

That man's got problems.

In unrelated news, we've just had a weasel lolloping around ouside our office window. Amazingly cute, as long as you're not a rabbit.
Working way out of town has its compensations, occasionally.

[ex-wendles389.livejournal.com]

some of his other essays are good. one to go back to on bored days.

weasel? awwww :)
we mainly have cows and squirrels, and deer on rarer occasions

[zotz]

I was looking for a mail I got from a friend a couple of years ago, but it seems it got lost in a systems barf in April. She'd videoed some children's TV by accident and watched it. She was horrified by the racist subtexts in Ivor the Engine, but the Clangers, she reckoned, are cheerily anti-imperialist (perhaps even Communist) and Bagpuss is a cutting critique of the capitalist economy.

[zotz]

And not being too far from Mildenhall, we just got a flight of what look like F-18s in formation.

[ex-wendles389.livejournal.com]

I do recall an email about the Clangers being communist-oriented going round a while ago (along with one about Scooby Doo being off his trolley).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/clangers/trivia.shtml is amusing, and indeed the trivia link on the Bagpuss page is much more political in nature

[zotz]

And as we're only a couple of miles from Duxford, what looked like a B17 with four fighter escorts has just gone overhead. An impressive machine.

It's been a good day for seeing stuff out of the window.

[zotz]

Apparently the planes are in honour of Dubya and Prince Chuck, who are opening a new hangar at Diuxford today. I'm not going to try and tie the weasel into this event - that would be too easy.

[zotz]

Wrong again. It's Bush Senior who's been at Duxford.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Are you feeling alright? Commenting in your own journal is fair enough. Even replying to your own comment. But four times? ;)

[lovingboth]

You have to find out which one. I get to see one episode of this every day...

[zotz]

I am merely showing pedan^H^H^^H^H^Ha laudable concern for accuracy.

And it's a slow work day. The view out of the window's been a major comfort.

[zotz]

I'll see what I can do, but I don't think I'll be seeing him for a couple of weeks now, at least.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Your view sounds more interesting than mine, that's for sure. I get a strip of sky and a strip of street and a view into the office opposite. But they've got their blinds closed today. They never do anything interesting anyway.