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Old 28-02-2008, 04:49 PM
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Probably. I think it almost certainly predates the wartime blackout.

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The OED gives an example from the US in 1916.

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I've been watching Unpublished Story - the denouement takes place in the blackout which makes it quite hard to work out what's going on. Has anyone else seen it and if so can you explain why Basil Radford carries around what appears to be a cocoa tin on a string the whole time?
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I've been watching Unpublished Story - the denouement takes place in the blackout which makes it quite hard to work out what's going on. Has anyone else seen it and if so can you explain why Basil Radford carries around what appears to be a cocoa tin on a string the whole time?
Is it an early form of mobile phone? We used to use two tins on a bit of string

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Is it an early form of mobile phone? We used to use two tins on a bit of string

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Given some Mobile phone reception nowadays two tins on a bit of string would work a lot lot better.
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There's quite a lot in the film about the difficulties of finding a phonebox that works in the blitz...

Radford is a civil servant (obviously) and when there's a raid on, he carefully puts the lid on his pen, picks up a tin on a string that's hanging on the hatstand and goes off to the underground shelter. When the all-clear sounds he carefully hangs up the tin and takes the lid off his pen again. Later he takes the tin to a political meeting and we see him with it on other occasions but nobody else seems to have one (of course, he's a very senior civil servant so it could be a container for the key to the executive washroom).
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More blackout fun in Perfect Strangers in which Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr meet after 3 years in the Navy and don't realise for some time that they've both glammed up. Also, taxis won't go to Streatham after closing time (so some things haven't changed).
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More blackout fun in Perfect Strangers in which Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr meet after 3 years in the Navy and don't realise for some time that they've both glammed up. Also, taxis won't go to Streatham after closing time (so some things haven't changed).
And after Glynis Johns has been leading Deborah Kerr astray
It's a lovely film

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And after Glynis Johns has been leading Deborah Kerr astray
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To be fair, Glynis turns out to be a nice girl all along. Though I have to say if I was Deborah I'd be a bit miffed that my best friend hadn't bothered to mention she'd been engaged for three years.

The discussion about cabs not going to Streatham at night got the best laugh of its sort since Nicole Kidman in The Hours announced she'd rather be dead than live in Richmond...
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I keep thinking this thread is about the Max/Dinah thriller!
Jingle bells Batman smells ... I heard that at school Daddy.

BAT QUIZ 16 HAS JUST BEEN POSTED IN THE COMPETITION THREAD - 06/01/09
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