samkydd

It's that time of year again, it has been for a few weeks in the shops. I heard Wizzard's "I Wish It Would Be Christmas Everyday" a few days ago, and for the retail trade it nearly bloody well is!

So apart from the usual bottle of Old Spice, Homer Simpson socks, hankies with someone else's initials on them and some office type gadget that ends up in a charity shop sometime in January, what will your loved ones get you this Christmas in the way of stuff you really like?

I've drawn up a list of DVDs in the hope that I get at least one item from it, which is a bit mercenary but if people want to waste money on buying me stuff it's better if it's something I want! I always ask others for their lists and it makes life so much easier and there's nothing worse than a stony silence on Christmas morning,

"Aren't you going to put your DVD on then?"

"Nah, I'll put it on later there's too much good stuff on telly today!"

Still it's my own fault, when I'd written down "Thriller" on my birthday list I'd failed to spot the possibility of confusion some might have between the 70s TV series written by Brian Clemens, and a DVD of Michael Jackson's 1980s album videos of the same name!

So this Christmas it's The Saint boxed set starring Roger Moore . That's all, nothing more than that. If I end up with The Saint and Greavsie Football Magic Moments I'm leaving home!

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

DB7

Just had my Xmas present, those loveable people at Play have decided to halve their commision rates just as the yuletide boom starts to kick-in.

Anyhoo, I'll receive a new jumper, some socks and lots of smellies. I'll make up for it by buying myself a few titles off my 'wanted' films list.

A Pemberton

After the usual " Peace and goodwill to all men" it should be


Dear Father Christmas,
A copy of " Peter Sellers ,A Celebration Of Sellers on CD" would be very nice
I promise I have been a good boy all year, honest
Thank you

Arthur Pemberton

Jackdaw

An end to all the evils of man....and

A present from my favourite Auntie Beeb - an announcement that she has found all those Francis Durbridge and similar serials that she so carelessly mislaid.And that they're all being released in sparkling DVD,along with all the 60's single dramas that she's hiding in the attic.
Oh,and an increase i~ Freeview coverage,so I won't have to fork out £150 or whatever to get (not so) Freesat.
Just that, and a walnut.... and a tangerine......and a Tom Finney football annual.

Cheers

Jacky

samkydd

How about a new BBC programme in which a doggedly determined film crew and reporter visits ex-employees to search their garden sheds and garages to uncover "believed lost" television programmes lurking in the darkness in rusty cans! I bet they'd find loads of good stuff!

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

mysteriesofedgarwallace

Nah, I'm more of a HAI KARATE guy meself...................

Rob Compton

Is that the stuff where women keep throwing themselves at a bloke and all he can do is break up planks of wood? [

rgds
Rob

mysteriesofedgarwallace

ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE!!!!!

Harbottle

I seem to recall that busty Valerie Leon did the TV adverts for that stuff, I imagine she helped to shift tons of it too.

arty-dave

She got me to buy one when I was 17...

Rob Compton

OK, I'd better get a couple of cases of the stuff in!

samkydd

I saw some at a car boot sale recently, a Hai Karate gift pack from the 1970s, brand new! I remember it from the TV ads but I can't recall ever having used any (my success rate with women as a youth was pretty abyssmal so I'd have needed bucket fulls of the stuff). Back then it was quite popular but I think Brut 33 was more so, along with Tabac! Later on the more expensive stuff was the thing to splash your face with; Aramis, Paco Rabanne and Kouros, which became the after shave of choice for Cortina driving reps throughout the land!

I remember in the RAF abroad in some remote part of the world when someone died and there was no proper mortuary on the base, the body would often be kept in the walk-in meat fridge and was always liberally doused in Old Spice to keep it smelling fresh until it could be shipped back home! Consequently the smell of Old Spice has always been associated with death!

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

mysteriesofedgarwallace

REAL MEN ONLY!!!!!!!!!