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Twitch (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've seen every single one of these episodes too many times to count. Doesn't matter a bit. This is timeless inventive, stuff. The kind of thing that you feel obligated to introduce to the unitiated and invite friends overt o watch and rewatch. The fact that the character of Basil Fawlty is based on a real person makes the show all the more rich. Like Seinfeld and other programs that expertly replicate...
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Knowledge Workers (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
On one level the email staff memo republished by Bob Sutton on his excellent web site is funny. It sounds as if Fawlty Towers was run by someone with Lenny Bruce’s vocabulary. On the other level, it’s disturbing just how bad some managers can behave. And it must harm the business. Bob Sutton: Asshole Boss of the [...]
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Merrily we roll along (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
I love being read to, and have always loved audio books. They are so terrific for car trips or plane travel or simply on those days when it feels right to relax and enjoy a story read by someone who is quite often a famous actor. I came across an audio book by one of my favourite [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Social networking sends $15,000 shocker inspired by Fawlty Towers into box-office hall of fame There is nothing remotely scary about the beige library in the Soho Hotel. It's calm, quiet, bland. Yet towards the end of a low-key interview with Oren Peli, who's in London for less than 24 hours to promote his smash-hit low-budget horror flick Paranormal Activity , there's a loud creak in the corner of...
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Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Hard not to laugh> > TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009Heh:A Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on a cruise around Antarctica was struggling to free itself from sea ice but was not in any danger, a shipping company said Tuesday… Russian news agencies said a BBC camera crew filming a documentary about the Antarctic was also on board.Posted by DB at 15:55...
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Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
BBC Worldwide has a cunning plan Following the release of Fawlty Towers , BBC Worldwide has seen fit to launch another British classic on iTunes. To mark twenty years since the series last appeared on our screens, the entire series of Blackadder is available to download from the iTunes Store for the first time ever. Fans can now download series 1 to 4 or a single episode from iTunes, while in December,...
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DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Rent It I don't know how long ago it was, but I have a vague memory of watching the sixth episode of "Fawlty Towers". Either I just happened to click over to it on late-night TV or I had dug up an old family VHS recording taped off of PBS, but watching the episode, called "The Germans", in which Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) gets knocked on the head and suffers a concussion, I laughed...
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Space For Commerce, by Brian Dunbar (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
In which our intrepid tourists discover that booking a hotel room on short notice and paying cut-rate fares invokes the principal of 'you gets whats you pays for'. The gentleman that owns it is very friendly and helpful, but his wife or the woman that runs it with him, does not seem overly thrilled to have us here. It's Fawlty Towers!
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clusterflock (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
lived right on a boundary between the 13th and the 14th arrondissements, and their home was a large-ish kind of guesthouse. They had their own wing, as big as a solo house, and there were apartments for visitors. A man who reminded me of Manuel from Fawlty Towers had charge of guest arrangements. All of the [...]
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icWales (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
LEWD messages victim Andrew Sachs was once the perpetrator of an on-air prank call in Swansea which got so out of hand the police were called in, it has emerged.
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
ONE of the greatest cinematic love affairs of the past half-century has been between British film fans and an angular, accident-prone beanpole of a Frenchman named Monsieur Hu
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Ian Pack Online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Given the chance, I spend as much time as I can in this wonderful part of the English countryside. It's a place of changing moods and lush green rolling vistas. The South Downs are a great place to exercise, relax and unwind. Today, Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP (Secretary of State Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) signed the documents officially stating the long awaited boundary decision. You may be...
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Ypulse (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Today's Ypulse Youth Advisory Board post is from Nina Lepp about the bond she formed with her dad over British comedy troupe Monty Python. As always, you can communicate directly with any member of the Ypulse Youth Advisory Board by emailing them at youthadvisoryboard at ypulse.com…or just leave a comment below. The Intergenerational ...
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