Bulletin
10.11.08.
 Jessop's Journal Grand Sheik Gary
Winstanley has put together the Dirty Work Tent's
first newsletter, Jessop's Journal. It has
all the enthusiasm and excitement you would hope
for in a new tent and the team are to be
congratulated on an impressive eight-page
publication which is more of a magazine than a
newsletter.
Who said that? I saw this in a word puzzles book I recently bought. Pity it is misquoted again! Mark Russell
Following on from the auction and raffle held at the October meeting of the Brats Tent and the raffle held at its 20th University Curry Night the following week, the tent raised £100 which has been forwarded to the Laurel and Hardy Statue Appeal. The Tent has thus joined the 100 Club. Grabbers on ITJ site The Intra-Tent Journal website has recently been updated. Click on http://www.intratentjournal.com. One story on the site was from Chris Coffey. . . The Bacon Grabbers Tent celebrated its nineteenth birthday on Wednesday 15th October, but not at our normal venue. We had an evening of Laurel and Hardy films at The Theatre Organ Heritage Centre in Urmston. Their Wurlitzer is on a lift so it ascends through the floor, like they did in some old cinemas, while the organist is playing away, and we had a mixture of silent shorts with live music accom-paniment. The irony is that the organ player was called Allan Crosland. It was a film director called Alan Crosland who directed the 1927 film The Jazz Singer and it was that film that made so many cinema musicians redundant! Lead On Talksport Radio on 2nd November on the Ian Collins show a listener phoned in discussing the recent presidential elections in the USA. He ended his discussion by saying, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't always make it drink." Ian Collins said, "Yeah, I know Laurel and Hardy said that! " I was laughing so much that my wife woke up and thought I was going crazy. But it was just so funny! John Bogie |
The Nutty Nut Network News continues to post rare photos on the Internet. Included in a recent batch is the above shot. Extensive searching has so far proved unsuccessful in tracing the identity of the two gentlemen shown with Laurel and Hardy. Update on Hans Hans Ligtenberg (above with his girlfriend Anita) has a new address: Princesseplaat 46, 4617LB Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands. His new e-mail address is hansenanita@tele2.nl. |
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