Osgood

And this is the long-term effect of patching over the outside without cutting out the panel:

I use this for regional news now: https://www.suffolkgazette.com/

And here another from the same company:

You wouldn't be behind this one for long!

I've got a girl there!

Something else you can do with a banana:

Oh the Extreme Irony ........

Now look, that is obviously a ceiling-mounted Corgi. A pedant-mounted Corgi would be attached by a flex to a ceiling rose. Oh hang on - that’s peNdant isn’t it.......

Can you advise the weight of this loco please? Thanks for going to the trouble to post all the info and anecdotes - makes for a very interesting thread.

Hah! I just spent ages trying to find the DVD version of this that I was certain I had. Turns out I had the original VHS version! Apparently the material has been re-mastered, so the quality should be very much improved on the earlier VHS. I guess I'll find out soon as I've just ordered a DVD

A true tale from the very early '80s. Took a ferry from Westminster Bridge to Greenwich - the Cockney crew ran an 'unofficial' commentary that caused much entertainment (and was a very insightful view of London through local eyes). When we came to the area known as Docklands - "Ladies an' gentlemen, if you take a look on the sarf bank you will see some of the docks an' wareharses wot has been bought up by the Arabs and wot is bein' turned into luxury houses an' flats. They have done more damage in three months than wot Jerry did durin' the whole of the war".

Superb rendition!

Annette, a worker at the Douglas aircraft plant, Longbeach 1942

Oh no, not the Proclaimers....... Reminds me of this (which may be in this very thread somewhere a long way back):

Is that what she was doing?

The spiders in the pit must be huge by the look of those webs

And sometimes it just looks complicated:

The competition one might have appeared before in the thread.