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Holy ****! He's 87!

On HIGNFY tonight, and he's as sharp as any of em. Bravo sir.


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 9:42 pm
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Was Joe Cocker on it too?


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 9:44 pm
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Naw, he's deid man.


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 9:51 pm
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It feels like he's been around for ever. We love Old Jack's Boat here. Salty dog and me 🙂


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 10:09 pm
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He's an ex-Para too.

Such a brilliant bloke!


 
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Posted : 13/03/2016 11:04 pm
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I used to bloody hate him when I was a kid. Only as you get older do you appreciate how good people are. Same for Richard Briers.


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 11:48 pm
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He's responsible for death of David Tennet 🙁

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I will never forgive him.


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 12:43 am
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He seemed old when I was watching children's programmes as a youngster, yet doesn't seem much different now on Old Jack's Boat. I really like his narration/voice, it's all very soothing.


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 9:42 am
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He's responsible for death of David [s]Tennet[/s]Tennant

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..but he [i]was[/i] quite upset about it..

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Posted : 14/03/2016 9:47 am
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There I was diggin this ole, great big ole in the ground.....


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 9:51 am
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He made my wife cry!!

To be fair to him, she'd just had a baby and was all over the place with hormones. She's been watching Old Jack's Boat with our three year old and 2 week old. Episode was all about how his wife died and how lonely he felt.

I come walk in to a wall of tears. She didn't know why she was crying, sandwicheater jnr was crying because mum was sad and baby sandwicheater was crying because that's her hobby it would appear.

Should have just turned around and cycled back to work. Turns out laughing at everyone was the wrong thing to do.


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 9:54 am
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To be fair that episode made me cry too.


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 10:05 am
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No one does tragedy better than a comedian, imo.


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 10:07 am
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A fine actor as well. Check out his performance in the Fawlty Towers episode The Hotel Inspectors.


 
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Posted : 14/03/2016 2:09 pm
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We stumbled upon the filming of the title sequence of Old Jack's Boat on our honeymoon (we like going to exotic places...).

It involved Old Jack rolling a ball across a little bridge for the dog to chase. The ball went off the bridge and Old Jack went "bollocks". I'd like to think it was Cribbins and made the final edit, but it turned out to be a stunt double and funnily enough it didn't make it through to children's telly.


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 2:47 pm
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Bimbler beat me too it, his appearance on Buzzcocks was a thing of wonder and magic. 'On paper' he had no right being there, it should have been cringe-worthy, he should have seemed like a lost old man wondering what the hell was going on - but it was simply sublime silliness.


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 2:57 pm
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Wasn't he in 'the Water Babies'?


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 3:59 pm
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........"..and didn't he sing 'Right said Fred'?

EDIT : D'oh, [b]bikebuoy[/b] beat me to it!!


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 4:02 pm
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Right said Fred for the 21st century NSFW - sweary


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 4:19 pm
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He loves in Weybridge, Surrey and my driving instructor taught him. And Nannette Newman. And my mum. And amazingly John Lennon.

He was quite old and retired soon after i passed my test 25 yrs ago. (Driving instructor not Bernard Cribbins)

I hope you found my morsel of Bernard Cribbins trivia enjoyable.

I also have equally interesting anecdotes about Anne Diamond, Cilla Black, and Robbie Williams should they be required.


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 5:53 pm

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