That post was like a page from Tristram Shandy.
But on the subject of L&K: Ant and Dec still rule, I'm afraid.
L&K might have had Steps, but SM:TV Live had Robbie, Stephen Gately, Westlife, that woman from Texas . . . all that and Wonkey Donkey, Sabrina, CHUMS and that jolly banter.
A perfect Saturday morning.
Wasn't so sure about Dec Says...
"SM:TV Live had Robbie, Stephen Gately, Westlife, that woman from Texas . . . all that and Wonkey Donkey, Sabrina, CHUMS and that jolly banter."
Indeed. What a load of old crap, eh?
i don't really see what the fuss is about the those two amiable geordie homunculi. its still just a kids programme operating a rolling steps/robbie willybums service albeit with some self-indulgent, knowing banter for the 20/30 somethings.
And Soccer AM eclipses both of them, so there.
I set fire to Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly (with the help of several chums) when they were 'stars' of Byker Grove.
Justified I think, for calling us 'hippy bastards'. With hindsight, and what they've inflicted on us since 1993, I would have let them carry on burning, and not let 'Animal', local nutter piss on them to put it out.
Incidentally, this *is* actually a true story.
Marie Du Santiago... Ant & Dec... Suii's known all the stars and despised them BEFORE they were famous!
She's our lady!
*laughs* I made them famous! The North East really is awful, you can't walk around ********** without bumping into at least 3 ex Byker Grovers. I went to school with about 7 of them, including 'Dale', the boy with the big ears (actually a very good friend) and...was it 'Rob'? who lives in my street. Awful.
Was that bloke's moustache real, or was it a puppet?
Geoff? (a.k.a. Billy Fane) It's real. He used to buy all his stationery supplies at the place where I used to work. He's only about 5' tall too, which was quite unnerving. He must wear built up shoes to film BG.
Damn. There goes my theory that there was a bloke (possibly Jim Henson) up his neck operating it.
Maybe there's a dwarf inside him? Like R2D2 or Tick-Tock from Return To Oz. He does walk with a curious gait, perhaps that's why?
It's all relative. The 'funny gait' actor was the only human member of the cast, the others were androids. But his natural walking style appeared unusual when they accompanied him. After the show ended, the droids were simply set free on to the streets of the North-East, and disappeared into the milling crowds.
.. where they were all set ablaze by Suiii and her gang of mischievous chums.
But maybe the droids defeated them, and assumed their identities, which they could do because they were androids and could thus do loads of things people can't do except have feelings and stuff which is the reason that humans are better and always manage to win in all the films, in the end.
I wonder...
Sam, we need a blade runner to run some tests on Suiii....
No! I'm human, I really am, these wires are merely decorative!
So why do they lead to a wall-socket?
Yeah, but then we'd get into all that business aboutt he other replicant and stuff and it get confusing again.
Maybe we just ask Suiii nicely to drink a glass of water, and if smoke plumes come from her ears, she is a robot.
Erm...because... OOH LOOK! There's Kat Deeley!
*scarpers*
Damn. Forgot to unplug meself....
Billy Fane, Mike Elliot, that women from Brookie (and umpteen Catherine Cooksons) are all in Billy Elliot- does the North East have no other actors....alright so Jamie Bell made his acting debut (and a good one at that) but please it was like Byker Grove during the Miners strike
Kevin Whately, Denise Thingummy from Corrie, her husband (Tim Healy?) and Jimmy fucking Nail.
Donna Air.
Phil Middlemiss.
They're all androids, are they?
I see your point about Jayne Midlemiss.