Deaths in 2023

[flamingpig0]

Me too, Victor all the way - and Commando comic books when on holiday

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I learnt to read on Commando comics; I was the only child in the school to have the phrase Achtung Spitfire as part of their regular vocabulary.

[fsn]

Look and Learn for me. 



And the Victor when I could afford it. I eschewed Commando in favour of War Picture Library and Battle Picture Library.

[paulr]

We even got those in the Antipodes

Nobby, get on with the Danes

[Ithoriel]

Dandy and Beano  at home to begin with then Hotspur.

Look and Learn in the school library from age 11.

By the time I was on to Look and Learn I was a  voracious reader.

We had a supply English teacher  who decided to gauge the reading habits/ ability of the class by asking us to list everything we'd read in the past year - books, magazines, newspapers.

I was getting through 120 page sci-fi novels in a couple of nights so was at a bit of a loss as to how to list the 100+ books I'd read, let alone the other stuff.

Teacher saw I wasn't writing anything and suggested I list anything at all if I hadn't read any books even if it was just the back of a sauce bottle!

Class fell about at the idea that I hadn't read anything.

Teacher asks what the last thing I'd finished was. Truthful answer, "Encylopaedia Britannica, Miss."

"What entry?"

"Read it during lunch breaks, Miss, started at aardvark and read through to zymase."

"Good God! You are either a marvel or a monster!"

Class collapses in fits of giggles once again.

 

[pierre the shy]

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I learnt to read on Commando comics; I was the only child in the school to have the phrase Achtung Spitfire as part of their regular vocabulary.

The time stamp doesn't work 

[Steve J]

Sylvia Syms, aged 89. Forever the nurse in 'Ice Cold In Alex'.

[fsn]

Awwww!

[Elliesdad]

Sylvia Syms, aged 89. Forever the nurse in 'Ice Cold In Alex'.

Let's hope it wasn't the after effects on that head bump in "Ice Cold in Alex"...
 

[jimduncanuk]

"Good God! You are either a marvel or a monster!"



 

Right second time

[fsn]

Although she was most famous for Ice Cold in Alex, she was in a few interesting films ...

The Moonraker (1957) (Not the awful travesty of a Bond film) set in the English Civil War


Operation Crossbow (1965) as the wonderfully named Constance Babington Smith


How can you forget Amazons of Rome (1961)?

[fsn]

Burt Bacahar ...Bakker ... him ... the song writer chap.

[Steve J]

He certainly wrote some classic songs and had a damned good innings too.

[Ithoriel]

Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, has died aged 74. - BBC

[mollinary]

Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, has died aged 74. - BBC

Actually died in May 2019.  The report came up because some memorabilia was recently put up for auction, then withdrawn at the request of the family. 

[Ithoriel]

And there I was thinking there's another star I thought was dead but wasn't! :-)