Earlier this week, my hedge fund manager advised me to sink everything into Word Podcast Bonds. All I have to do is persuade ten other people to also invest the same amount as me ($1,000,000), and I am guaranteed an immediate return of twenty times my original investment.
As you can imagine, I leapt in with every cent I have!
Bargain!

My mother maintains , to this very day , that the photo of herself and Mr Dee which graced the pages of the Ilford Recorder where a fine example of journalistic misrepresentation . That she was simply asking for the " bloody crowd on the footpath to let a woman with a pram get through " .

I on the other hand having witnessed how she could sail through crowds with the same regal indifference as a Wodehouse aunt ,always though the excuse hookey . When in recent years her tour groups visit to the wailing wall coincided with Nelson Mandela's . It seems Nelson's security found that attempting to stall a retired Irish midwife was doomed to failure .

To all at Word Towers , thanks for the podcasts , blogs and Magazine .

I would love to suggest that one track of the next cd should simply be Mr Mark Ellen performing those voices .

Keep Well .

Bravo, Mark Ellen's Voice of Trailer.

Re the Peabody Hotel, I enjoyed a stay there years ago and was told by my host that it was pronounced Peab'ddy, accent on the first syllable. Like Smashy or Nicey pronouncing "puberty". The one time I used the lift, I shared it not with the ducks but with Aaron Neville. He nodded, which pleased me no end.

the Blood Donor was the first time Tone used the idiot boards as he was involved in a car accident shortly before and so his memory was shot, probably still from concussion. After he got such plaudits for that show he thought 'sod learning the lines, I'll read em'.

Loved old Tommy Vance, particularly as he was the only person duped by Chris Morris' Brasseye to admit he was a fool and that it was bloody hilarious.

the run of prison slang is pure gold

While there are red squirrels on Brownsea Island, the main habitat of red squirrels in Southern England is on the Isle of Wight.

The best bit was David Hepworth's dramatic reading of Graham Johns' pantomime anecdote, which was punctuated by Mark Ellen and Matt Hall enthusiastically testifying in the background.

don't know him... is he any good?

Dan LaFontaine died, but the other voiceover man, Hal Douglas, is still alive. I've posted this before, but I think it's hilarious so here it is again. It's the trailer for Jerry Seinfeld's movie, "Comedian":

In case anyone's interested, our school's production of "Jack and the Beanstalk" tore the roof off the school hall last night. Jack's mother, despite getting his lines right in the final rehearsals, reverted to declaring his intent to buy "some rolls".
One boy (with "emotional and behavioural difficulties") stormed off in a huff mid-show. This is the norm for many of our pupils, so we decided to leave him to his own devices, little knowing that in our absence he would:

a) entirely cover his classroom floor with straw (meant for the guinea pigs);
and
b) secretly swap every child's uniform with someone else's so that, at the end of the performance, tired and emotional children went home in very ill-fitting clothes.

What an evil genius! He's gonna be a star.
[I should stress that justice was administered - he spent today cleaning up while his classmates watched DVD's.]

I was wondering, today, if your panto was a success - especially the now famous 'some rolls' line.

Good to know it went well, and you certainly seem to have a very rewarding job (if nothing else, I'm fairly sure you'll get a book out of it!).

according to i-tunes, we went from podcast 78 to podcast 80 - what happened to number 79?

When I first published 79 i called it 78. I then went back and changed it. Therefore some people will have got it with the right number and some not.

In my defence, it is free.

Actually, it's rare. Sell it on eBay.

How "complex" can a strummed acoustic, a stand-up bass, a fiddle and a drummer with brushes actually be?

What's he expecting - for EMI to assign him Sir George to spend five months at Abbey Road mixing the thing?

Archie - Van Morrison has been on the phone. He's complaining that you have left your comment in the wrong thread.

He also said something about visiting Spike Milligan.

...but I had to squeeze in the 'Educating Archie' bit so it served as a good peg to hang it on.

...still smiling at your panto description...!

Not sure whether this was an in-joke or not, but five minutes after ridiculing a Word staffer for her Brian Enno, doesn't Matt Hall get it all horribly wrong with his Francis Ca-pole-a? It's Cop-pol-a surely? (similar to cupola).

it is free ya know.

My wife went to Memphis on business once. Her boss got to stay at the Peabody. She got the Ramada Inn six miles out of town. In a shopping mall.

In view of earlier posts was unavoidably reminded of the brief meeting (in a parallel universe) of Stourton and Morris-you need to listen the end:

(the version on the CD is also on YouTube)

Twas I who supplied the huge underpants to Tommy Vance, they came from the US (where else) and they only sent us one pair. They were,
I am almost certain connected to the promotion of tip top all girl German soft metallers Vixen. I'm pretty sure I took the photo of the larynx on legs with the XXXXXL garment. Sadly I can't find the photo but I'll keep looking.