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Dear Jim. Can you fix it for me to......
Posted by McLongWhiteCloud on 29 October 2011 - 8:09pm.
What would the massive want Jim to fix for them?
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Dear Jim
please can you fix it for me to dance with Flavia Cacace?
... what do you mean by
dance?
Hur hur hur hurrr... [climbs back into coffin]
That cat suit tonight
..was rather affecting, I must agree...
This was another favourite
Am I alone in having grown up thinking
that that was the most acest chair in the world.
Dear Jim, can you fix it for me to HAVE A CHAIR LIKE YOURS?
Except the arms dispense not Jim'll Fix It badges, but Cornettos.
has anyone got the clip
Of Mark Ellen when Jim fixed it for a girl to be on the cover of Smash Hits....?
No
But here is the cover...
http://www.crazyaboutmagazines.com/ourshop/prod_779186-Smash-Hits-magazi...
Marilyn on the cover?
Obviously a slow fortnight on Planet Pop...
Subterranean Homesick Blues.............
............in the songwords. Surely long odds on that!
£17.99?
I wish I hadn't binned all of mine after reading them!
(Admittedly there's often a broad line between the asking price and the price somebody's prepared to pay for an item. And my Mum would certainly have got them into a bin bag eventually had I attempted to hoard them.)
Dear Jim, can you fix it for me to...
flog the makers of staggeringly shit Radio 2 "comedy" Two Episodes of MASH within an inch of their lives.*
* This hasn't been a long-standing ambition of mine; rather for the last 10 minutes since I accidentally caught that garbage on the wireless.
Dear Jim, could you fix it for me...
...to "spend quality time", with the three members of Destiny's Child in zero gravity.
Dear Jim, could you fix it...
so there is a TV program on BBC that doesn't feature Sue Perkins !
I once wrote to "Jim'll Fix It"
asking if he'd fix it for me to operate a phone switchboard. In hindsight, I'm surprised they didn't spring for it - they were into the cheap "fix," particularly in later years.
Jim'll Fix it was quite magical at times
One child wanted to jump in a cab and say "follow that car!" on film.
I think they took the kid on a world trip, following that car.
Another one wanted to slam doors to his heart's content because he was always being told off at home. They had him slamming hundreds of them at various different places. It was a great piece.
And of course there were the two, count them, two Depeche Mode appearances.
"And that's how you write pop songs...?"
Here are Depeche Mode making a young girls dream come true, something they would do a lot of in the years to come.
Check out the genuinely ace present she gets from Alan 'Wild'-er at the end though...a Casio keyboard they wrote 'Get The Balance Right' on, with the track still programmed in. Wow.
Yes, a great present
Some might say that the Casio with that particular song programmed onto it was the source of Detroit techno/house. I hope she kept hold of it.
It was brill
On a similar theme to the door slamming, there were a couple of kids who (quite rightly, but that's not the point) were not allowed to jump around on their beds. Jim'll and Co mocked up a bedroom in the studio for them to do so, and they did with aplomb (I believe one even jumped off a wardrobe).
A good mate of mine remembered an even better example. A lad was told by someone he couldn't "punch his way out of a paper bag". So he asked if he could try. A small-boy-sized paper bag was produced, boy was put inside, and entertainment ensued. Great stuff.
Dear Jim'll,
Please could you fix it for me to have a night of rubby-fun with any/all of the female leads from Channel 4's "Fresh Meat"?
Much obliged, old boy.
Bob
Dear Jim
Could you fix it for me to go on tour with the group Queen. I am their biggest fan. I don't mind bunking up with Roger Taylor.
Yours..
Kate Mossman
Dear Jim can you please fix
Dear Jim can you please fix the economy, `cause the clowns in power have`nt a clue, nor have I for that matter.
Dear Jim can you please fix
Dear Jim can you please fix the economy, `cause the clowns in power have`nt a clue, nor have I for that matter.
OOPS :-)
OOPS :-)
Dear Jim,
Could you fix it for me to go back in time and get a front row seat at Kate Bush's concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1979?
and could you ask her if she's busy afterwards as well?
Dear Sir Jim
My needs are simple.
All the female dancers from "Strictly.."
The Saturdays.
Fiona Bruce.
Sian Williams.
Phillipa Forrester
And probably Rachel Stevens as well.
The contents of the Agent Provocateur catalogue.
A few bottles of Mazola.
A consultant cardiologist and support team on hand.