BONG UPDATE!
New category created on the right of the page...and we'll announce the idea we've chosen on the programme tonight.
Obviously it isn't one suggested by a listener - it was made up by a ´óÏó´«Ã½ producer who will also win a holiday. We can do this you know until The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Truth Commission has been built across the road from us.
And here's a titbit for you. L Bridges on the original bong thread suggested Beethoven's Fifth as a pre 1800 filler. My colleague Adam Bowen - producer of this parish - fished this out.
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Eddie....not the 'nest of cranes' photo again....are we really into recycling that much?
Also re truth centre.....no body got back to with the number of Tasers you need....
ttfn........pfzzsstttelicious.......init?
Obviously eddies camera phone must be full now. Try deleting some images ;-) or get a bigger memory card.
Well, I tried the fish course, but my link better describes the Beeb these days, Adam.
that opening V for victory bar of Beethoven's Fifth is a cracking idea, and you could also put in cryptic messages to Froggers the way they did to the Resistance during the war. "Fifi's violin is broken" or "Witchi has an appointment with Fabio". or "The camels fly high tonight". Excellent!
Thank you so much!
I've had a really S*!% day, and was so pleased that you used my suggestion of Dot Davies reading a poem as an example of what froggers had suggested. Pity it wasn't the final pick - but it worked for me today!
Bongs Away.... bit late for this seeing the decision has already been taken by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Bong Czar, but how about 'This is the Day' ditty from Matt Johnson's band Thethe????..it is a chirpy/portentous little number in keeping with Big ben's solemn tunes yet heralds in a breath of newsworthy air. Go on have a listen on the maistro's website thethe.com...XXXXXXXX
Sounds of the summer - how exciting :-)
Please! No icecream vans chimes! Round here they are so loud they hurt my ears and worse still, drown the PM programme. Just the quiet sound of tongues licking the cones will do.
Thinking of ice cream vans, here's a quick run-down of the tunes I've heard locally:
O Sole Mio (the perennial favourite)
Teddy Bear's Picnic
Popeye (played so slowly it sounds like someone's giving him the last rites!)
Que Sera Sera
The Sun Has Got His Hat On (a bit optimistic!)
I used to think the lot of them were terrible until I started my current job and heard some of the diabolical tunes some companies use for their "on hold" music...
Eddies Quip on Pips
Perhaps we could listen to the music that was not played on Radio 4. The next day played on Radio 4’s Pick of the Week in the belief it had been played the day before . This is not a competition but a phone in show.
Consult Roger Bolton Feedback.
This would be self deprecation even the Germans would understand.
If one squints and peers at the screen from a little to the left those cranes appear to be spelling the word "truth" in upper case.
Appy (11)
I've craned my neck and squinted for all I'm worth, but I can't see the truth...
My father would always tell me, if an Ice Cream van is playing music, it's because its run out of ice cream. :-(