Comments on: More Thameslink timetable tickles http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/08/17/163 All the pig that's fit to saw Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:16:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jo http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/08/17/163#comment-89615 Jo Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:14:30 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/08/16/163#comment-89615 I hate to tell you Nik, but my mum used to tell me about a radio ventriloquist she used to listen to when she was a kid...I used to laugh at her and didn't believe her, but please check this out! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brough It's sadly true! Although I love this line from the write up: "The TV appearances exposed his limitations as a ventriloquist, as his lips were frequently seen to move."!!!! Anyway, I only came on here looking for a Thameslink Timetable, but this is so funny, I decided to stay! I hate to tell you Nik, but my mum used to tell me about a radio ventriloquist she used to listen to when she was a kid…I used to laugh at her and didn’t believe her, but please check this out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brough

It’s sadly true! Although I love this line from the write up:

“The TV appearances exposed his limitations as a ventriloquist, as his lips were frequently seen to move.”!!!!

Anyway, I only came on here looking for a Thameslink Timetable, but this is so funny, I decided to stay!

]]> By: Nik http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/08/17/163#comment-6498 Nik Sat, 27 May 2006 13:18:29 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/08/16/163#comment-6498 Certainly. Certainly.

]]> By: Sonia http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/08/17/163#comment-6494 Sonia Sat, 27 May 2006 08:48:53 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/08/16/163#comment-6494 Please will you give me the times of the trains from Boreham Wood today? Thank you Please will you give me the times of the trains from Boreham Wood today? Thank you

]]> By: Nik http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/08/17/163#comment-150 Nik Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:17:26 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/08/16/163#comment-150 I'd like to think that merely appearing on this very august blog (it's the 18th of august! ha!) would be encouragement enough. But I certainly agree with you about the "nation's favourite painting"... on the radio? What next, a <a>radio ventriloquist</a>? I’d like to think that merely appearing on this very august blog (it’s the 18th of august! ha!) would be encouragement enough.

But I certainly agree with you about the “nation’s favourite painting”… on the radio? What next, a radio ventriloquist?

]]> By: Ace in London http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/08/17/163#comment-149 Ace in London Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:14:13 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/08/16/163#comment-149 I think that we should subject the handwriting to some handwriting analysis in order to identify whether or not the writer has a sense of humour. I also think that the signwriter should be given some form of encouragement. Perhaps we should ask commuters to nominate the nation's favourite travel information board? Radio 4 would need to be notified and perhaps then we would be spared listening to celebrities describing paintings on the radio and instead be invited to focus upon on the content of messages, which is presumably what radio was intended for? I think that we should subject the handwriting to some handwriting analysis in order to identify whether or not the writer has a sense of humour. I also think that the signwriter should be given some form of encouragement. Perhaps we should ask commuters to nominate the nation’s favourite travel information board? Radio 4 would need to be notified and perhaps then we would be spared listening to celebrities describing paintings on the radio and instead be invited to focus upon on the content of messages, which is presumably what radio was intended for?

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