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Often the things we look forward to the most turn out to be a huge let down. As Freddy Woo puts it, "High heels in bed? No fun at all. Porn has a lot to answer for."

Well, Freddy, you are supposed to get someone else to wear them.

What's disappointed you lot?
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(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 14:15)
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My Greatest Disappointment.
Single, greatest disappointment? Even greater than Indiana Jones not representing the reality of everyday Archaeology?

Pipkins.

Do you remember Pipkins? Apart from the comedy giant that was Hartley Hare, do you remember how every time there was going to be a story, they'd say "It's...." and there would be an animated clip of different clocks, and the presenter (Wayne Lareya) would say "...for a story!"

Except that they didn't always do that, did they?!

Sometimes it would be TIME...to say goodbye. No story. Straight into World at One with a loud "Bong!" from Big Ben, and a hideous, crushing sense of disappointment.

Pipkins gave me that first inkling that life wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and that only disappointment and misery awaited me.

I think I was about 19 at the time.

Wayne Lareya, if you ever read this, I hate you.
(I helped save b3ta! Stevedix http://www.stevedix.de/blog, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 12:19, 7 replies)
hartley hare had a face fit for nightmares.
he scared me almost as much as bagpuss
*shudders*
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 12:31, closed)
The original...
.. was "Mr. Pipkins", if I remember correctly.

A toy shop run by an old man, looked like your favourite grandad.

Then he died, and it became Pipkins.

Was it Octavia Ostritch?
(paof2 Nude might not be rude, but rude could be nude..., Tue 1 Jul 2008, 12:35, closed)
^Yes
And Topov the monkey, because he was always on 'topov' things.

These were the most crudely made, threadbare, crappy puppets ever. I did not like that programme.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 12:55, closed)
Yay! for us oldies.
I loved Hartley Hare, (but not in the biblical sense).
(I helped save b3ta! girlinthehole, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 13:30, closed)
Hartley Hare was utterly brilliant
but I recently watched some Pipkins on Youtube, and my word he does look a bit alarming. Didn't bother me at the time!
(richardm, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 15:53, closed)
"Pig
is very 'Ungry"
(kitescreech still here, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 7:49, closed)
Pipkins used to be called...
Inigo Pipkin.

Giving my age away there a bit.
(kingnutter, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 15:34, closed)

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