Obscure MemorabiliaAt home my other half has a broken piece of a piano. Just a single hammer from a broken piano. And yet this twisted bit of wood and metal is a piece from the piano that they flung in the TV series Northern Exposure. We've also got some gardening tools from the first series of Big Brother.
What wierd stuff do you own that has a history?
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chthonic, Thu 4 Nov 2004, 8:19)
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cod fatheras a kid I was visiting my gran in Woodford in London and went round the shops with her buying stuff for lunch
Behind the counter in the Butchers was none other than George Vella, otherwise known as the CodFather -he did the fishing forcasts in the early days of TV-AM, clearly a major TV celeb, he obviously had no financial obligation to give up his day job in the butchers (I guess he'd be finished by 9am, so theres was no need to anyway)
Later I told my gran who he was, but she didn't really get the drift.
A few weeks later I get a leter from her containing a signed TV-AM post card of George the Codfather and a scrawly note from Gran
" You were right, the Codfather is my butcher, her remebers you, he thought you were looking at him funny"
Find it every time I move house
(, Sat 6 Nov 2004, 17:47, Reply)
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