I've just found out that Spongebob Squarepants is turning on the Christmas lights in Burnley.
*is very exited*


Who have your council got to do the job this year and are they more famous than Spongebob.



I doubt it.
( girlinthehole, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 11:18, 18 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

We've got the Hairy Bikers
One of them is from my town you see


EDIT: To be read in a Welsh accent. (Im not Welsh though)
(i should have joined myspace, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 11:21, Reply)

I have no idea...
I don't live near a town big enough to have proper Christmas lights.

I'll put some out on a tree in the garden.
Then switch them on myself.

*shrugs*

So, I think Rural North Essex wins, they've got "That Famous Kaol From The Internet" doing it.
( Cawl, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 11:26, Reply)

The real Spongebob,
or a bloke dressed up as him?
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 Nov 2008, 11:41, Reply)

Last year
We got the woman who played Alma in Corrie. They used our office as a makeshift green room. I had no idea who she was and told her to shift her arse as she was standing in the way of my coat.
(GONEism, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 11:44, Reply)

@Swordfish
but Alma died of cancer! She can't put chrimbo lights on from beyond the grave.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 12:11, Reply)

The real Alma,
or a woman dressed up as her?
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 Nov 2008, 12:27, Reply)

Nope
'twas the real thing. Nasally Mancunian accent and all.
(GONEism, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 12:33, Reply)

In 1990
Despite having celebrites like Griff Rhys Jones, Harry Enfield, Mary Whitehouse living in the surrounding boroughs, my home town of Colchester employed the bespectacled squeaky child-frightener Timmy Mallett to switch on the xmas lights.

Timmy Fucking Mallett.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 6 Nov 2008, 12:41, Reply)

Pearoast!
www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/68994/1224668832/wackaday.jpg
(GONEism, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 12:44, Reply)

we have
neighbours "star" Stephanie Macintosh turning on ours
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 12:50, Reply)

Timmy Mallett
is an Oxford United fan.

factoid of the week i feel
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 12:50, Reply)

A Timmy Mallett impersonator.
That would be scary.

Wikipedia says he had "cult" status. Wrong consonant there I think.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 Nov 2008, 13:05, Reply)

It better be the reall Spongebob...
Or else there will be lots of dissapointed adults kids that night.
( girlinthehole, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 13:11, Reply)

We had Shayne Ward.
Apparently.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 Nov 2008, 13:25, Reply)

Al
the real one.
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 13:47, Reply)

lights!
Barnsley has got the bloke that may have lied about never seeing his family and never made it to the live show of X Factor.

My town is crap.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 14:21, Reply)

I love spongebob!
*faints*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 15:17, Reply)

Timmy Mallet
is an Oxford United fan. I sat in front of him in the director's box at the old stadium a good few years back.

Jim Rosenthal was also there. During the half-time break, we went for a pint in the exec lounge, and my mate saw Jim heading to the gents, so he followed him in and took a leak next to him. Apparently, it's 'as big as his nose.'
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 16:21, Reply)