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On a lighter note...Columbo...

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 12:31 pm

...just now, Donald Pleasance, a big connoisseur of Port, laments how one of his bottles might end up "with a Texan bumpkin, in the freezer and served up with a homemade chilli"...now he's on about "muscle-bound hedonists"...he's on a role!
Great writing!

Re: On a lighter note...Columbo...

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 1:17 pm, in reply to "On a lighter note...Columbo..."

Do you remember him in "The Great Escape"? at the end he gets killed but the real him and the James Garner character did nick an aeroplane and managed to get over the front line. They spent the rest of the ar fighting with the Red Army....

He was also one of the the best things in "Escape from New York", pipped by Isaac Haye's motor. ;O)

The last working-class hero in England.

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

Re: On a lighter note...Columbo...

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 1:54 pm, in reply to "Re: On a lighter note...Columbo..."

"The Forger"....with James Bumgarner, going blind as a bat!
Was good in "Death Line!.

Re: On a lighter note...Columbo...

Posted by Jackie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Jackie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 2:58 pm, in reply to "On a lighter note...Columbo..."

My wonderful son who died at the age of 38, five years ago, spent six harrowing months in the hospital suffering pain, disappointments, setbacks and indignity. Some of the joy and comfort he and we got during that time came from escaping into the worlds of Colombo, Midsomer Murders, Murder She Wrote, dramatizations of the Patrick O’Brian books, Sherlock Holmes, etc. He loved Peter Falk.

Oh, just one more thing Mrs So and So….

Re: On a lighter note...Columbo...

Posted by Jackie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Jackie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 3:06 pm, in reply to "Re: On a lighter note...Columbo..."

Just realizing that it’s not nice to post a sad story on one of the few lighter notes that come along. I apologize for my self indulgence.

Re: On a lighter note...Columbo...thanks Jackie...

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 4:19 pm, in reply to "Re: On a lighter note...Columbo..."

Sorry to hear about your son, Jackie.
My dearest departed sister, loved Columbo and Midsomer Murders...especially the spooky episodes, she loved all things ghostie...Christmas is not the same without her sending me an M.R.James ghost story, although she knew I had read or seen them a million tines before.
And just one more thing (sorry, could not resist), as an aside, Jackie, did you know Peter was a very accomplished artist...look him up...some wonderful charcoal/pencil drawings.

Bless them both, your son and my sister.

Re: On a lighter note...Columbo...thanks Jackie...

Posted by Jackie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Jackie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 5:08 pm, in reply to "Re: On a lighter note...Columbo...thanks Jackie... "

Thanks for the story and commiseration, Ed. I will look up the art. He made a splash by being ordinary in Halifax (NS) years ago, going to a downtown coffee shop by himself and sitting there with his coffee reading the newspaper.

Re: On a lighter note...Columbo...

Posted by Shyaku <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Shyaku' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 30, 2024, 12:55 am, in reply to "Re: On a lighter note...Columbo..."

Thanks for posting, it was real and it was meaningful to read.

Columbo...

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 3:08 pm, in reply to "On a lighter note...Columbo..."

Condolences Jackie

The last working-class hero in England.

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

Re: Columbo...

Posted by scrabb <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=scrabb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 5:13 pm, in reply to "Columbo..."

Please don't apogees for having feelings and sad memories, Jackie. Honest opinions and emotions are welcome on Lifeboat News.

I've been feeling sad this week because someone I worked with in Manchester, the broadcaster Brian Trueman, has died at the age of 92.
Brian worked for the BBC and also Granada TV (where I knew him) since the mid-1950s. He was one of the most decent, generous and helpful people you could ever hope to meet, inside television or outside. He wrote the Dangermouse animation series and voiced some of the characters. It was a pleasure and a privilege to have known him.

Re: Columbo...Danger Mouse! The World's Greatest Super Agent!

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 5:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Columbo..."

...sorry to hear that Scrab....gonna watch a bit of Danger Mouse now after the sad reminder!

Re: Columbo...

Condolences to you too Scrabb.

The last working-class hero in England.

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

Re: Columbo...

Thanks for this, scrabb. Every adult has this heartache for the ones we’ve loved, who enriched our lives, and who have left us. It’s hard to accept that they’re gone and yet, we must. The losses add up as the years go by. On the other hand of course, they live on in our memories and in the ways that they helped us and shared our path.

Re: Columbo...

The best tribute is perhaps to try to be that person for someone else.

Pay it forward.

Take care (and condolences), Shyaku

Re: Columbo...

Posted by Jackie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Jackie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 5:53 pm, in reply to "Columbo..."

Thank you.

Re: On a lighter note...Columbo...

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 6:34 pm, in reply to "On a lighter note...Columbo..."

My favourite one is where Johnny Cash drugs his wife in a plane and parachutes out to make it look like an accident*. Columbo tricks him into revealing where he stashed the parachute but his parting line is (approximately) 'nobody who can sing like that can be all bad'. Moral: you can get away with anything if you've got a few good tunes :D

I

* - 'Swan Song': https://columbophile.com/2020/04/04/5-best-moments-from-columbo-swan-song/

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Re: On a lighter note...Columbo...

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 7:08 pm, in reply to "Re: On a lighter note...Columbo..."

My fav part of that one is Cash doing "Sunday Morning"...Kris didn't get close to the "feelin' comin' down" like Cash in that song.
Wasn't bad with Me And Bobby Magee...
I got married in New Orleans many, many moons ago...proper hanging judge officiated...remember it like yesterday...knew it was wrong!
LOL

Did his gavel pop out?

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 8:11 pm, in reply to "Re: On a lighter note...Columbo..."

Are you still together (you and your wife, not you and the judge)?

The last working-class hero in England.

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

Re: Did his gavel pop out?

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 8:33 pm, in reply to "Did his gavel pop out?"

The voice still lingers...."Take yourrr whooommman by the haaaannnd..,,,"
We passed by shackled convicts to his plush office....talking early 1990s here...
Nor'leens was a good place to get drunk in back then.
Any one know it?

Re: On a lighter note...Columbo...

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 8:23 pm, in reply to "Re: On a lighter note...Columbo..."

Mine did.

"Sonia from Eastenders! Sonia from Eastenders!"....nm

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 8:24 pm, in reply to "Re: On a lighter note...Columbo..."

The last working-class hero in England.

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

You got married in a fever? Sounds wild ;) (nm)

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 29, 2024, 11:22 pm, in reply to "Re: On a lighter note...Columbo..."

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