| And finally.... |
| Martin | One of those stories that you see at the end of the new bulletin...
quote:
Saucy name causes a stirby Margaret Blackburn
PLANS by the owner of a Preston sex shop to change its name to 'ben dover' have received mixed reactions from local traders.
The shop in Friargate, near the University of Central Lancashire, is currently called The Adult Shop and sells pornographic videos.
Owner, Sally Cronshaw, of Worsley, Manchester, has applied to change the name and sign to feature a graphic of a woman bending over in red, white and blue.
serious discussions please![;)] |
| LDunlop76 | Erm, I probably shouldn't know this but.....
the shop owner may have trouble using the name as it's already in use. There's a chap called Ben Dover who appears on something like Granada Men & Motors when it switches to the ruder programmes late at night (only caught it in channel-flicking, honest!) and he may object to someone else using his name! |
| Martin | I'm not even going to mention a Lancashire politician who has a very similar name...
It's ok Linda WE believe you! |
| Lady Griffin | You are absolutely right Linda.I sense a law suit from Ben Dover on the way.
I have it on good authority that there are even more risque names to be discovered on Adult channels.Not from personal experience of course .These names are too spicy for me to post.
LG |
| Bill Rigby | Who remembers Nosmo King, the MC on the old Music Hall program. Took me a long time as a kid to realize what the name really was! |
| Lady Griffin | Have only just realised what the name Nosmo King meant -after over 60 years.Just thought it was an odd name!!!!
LG |
| rocketmanjohn | I think Nosmo King was Jasper Maskelin, the 'War Magician'. He was number 1 on the German most wanted list during WW2 in the middle East. The man was brilliant and succeeded in hiding the Suez Canal and the port of Alexandria from German bombers amoungst many other exploits. His biography is a 'must read' and I hear is being made into a movie.
John |
| Bill Rigby | Interesting feat to 'hide' the Suez Canal! He must not have been very successful since whatever he did the Canal the Germans found it! "Time and again, German bombs and mines had closed the Suez Canal to shipping, a critical point ignored in many accounts". "A World at Arms" by Gerhard Weinberg, Cambridge University Press, 1994, page 222.
I suspect the Germans kind of knew where the port of Alexandria was located, after all they reached within 60 miles of it only 10 days after capturing Tobruk. Alexandria actually played little part thereafter compared to the enormous task of holding Rommel at Alam Halfa in early September.
Nosmo King was rather good as an MC on "Old Time Music Hall" and he may very well have been Jasper Maskelin (I also would use a pseudonym if I had a name like that!)
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| rocketmanjohn | The book is called 'The War Magician' and if I remember correctly it was because of the heavy bombing that Maskelin was brought in. The Suez Canal trick was done with beams of light from searchlights that oscillated to and fro, this disoriented the pilots and blinded the bomb aimers. Alexandria was 'moved' down the coast a bit, again by using lights and a blackout in the real city. The book is excellent reading.
John |
| Bill Rigby | Thanks for the info, RMJ. I have to say that beams from searchlights do not, in fact, confuse pilots or 'blind' them! First of all, planes are hard to locate with searchlights at the best of times. And at the altitudes usually flown by night bombers are reltively weak.
I suspect a degree of exageration at work! |
| rocketmanjohn | Read the book.
John |
| rocketmanjohn | Try this link
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/R/real_lives/jasper.html
John |
| Bill Rigby | Thanks, RMJ, for the link. Very interesting and, indeed, the contributions of A Force are little mentioned in accounts of the events. The searchlight ploy is somewhat different as I read it from your post and seems quite ingenious.
However, Nosmo King was very well known as the MC of Old Time Music Hall; reading the short bio with mention of his 'dying in obscurity' does not fit with what I recall of Nosmo, who died if I recall while still Mcing. |
| Bill Rigby | PS I just did a quick search on Google and find a Nosmo King who wrote monologues with Norman Longstaffe before WW2. I think that might be the Nosmo King in question. |