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Moderator David@stives

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Did you know
« on: May 27, 2006, 12:34:18 am »
George Formby, who famously played the ukulele. He was extremely popular and even performed privately for the Royal Family.

 
Disputes over free speech and religion are not new challenges

Anything more harmless than his jokes and songs would be difficult to imagine. His best-known song was the ballad "When I'm Cleaning Windows." One day Formby was told that his windows weren't clean enough for the BBC.

Smut had been spotted in the lyrics and he was banned from singing the song on radio. His formidable wife, Beryl, took up the cudgels on his behalf and eventually "When I'm Cleaning Windows" was deemed pure enough for public consumption and restored to the Formby canon.

Apparently the lines that caused the trouble ran:

"The blushing bride she looks divine,
The bridegroom he is doing fine,
I'd rather have his job than mine,
When I'm cleaning windows."

http://www.wereallneighbours.co.uk/idlechat/message.php?id=8654&start=20


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Paul Coleman

Re: Did you know
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2006, 08:06:46 am »
Quote from: David Morris           aka @st-ives on May 27, 2006, 12:34:18 am
George Formby, who famously played the ukulele. He was extremely popular and even performed privately for the Royal Family.

 
Disputes over free speech and religion are not new challenges

Anything more harmless than his jokes and songs would be difficult to imagine. His best-known song was the ballad "When I'm Cleaning Windows." One day Formby was told that his windows weren't clean enough for the BBC.

Smut had been spotted in the lyrics and he was banned from singing the song on radio. His formidable wife, Beryl, took up the cudgels on his behalf and eventually "When I'm Cleaning Windows" was deemed pure enough for public consumption and restored to the Formby canon.

Apparently the lines that caused the trouble ran:

"The blushing bride she looks divine,
The bridegroom he is doing fine,
I'd rather have his job than mine,
When I'm cleaning windows."

http://www.wereallneighbours.co.uk/idlechat/message.php?id=8654&start=20




Good God, how times have changed.  That barely qualifies as innuendo never mind smut.
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jeff1

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Re: Did you know
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2006, 11:46:32 pm »
Quote from: David Morris           aka @st-ives on May 27, 2006, 12:34:18 am
George Formby, who famously played the ukulele. He was extremely popular and even performed privately for the Royal Family.

 
Disputes over free speech and religion are not new challenges

Anything more harmless than his jokes and songs would be difficult to imagine. His best-known song was the ballad "When I'm Cleaning Windows." One day Formby was told that his windows weren't clean enough for the BBC.

Smut had been spotted in the lyrics and he was banned from singing the song on radio. His formidable wife, Beryl, took up the cudgels on his behalf and eventually "When I'm Cleaning Windows" was deemed pure enough for public consumption and restored to the Formby canon.

Apparently the lines that caused the trouble ran:

"The blushing bride she looks divine,
The bridegroom he is doing fine,
I'd rather have his job than mine,
When I'm cleaning windows."

http://www.wereallneighbours.co.uk/idlechat/message.php?id=8654&start=20



Hi Dave
made a visit to your link, a lot of talk about george formby, and a lot of it guess work, even the talk about wc, saying were not allowed to clean windows off ladders anymore, we have to use a big pole with a sponge on the end  ;D and it did make me laugh.

if you really want to learn all the truth about george formby?
Take a visit to his fan clubs web site. on there you will find all the lyrics to all his songs. and everything else about him too!

 http://www.georgeformby.co.uk/

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Moderator David@stives

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Re: Did you know
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2006, 11:50:11 pm »
Jeff

Thanks for the link ,but no thanks  ;D
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jeff1

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Re: Did you know
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2006, 11:58:31 pm »
and after I spent five minutes on the web, looking for it for you! ;D ;D ;D
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JM123

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Re: Did you know
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2006, 12:35:12 am »
thats disgusting - I can't believe you wrote that on this forum - I'm reporting you to the mods.
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jeff1

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Re: Did you know
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2006, 07:36:45 am »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Moderator David@stives

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Re: Did you know
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2006, 01:50:54 pm »
Did you also know

The petronas towers in malaysia
 have 32,000 windows. Totally there are 77,00 square meters. And they have to be cleaned!
From the top some "gondola's" are going down to clean the windows. From these gondola's the window cleaners are doing their job.
All together those two towers have 11 gondola's.
Every day the windows cleaners are doing eight floors.
It takes five months to clean the entire building, so it's done twice a year.

Dave
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Moderator David@stives

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Re: Did you know
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2006, 01:51:56 pm »
I have just put in a quote for £50 for wfp
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jeff1

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Re: Did you know
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2006, 02:37:34 pm »
I'll do it for £35 off me ladders!! and a ride in a gondola;D ;D
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Moderator David@stives

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Re: Did you know
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2006, 07:34:24 pm »
George Formby and the skyscraper

http://www.funny-videos.co.uk/videowindowcleaner.html

The link wont work for everyone
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