This weekend sees the 100th birthday of a hero of our times. A Bunter revival is long overdue - it could run on my proposed Fat Channel, a satellite TV channel devoted entirely to fatness and fat people. A bit of Bunter would raise the tone, along with Falstaff's greatest hits and perhaps the odd sketch from Gargantua and Pantagruel - inspiriting and cheering stuff for the nation's fatties. Ads for couch potato foodstuffs would more than pay for such a channel, and it would have the ultimate captive audience, lodged helplessly in the recesses of their huge superstrength sofas. This idea, I am sure, has legs (unlike some of its target audience).
To return to Bunter - my father, a man of simple tastes, recalled that the greatest pleasure of his boyhood was to sit in a warm bath with the latest issue of the Magnet, a box of dark chocolates and a pipe of good tobacco. Innocent times...
Friday, February 15, 2008
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
That, sir, is a brilliant idea! There could be a channel for binge drinkers too - oh wait, channel 4 has that covered doesn't it. And I believe QVC has cornered the stoner market...
ReplyDeleteQuite so, Celebritish! Makes you wonder who's left to watch the other channels...
ReplyDeleteTo view this channel, would one need a 'fat screen' tv?
ReplyDeleteHoho - fat screen indeed. Definitely not high definition though ...
ReplyDeleteAs a man currently fighting a serious weight problem due to an issue of glands, I find this post offensive in the extreme. Fat is not funny.
ReplyDeleteChip! Good to have you back...
ReplyDeleteI could appear on it and look like a thin person for once. That would please me....
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