Bone idle
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How did I end up here? I was born and raised in the state of Oklahoma. I remember back around 1974 I saw a few episodes of Monty Python. I have no recollection if I liked it or not, but it was my first memory of a British Comedy here in the states. About 8 years later I moved to Dallas Texas and one of my bosses introduced me to Fawlty Towers and I thought it was brilliant.
The Dallas PBS station must have had a British Comedy night and I soon became addicted to watching British Comedies every Sunday night, and I enjoyed almost every British Comedy that the offered. That was at least 30 years and I still have some of them on Beta video.
Among my favorites back in those days were The Good Life, To the Manor Born, and of course Are You Being served. For some odd reason I think could watch an episode of AYBS every night without tiring of it. My list of British shows that I enjoy now is way to long to bore every one with, so I wont list them here.
On a trip to Las Vegas several years ago I was looking through the channels to see if they had any British Shows on their PBS station and I found my self watching Last of the Summer Wine for the first time. My memory is poor, but I believe it was during the Seymour era. After that weekend, I returned back to California where I now live and forgot about the show, or at least I thought so. Las Vegas is about a 4 hour drive from where I live and I continued to find a reason to visit a few times a year. Each time I was there I would search for that show that I only saw once. I couldn't remember what it was called or what exactly it was about but, obviously it had made some impact on me.
A few years went by and by that time I was a subscriber of satellite television and went for the package that included BBC America. Eventually I was reacquainted with what is now my favorite television show. I don’t recall which era it was when I was reunited, but I believe it may have been while Billy Hardcastle was a character on the show.
It was quite a while before I ever realized the importance of Compo. In fact, I didn’t view him as the main character; he was just one of the gang. It was only after I acquired DVDs of the early series that I began to grasp an understanding of the man. Now I get it!
I've been watching at least one episode almost every night now for years, and that’s even when I travel for business or holidays. I’m currently on my third time of viewing the complete show and I will soon come to the end of Compo’s tenure. I get sad just thinking of it. I will be watching How to Create a Monster tonight, so it will around a month for me and Compo will again be gone.
I really look forward to visiting Holmfirth some day soon. I had intended to last year, but I spent my savings on a car for my niece who was about to becoming driving age. She is an excellent student and it was the right thing to do at the time. Fortunately I’m well on my way to building my savings up again.
Please forgive me for my poor grammar and the length of my post.
Bone Idle (Matt)
The Dallas PBS station must have had a British Comedy night and I soon became addicted to watching British Comedies every Sunday night, and I enjoyed almost every British Comedy that the offered. That was at least 30 years and I still have some of them on Beta video.
Among my favorites back in those days were The Good Life, To the Manor Born, and of course Are You Being served. For some odd reason I think could watch an episode of AYBS every night without tiring of it. My list of British shows that I enjoy now is way to long to bore every one with, so I wont list them here.
On a trip to Las Vegas several years ago I was looking through the channels to see if they had any British Shows on their PBS station and I found my self watching Last of the Summer Wine for the first time. My memory is poor, but I believe it was during the Seymour era. After that weekend, I returned back to California where I now live and forgot about the show, or at least I thought so. Las Vegas is about a 4 hour drive from where I live and I continued to find a reason to visit a few times a year. Each time I was there I would search for that show that I only saw once. I couldn't remember what it was called or what exactly it was about but, obviously it had made some impact on me.
A few years went by and by that time I was a subscriber of satellite television and went for the package that included BBC America. Eventually I was reacquainted with what is now my favorite television show. I don’t recall which era it was when I was reunited, but I believe it may have been while Billy Hardcastle was a character on the show.
It was quite a while before I ever realized the importance of Compo. In fact, I didn’t view him as the main character; he was just one of the gang. It was only after I acquired DVDs of the early series that I began to grasp an understanding of the man. Now I get it!
I've been watching at least one episode almost every night now for years, and that’s even when I travel for business or holidays. I’m currently on my third time of viewing the complete show and I will soon come to the end of Compo’s tenure. I get sad just thinking of it. I will be watching How to Create a Monster tonight, so it will around a month for me and Compo will again be gone.
I really look forward to visiting Holmfirth some day soon. I had intended to last year, but I spent my savings on a car for my niece who was about to becoming driving age. She is an excellent student and it was the right thing to do at the time. Fortunately I’m well on my way to building my savings up again.
Please forgive me for my poor grammar and the length of my post.
Bone Idle (Matt)
