Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\nSpeaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots were filled with porridge! And so it stuck.\n
\nI don\u2019t think I was notorious enough to warrant a nickname at Television Centre, but was called \u2018Potter\u2019 at school, by the Gym instructor, an ex-military PTI, simply because my surname was spelt the same way as the Norfolk Broads town.\n
\nI shall always remember Johnny Holmes, as during an after show drink in the Club, it became my shout, and up at the bar was one of the make-up girls looking stunning in a green trouser suit. I complimented her and included her in the round of drinks. As I returned to our table, Johnny shook his head sadly, saying: \u201cMuch too expensive for you, Pat!\u201d\n <\/h3>Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI can not for the life of me remember how this conversation came about, or who with …I think it must have been with one of the make up girls who stood around in the studio wafting face-towels soaked with Eau-de-cologne – particularly, I seem to recall, during recordings of "Dixon of Dock Green". The chat went something like this … \n
\n"… the cameramen think they can invite us down to the pub, buy us a drink and get a packet of crisps, and then hope to get a leg over. The sparks, on the other hand, whisk us off to a fancy restaurant and buy us a really good fancy meal with nice wine …" \n
\nNever forgot that, but on the other hand, never got anywhere with any make-up girl …\n <\/h3>Tony Grant<\/strong><\/h3>\nAh yes, the eau-de-cologne chamois leather I think it was, waved around to keep it cool. I can’t remember which boiling hot production I was working on, but staggering home in the wee small hours (after an overrun) I got it in the neck,, ‘Who’ve you been out with ’til this time, smelling like a tart’s boudoir?’\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI believe Brian Hiles had a pair of sheep’s wool lined boots he wore on his motorcycle. The lining was turned over the top and looked like he’d stepped into porridge-filled boots and it was spilling over the top\u2026 well, that’s what Dick (Richard) Green told me!\n <\/h3>David Denness<\/strong><\/h3>\nYour description of Brian Hiles\u2019 motorcycling apparel is completely true\n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nThere was a TM, nicknamed ‘Hoss’, who gave lots of people nicknames, including Brian Hiles.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nThat was Frank Rose, of course, who christened himself \u201cHorse\u201d as he assessed his appearance as being equine. Loads of people\u2019s memories of his nicknames for others have appeared here before \u2013 they were all brilliant (see http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/horse-names\/<\/a>). I was \u2018The Short-Haired Puma\u2019.\n
\nI might also have mentioned \u2026 that Frank routinely used the plural of his own nickname as a catch-all term for the crew in general, as in \u201cright, horses \u2013 tea now, back in ten\u201d. Another of his idiosyncrasies was to run his hand in a trembling motion up the back of your neck, inducing shivers in the days when most sported relatively close haircuts.\n
\nThe Brian Hiles recollections remind me he wasn\u2019t at all keen on Porridge Boots. Also he was once, in my hearing, the victim of a classic Al Tuson gem. Like many folk, Brian had a spell of enthusiasm for tracing his family history which prompted Al to comment, \u201cYour trouble, Hiles, is you\u2019re suffering from Genereal Disease\u201d.\n
\nLike the Eric and Ernie gems, these things never leave you!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\n…I had my own nickname for Al Tuson, but no one ever understood or used it: Arizona Al.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nArizona Al? I may be way off with this, but I can picture Al on horseback in Wild West country sporting a Stetson! \n
\nI\u2019ve mentioned … what a great bloke I always found Al to be. He was in fact (genereal<\/i> jibe apart) pretty clued up about family research and piloted me on my first foray into the General Register tomes in the days before they left Somerset House. When you look at the sophistication of online records research as now available it seems a miracle that anyone got anything like the results from ploughing laboriously through those ancient hand-written registers.\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on Tucson<\/b><\/i>, Arizona!\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nOuch! Talk about missing the bleedin\u2019 obvious!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\nI can not for the life of me remember how this conversation came about, or who with …I think it must have been with one of the make up girls who stood around in the studio wafting face-towels soaked with Eau-de-cologne – particularly, I seem to recall, during recordings of "Dixon of Dock Green". The chat went something like this … \n
\n"… the cameramen think they can invite us down to the pub, buy us a drink and get a packet of crisps, and then hope to get a leg over. The sparks, on the other hand, whisk us off to a fancy restaurant and buy us a really good fancy meal with nice wine …" \n
\nNever forgot that, but on the other hand, never got anywhere with any make-up girl …\n <\/h3>Tony Grant<\/strong><\/h3>\nAh yes, the eau-de-cologne chamois leather I think it was, waved around to keep it cool. I can’t remember which boiling hot production I was working on, but staggering home in the wee small hours (after an overrun) I got it in the neck,, ‘Who’ve you been out with ’til this time, smelling like a tart’s boudoir?’\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI believe Brian Hiles had a pair of sheep’s wool lined boots he wore on his motorcycle. The lining was turned over the top and looked like he’d stepped into porridge-filled boots and it was spilling over the top\u2026 well, that’s what Dick (Richard) Green told me!\n <\/h3>David Denness<\/strong><\/h3>\nYour description of Brian Hiles\u2019 motorcycling apparel is completely true\n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nThere was a TM, nicknamed ‘Hoss’, who gave lots of people nicknames, including Brian Hiles.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nThat was Frank Rose, of course, who christened himself \u201cHorse\u201d as he assessed his appearance as being equine. Loads of people\u2019s memories of his nicknames for others have appeared here before \u2013 they were all brilliant (see http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/horse-names\/<\/a>). I was \u2018The Short-Haired Puma\u2019.\n
\nI might also have mentioned \u2026 that Frank routinely used the plural of his own nickname as a catch-all term for the crew in general, as in \u201cright, horses \u2013 tea now, back in ten\u201d. Another of his idiosyncrasies was to run his hand in a trembling motion up the back of your neck, inducing shivers in the days when most sported relatively close haircuts.\n
\nThe Brian Hiles recollections remind me he wasn\u2019t at all keen on Porridge Boots. Also he was once, in my hearing, the victim of a classic Al Tuson gem. Like many folk, Brian had a spell of enthusiasm for tracing his family history which prompted Al to comment, \u201cYour trouble, Hiles, is you\u2019re suffering from Genereal Disease\u201d.\n
\nLike the Eric and Ernie gems, these things never leave you!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\n…I had my own nickname for Al Tuson, but no one ever understood or used it: Arizona Al.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nArizona Al? I may be way off with this, but I can picture Al on horseback in Wild West country sporting a Stetson! \n
\nI\u2019ve mentioned … what a great bloke I always found Al to be. He was in fact (genereal<\/i> jibe apart) pretty clued up about family research and piloted me on my first foray into the General Register tomes in the days before they left Somerset House. When you look at the sophistication of online records research as now available it seems a miracle that anyone got anything like the results from ploughing laboriously through those ancient hand-written registers.\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on Tucson<\/b><\/i>, Arizona!\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nOuch! Talk about missing the bleedin\u2019 obvious!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Tony Grant<\/strong><\/h3>\nAh yes, the eau-de-cologne chamois leather I think it was, waved around to keep it cool. I can’t remember which boiling hot production I was working on, but staggering home in the wee small hours (after an overrun) I got it in the neck,, ‘Who’ve you been out with ’til this time, smelling like a tart’s boudoir?’\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI believe Brian Hiles had a pair of sheep’s wool lined boots he wore on his motorcycle. The lining was turned over the top and looked like he’d stepped into porridge-filled boots and it was spilling over the top\u2026 well, that’s what Dick (Richard) Green told me!\n <\/h3>David Denness<\/strong><\/h3>\nYour description of Brian Hiles\u2019 motorcycling apparel is completely true\n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nThere was a TM, nicknamed ‘Hoss’, who gave lots of people nicknames, including Brian Hiles.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nThat was Frank Rose, of course, who christened himself \u201cHorse\u201d as he assessed his appearance as being equine. Loads of people\u2019s memories of his nicknames for others have appeared here before \u2013 they were all brilliant (see http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/horse-names\/<\/a>). I was \u2018The Short-Haired Puma\u2019.\n
\nI might also have mentioned \u2026 that Frank routinely used the plural of his own nickname as a catch-all term for the crew in general, as in \u201cright, horses \u2013 tea now, back in ten\u201d. Another of his idiosyncrasies was to run his hand in a trembling motion up the back of your neck, inducing shivers in the days when most sported relatively close haircuts.\n
\nThe Brian Hiles recollections remind me he wasn\u2019t at all keen on Porridge Boots. Also he was once, in my hearing, the victim of a classic Al Tuson gem. Like many folk, Brian had a spell of enthusiasm for tracing his family history which prompted Al to comment, \u201cYour trouble, Hiles, is you\u2019re suffering from Genereal Disease\u201d.\n
\nLike the Eric and Ernie gems, these things never leave you!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\n…I had my own nickname for Al Tuson, but no one ever understood or used it: Arizona Al.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nArizona Al? I may be way off with this, but I can picture Al on horseback in Wild West country sporting a Stetson! \n
\nI\u2019ve mentioned … what a great bloke I always found Al to be. He was in fact (genereal<\/i> jibe apart) pretty clued up about family research and piloted me on my first foray into the General Register tomes in the days before they left Somerset House. When you look at the sophistication of online records research as now available it seems a miracle that anyone got anything like the results from ploughing laboriously through those ancient hand-written registers.\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on Tucson<\/b><\/i>, Arizona!\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nOuch! Talk about missing the bleedin\u2019 obvious!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI believe Brian Hiles had a pair of sheep’s wool lined boots he wore on his motorcycle. The lining was turned over the top and looked like he’d stepped into porridge-filled boots and it was spilling over the top\u2026 well, that’s what Dick (Richard) Green told me!\n <\/h3>David Denness<\/strong><\/h3>\nYour description of Brian Hiles\u2019 motorcycling apparel is completely true\n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nThere was a TM, nicknamed ‘Hoss’, who gave lots of people nicknames, including Brian Hiles.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nThat was Frank Rose, of course, who christened himself \u201cHorse\u201d as he assessed his appearance as being equine. Loads of people\u2019s memories of his nicknames for others have appeared here before \u2013 they were all brilliant (see http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/horse-names\/<\/a>). I was \u2018The Short-Haired Puma\u2019.\n
\nI might also have mentioned \u2026 that Frank routinely used the plural of his own nickname as a catch-all term for the crew in general, as in \u201cright, horses \u2013 tea now, back in ten\u201d. Another of his idiosyncrasies was to run his hand in a trembling motion up the back of your neck, inducing shivers in the days when most sported relatively close haircuts.\n
\nThe Brian Hiles recollections remind me he wasn\u2019t at all keen on Porridge Boots. Also he was once, in my hearing, the victim of a classic Al Tuson gem. Like many folk, Brian had a spell of enthusiasm for tracing his family history which prompted Al to comment, \u201cYour trouble, Hiles, is you\u2019re suffering from Genereal Disease\u201d.\n
\nLike the Eric and Ernie gems, these things never leave you!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\n…I had my own nickname for Al Tuson, but no one ever understood or used it: Arizona Al.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nArizona Al? I may be way off with this, but I can picture Al on horseback in Wild West country sporting a Stetson! \n
\nI\u2019ve mentioned … what a great bloke I always found Al to be. He was in fact (genereal<\/i> jibe apart) pretty clued up about family research and piloted me on my first foray into the General Register tomes in the days before they left Somerset House. When you look at the sophistication of online records research as now available it seems a miracle that anyone got anything like the results from ploughing laboriously through those ancient hand-written registers.\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on Tucson<\/b><\/i>, Arizona!\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nOuch! Talk about missing the bleedin\u2019 obvious!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
David Denness<\/strong><\/h3>\nYour description of Brian Hiles\u2019 motorcycling apparel is completely true\n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nThere was a TM, nicknamed ‘Hoss’, who gave lots of people nicknames, including Brian Hiles.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nThat was Frank Rose, of course, who christened himself \u201cHorse\u201d as he assessed his appearance as being equine. Loads of people\u2019s memories of his nicknames for others have appeared here before \u2013 they were all brilliant (see http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/horse-names\/<\/a>). I was \u2018The Short-Haired Puma\u2019.\n
\nI might also have mentioned \u2026 that Frank routinely used the plural of his own nickname as a catch-all term for the crew in general, as in \u201cright, horses \u2013 tea now, back in ten\u201d. Another of his idiosyncrasies was to run his hand in a trembling motion up the back of your neck, inducing shivers in the days when most sported relatively close haircuts.\n
\nThe Brian Hiles recollections remind me he wasn\u2019t at all keen on Porridge Boots. Also he was once, in my hearing, the victim of a classic Al Tuson gem. Like many folk, Brian had a spell of enthusiasm for tracing his family history which prompted Al to comment, \u201cYour trouble, Hiles, is you\u2019re suffering from Genereal Disease\u201d.\n
\nLike the Eric and Ernie gems, these things never leave you!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\n…I had my own nickname for Al Tuson, but no one ever understood or used it: Arizona Al.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nArizona Al? I may be way off with this, but I can picture Al on horseback in Wild West country sporting a Stetson! \n
\nI\u2019ve mentioned … what a great bloke I always found Al to be. He was in fact (genereal<\/i> jibe apart) pretty clued up about family research and piloted me on my first foray into the General Register tomes in the days before they left Somerset House. When you look at the sophistication of online records research as now available it seems a miracle that anyone got anything like the results from ploughing laboriously through those ancient hand-written registers.\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on Tucson<\/b><\/i>, Arizona!\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nOuch! Talk about missing the bleedin\u2019 obvious!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nThere was a TM, nicknamed ‘Hoss’, who gave lots of people nicknames, including Brian Hiles.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nThat was Frank Rose, of course, who christened himself \u201cHorse\u201d as he assessed his appearance as being equine. Loads of people\u2019s memories of his nicknames for others have appeared here before \u2013 they were all brilliant (see http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/horse-names\/<\/a>). I was \u2018The Short-Haired Puma\u2019.\n
\nI might also have mentioned \u2026 that Frank routinely used the plural of his own nickname as a catch-all term for the crew in general, as in \u201cright, horses \u2013 tea now, back in ten\u201d. Another of his idiosyncrasies was to run his hand in a trembling motion up the back of your neck, inducing shivers in the days when most sported relatively close haircuts.\n
\nThe Brian Hiles recollections remind me he wasn\u2019t at all keen on Porridge Boots. Also he was once, in my hearing, the victim of a classic Al Tuson gem. Like many folk, Brian had a spell of enthusiasm for tracing his family history which prompted Al to comment, \u201cYour trouble, Hiles, is you\u2019re suffering from Genereal Disease\u201d.\n
\nLike the Eric and Ernie gems, these things never leave you!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\n…I had my own nickname for Al Tuson, but no one ever understood or used it: Arizona Al.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nArizona Al? I may be way off with this, but I can picture Al on horseback in Wild West country sporting a Stetson! \n
\nI\u2019ve mentioned … what a great bloke I always found Al to be. He was in fact (genereal<\/i> jibe apart) pretty clued up about family research and piloted me on my first foray into the General Register tomes in the days before they left Somerset House. When you look at the sophistication of online records research as now available it seems a miracle that anyone got anything like the results from ploughing laboriously through those ancient hand-written registers.\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on Tucson<\/b><\/i>, Arizona!\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nOuch! Talk about missing the bleedin\u2019 obvious!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nThat was Frank Rose, of course, who christened himself \u201cHorse\u201d as he assessed his appearance as being equine. Loads of people\u2019s memories of his nicknames for others have appeared here before \u2013 they were all brilliant (see http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/horse-names\/<\/a>). I was \u2018The Short-Haired Puma\u2019.\n
\nI might also have mentioned \u2026 that Frank routinely used the plural of his own nickname as a catch-all term for the crew in general, as in \u201cright, horses \u2013 tea now, back in ten\u201d. Another of his idiosyncrasies was to run his hand in a trembling motion up the back of your neck, inducing shivers in the days when most sported relatively close haircuts.\n
\nThe Brian Hiles recollections remind me he wasn\u2019t at all keen on Porridge Boots. Also he was once, in my hearing, the victim of a classic Al Tuson gem. Like many folk, Brian had a spell of enthusiasm for tracing his family history which prompted Al to comment, \u201cYour trouble, Hiles, is you\u2019re suffering from Genereal Disease\u201d.\n
\nLike the Eric and Ernie gems, these things never leave you!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\n…I had my own nickname for Al Tuson, but no one ever understood or used it: Arizona Al.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nArizona Al? I may be way off with this, but I can picture Al on horseback in Wild West country sporting a Stetson! \n
\nI\u2019ve mentioned … what a great bloke I always found Al to be. He was in fact (genereal<\/i> jibe apart) pretty clued up about family research and piloted me on my first foray into the General Register tomes in the days before they left Somerset House. When you look at the sophistication of online records research as now available it seems a miracle that anyone got anything like the results from ploughing laboriously through those ancient hand-written registers.\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on Tucson<\/b><\/i>, Arizona!\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nOuch! Talk about missing the bleedin\u2019 obvious!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\n…I had my own nickname for Al Tuson, but no one ever understood or used it: Arizona Al.\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nArizona Al? I may be way off with this, but I can picture Al on horseback in Wild West country sporting a Stetson! \n
\nI\u2019ve mentioned … what a great bloke I always found Al to be. He was in fact (genereal<\/i> jibe apart) pretty clued up about family research and piloted me on my first foray into the General Register tomes in the days before they left Somerset House. When you look at the sophistication of online records research as now available it seems a miracle that anyone got anything like the results from ploughing laboriously through those ancient hand-written registers.\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on Tucson<\/b><\/i>, Arizona!\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nOuch! Talk about missing the bleedin\u2019 obvious!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nArizona Al? I may be way off with this, but I can picture Al on horseback in Wild West country sporting a Stetson! \n
\nI\u2019ve mentioned … what a great bloke I always found Al to be. He was in fact (genereal<\/i> jibe apart) pretty clued up about family research and piloted me on my first foray into the General Register tomes in the days before they left Somerset House. When you look at the sophistication of online records research as now available it seems a miracle that anyone got anything like the results from ploughing laboriously through those ancient hand-written registers.\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on Tucson<\/b><\/i>, Arizona!\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nOuch! Talk about missing the bleedin\u2019 obvious!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on Tucson<\/b><\/i>, Arizona!\n <\/h3>Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nOuch! Talk about missing the bleedin\u2019 obvious!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Dave Newbitt<\/strong><\/h3>\nOuch! Talk about missing the bleedin\u2019 obvious!\n <\/h3>Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Nick Way<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of my pet phrases is: "it depends how you pronounce the pronunciation"! I’ve always considered that Graphics should be spelt\/spelled Graphphics, otherwise it should be Gray-fix. Discuss…. \n <\/h3>Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nAl also got me into family history research! Having ‘crewed down’ (as you did!) we would go up to Kingsway and wade through all those tomes. Al was quite proud of the fact that he was descended from the ‘ugenots, as he said, missing off the leading ‘H’. \n
\nAs for PBX paging calls, the favourite one in Kendal Avenue was to ask them to page Rigger Mortice.\n <\/h3>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Southern we had a PA, looking for a certain film editor, walk into the canteen and ask \u201cHas anyone seen Mike Hunt?"\n <\/h3>Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt Anglia TV our weather man on the daily news program \u201cAbout Anglia\u201d was a Mike Hunt. When the female newsreader handed over to him she used to say "And now here is the weather from Mike Hunt". A kindly director put her right – after a week or two.\n <\/h3>Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Alan Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhen my son was in the 6th form, one of his teachers was Mrs Bennet, but she had the nickname "Tess" and he didn’t know why. I wondered if it might be a sophisticated literary reference, somehow likening aspects of her personality with Jane Austen’s Mrs Bennet and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be rather less intellectual than that. She had married a couple of years before and her previous nickname remained in use. Her maiden name had been Tickle.\n <\/h3>Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI\u2019m afraid to say, I prefer the Kenny Everett telling of that play on names: \u201cMr And Mrs Tickle and their daughter Tess\u201d, as if announcing guests at some posh event. One of numerous ones he did. What a tragic loss he was. \n
\nI wonder if anyone remembers an incident in the Television Centre canteen one lunchtime, when a young sounding female voice came on the Tannoy and announced: \u201cPBX calling Mr Tickle\u201d, followed by a cute little giggle before releasing the button. Had the whole canteen in fits. I always wondered what cad put her up to that!\n
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Not strictly about techniques \u2013 but more about crew cohesion\u2026 Pat Heigham Speaking of nicknames, I think it was Johnny Holmes who christened Brian Hiles \u201cPorridge Boots\u2019 as he remarked that Brian always walked around as if his boots … Continue reading
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