[Tech1] Updating

[Roger E Long]

Micheal Curtiz also said to Niven and Errol Flyn on Charge of the Light Brigade
'You think I know fuck nothing
In fact I know fuck all'.
That has been my byword in Broadcasting……
Roger

> On 18 Sep 2020, at 08:34, Alasdair Lawrance via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Wasn't it D.Niven's autobiography that was called " Bring on the Empty Horses", also after a direction from M. Curtiz?
> 
> Alasdair Lawrance
> 
> Don’t blame me, I voted Remain.
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>> On 17 Sep 2020, at 20:05, Graeme Wall via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>> :-)
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>> Graeme Wall
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>>> On 17 Sep 2020, at 20:03, patheigham <pat.heigham at amps.net> wrote:
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>>> Got it! Duh!
>>> Pat
>>> (William Archibald Spooner has a lot to answer for!)
>>> 
>>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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>>> From: Graeme Wall
>>> Sent: 17 September 2020 19:55
>>> To: patheigham
>>> Cc: Tech ops; Alan Taylor
>>> Subject: Re: [Tech1] Updating
>>> 
>>> Transposition
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>>> — 
>>> Graeme Wall
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>>>>> On 17 Sep 2020, at 19:54, patheigham <pat.heigham at amps.net> wrote:
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>>>> So what was the original?
>>>> Pat
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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>>>> From: Graeme Wall
>>>> Sent: 17 September 2020 19:47
>>>> To: patheigham
>>>> Cc: Tech ops; Alan Taylor
>>>> Subject: Re: [Tech1] Updating
>>>> 
>>>> There’s a story that a lady owner had to change the name of her newly acquired horse to Joe Blob as the Jockey Club wouldn’t accept the original version. As she said, that’s how she got it.
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>>>> — 
>>>> Graeme Wall
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>>>> 
>>>>> On 17 Sep 2020, at 19:43, patheigham via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> To echo Alan’s posting, I believe that the Jockey Club put the mockers on naming a racehorse ‘Far Call’, although Peter O’Sullevan would have enunciated it without offence!
>>>>> This reminds me of a story told by David Niven when working with the Hungarian director Michael Curtiz, whose knowledge of English was not brilliant particularly with regard to English vernacular.
>>>>> Apparently he said something which caused the cast and crew to snigger. He took offence and said (and here I have to spell it out in full):
>>>>> “ You think I know fuck nothing – I’ll tell you, I know fuck all!”
>>>>> Which sent Niven into further paroxysms of laughter.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Pat
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