New to Discussion Groups, so Hello 
. I must admit I’m looking forward to hearing Eddie and other reading the Shipping Forecast on New Years Day (does this make me dull or just sad?
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Well, there’s not much money in illegal cider sales and salmonella turkeys. Welcome, if you’re real!
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Welcome to the group.
Not sure what the point is of having an old shipping forecast read out by anyone, but to each their own. I shall be interested to see how bad a hash Trevor Harrison makes of it, or, if he does it in character, just how bad Eddie sounds. But then I am one of the weirdos who thinks the shipping forecast more important than a soap opera.
Oh, and someone needs to tell Mohit Bakaya that it is a hundred years too late to say “I’m delighted that we are cracking a bottle against the hull to launch 100 years of the Shipping Forecast on the BBC with a special schedule of programming on New Year’s Day.” That hundred years was launched in 1924.
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Are you sure you’re doing it right?
More generally, I never look forward to hearing Eddie’s voice. I might were I promised that he would be choking on his own blood*, but I suspect they’re too pusillanimous to go in for that kind of thing.
Wotcher, btw, Kate88. You don’t half rhyme.
*other fluids/secretions are available
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They could at least do it properly:
I think Dinah Shore was a regular contributor to the old BBC boards, wasn’t she?
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Sounds vaguely familiar, but then it is the kind of shape of name that would.
S’blurry brilliant, though.
ETA:oh ffs. Well, I suppose ‘Bantams veering westerly’ is as good an excuse as any to change earworm to The Old Superb. Excuses somewhat moot, running the French to earth as I type…
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