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Post by Humph on Sept 26, 2023 9:13:11 GMT
Similarly indulgent I suppose. Unnecessary to survival, but pleasant at the time.
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Post by Alanović on Sept 26, 2023 9:50:14 GMT
Had similar memories this morning when I spotted a Smart Roadster. Not many around any more. I loved ours, it was a brilliant toy but a total indulgence. Don't know if anyone remembers that but Mrs B insisted on it when she got her first of 2 cancer diagnoses. Life's too short and all that.
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Post by Humph on Sept 26, 2023 10:51:54 GMT
Quite right it is. The thought occurred to me today that Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) died yesterday at the age of 90. Which seemed like a fair enough innings until I reflected that he was only 25 years older than me… Bit dark, sorry! 😉
Plenty of diems to carpe yet I hope!
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Post by WDB on Sept 26, 2023 11:20:07 GMT
McCallum was a classmate of my dad. Must have liked him because, although he was never a great telly-watcher, he enjoyed The Man from UNCLE and would sit down to watch it with my brother and me.
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Post by Humph on Sept 26, 2023 11:22:57 GMT
I had a Man from Uncle Corgi toy car. Oldsmobile I think. You pressed a switch on the roof and the toy occupants would lean out of the windows with guns. That was a saloon.
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Post by EspadaIII on Sept 26, 2023 12:57:30 GMT
If he was 90 he looked very well on it. Didn't he also star in The Invisible Man?
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Post by WDB on Sept 26, 2023 13:07:10 GMT
How would we know?
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Post by Humph on Sept 26, 2023 13:28:57 GMT
Didn’t see that coming.
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Post by Rob on Sept 26, 2023 16:58:13 GMT
He was still working until fairly recently on NCIS I think. Quite remarkable for his age. He was in Sapphire and Steel and of course the Great Escape. Any much more... the list is quite lock just took a look.
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