If anyone remembers the singing postman and "'ave you got a light boy?" then I feel like repurposing it to say "Have you got *any* light boy?" It's like living in eternal twilight here of late.

[john_loader@ohai.social]

@emsquared same here though no fireworks. Damp cold

[black_flag@syzito.xyz]

@emsquared Much like that Keith Harris and Orville song: "I wish I could fly right up to the sky but I can;t. You can. I can't."

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag There's a place in hell for many novelty records especially that one.

[black_flag@syzito.xyz]

@emsquared I mean Orville wasn;t even his best act. Cuddles was much better. (I hate that duck.)

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@John_Loader it's been constant here re fireworks. I don't know how people afford them let alone the rest of the year in daylight to celebrate a game where some men kick a ball for a bit.

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag Very clever really. Cuddles spoke for must of us.

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag I admit to being beguiled by Roland Rat. I even like Rat Rap as a single. I was probably off my head on Sunny D tho.

[black_flag@syzito.xyz]

@emsquared Ag Sunny Delight. I tasted some once. Made from pure sugar. One sip gave you life threatening diabetes.

But the Rat (of whom I could do a great impression) couldn;t compete with Nookie Bear. I mean, come on, the very name is hilarious. Nookie. Nookie Bear!

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag Lol. There was something menacingly adult about Nookie bear (the name aside). I guess ventriloquism is very out of fashion now. I can only really think of Nina Conte out there doing that these days.

[black_flag@syzito.xyz]

@emsquared Rod Hull was the smart one (well, until he tried to fix his aerial anyway). Emu didn;t talk.My brother got an emu for Christmas one year. It was then I realised Emu wasn;t real.

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag Let alone the cocktail of E-numbers in Sunny D. Addictive stuff. That we gave it to children is beyond horrifying.

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag Aaaw. Was taken to see Rod Hull and Emu live at a "cabaret venue" circa early 70s. It was a daft act really and yes, clever to have a mute bird (though Sooty probably was the pioneer for that, "what's that Sooty? You don't accept the current patrichal hegemony within society?").
Yeah sad way to go for Rod. Jesus what passed for entertainment.

[black_flag@syzito.xyz]

@emsquared My brother had a Sooty and Sweep as well. I never thought they were real. I wish they had done Hartley Hares. I would have wanted one. If only as a premonition of what I would become.

[bobthomson70@mastodon.social]

@emsquared @Black_Flag

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@bobthomson70 @Black_Flag Help me.

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag You *wanted* a Hartley Hare? The single most scarey kids TV character ever?

[black_flag@syzito.xyz]

@emsquared But the only one I identified with (excepting George from Rainbow).

But thats enough about my lifetime of trauma.

[essjayjay@tech.lgbt]

@emsquared

I remember it.
Unfortunately.

I'm pretty sure it was the 1960s rather than 1970s.

@Black_Flag

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@essjayjay @Black_Flag Yes 65, 66. There's even a promo film that survives online. Of its time. He wasn't even from East Anglia. Now it'd probably be "av yew got a vape ,boy".

[emsquared@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag Aaaw. Hartley, in retrospect did seem very troubled. It's interesting as we get older. I was mad into Peanuts and Charlie Brown when young. Bought the books of comic strips & I can see Charlie Brown now as crippled by low self esteem & pessimism. A fundamentally good kid that didn't fit into the world around him. Trying but constantly failing. Quite poignant really.