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Old 9th Feb 2019, 6:34 pm   #40
dave walsh
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Default Re: 12 Inch Colour TV's.

Re post 35, here's a story Graham. I had a friend at College who really should have been an actor full time but finished up in the Civil Service and then teaching. He was definitely on the "hail fellow well met" flamboyant side, looked much older and always got the reserved parking place, for example. In the early days, when he was "resting" from the stage, he was so well known and entertaining while signing on at at Bolton Employment Exchange, they invited him to the Xmas Party.

One day, he rang me up to say that he was now working as a Manager at Granada! I made an assumption and rang Quay Street asking to speak to him. His rather elaborate french sounding name impressed the person on reception and [imbued with my confidence] she searched for him for quite a while before reporting [apologetically] that he couldn't be located. Yes, you guessed it... he worked for TV Rentalsi

[I can pm you the name if you might recognise it.] Haven't seen him for years now!

Dave

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