Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc

Subject: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: Kara
Date: 22 May 00 - 06:50 PM

How do I get a picture on the bbc????

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: skarpi
Date: 22 May 00 - 06:58 PM

Hallo Kara, Do you want to set picture of you in Mudcat photos? Well if so go to quick links up in the right corner and find bbc´s resource( my spelling is wrong)I think you find info there. All the best skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: Jacob B
Date: 23 May 00 - 09:30 AM

Skarpi may have answered the question you meant to ask, but when I saw the name of this thread, I thought it had something to do with a song about the process of getting the British Broadcasting Corporation to show a particular picture on television.

That sounds like an interesting Song Challenge.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: alison
Date: 23 May 00 - 09:35 AM

yep.. go to the "quick link" choose "bbc's mudcat resources" and you'll find an email address and info about where to send your photos, and the format to use....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: Bradypus
Date: 23 May 00 - 05:47 PM

Jacob - as there isn't a song challenge going at the moment, I decided to take you up ...

I want to get my picture on the BBC

I want to get my picture on the BBC
I want five minutes fame, so that all the world can see
I want to phone my family up, and ask 'did you see me ?'
I want to get my picture on the BBC

I thought I'd rob a bank, so you'd see me on the news
But for that I'd need a stocking mask, and that would spoil the views
And the cops are sure to catch me, and my freedom I would loose
So this idea's a loser, and it isn't any use

I thought I'd be a streaker, and go running in the nude
At Twickenham or Murrayfield, or Lords or St John's Wood
But my parents wouldn't like it, for they think that streaking's rude
That's another idea gone, for it isn't any good.

I thought I'd sing a folk song, for that seems the way to go
For singing, picking, strumming is the best thing that I know
But they don't put folk on telly, only on the radio
For my face to find it's fortune sure the radio's too slow

And then I found the Mudcat, and it is my type of place
There's a bbc on Mudcat who'll be glad to show my face
Just a scanner and an e-mail and a quick link to help trace
My fame across the internet, for all the human race

So now I'll get my picture on the bbc
It may be only lower case, it's good enough for me
Just click on the resources page, some sights you're sure to see
I'm there with all the other cats, and that's a cause for glee !

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: Wolfgang
Date: 24 May 00 - 03:35 AM

Thanks, Bradypus, you've provided what I was expecting when I opened this thread.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: GUEST,bbc
Date: 24 May 00 - 11:24 AM

I like it! Now, *I* feel famous! :) BTW, I sent a personal message to Kara.

bbc (Sure enough, it *is* lower case!)

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 24 May 00 - 12:16 PM

To the song Money For Nothing by Dire Straits

Look at that Catter, Thats the way you do it
Banging on a banjo like a chimpanzee
Yeah thats the way to do it, play your music fer nothin and sing your songs for free

She's got to install Jpg pictures
large or small dont matter to me
Yeah that the way she does it
Email your pictures to bbc

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: MMario
Date: 24 May 00 - 12:19 PM

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU
Date: 24 May 00 - 12:35 PM

Good one, Dave! HA HA!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 25 May 00 - 11:43 AM

Thanks, Dave. Nice lunchtime reading!

bbc

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 25 May 00 - 11:49 AM

Glad you enjoyed it bbc.. You do some wonderfull work on our behalf. Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: GUEST,Pete peterson
Date: 25 May 00 - 01:05 PM

My compliments to Bradypus and a question-- did you take your name from the Flanders and Swann song about the sloth? All those verses don't seem at all slothful!

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 25 May 00 - 01:53 PM

And while we're on the topic, who gets a Profile? Or is it up to us whether we want to submit one?

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: Alice
Date: 25 May 00 - 02:30 PM

Mrr, write your own. It's a sure way to get the best review of yourself that you will ever read (truly, that is how it is done).
Great lyrics, Bradypus. My smile for the day.

Alice

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: bbc
Date: 25 May 00 - 08:45 PM

Profiles are available to anyone who wants them--it just sometimes takes me a little while to get them up. Please take a look at the info that is usually inclueded, so you'll know what to send me. Thanks!

bbc

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Getting pictures on the bbc
From: Bradypus
Date: 26 May 00 - 06:31 PM

Pete -

Exactly right about where the name comes from - I really enjoy Flanders and Swann. (My 8 year old daughter is just as bad - she's word perfect on 'The Gasman Cometh'. I thought about setting a challenge to see how many people would get the reference. With or without the song, bradypus is sloth - a web search will find some pictures and odd facts for anyone who's interested.

As for being slothful, I could say that time spent on the Mudcat is time spent not doing anything else ...