BS: The Archers UK Soap

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 07:23 PM

There was a man who fed his wife to the pigs in the news last week, you don't think this could give David ideas could it........could it.....?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:35 PM

You couldn't sell them and let me have the cash could you 'Lynne'? And perhaps turn a few in to a nice drop of cider?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:28 PM

Crab?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:20 PM

Well I can contribute a large quantity of apples from another thread......

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:11 PM

So it's true, he's gone. I thought you were just jesting Giok but Kirsty confirmed it this morning. And he's taken my 300 quid with him. Sam, of all people, I ask you, Sam? Look 300 quid doesn't come easy to the likes of me as well you know, and, and I know you lot wouldn't want to see me go ungry at Christmas would you? So perhaps you could help us out on this one? See us alright, you know. Ta in advance.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 03:51 PM

What's this wireless programme you're talking about. I can't get it in Ambridge. Is it only available on DAB?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 12:17 PM

Sorry I forgot to add Achiltibuie, and Ecclefechan, as the others towns twinned with Ambridge.
G

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 11:47 AM

It is a wireless program about young people who inhabit an imaginary world of popular musical celebrity, and of course, there are trendy groups of 'believers' who maintain the cast list are 'real people'. I ask you?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 11:33 AM

Sorry Greg, but yes I do like cricket, and we have country folk up here, any way Borsetshire is twinned with Tighnabruaich.

BTW, what is Radio 1?

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 11:06 AM

Lol!! Ruthless!!!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,...
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 07:43 AM

I believe they do get Radio 4 in Scotland, though there was a time when Radio 1 was not available in the north-west - the Radio 1 Roadshow went to Fort William and wondered why no one knew anything about it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: greg stephens
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 06:42 AM

You're not Jazzer's father are you?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: greg stephens
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 06:41 AM

Glok: i thought you were Scottish. how come you're discussing the Archers? You'll be discussing Test matches next.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Michael
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 06:00 AM

'Ruthless bugger', Well done Giok

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Nov 06 - 05:06 PM

Aha you've seen the last of your cash now mate, that ruthless bugger's gone, moved away, done a bunk whatever.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 12 Nov 06 - 03:45 PM

Hi Guys, anyone seen Sam? I lent him £300 last week and he promised to pay me back yesterday. Said it was an emergency, needed to pick up some medical equipment in Oxford for his mum or summat. Anyway I didn't mind, as I know Sam's a reliable sort of feller. Only he did say he would let me have the money by Saturday at the latest. If it had been the Grundy's I'd have said they were avoiding me, but not Sam. I've knocked on his door but he's not answering, or is out. Hope his mom's OK. Anyway don't say anything if you see him, don't want to embarrass him. Just tip us the wink will yer. Ta very much.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 08:50 AM

OI!!!!!!! See you Giok!! There are some sof..sopisc....sophisticated, cultured people of bovine agricultural background I'll have you know.

Yeah, you're right Liz, but walking the bulls round the farms as they used to do would these days mean he'd be too knackered to serve the cows since dairy farms are now few and far between.

Shenanigans in the cowshed......ah, those were the days! I was a young, free,single inseminator going round a large number of farms where young farmers' sons and cowmen were stuck without female company most of the time......my ideal job, it were....

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 08:04 AM

So that's what he wanted to do to Ruth! She had a lucky escape then if you ask me.
Wye aye wor lass, fancy a Kwikfit?
That's just the sort of uncouth chat up line you'd expect from someone of an agricultural bovine background.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,buspassed
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 07:10 AM

I might be mistaken but have I not heard Sam the Milk in his new occupation doing the voice over on a Kwikfit ad?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 06:18 AM

Them suction cups on the milking cluster are surely meant for more than one person at a time, there are 4 on each after all!
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 03:41 AM

I know my granfer (dairy farmer for about 50years) had an arrangement with 3 farms in the area... they'd all swap their bulls around every other year or so, to strengthen the herds. After several rotations, the bull would end up in the butchers across the road and we'd invariably end up having a large piece of him for Christmas dinner.

That's what REAL farming folk do... don't recall any of these shenannigans going on in the milking parlour.... too much bloody work to do!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 03:30 AM

I thought that Sam's farewell address to the Herd was really touching, until that tart Ruth came into the cowshed and broke the magical bond between mand and beasts. God, she's hard.

She should have got Alister to put Sam to sleep (God knows Alister has that effect on me). Instead, poor Sam will now have to rove the airwaves alone, turning up occasionally to beg at the doors of miserable hovels like Start the Week and You and Yours. I don't know where he'll find work - I can't think of any other herd on the air. You can't call walk-on parts in Thomas Hardy serialisations a life can you?

As I write here it's just been on R4 that a listener found Ruth and Sam's failed tryst to be an "anticlimax".

Suggestions for next shocking plotline?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:53 AM

Good grief Topsie! That question really asks for a naughty answer!

I don't think they have a bull at Brookfield...certainly not a friesian anyway. There may be a hereford. If you use your own bull, after a couple of years you are putting him on his own daughters which is not good breeding policy at all. With AI you can choose the right bull for a particular cow, vary the breeds etc. Of course this is all a load of old bull......

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 08:32 AM

No it hasn't - just listen to The Devil's Galop.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 08:03 AM

Dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum di dar:

Dar dar dee dar dar dar dee, dar dar dee dar dee dum....

The Archers has a much better tune......

I used to listen to Dick Barton. And I thought we used to mek us own fun in them days.....

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:50 AM

A few weeks ago we had both Kevin!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:37 AM

A letter in today's Guardian has reminded me of something I'd quite forgotten - and I think it's the reason I've never been too keen on The Archers:

"You extol the Archers (In praise of, November 8). I haven't forgiven them for the "death" of Dick Barton, Special Agent."

What the writer meant is the slot on the radio which they gave to The Archers was the one which had previously been reserved for the exploits of Dick Barton. It was like taking away Doctor Who and replacing it with Come Dancing.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 06:02 AM

Lynne, THAT was NAUGHTY [does Gordon come on mudcat?]

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 05:21 AM

And there I thought you were a Capricorn....



The old Goat.
(ducks for cover and hides in the barn....)

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 05:09 AM

By Farmer Brown's tractor, I'm virgo intacta, I've never had a bull by the horn!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 04:38 AM

Presumably, with the need for an AI person on the farm, the bull isn't up to much?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 04:07 AM

She couldn't cope with a large Sam's so how's she going to go on with a large Gordon's?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 09 Nov 06 - 04:44 PM

Lynne

Could you perhaps rephrase that as "the Archers' cows' local inseminator (inseminatrix?)"

Schantieman Steve - I did pop the question, in an earlier post, of whether Sam knew Ruth wasn't all there. I've now heard Phil suggest she needs a tonic, so I hope she gets a large Gordons to go with it.

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 09 Nov 06 - 09:39 AM

Oh yes Giok but it's not nearly so pretty!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Nov 06 - 04:58 AM

Authenticity is easier to spell Lynne ¦¬]
G.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 09 Nov 06 - 02:53 AM

Indeed Steve. I always thought about writing to the beeb and suggesting they employ me as the Archers' local inseminator for a bit of verissimilitude. (Good word, but how the hell do you spell it??)

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Schantieman
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 06:26 PM

And you know all about AI, Lynne!

S

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 02:50 PM

I thought it was 'wye aye' not AI, wor Rooth did Lynne!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 02:17 PM

Actually, it's Ruth who puts her hands in unspeakable places...she does the AI on the farm. Lovely and warm for your hands on a cold morning....

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 01:25 PM

Maybe I could score with Jean Harvey.

Why not, everyone else has!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 12:56 PM

Damn, and there was me contemplating a bit meself.. Ah well, I'll go to the pictures and watch other people doing it...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Schantieman
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 12:49 PM

Does Sam know about Ruth's missing you know what?   I thought that might, er, come out last night!

S

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,the cow
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 12:41 PM

He probably will, and then David will be wondering why Ruth is crying hot tears, and I'll be wondering if some new cowman will be putting his hands in unspeakable places next ... mmmeughg

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 12:30 PM

I've been 'in absentia' and haven't heard an episode for a whole week, but if all this means that Sam packs up and leaves, I shall remain dry eyed.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Schantieman
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 12:18 PM

...and anyway, it's not a soap, it's an everyday story of country folk.

At least, that's what it says on my copy of the Radio Tomes, circa 1962.

S

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Freda Fry
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 11:57 AM

Sam can boil my bunny any time

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Larkin
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 09:22 AM

i think sam could turn out to be a bunny boiler.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Sam the cowman
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 06:35 AM

I'm going into lodgings with Derek Fletcher. Maybe I could score with Jean Harvey.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 04:10 AM

Selfish?! I've done nothing but think of those kids for 13 years. I just know I'll regret not shagging the arse off a cowhand for the rest of me life...

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 02:48 AM

Well Friday's thingy in the Radio Times says "Sam has something to say at Brookfield". Will he tell all to revenge himself on Ruth? Will he hand in his notice? Which, presumably, has to happen now because he can hardly keep working there can he?

I'm glad Ruth finally said "I can't do this to the kids". It's time she started thinking about them instead of herself for a bit

Love Lynne