Reg Varney
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R.I.P.
he'll never get the bird now
he'll never get the bird now
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Night night Reg, RIP0
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RIP
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He'll live for ever on UKTV Gold!
92, fair old age too.Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.0 -
What happened to Jack from On The Buses? He of the alarming teeth like a marble fireplace?0
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he topped himself a few years ago- probably couldnt afford the dental bills'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'0
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Ah, so Jack was the tormented genius of the two...
Apparently, Michael Robbins sidecar was used as Reg Varneys hearse and of course, Blakey, gave the eulogy.
It's what he might have wanted..0 -
Anybody see Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield's piss take of On the Buses? The funniest thing (only funny thing actually) about it was that if you'd substituted Varney and the others for Enfield and Whitehouse, you would not have ben able to tell it was a piss take. Bloody pile of shite!!0
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Did you know Reg was the first person in the world to use a cash machine.You are what you drink, and i'm a bitter man0
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OffTheBackAdam wrote:He'll live for ever on UKTV Gold!
92, fair old age too.
If an anecdote from Reg himself I once read is anything to go by, he did well to make it that far - the studio filming for On The Buses used a real bus with engine running, and the extraction for gettting rid of the exhaust was none too brilliant; apparently light-headedness and nausea were not unknown amongst the cast due to diesel fumes, CO and goodness knows what else (or it may just have been the quality of the scripts they were given?
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Oh, and he was the first person in the UK to use a British bank's hole-in-the-wall [1] machine (a Barclays somewhere in the South-East) - one for the pub quiz fans there!
David
[1] As opposed to 'a British bank's gone to the wall' which is a phrase you're likely to see in newspaper financial sections. "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
DavidBelcher wrote:OffTheBackAdam wrote:He'll live for ever on UKTV Gold!
92, fair old age too.
If an anecdote from Reg himself I once read is anything to go by, he did well to make it that far - the studio filming for On The Buses used a real bus with engine running, and the extraction for gettting rid of the exhaust was none too brilliant; apparently light-headedness and nausea were not unknown amongst the cast due to diesel fumes, CO and goodness knows what else (or it may just have been the quality of the scripts they were given? )!
Oh, and he was the first person in the UK to use a British bank's hole-in-the-wall [1] machine (a Barclays somewhere in the South-East) - one for the pub quiz fans there!
David
[1] As opposed to 'a British bank's gone to the wall' which is a phrase you're likely to see in newspaper financial sections.
It's ironic that Jack commited suicide by exhaust fumes from his car.0 -
That Olive from On the Buses was a real cracker when not made up for the part.And Mum (Doris Hare ) was my Dads favourite.Apparently she was a dancer in the Windmill Club.And Stan like Harry H Corbett was RSC-trained.Stephen Lewis eventually qualified for Summer Wine.
Reg Varney was from Bermondsey Way or Canning Town and was first paired with the lovely June Whitfield on the radio.Reg later starred in the Rag Trade-real corny stuff0 -
His brothers both worked at Beckton Sewage Works. I met the younger one (Stan oddly enough). He was a painter there, spitting image, one of the women kept calling him Reg by mistake. :roll:0
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gnvqsos wrote:That Olive from On the Buses was a real cracker when not made up for the part.
Really? Did she have her teeth pulled specially for the part then?
Apparently she's in Eastenders nowadays.0 -
Le Commentateur wrote:gnvqsos wrote:That Olive from On the Buses was a real cracker when not made up for the part.
Really? Did she have her teeth pulled specially for the part then?
Apparently she's in Eastenders nowadays.
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DavidBelcher wrote:OffTheBackAdam wrote:He'll live for ever on UKTV Gold!
92, fair old age too.
If an anecdote from Reg himself I once read is anything to go by, he did well to make it that far - the studio filming for On The Buses used a real bus with engine running, and the extraction for gettting rid of the exhaust was none too brilliant; apparently light-headedness and nausea were not unknown amongst the cast due to diesel fumes, CO and goodness knows what else (or it may just have been the quality of the scripts they were given? )!
Oh, and he was the first person in the UK to use a British bank's hole-in-the-wall [1] machine (a Barclays somewhere in the South-East) - one for the pub quiz fans there!
David
[1] As opposed to 'a British bank's gone to the wall' which is a phrase you're likely to see in newspaper financial sections.
It was a Barclay's Bank in Enfield in NE London I'm lead to believeWant to know the Spen666 behind the posts?
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Where was it Stan and Jack's bus used to go?
The Cemetry Gates.
Spooky...0
