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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

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On 04/08/2025 at 16:13, Blondi said:

James Whale.

He had the Late Night show on Piccadilly Radio.

In my college hols I had a job with an undertakers and was called out in the middle of the night to pick up a "bod"... got there and the family had called us before the doctor... Doctor greeted me outside... "she's not dead yet but don't go home, if you park up over there I'll come and get you"... so there I was in a pub car park listening to James Whale waiting for an old girl to pop her clogs!

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10 minutes ago, TrickyTrotter said:

Jim Lovell (Apollo 13).  

Great age seeing as they were stranded sitting in tin can far above the World.

Aye, top mon. "Hero" gets bandied about far too often but he was the real deal, and by all accounts a cracking bloke as well.

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31 minutes ago, MancWanderer said:

One of those understated folk who just did what he did 

Aye. You're travelling 2000+ mph, you're 200,000 miles from the earth, the the 13 cubic m craft you're in has just blown up and thus you're not sure exactly what direction you're going in.

Response: "Houston, we had a problem".

They must have needed the whole Saturn V power just to get his balls off the ground.

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