Dear Phil, in regards to this old message to greg mayman,.

 > ------------WHAT WORKS [Re: Aloe Vera]

 > PM> Wonder if it regrows cartilage on worn-out knees? [g]

 > > Crack that one and there will be a lot of people hobbling to your door

 >  [g] I myself have hobbled to various doors, and gone away disappointed.


As has my brother, although he got lucky after finding the money to find a
good sergion,.

 > Extrapolating from that sentence of mine above -- which was half
humorous,   > half hopeful -- you can see how the folks who push the
various remedies for  > assorted ills can get away with a lot of the
stuff they get away with --     > meaning hokum.


Indeed you can,.

 > PM> ...Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of

 > > Muesli!!!!

 > [=LOL=]


Or at least some musli's, even in the early 21st century,.

 > > IIRC the BBC program was called "My Word". I remember
it with great

 >  Yes, the voices - very distinctive intonations.


The BBC Have always been good at producing voices,.

 > You could practically 'hear' the raised eyebrow, the smug smile, in
the      > repartee.


Well you certainly could in "The Goon Show",.

 > Of course it was the unique personalities of the panel members that
carried  > it.


It always is, although i dont know about unique,.

 > There was a radio, then TV, program here called Fighting Words,
somewhat     > along those lines, that had a similar appeal.


Aha,.

 > > There was a follow up program several years later called
"My Music"  

 >  I wouldn't mind hearing them again myself.


I have never heard them,.

 > Write to the ABC.


Why?,.

 > What with all the recent government budget cuts, which I assume
you've been  > suffering as well, it may be a good low-cost idea for
them to do that kind   > of repeat broadcast.


And probably less tedious then some of the ideas they have going,.

 > I recall the Goon Shows being re-broadcast quite frequently on the
CBC       > here.


Here too, on radio,.

 > The only hitch is -- did they save the tapes?


Destroy the Goons? That is like Channel Ten, Our local Seinfeld fanatic TV
Station, burning there tapes of Seinfeld, or the Simpsons repeats, although
i personally wish they would,.

 > A friend of mine was recently looking to buy copies of an old program
only   > to discover that the tapes had been junked.


What was the Program?

 > If they exist, perhaps picking up some tapes may be an easier solution.


Indeed,.

 > I'll do a search on the net and see if they're available.


Good thinking,.

 > I'll let you know.


Good thinking,.

 > Radio in general, here at least, has unfortunately changed beyond    
       > recognition from what it was then.


Indeed it has,.

 > Sad, because it was a perfect medium for that type of thing.


Indeed it was,.

 > Now I turn the radio on for weather and traffic reports.


And News, or has been the case at the moment, Iraq Reports and Talkback shows,.

 > If I accidentally get one of those call-in shows where some topic in
the     > news is being talked about [or rather being shouted about] I
always have     > the feeling that I'm eavesdropping on the phone
conversation of a couple of  > out-to-lunch loonies.


Me too funnily enough,.

 > The implications of one of them being the host of the program is
beyond      > consideration.


Indeed,.

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