7459/19979
Another mass shooting in America. When will the mystery of why this is happening be solved?
Let’s be fair though, I could put that at the start of every Warming Up. Three times some days,
Thanks to Daniel on Twitter who sent me the opening titles to one of the cartoons that I remember but hardly anyone else does,
Inch High Private Eye. Even I only have vague memories. It was a cartoon about a detective who was very small, which must have been helpful in certain situations but an enormous disadvantage when it came to doing 98% of the job of being a detective. He must have, for example, been pretty useless when it came to chasing down a regular sized criminal. Also in danger of being squashed accidentally or on purpose in most missions. If you watch the opening titles, the way he got into his car at the beginning of each case relied on him being caught in a baseball glove by one of his regular sized team. There was a whole lot of trust there and even if correctly caught every time, he was still gambling with sustaining a major brain injury.
One feels that they worked backwards from the title, someone in the writers’ room realising that Inch High and Private Eye more or less rhymed and going from there
The reason I write though is that only in watching that clip did I come to realise that Inch High Private Eye was played by Jamie Farr who was also Klinger in MASH. And for some reason I find that enormously satisfying. And means that if I ever have Jamie on RHLSTP I have the perfect intro for him and also a 60 minute topic for discussion. I feel it’s unlikely this will come to pass, but you never know.
I wonder which part Jamie is more proud of.
Despite about 10 to 11 hours sleep I was absolutely blasted today. I had just about got over the bug that’s been dragging me down for most of this year and now I’ve picked up another one. It’s not as bad, but I fell asleep with my son lying on me at 4pm. I had taken the kids out for the afternoon on a dog walk and then to play football and crabby (a game of their invention on the skateboard ramp where the crab has to try and tag the others as they run past up the curved ramp, but the crab can only move sideways), which was pretty knackering.
The High Street was closed to cars and the village was celebrating the Coronation. Not as many who celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, but then Charles has only managed one day so it should be around one 25550th the size. I wonder how many of the people out in the street voted Tory.
I still love them. Someone had a tiny pool board about one foot by three foot. What a ridiculous size to play a snooker based game.
I managed a wet stone clear through the damp crops.
Listen here.
