Wednesday 18 September 2019

I miss Patrick Moore

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  1. He wouldn't get a chance now - white, middle class, male, odd, not photogenic, too knowledgeable... In fact, I doubt even Brian Cox would get a chance either. They got rid of Bill Oddie. I suspect Chris Packham is on borrowed time. How long before Lucy Worsley is presenting astronomy programmes and dressing up in a space suit?

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    1. If our good old Lucy Worley abandons the Tudors and such for space travel I will be forced to hit her upside the head!

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    2. I will not have a word said against Lucy Worsley either. Packham and Cox can do whatever they want with each other.

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    3. Brian Cox, remember, sang Tony Blair's election tune. Things Can Only Get Better... What a joke.

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    4. We can but hope Packham's time is up.

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  2. to make you feel better and something to look forward to is the 21/22nd December 2020 this is something weird called the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn which will produce the Star of Bethlehem.

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    1. That's good. We all need the Second Coming right now and the Winter Solstice seems auspicious for the occasion.

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    2. I think I read that the light will be greenish. Green for go, maybe!

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  3. We love Lucy! Mr P's academic pinup...Patrick Moore is unknown to us here in this house but he's rather more our style than Brian Cox. We used to have an American scientist on telly growing up, Julius Sumner Miller, an Einstein-like figure you could endlessly imitate but PM is much more classy. Those eyebrows!

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    1. I have not met a man who does not fancy Lucy Worsley.

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  4. What about Alice Roberts? She is on all the time here in Oz. We don't see Lucy.

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    1. She is a history or archaeology professor, often with stunning red hair.She has been on Time Team and presented history programmes on TV.

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  5. He was a treasure. I remember seeing a woman called Heather 'something' who seems to replace him, but she was even more eccentric than Moore

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    1. Yes, the current presenter is even more eccentric than P.M.

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    1. That's not the word I would have used to describe him, but each to their own.

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    2. I think lovely is the perfect word for him, a lovely British eccentric.

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  7. Brian Cox's soporific delivery always send me, literally, to sleep. He could be marketed as an aid for insomnia!

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    1. There is a very good impersonator of his voice in R4.

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  8. He always made whatever he talked about interesting and exciting by his enthusiasm

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    1. I loved hearing him explain the difference between astronomy and astrology.

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  9. He was a good xylophone player too.

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    1. Oh yes, I had forgotten that. He lived with his mother in a little cottage until she kicked the bucket. I saw him filming in Bath once (Herschel connection) and he fluffed his lines four times in a row, ending up with "Oh bugger!"

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  10. You must know Alice. She has bright red hair - really bright!

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  11. You should watch Lucy when she interviewed Sir Roy Strong: one of the best interviews I have ever seen.

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  12. There wasn’t a lot on television then so we all watched Patrick Moore ...... no replacement presenter for The Sky at Night has ever lived up to him. He could do so many things well ...... cricket, golf, chess and the piano and xylophone.Quite an all rounder. XXXX

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  13. I miss him too. One time I sent him a question about one of his Sky at Night shows. I had a badly typed old typewriter on white postcard but signed in his own hand reply within days. Sadly, it's been lost. I'd like to have it now.

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