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Patrick moore ..... Is alive and well :-)
woodster - 10/5/12 at 08:00 PM

Don't panic he's fine and dandy , I'm just watching the 700 sky at night on BBc 4 ... Any way an interesting fact did you know that Patrick met the first man to fly orville wright , the first man in space that Russian fella and the first man on the moon Neil Armstrong ..... How goods that

[Edited on 10/5/12 by woodster]

JoelP - 10/5/12 at 08:06 PM

A legend, and yes my heart sunk when i saw the title! No idea why, ive never met him...

ReMan - 10/5/12 at 08:07 PM

Yea dont do that again

stevegough - 10/5/12 at 09:18 PM

And his most famous line was....

........"and on a clear night...you can see Uranus!"...

nick205 - 10/5/12 at 09:25 PM

Feared the worst on reading the title, but then he must be a pretty good age now.

Don't know why, but that's reminded me how much I miss John Peel

ReMan - 10/5/12 at 09:28 PM

And Freddie Mercury

RoadkillUK - 10/5/12 at 09:41 PM

Did you know about this then? LINKY FIXED

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
Feared the worst on reading the title, but then he must be a pretty good age now.

Don't know why, but that's reminded me how much I miss John Peel


[Edited on 10/5/12 by RoadkillUK]

stevegough - 10/5/12 at 09:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by RoadkillUK
Did you know about this then? LINKY

Linky no worky.

RoadkillUK - 10/5/12 at 09:49 PM

Fixed the LINK

At the top right of that page, you'll see a John Peel link.

wilkingj - 10/5/12 at 09:58 PM

quote:
Originally posted by stevegough
And his most famous line was....

........"and on a clear night...you can see Uranus!"...



no No NO... You need a Mirror on a stick to see that, not a telescope

Chippy - 10/5/12 at 10:22 PM

Cor! glad about that, he lives about 200 yards away from me. Cheers Ray

nick205 - 11/5/12 at 12:41 AM

quote:
Originally posted by RoadkillUK
Did you know about this then? LINKY FIXED

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
Feared the worst on reading the title, but then he must be a pretty good age now.

Don't know why, but that's reminded me how much I miss John Peel


[Edited on 10/5/12 by RoadkillUK]


yes thanks, need some time to explore

Peteff - 11/5/12 at 08:44 AM

And did you know he plays the xylophone
Youtube weebl's vid.

[Edited on 11/5/12 by Peteff]

Furyous - 11/5/12 at 10:29 AM

quote:
Originally posted by woodster Any way an interesting fact did you know that Patrick met the first man to fly orville wright



Richard Pearse, actually.