Palin is a Blade

[CopenhagenBlade]

Just listening to a Podcast of Christian O'Connell's radio show Saturday morning and Michael Palin admitted to being a Blade. This is now put to bed

 

[JJ Sefton]

You can see where his sense of the absurd came from then.

 

[Ollessendro]

old news matey. Read a book of his years ago and he said he was a Unitedite. He was somewhere obscure and he got news that united had won and was happy as a pig in shit. Nah, nah, nah, nah ....

 

[JJ Sefton]

He was in the BBC too.

 

[Large Mendonca]

No true Blade EVER wears a grunters badge though......the info is from reading his book "The Python Years".

I think he probably liked to represent both Sheffield teams in reality.

 

[JJ Sefton]

In his book he states pretty clearly that when hes out of Sheffield he keeps an eye out for both teams, but when hes in Sheffield hes a Blade. He mentions going to see the Blades at Stamford Bridge in 1972 with Bill Oddie, a Chelsea fan.

- B.Oddie? Thats not a prank phone call thats Bill Oddie.

- We thought it said 'body'

- Whats rude about a body?

- Tits?

 

[S64 Blade]

My mum has one of his books and on the cover of it there is an image of a Sheffield United pocket watch (If I remember rightly). Throughout the book he also mentions phoning his family when away to check up on the United score.

 

[super_pig]

didn't barnstoneworth united (ripping yarns) play in red and white stripes??
he deffo wears a red and white scarf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmLDlpapPKE
love the hat!

 

[mickerz-blade]

Palin's a Blade eh


http://dustythoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sarah_palin_5.jpg

 

[MunXy]

in a promo pic for his around the world documentry, palin is if i remember right on a mountain in the himalayas in a blades shirt, hes also mentioned on a few talk shows, his love of the blades tho admits to following both teams and promoting Sheffield.
good on the man.

MunXy

 

[Sensiblade]

I've got a Monty Python album and there is a refference to United on the inside cover.
Can't remember exactly what it is though and can't check yet as i'm at work

 

[raul]

never mind all this, can anyone remember if Billy chinned Vinnie?

 

[SwissBlade]

I also keep an eye out for both Sheffield teams when i'm away, but with Wednesday its always to see that they've lost!

 

[Highbury_Blade]

My cousin interviewed him for Dubai radio last week as well. No Sheffield united related tidbits in there, despite the fact that my cousin is a blade. I think he thought Palin was a grunter.

http://dubai92.com/breakfast-highlights/catboy-speaks-exclusively-to-michael-palin/

 

[JJ Sefton]

If your cousin is a DJ that might explain the Jas Mann connection?

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Not mutual friends.

For context for everyone else. Facebook yesterday suggested to me that i might know Jas Mann of Babylon Zoo and Spaceman fame. No idea why.

 

[TheSwollengland]

I remember him being over the moon on one of his televised world trips back in the 80s when he came across one of the local put -put scooter type taxi things in somewhere like the Phillipines that was covered in Blades stickers and scarves etc .

 

[JJ Sefton]

I remember him being over the moon on one of his televised world trips back in the 80s when he came across one of the local put -put scooter type taxi things in somewhere like the Phillipines that was covered in Blades stickers and scarves etc .

What, Jas Mann?

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Not mutual friends.

For context for everyone else. Facebook yesterday suggested to me that i might know Jas Mann of Babylon Zoo and Spaceman fame. No idea why.

Did you ask him if hes written a spherical song yet?

 

[shorehamview]

I remember him being over the moon on one of his televised world trips back in the 80s when he came across one of the local put -put scooter type taxi things in somewhere like the Phillipines that was covered in Blades stickers and scarves etc .

It was in Around The World In Eighty Days, and it was a Jeepney

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

- B.Oddie? Thats not a prank phone call thats Bill Oddie.

- We thought it said 'body'

- Whats rude about a body?

- Tits?

Have you been watching the new Mid Morning Matters episodes that are being put out by Fosters? Partridge did another great bit on Bill Oddie perpetrating a suicide bombing a few weeks back...

[video=youtube;5DO3cpw1dbo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DO3cpw1dbo[/video]

The scenario starts at 07:30

"Oddie is like a bearded Catherine wheel scything through the crowd."

 

[Silent Blade]

Michael Palins parents at their Sheffield home. He once said "My mother and father weren’t Yorkshire people. We ended up there because my father was an engineer. It was during the depression in the 1930s and he couldn’t get any work down in the south, so he ended up working first in Hull, then Leeds, and then he went to Sheffield towards the end of the 30s, where he found work with a company called Newton Chambers.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Michael Palins parents at their Sheffield home. He once said "My mother and father weren’t Yorkshire people. We ended up there because my father was an engineer. It was during the depression in the 1930s and he couldn’t get any work down in the south, so he ended up working first in Hull, then Leeds, and then he went to Sheffield towards the end of the 30s, where he found work with a company called Newton Chambers.
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Holy Crap Silent. You revived a thread after almost 12 years. Good on yer.

 

[borg elite]

I watched Full Circle from 1997 the other day.

 

[borg elite]

This is the episode if anyone's interested. Skip to 46m40s. Well worth watching the entire series though! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episo...h-michael-palin-4-vietnam-and-the-philippines

 

[YorkBlade]

 

[Bennyand the Blades]

Game set and match.......

 

[BushBlade]

That bloke in the red and white scarf smashing lot up because his team’s lost again. Is he a Blade? Mmm, could be.

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Anyone know if Michael Palin is a Blade or an Owl?