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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

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LoonyLyraLovegood · 20/07/2007 10:46

I thought it was time to move over here from Telly Addicts as we're now discussing Joseph the musical, and not Any Dream Will Do. The other thread was about to get too full anyway.
Berrie, Oggsfrog, BoingBoing, Binkleandflip, Slayerette and any other fans, sign up here.

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binklehasflipped · 09/08/2007 22:37

we're officially obsessed!

LyraBelacqua · 09/08/2007 22:38

I'm currently doing a software update so hopefully will get Quicktime 7 that way without spending £20. Then I can download the clips.

LyraBelacqua · 09/08/2007 22:39

We were officially obsessed about 3 threads ago

oggsfrog · 09/08/2007 22:47

Some of the clips are Windows Media Player, some Quicktime. A lot are repeats of ones we've seen.

The windows media ones I should be able to copy onto a disc but there are only a few minutes worth.

It's the Quicktime ones I'm having problems with. I can't work out how to bloody copy or send them.

LyraBelacqua · 09/08/2007 23:30

Bah, still can't download the best clips because I need Quicktime 7 Pro. I'm not spending £20 on it.

BoingBoing · 10/08/2007 08:12

Lyra! How on earth did I miss the £15 dvd?! Is it the entire thing-tell all? Ooh, now I'm going to get excited again!

And yes, I think we are all officially sad stalkers. Do you think in 25 years time, we'll be the mad old bats who go to every single concert Lee gives, have every t-shirt, cd, magazine article and poster and spend our entire life savings and annual leave stalking him around the country? . I believe that there are mad crazed fans out there who do this with 'Sir Cliff' et al!!!

Right, I guess I'd better get packing and brace myself for the traffic jam that is the A303. Still, at least DS will see Stonehenge for the first time.

Berrie · 10/08/2007 09:33

Noooooooooooo Boing! Am hating the Cliff fan analogy...not least because it has a whiff of truth about it!
Have a lovely weekend.
Lyra, we have never paid for Quicktime. DH says you should be able to download a free one from somewhere.

Oh yes, and since there is only the slimmest of chances that my friend will say yes, you are all invited!

LyraBelacqua · 10/08/2007 10:03

Boing, it was a Digital Spy member selling them, and yes it's the whole series, from auditions to the grand final, all the sing-offs and Close Every Doors and coat stripping. I've only rewatched the first 4 so far (I have to wait till DP is out). I do remember talking about them further down the thread...
Berrie, we have Quicktime 7 but when I try to download the clips it says I need Quicktime 7 Pro. I'll see if I can find a site to download it free.

LyraBelacqua · 10/08/2007 10:46

Boys!
I've just been outside after leaving DSs alone in the garden for 10 minutes and this is what I found: They've filled the pushchair with a mixture of garden clippings, a whole bottle of suntan lotion (bloody expensive Boots Soltan Kids which I bought yesterday) and gravel and are now spraying the whole concoction with water.

Berrie · 10/08/2007 11:04

Oh No!
Caught DS eating his way down a warm baguette in the co op this morning...guess what's for lunch!

Berrie · 10/08/2007 11:18

Nowhere near as good as your story though Lyra

LyraBelacqua · 10/08/2007 11:28

They won't let me throw it away. I've told them they won't get their 10p weekly pocket money tomorrow to buy a new bottle of suntan lotion (like it really costs 20p )
at DS and the baguette. Mine have done that.

Berrie · 10/08/2007 12:26

What do they spend their pocket money on Lyra? My pocket money as a child started at 5p and went up by 5p every birthday. By the time I was 15 I was on about 30p

LyraBelacqua · 10/08/2007 17:37

Sweets usually. Only 10p worth each on a Saturday morning.

Berrie · 10/08/2007 17:45

Ahhh that's what we had. Jelly boots, chocolate tools, fruit salads,refreshers, midget gems, aniseed balls...I think you could get a mars bar for 10p. When I got 25p it was so much money to me that I would pay it into my post office savings account. By Christmas I had about £7 which I then spent on presents for everyone. The Post Office man was really grumpy going to all that trouble for 25p, then they put the minimum deposit up and he was happy but I was scuppered. Nowadays, my children have more money than me...I shall be expecting more than an aero when they come to buy me presents!

binklehasflipped · 10/08/2007 18:33

seen the heat photo - I have to say I'm not impressed by the belly stubble

Grim side effect of getting waxed just before the show opened I guess - he's almost ready for stripping again!! (strip-waxing ahem!)

LyraBelacqua · 10/08/2007 18:53

Berrie.
You don't get that much for 10p nowadays. My favourites were blackjacks, 1p each, or a quarter of cola bottles or pineapple chunks. I never really saved, it all went on sweets and now I have a lot of fillings, or 'metal teeth', as DS1 calls them. I issue dire warnings about how he could have metal teeth too if he eats too much sugar and doesn't clean them every day but they're allowed sweets on a Saturday.
Binkle, I haven't seen the Heat pics yet, I keep forgetting. Someone remind me tomorrow.

Berrie · 10/08/2007 20:15

I forgot about cola bottles! Which did you like best, the fizzy or the plain? Plain bigger but fizzy...well fizzy!
Do you think Boing is drunk yet?

Berrie · 10/08/2007 20:18

Take your camera next time you go sweetie shopping Lyra. Wouldn't you just love a picture of all those sweets we used to choose from now? We never take pictures of the everyday stuff or I don't anyway. (Berrie makes mental note to make picture story of trip to Co-op next time)

LyraBelacqua · 10/08/2007 20:32

Definitely fizzy. Mmmm.
We had a traditional sweet shop round the corner of us until last year but the owner retired and it closed down
It had shelves and shelves of those screw-top jars filled with all the old favourites. Such a shame it had to go but probably good news for my teeth

Berrie · 10/08/2007 20:47

Oh what a shame. We have nothing like that round here which is probably not a bad thing. Did you had bronchial drops later on and khali?(no idea how that was spelt)

LyraBelacqua · 10/08/2007 20:49

I don't remember them. We did have Winter Mixture which had lots of cough drop-type things in it.

Berrie · 10/08/2007 20:59

khali was coloured sugar with citric acid. What were we thinking of eating bags of sugar?

LyraBelacqua · 10/08/2007 21:04

I know. I will be much stricter with my boys but the odd treat won't do them any harm. I knew kids who weren't allowed any sweets at all and I'm sure that did them no good either.

binklehasflipped · 10/08/2007 21:51

cinder toffee - in big chunks - you got about three pieces in a quarter -yummy!!