It seems that Tonbridgeblog was wrong. Yes I know that's hard to believe but, on this occasion, I'll have to hold my hands up and admit it. The Olympic Torch, so I'm reliably informed will after all be coming to the borough of Tonbridge and Malling. Oh yes, on 20th July 2012, you'll be able to witness the historic, symbollic flame. But don't get the bunting and party hats out just yet for, unless you happen to be a resident of Borough Green, or have very strong binoculars, then you still won't be seeing it in your town. The torch will be winding its way through the village on it's way to Seal and Sevenoaks and still won't come within ten miles of Tonbridge. Yep I reckon that calls for another one of those DLT moments: Quack, quack oops!...
(PS. For younger readers of this blog DLT was what Radio One dj Dave Lee Travis used to call himself. On his morning show he used a number of sound effects like the quack, quack oops, trumpets and other devices to achieve a humorous effect. Or at least so he thought. I once saw DLT live and he came on stage dressed as Darth Vader so you sort of get the idea of the size of the man's ego. To say that he thought highly of himself is an understatement and would be a bit like saying Hitler had rather strong views!)
3 comments:
Tonbridge High Street could be shut for the day and we could have our own torch parade followed by our very own Olympic races.
Races for mobility scooters, mother and buggy, yobs and staffordshires, over 25's (stone) 100 metres.Prizes to be presented outside Wetherspoons,
I liked DLT thank you very much. Much better than todays crop of so called DJs on Radio 1.
Anon. Nov 17 4:39: You're not that Burmese pro-democracy campaigner, Aung San Suu Kyi, by any chance are you? I hear that your years of imprisonment were made more bearable by the Hairy Cornflake on the BBC World Service http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2011/06/suu-kyi-lee-travis-world-bbc
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