[Leica] Happy New Year from Denmark

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

I never knew that it was as popular in Denmark too.

"Dinner for One", the short sketch with Freddie Frinton and May Warden, 
is one of those strange things that has become a "Must See" on German TV 
too.

Almost everyone here knows the sketch and "The same procedure as last 
year" has become an integral part of the German language.

Strangely enough, the sketch is almost unknown in the UK, although 
Freddie Frinton was a very popular music hall act there for many years 
and famous for his portrayal of a drunken "Toff" in top hat and tails  - 
this is quoted in the sketch with his short burst of song "Sugar in the 
morning...". He also recited many pieces, short stories and poems in 
Yorkshire dialect (although he was born in Lincolnshire) - also heard in 
the voice of Mr Winterbottom. He appeared regularly in a TV music hall 
series broadcast from the City Varieties theatre in my home town of 
Leeds, which had both audience and stage acts in Victorian costume. The 
rest of the week, the theatre was a dingy and rather disreputable strip 
club.

The Wikipedia page on him is quite interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Frinton

Cheers
Douglas





J?rn Smedsgaard wrote:
> Hi? LUG?ers,
>
> Happy New Year from newbie poster in Denmark.
>
> I was trying to sent the greeting last night but used a wrong email 
> account so it was rejected ? I should have gone to bed in stead ?.
>
> Anyway, we in Denmark have entered 2009 with a fairly calm new year 
> according to all the traditions with:
>
>
>
> - A new years speech by our Queen Margrethe II
>
> - The ?90 years Birthday? (old movie shown every year)
>
> - A lot of food, either fish (cod or sushi) or red meat
>
> - Champagne
>
> - The national hymen at midnight
>
> - Large amount of fireworks (not for me though as watch a rather 
> serious accident when I was a kid)
>
>
>
> I have posted two new years photos in the LUG gallery (first in 2009):
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/josmeds/2009/josmeds-41.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/josmeds/2009/josmeds-42.jpg.html
>
> just to give a bit of the mood from around the corner from where I 
> live just after midnight on a rather cold and foggy night (there was 
> quite a lot of fireworks just after midnight in all directions ? 
> almost impossible to get as you never knew were to look).
>
> This morning is beautiful bright and clear with a touch of frost, 
> hopefully as good sign for the year that has just started.
>
> A little late Happy New Year from just north of Copenhagen almost 13 
> hour into the new year.
>
> Cheers J?rn
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