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Old 02-09-2004, 01:59
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Classic Blanche quotes..

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Old 02-09-2004, 10:40
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Why do people keep starting threads on quotes?!?
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Old 02-09-2004, 10:41
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Yes, there are so many of them already e.g the pardon me for nit picking one. Too many of them = boring.
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Old 02-09-2004, 10:41
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why the hell do you keep responding to them if you dont want to contribute???
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Old 02-09-2004, 10:43
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Originally Posted by lauralou
why the hell do you keep responding to them if you dont want to contribute???
To let people know that there is already a thread.
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Old 02-09-2004, 10:45
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and i am sure that they can read
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Old 02-09-2004, 10:48
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I am sure as well but then why start a new thread?
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Old 02-09-2004, 15:42
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I have no objections.. Blanche deserves more appreciation here anyway! I'm rubbish at remembering things word for word, but here goes..

Saying that if Emily went to prison she'd be "Sewing mail bags and dealing snout.."

About the Croppers "He's a freak and she's a man!"

About Tracy going to visit Peter "Just you and Amy, or will you be bringing someone to blow up your beach ball for you?"

There are loads more, but none that come to mind right now..
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Old 02-09-2004, 17:05
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Originally Posted by Garbage
About the Croppers "He's a freak and she's a man!"
He's a looney and she's a man

Blanche has so many fantastic lines and she delivers them so well
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Old 02-09-2004, 17:26
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Lol, oh yeah.. that was it.
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Old 02-09-2004, 18:23
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"I'm not having this baby brought up by two fellas, even if one of them does wear a frock"

This is a really old one....like from the 70s....

Blanche : "Mr Langton?"
Ray Langton : "The one and only"
Blanche : "I'm Deirdre's mother, I've got something for you"
Ray: "Somert for me?"
Blanche : **SLAP**
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Old 02-09-2004, 19:07
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That one on Monday about how gay people should still be punished like Oscar Wilde was- hard labour. It was so ridiculously old fashioned and out of touch it made it hilarious- to think anyone would still think like that! Then again if I knew her I would have wanted to hit her! She reminds me of my Gran (no I haven't hit her)!
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Old 02-09-2004, 19:09
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erm i dont remember that one?
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Old 03-09-2004, 15:09
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'I'm not having my great grandchild brought up by two fellas even if one does wear a frock'
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Old 04-09-2004, 02:09
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Originally Posted by LiverpoolFCGirl
That one on Monday about how gay people should still be punished like Oscar Wilde was- hard labour. It was so ridiculously old fashioned and out of touch it made it hilarious- to think anyone would still think like that! Then again if I knew her I would have wanted to hit her! She reminds me of my Gran (no I haven't hit her)!
Interesting about that line, only last week I was watching a program called Reeling in the Years. It's on RTE at 6:30 every day and each episode focuses on one year. They document the major news pieces from each year from the start of the '70s to 1999. In Ireland, homosexuality was only decriminalised in 1993 and Oscar Wilde was one of the more famous people put in prison for being gay.
Blanche is always hilarious, even when she's being un-PC, it's hard not to find her funny.
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Old 04-09-2004, 10:37
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I loved her the other day when it was Dev's and Sunita's engagement party.

Blanche to Deidre: I bet you wished you married Dev, just think you could have married him, got his 6 shops, divorced him, got a decent payout, then married Ken.

It was classic
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Old 04-09-2004, 12:27
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Originally Posted by LiverpoolFCGirl
She reminds me of my Gran (no I haven't hit her)!
She reminds me of my dad . My mum and I always call him Blanche.
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Old 04-09-2004, 12:31
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Originally Posted by juliebaird
I loved her the other day when it was Dev's and Sunita's engagement party.

Blanche to Deidre: I bet you wished you married Dev, just think you could have married him, got his 6 shops, divorced him, got a decent payout, then married Ken.

It was classic
What about the one to Sunita the other week about a pre-nuptial agreement...

"Get one of them sorted, and you could be free and single with 3 and a half shops under your belt"

(Or something like that )
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Old 05-09-2004, 17:38
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Originally Posted by Benc533
"I'm not having this baby brought up by two fellas, even if one of them does wear a frock"

This is a really old one....like from the 70s....

Blanche : "Mr Langton?"
Ray Langton : "The one and only"
Blanche : "I'm Deirdre's mother, I've got something for you"
Ray: "Somert for me?"
Blanche : **SLAP**
Are they bringing back Ray? That would be good to see Blanche's reaction! Did the actress playing Blanche now play her years ago too because I have only seen her this time round.
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Old 05-09-2004, 18:29
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Originally Posted by Pop Princess
Are they bringing back Ray? That would be good to see Blanche's reaction! Did the actress playing Blanche now play her years ago too because I have only seen her this time round.
Yeah, Maggie Jones has played Blanche since 1974, but she's not the first Blanche.

An actress called Patricia Cutts played Blanche for two episodes before she commited suicide, and Maggie Jones took over from then.
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Old 05-09-2004, 19:24
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I have a classic episodes tape of Corrie and its one where Deirdre is dating Billy Walker. Annie is away with Deirdre and the rest of the women and Blache runs the pub. She made a wonderful landlady, she was fab, I only saw the one episode but it looked like she was flirting with her daughters fiancee.

Also the actress was really stunning back then, blonde hair and she looked really tough. But oddly enough I thought she was also quite modern in her outlook and nothing like the Blance we see today, she came across as quite a party animal and not Ena Sharpels.
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Old 05-09-2004, 20:51
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Originally Posted by Polly_Perkins
I have a classic episodes tape of Corrie and its one where Deirdre is dating Billy Walker. Annie is away with Deirdre and the rest of the women and Blache runs the pub. She made a wonderful landlady, she was fab, I only saw the one episode but it looked like she was flirting with her daughters fiancee.

Also the actress was really stunning back then, blonde hair and she looked really tough. But oddly enough I thought she was also quite modern in her outlook and nothing like the Blance we see today, she came across as quite a party animal and not Ena Sharpels.
Blanche was quite "a one" in the 70s like you said, she had an affair with bookie Dave Smith (the original Mike Baldwin!) which supposedly lasted 20 years, even before her husband Donald had died. When that went pear-shaped she moved onto vet Steve Bassett, which obviously didn't work out either.

She's still had boyfriends though, it was due to Blanche that we first met Archie Shuttleworth, and of course there was "millionaire" Wally Bannister.

I don't really think Blanche is that much like Ena Sharples at all, I mean just last week she was telling Deirdre that she should have taken her "chance" with Dev and got some shops out of it before settling for sensible Kenneth.
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Old 06-09-2004, 12:29
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Its really a case of like mother like daughter isn't it? If Blanch has had lots of boyfriends in the past and certainly has since she has come back onto our screens Deirdre has inherited a lot of her mother given how many men she has had since she came to the Street. No where near as funny as her mum though.
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Old 06-09-2004, 12:49
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Ah this thread is fabalous. Blanche is one of the many fabalous characters in Corrie at the mo - as funny as she is, she is very believeable and there are still people who are like her. I think everyone knows someone who is thier "blanche".

She said something during Dev & Sunita's engagement doo - when Eileen was telling Deiedre that Todd was going back to college, something along the lines of "College? Nowadays it will be full of homosexuals."

Clarrrse...
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Old 06-09-2004, 16:30
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that quote is a classic.............
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