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As in Pauline fowler?!!

A quick search suggests no one had her in the Death Predictions.

anyone have her in the death Game thing?

I have decided to talk in a cockerney accent for the rest of the day as a tribute to her

I loved are you being served

Few had her listed I think. I'll have to do some score calculations when I get back from Brizzle.

I remember her as Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served. She was supposed to be the 'Sex Symbol', but I always thought she was ropey.

mixed emotions

No emotion.

I'll second that emotion.

I bet she smoked a million fags a day?

I think we should vandalise her wikipedia page as a mark of respect.

Someone dies before their time and you have no emotional response to that at all?  I find that quite strange.

I found myself starting to well up on the underground last night as I was reading about Ivan Cameron...and I don't consider myself to be emotionally incontinent either.  I just think it is possible to relate to someone's situation without actually knowing them personally.

Camerons son is quite different to Wendy Richards, one was a 6 year old and one was a 65 year old.

She had cancer.

lung cancer?

I can honestly say that I don't really have any emotional response. I don't feel sad for everybody who dies, and I had more of a connection with Pauline Fowler than Wendy Richards, and one of them was fictional, and also died ages ago

No. It was an aggresive type apparently. Attacked her bones.

If you felt sad about every person that died before their time then you'd spend your whole life a blubbering mess. I'm not going to get sad about some mediocre actress that starred in a couple of shit sitcoms and played a dull character in a soap. Where was Wendy Richards when my Gran died? Probably in the BBC canteen stuffing her face with cake and chips, the disrespectul bitch!

Wendy Richards collected toes. Both real and sculptured.

Good innings and all that especially for a hardcore toker like Wendy.  If you hit 60 and have had good innings you can’t complain although it’s sad to see people of a certain generation start to drop off the edge

There should be a nationwide outpouring of synthetic grief like when Diana died, with dozens of no-marks being endlessly vox-popped by TV cameras to explain how they feel about this and how it's affected their lives (not at all), followed by a good two years of arse-tingling debate about a suitable national monument to the woman who was, to us all, always ready to be served, in so many ways. Then they finally make their minds up on a giant 60' concrete replica of Arthur's shed to go on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, only to have it fall off after two days in a stiff breeze, slightly injuring a German tourist. Anything less would be disrespectful.

I reckon she was murdered and it's a cover up.

OMG you should have issued a warning to insert a Tena lady before reading that!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

sometimes I wish we had a weeing smiley

Gay husband just asked me why I was laughing so cut and pasted him that - we are both now giggling our heads off!

I too was embarrassed about the emotional flatulence that took hold when Diana went.  I wasn't suggesting for a second that we should call for a day of mourning for Wendy Richard.  I was just a little surprised at the 'no emotion' comments above when someone had just died of cancer.  Not suggested anyone should shed a tear.

True Story.

When I first moved out of home 20 years ago I moved to Birmingham and I took a room in a house with a family I was going to be working close to. One day about 6 in the evening the doorbell went and I went to answer it and it was Wendy Richards. I was a little taken aback to say the least. she asked if Mary was in so I invited her and shouted up the stairs "Mary! Pauline Fowler is here."

They were old school buddies

Same thing happened to me but with Elvis

I'm confused. So Pauline Fowler went to school with Elvis and Mary?

About a month after Elvis died, some one walked up to me and said "Elvis is losing weight". 

I am ashamed to say after a second or two to get the joke I laughed.

I'm just watching the Wendy Richards "special" on BBC.  Quite a nice tribute that.  I never realised she went from Are you being served to Eastenders almost straight away. 

Really, I thought there was a gap between those two programmes of 10 years or more. But nope, 1985 was the year.

They were saying how Wendy Richard was a surprise casting for the role of frumpy Pauline Fowler as her previous role (in Are you being served) was something of a bit of stuff.  I've always associated her with Paaaaaaauliiiiiine, and that always kind of made me think of her characer in AYBS as not quite right.

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