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Friday, 26 September 2008

bingo mentioned on the paul o grady show.

just before starting work last night i was flicking through the channels on the telly and heard the word 'bingo'. My ears immediately pricked up and found out that Paul o'Grady was talking to Denise van Outen about her love for bingo on his afternoon chat show. It was a really nice minutes worth of positive chat about playing in club, I've attached the interview on here and it is about 5Min's and 45 seconds into the piece if you just want to fast forward to it.

It was quite nice as well because I just about remember Paul's alter-ego 'Lily Savage' promoting the bingo games about 8 years ago. I remember my first day at work in the store cupboard there was a 6ft cut out of Lily that the club had kept as a memento!!!! i also remember that there was that bingo sit-com on the BBC/I think it was called 'full house' that featured Paul o'Grady which was quite good, although it was a very outdated image of the bingo world...........the BBC should really release it on DVD, I would love to watch it again.

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Thursday, 18 September 2008

energy saving bingo mission

Just browsing the web and found this charming article all about the bingo world. It looks like that the bingo industry are trying to promote the energy saving message to the customers. I for one think that this is a great idea, especially as we are getting into the season where bills and the suchlike start to rise as the nights grow longer and the weather gets more gloomier (has it been any different over the last few months?!) In the article they also mention that suitable applicants will get information to get free loft/cavity wall insulation as well; which could benefit quite a few bingo customers and save them a mint when the winter bills start rolling in! And hey, if bingo players cut there fuel costs, then there is more money to visit the local club a bit more often! YEAH!!!!!

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Saturday, 6 September 2008

FLIP REVERSE!

You know that in the 50's and 60's countless old theatres, cinemas, and other buildings were converted into bingo halls to satisfy the nations new found lust for the great game and now in the 21st century it looks as if religion is taking the bingo halls back!!!!!

This article on the BBC website explains how a bingo club in Scotland has now reopened as a 'contemporary' church building with a built in cinema and rock venue!!!!!!!!!!!

It's good to know that even though we are seeing these great buildings closing down, that there are people who still want to use these buildings for the sake of the community.


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Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Love in the bingo!

It seems to be all doom and gloom in the bingo world at the moment, so this month I am gonna talk about something good, something nice, something touching: I'm going to talk about LOVE in the bingo halls (and not like THAT you smutty lot!) and how i met my soulmate!

It was 2002 and I was a young, windswept and interesting bingo caller in bognor regis. I was also living the single life, mainly because I have always been awful at chatting up the ladies!

me being windswept and interesting------>

Anyway it was a Saturday night and I was doing my usual routine on stage, and in the intervals going around giving out change. I had spotted a hot looking Blondie sitting with some regular customers called Mick and Anita and assumed it was there daughter. I gave her the eye a few times throughout the night, walking up and down her aisle more than i should!

At the end of the night mick and Anita would always have a play on the fruities and i saw this as my chance to chat to this cutie!


'have i just sat on your fag ash?'


That was my chat up line! (I told you my chat up style was awful!) We had a brief chat about her parents and that was that. Mick and Anita had finished on the fruit machines and I watched the cute blonde leave in her long dark coat!


The next weekend when Mick and Anita came back I made an effort to chat to them after the bingo to find out some more about there daughter. I found out her name was Maxine and that she lived in Bristol and came down once a month to visit. Being the polite gentleman I am I said that if she needed anyone to show her the delights of bognor regis then I would be glad to show her!

The following weekend I was working on the bar and Anita came up to me and asked me for my phone number! My mates were ribbing saying that's its a bit psycho that a girls mother was asking for my number! But i didn't care, she seemed a nice girl and I had already met the parents (which is a major stumbling block in the whole relationship thing!!!)

Anyway a couple of days later I got a phone call and it was Maxine on the end of the line.........

........It was really weird but we seemed to hit it off straight away, our first conversation was a couple of hours long! It was two weeks before she came down and we spoke on the phone more or less every night.

We actually had our first date on the 1st November: she played bingo with her paren

ts before our date, she even had a false claim with me!

After the session finished and my shift was over we went on our first date: which ended with our first kiss!!!! (ahhh)


And nearly 6 years down the line we are still together (although I am getting grief because I haven't put a ring on her finger yet!) In many ways she has been the driving force in my career: since we've been together I joined gala/won regional caller of the year 3 times and the national once/have called for celebrities and shouted the numbers in Las Vegas! And now I'm on the telly calling bingo doing what I love, and all the while my Maxine was with me all the way! And through all this she has put up with all the negative things (the anti-social hours, the nerves at competitions, the weekends/bank holidays/xmas's that I have had to work) that I throw at her on a regular basis. She is the love of my life and my best friend. I Love you Max!

max and me today.......we have been well photoshopped!!!!!
Have you met your significant other in the bingo halls? Let us know.......I know I am not the only one!!!!!!!

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