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QI - 15th November 1969
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Started conversation Nov 15, 2010
On this Date in reverse!!
Who's what became colourful for the first time on this date? Where??
No Google or Wiki!
Beware Klaxons!
GT
QI - 15th November 1969
toybox Posted Nov 15, 2010
A TV series which used to be black and white started being shown in colour? Like the Avengers, A750124?
So that would be John Steed's umbrella, except I think it's black. Or his carnation?
QI - 15th November 1969
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 15, 2010
Ok toybox!
'Whose'!!!!
Didn't stop you tripping the 'TV Series' Klaxon though!!!
-5!
GT
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toybox Posted Nov 15, 2010
I carefully avoided another one though, which now I'm not even sure that it is one, but I won't try anyway (because there is no chance that it would be the answer anyway).
Whose what? The language of an author (or singer) in his or her novels (or songs)? Up till then they were always written using mild language, and in November 69 the first one was issued which had more colourful language?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 15, 2010
D. H. Lawrence????
Nope!!!
GT
(Neither is it 'F*nny H*ll!!!)
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Nov 15, 2010
If it wasn't TV going from B&W to colour, maybe it was another medium...did The Sun or the Mirror become a red-top? Or have I just earned another ?
RF
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 15, 2010
Tread carefully, Reddyfreddy.....
Who mentioned Newspapers???
GT
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Nov 16, 2010
I mentioned newspapers.
I'm not talking about colour printing - that didn't come in for newspapers until the 1980s. I'm talking about the banner at the top of page one, printed in red, saying "The Sun" and "The Daily Mirror" (as I believe it was still called in those days). For the first time, this was printed with red ink, earning them the nickname "red-tops".
It's a bit more colourful than the old black'n'white, yer see?
RF
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toybox Posted Nov 16, 2010
If I understood well, tabloids are called 'rainbow press' in Germany. I wonder if this is related.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 16, 2010
The sooner you move away from newspapers, people, the sooner we get to the correct answer!
GT
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van-smeiter Posted Nov 16, 2010
Was it something flowering for the first time at Kew Gardens?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 16, 2010
A flower?
A
No, not a flower, so not Kew Gardens!
GT
QI - 15th November 1969
van-smeiter Posted Nov 16, 2010
Damn! In reverse? Mercator published his map in 1569 ws it on 19th November? 
Not sure what that has to do with colour either. Double
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Nov 16, 2010
British television programmes?
I recall watching an episode of Garrison's Gorillas on a friends brand new colour set in early 1970, so it couldn't have been in colour for very long here.
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toybox Posted Nov 16, 2010
Luckily for you, the TV klaxon went off in Post 4 already
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- 2: toybox (Nov 15, 2010)
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- 4: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Nov 15, 2010)
- 5: toybox (Nov 15, 2010)
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- 7: A Super Furry Animal (Nov 15, 2010)
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- 9: toybox (Nov 16, 2010)
- 10: A Super Furry Animal (Nov 16, 2010)
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- 12: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Nov 16, 2010)
- 13: toybox (Nov 16, 2010)
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- 15: van-smeiter (Nov 16, 2010)
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