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Hiya folks!!!
Tinky by name, Tinky by nature - so they say :-)
I was born at an early age and became a childhood prodigy soon after - let's face it, if you can spell ZBIGNIEW MILEWCZYK at the age of 73, it means your keyboard is beyond redemption. Either that, or you have awesome skills in Scrabble!! Or maybe dyslexia nervosa of the first degree.
Born on 3rd August 1949 in England to Polish parents, I'm very much a foreigner in search of a home. Happily, that quest has now ended - the #coro_street channel on IRC is it, as my phone bills will testify.
I live in Glorious (when it ain't raining!! hahahaha) Glossop in the High Peak of Derbyshire, 15 miles east of the centre of the Universe aka Manchester, home of Coronation Street.
I am married to a wife (!!?*&!) (Trude), who is marginally more insane than me, let's face it, you gotta be mad to be married to a mad Polak like me. She's a professional lion tamer in a zoo, sorry, primary school teacher (but hey, what's the difference?). My son is a horizontal lounge lizard (a student), hopefully going to University in September 99 (we can no long afford to feed him, so let him fend for himself, is what I say).
What do I do for a living? Provide tech support on #coro, that's what!! hahahahahaha! Actually I am an Independent Financial Adviser, but I've had a bellyful of that and I'm looking to move back into computing, possibly training, tech support, writing.... gissa job, I can do that!!! LOL!!
I started watching Corrie in April 1977, when I first had one leg manacled to the floor sorry, got married. Going round in circles has since become a speciality of the house, as a result. I say, going round in circles...
1998 was a year of 12 months for me, though not necessarily in that order. After some time lurking on the ratucs newsgroup, in March 98, I started doing Friday Updates on a Monday (but hey, no- one's perfect!) and I have clogged up internet bandwidth ever since. War and Peace is a veritable precis once you have read my updates.
I joined the IRC channel in April - Jacqueline was my first, as she proudly tells everyone - obviously a woman of no taste and even less shame!!! I love her dearly, as I do my fellow IRC chums on the channel - my phone bill is living proof.
I love the Friday night quiz (even though it's on a Saturday morning) and pray for the day I score more than 2 points. CHFI Saturday night oldies has me boogieing and strutting my stuff with my headphones on my bonce.
Turning to life outside Corrie, well... erm, hmmm, mmmm.. IS there life outside Corrie? I love 50s/60s/70s music, cooking, walking, comedy, brewing beer, caravanning, travelling, learning languages, looking after sick animals, promoting world peace, devising ways of overcoming famines and I am currently working on a special project of transmuting gold into green.
My heroes are Spike Milligan, Peter Sellars and John Cleese and the silly walk comes totally naturally to me.
Why am I Tinky? Well, my lawyer will defend my reputation most vigorously (but let's just say that my aardvark becomes positively rampant at the sight of a nice pair of possums) - Chris (The_Rattler) Lines and my website will give the full embarrassing answer. Let's just say that a picture of the Rev. Jerry Falwell is used as a dartboard at home, and leave it at that.
Turning back to Corrie, who are my favourite characters? Quite a few over the years.
From my early days Len Fairclough - he was a great character, good fun, a strong man, dependable, but with a stubborn streak in him.
Elsie Tanner, a powerhouse of a woman, sexy, volatile, worldly- wise yet very human - she constantly repeated her mistakes in love.
Hilda Ogden, downtrodden, the glue who kept the Oggies together, wonderful wit and phrases, the thought of her "muriel" always makes me chuckle, although I would have hated living next door to such a busy body, even though she had a heart of gold.
Over the years Rita Sullivan, again a strong sexy woman, with a great sense of humour, especially the banter between her and Mavis. A very fair stable person.
Alec Gilroy, shifty, conniving, yet with a soft, loveable streak underneath.
Reg and Maureen, my favourite duo, ridiculous at times but funny beyond belief. The magic between them was something else. (My biggest regret is that Maureen never had my babies).
Recent years:
Fred Elliott, wonderful comic character, great facial expressions, superb one-liner phrases. I'm his number one fan, I say, his number one fan!!!!
Roy and Hayley - unpretentious honest oddballs, ordinary people, there's a bit of them in all of us, if we are honest enough to admit it.
What's been my favourite storyline over the years, and why?
Oh quite a few again :-
In terms of shorter episodes/scenes . . . The Water bed episode is THE comedy classic. I shed buckets of tears when Hilda came across Stan's tie after his funeral - that was so moving, so realistic. When Hilda won the weekend away at the fancy hotel, it was a big cheer - something coming right at last for the poor downtrodden woman.
Longer storylines include the "Ken, Deirdre and Mike" triangle, "Rita and Alan Bradley" and "Deirdre and Jon Lindsay" sagas - powerful, gripping dramas, which got the nation talking. Excellent acting.
Probably the best feelgood storyline of all time has been Roy and Hayley's love affair - a story of how love conquers all. That storyline has been responsible, not just for changing my attititudes to Transsexuality and issues surrounding gender and sex, but has transformed the way the nation views these issues - when normally narrow-minded bigotted people are angered and outraged at how this couple have been treated, then that has to be a major success story.
I cried buckets of tears of joy when I saw the airport scene at Amsterdam, after Hayley caught up with Roy - seeing the pure joy on Roy's face when Hayley wrote on the glass - it really has to be one of the all-time great moments of television, in the same league as the famous film clip from "Brief Encounter."
What makes Coronation Street my number 1 soap?
The honest portrayal of ordinary folk experiencing the ordinary every-day problems and joys of life. The humour of the scripts, the strength of the characters. The love and ethos which clearly surrounds the programme - it is an institution and something very special. It's provided me with consistent entertainment for over two decades and, through the internet, has enabled me to make friends with fellow fans - some of the most wonderful people - all over the world.
How has Corrie affected my life?
I spend my spare time frightening old ladies by creeping behind them and bellowing "Hello little grannie!" The rest of the time, I record Fred Elliott wave files, work on my website, do help FAQs and other related things. Oh and I spend my time talking to women, who are thousands of miles away, to whom I am not married.
I have also perfected the technique of sneaking into bed in the middle of the night after a lengthy IRC session and pretending I have just got out of bed for a call of nature.
This and more on my web-site at http://www.prosper.demon.co.uk
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