THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG

Sometines we hanker for the good old days, where a fishmonger would fillet your chosen purchase instead of informing you it was too slippy to cut and was an elf and safety breach.   Or the excitement of going to a horse racing meet with a parasol and not suffering the disappointment of having it confiscated as a potential weapon which would be an elf and safety breach. Some wonder where the saying "Elf & Safety" came from.  Many say it originates from the North Pole with others claiming that a council house profiteering, semi literate, grandmother MP that plays with...

There's a chat up line to garner immediate attention.  I wonder what the outraged milk-sop snowflakes would make of that one in 2025?   Even Mrs Mullard would baulk, associating such frivolity as the herald of an impending stentorian trouser cough........ Go back to 1931 and it would be a legitimate question as Undy-Werk of Germany were supplying this nifty little tonearm to the UK market. So audiophiles, "Hear the Undy and know the difference!"  I have it on good authority that an Undy makes Josef Locke singing Hear My Song sound like a nightingale on helium.

Some of you may know that Mrs Mullard Magic and I celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary a couple of weeks ago.   The 35th wedding anniversary keepsake is traditionally coral so I bought her a fish tank ornament as an interesting alternative.    She seemed totally nonplussed and hasn't spoken to me since so I am thinking of getting in her good books by buying her yet another present, this time to celebrate Morse Code Day which  is celebrated on April 27th each year to honour the birth on that day in 1791 of Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph and the...

This photo says it all, a TV with nothing on.... at least the other subject in this photo has something on though. I honestly wonder what the first General Manager of the British Broadcasting Company, BBC, John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, GCVO, GBE, PC would make of today's terrestrial TV?  That said, during WW1, Reith volunteered for the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) being commissioned as a Lieutenant - he served at Loos so a clue may be there as to the train of his possible thoughts....

Just feast your eyes on this Mullard advertisement from 1946.   Mrs Futura looking at a thin screen TV, may we presume this to be an LCD one even?  As we all know, the first wall-mountable TV used LCD technology and was introduced by Sharp Corporation in 1991 and was a whopping picture frame size of 8 inches, followed a year later by a 17 inch model.   Amazing that Mullard predicted this some 45+ years ago! But that's not all, she is speaking in an Alexa-esque manner to the TV intent on ordering roses. All predicted by Mullard some 68...