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When the show was taped by the National Film Board in 1974, Andy Jones appeared in the cast as well.
Sexton, Olsen, Malone, Cathy Jones, Andy Jones, Walsh and Joy subsequently performed in the show "Sickness, Death and Beyond the Grave" in 1974.
In 1975, all except Malone, who was on a brief sabbatical to study at the Toronto Dance Theatre, appeared in "What Do You Want to See the Harbour For, Anyway?
"; later that year, Malone rewrote the show as "Das Capital".
In the fall of that year, the troupe compiled bits from their earlier shows for a week-long performance in Philadelphia, which was titled "Philadelphia: Somewhere on the Hungry Coast of Newfoundland".
That show was also taped for broadcast on CBC Television's "Peep Show", as "Festering Forefathers and Running Sons".
Joy and Olsen left the troupe in 1976.
Mike Jones, Cathy and Andy Jones' brother, was not a performing member of the troupe, but was associated with them as a frequent director of their stage shows.
Over the next number of years, the troupe's members only rarely worked together as CODCO, but often collaborated with each other individually on various projects, including the film "The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood" and the television series "The Root Seller", "The Wonderful Grand Band" and "The S and M Comic Book".
Greg Thomey and Paul Steffler also frequently collaborated with the CODCO members on various projects.
In 1986, Walsh, Sexton, Malone, Cathy Jones and Andy Jones reunited as CODCO for a benefit show in St. John's.
Sexton and Malone had just completed the successful and popular "S and M Comic Book" series of CBC Television specials, and the CBC was interested in developing further projects with the duo — after the success of the CODCO reunion show, the troupe decided to work on a CODCO series.
"CODCO" began production in 1986, and debuted on the CBC in 1988.
Although not regular contributors, Thomey and Joy sometimes appeared on "CODCO" as guest performers.
For most of its run, "CODCO" aired as the latter half of a one-hour sketch comedy block, immediately following "The Kids in the Hall".
"CODCO" shared several characteristics with "The Kids in the Hall", including the presence of openly gay members and the use of drag — although where "The Kids in the Hall" often revelled in absurdist humour, "CODCO"'s sketches were typically based around social commentary and satire, often with a strongly political edge.
Their sketches were also strongly reflective of the troupe's background on the stage, sometimes playing more as humorous character or scene studies than as conventional sketch comedy.
Recurring characters included the Friday Night Girls (Walsh and Jones), a homely, dateless pair of female friends whose Friday nights rarely consisted of anything more exciting than riding the Metrobus; Dakey Dunn (Walsh), an unexpectedly insightful macho lout; Frank Arsenpuffin (Andy Jones), a hapless talk show host faced with a succession of horrifying guests; Marg at the Mental (Sexton), a patient in a psychiatric hospital; and Jerome and Duncan (Sexton and Malone), a flamboyant pair of gay lawyers.
Thomey sometimes appeared on the show as Newfoundland separatist Jerry Boyle, a character he would later reprise on "This Hour Has 22 Minutes".
Another recurring sketch, House of Budgell, was essentially an ongoing soap opera set in a boarding house.
Wake of the Week focused on the Furlong sisters, a pair of elderly spinsters who regularly crashed funeral wakes, while The Byrd Family focused on a family of hardened criminals.
Another of the show's most famous sketches parodied Canadian literary icon "Anne of Green Gables"; instead of Prince Edward Island, Anne lived in a dreary Newfoundland fishing outport called Green Gut.
In another, a former Newfoundlander now resident in Toronto brought his girlfriend home to meet his parents; the sketch escalated to the brink of violence as the parents tried to explain why the Mi'kmaq, not Newfoundlanders, were responsible for the extinction of the Beothuk.
Malone performed a number of celebrity impersonations, including Margaret Thatcher and Canadian television journalist Barbara Frum, while Sexton did recurring impersonations of Barbara Walters and Tammy Faye Bakker.
In one famous sketch, Malone as Frum moderated a debate between Jones as a gay teacher who had been fired from his job for testing HIV-positive and Sexton as Clarabelle Otterhead, the homophobic president of a lobby group called Citizens Outraged by Weird Sex (or COWS).
The troupe also parodied the conventions of television news through mock local newscasts; in one such sketch, a racist anchor character loudly blamed Africa for AIDS: "It's all your fault, it's all your fault.
Nah nah nah nah nah nah.
You're black, you're black, take your dirty bugs back.
You're screwing green monkeys and giving it to our junkies.
We give you all our foreign aid, and all we gets back is AIDS, AIDS, AIDS."
Parody music videos were also a frequent feature of the show.
In a transparent spoof of Quebec pop idol Mitsou, Cathy Jones played "Jansu", a shallow, self-promoting pop singer who tried to be topical with lyrics such as "it's a political world/so separate your garbage!".
Sexton parodied body image as Dusty Springroll, who sang an ode to the fashionability of bulimia.
Figures such as Anne Murray and Bruce Cockburn were parodied in commercials for compilation albums with satirical lyrics set to the melodies of real songs by the artists, while another sketch was set in a café holding a Leonard Cohen impersonation contest.
In 1991, the CBC refused to air "Pleasant Irish Priests in Conversation", a sketch involving three Roman Catholic priests discussing their sexual experiences.
The Mount Cashel Orphanage child abuse controversy was very much in the news at the time, and as Newfoundlanders, the CODCO crew quite naturally had very strong opinions on the matter.
As a result, Andy Jones quit the show in protest.
The series carried on for two more years before it came to a close in 1993.
Ironically, the CBC subsequently aired "Pleasant Irish Priests" in a "CODCO Uncensored" special just a few months after the regular series ended.
Following the end of CODCO, Walsh and Cathy Jones worked with Thomey and Rick Mercer to create "This Hour Has 22 Minutes".
Several CODCO characters, including Dakey Dunn and Jerry Boyle, were carried over to the new series.
Sexton died in 1993 of complications from AIDS.
Malone ran as a New Democratic Party candidate for Parliament in a Newfoundland by election in 2000, losing narrowly to Loyola Hearn, and as a Green Party candidate in 2019.
WinChip
The WinChip series was a low-power Socket 7-based x86 processor designed by Centaur Technology and marketed by its parent company IDT.
The design of the WinChip was quite different from other processors of the time.
Instead of a large gate count and die area, IDT, using its experience from the RISC processor market, created a small and electrically efficient processor similar to the 80486, because of its single pipeline and in-order execution microarchitecture.
It was of much simpler design than its Socket 7 competitors, such as AMD K5/K6 and Intel Pentium, which were superscalar and based on "dynamic" translation to buffered micro-operations with advanced instruction reordering (out of order execution).
WinChip was, in general, designed to perform well with popular applications that didn't do many (if any) floating point calculations.
This included operating systems of the time and the majority of software used in businesses.
It was also designed to be a drop-in replacement for the more complex, and thus more expensive, processors it was competing with.
This allowed IDT/Centaur to take advantage of an established system platform (Intel's Socket 7).
WinChip 2, an update of C6, retained the simple in-order execution pipeline of its predecessor, but added dual MMX/3DNow!
processing units that could operate in superscalar execution.
This made it the only non-AMD CPU on Socket 7 to support 3DNow!
instructions.
WinChip 2A added fractional multipliers and adopted a 100 MHz front side bus to improve memory access and L2 cache performance.
It also adopted a performance rating nomenclature instead of reporting the real clock speed, similar to contemporary AMD and Cyrix processors.
Another revision, the WinChip 2B, was also planned.
This featured a die shrink to 0.25 μm, but was only shipped in limited numbers.
A third model, the WinChip 3, was planned as well.
This was meant to receive a doubled L1 cache, but the W3 CPU never made it to market.
Although the small die size and low power-usage made the processor notably inexpensive to manufacture, it never gained much market share.
WinChip C6 was a competitor to the Intel Pentium and Pentium MMX, Cyrix 6x86, and AMD K5/K6.
It performed adequately, but only in applications that used little floating point math.
Its floating point performance was simply well below that of the Pentium and K6, being even slower than the Cyrix 6x86.
The industry's move away from Socket 7 and the release of the Intel Celeron processor signalled the end of the WinChip.
In 1999, the Centaur Technology division of IDT was sold to VIA.
Although VIA branded the processors as "Cyrix," the company initially used technology similar to the WinChip in its Cyrix III line.
Kane Gang
The Kane Gang were a pop trio from North East England that scored several UK and US hits in the 1980s.
Named after the movie "Citizen Kane", the trio recorded for the record label Kitchenware, which was also home to Prefab Sprout.
Vocalists Martin Brammer (born 13 May 1957, Seaham, County Durham) and Paul Woods, plus multi-instrumentalist Dave Brewis formed the trio in 1982, after meeting while in small local bands, and signed to a small record label, which led to a deal with London Records in 1984.
Their debut album, "Bad and Lowdown World of the Kane Gang" (released in the US as "Lowdown"), was released the following year.
It spawned two UK hit singles.
These were "Closest Thing to Heaven" (No.
12) and a cover of The Staples Singers' "Respect Yourself" (No.
21).
The latter was also a hit in Australia, reaching No.
19.
The album was produced by Pete Wingfield, and featured P. P. Arnold and Sam Brown as backing vocalists.
The band's next album, "Miracle", was released in 1987 and spawned two US hit singles: "Motortown" (No.
36 US / No.
45 UK) and another cover – this time of Dennis Edwards' "Don't Look Any Further" (No.
64 US / No.
52 UK).
The latter hit No.
1 on the US Dance Charts.
Woods left the band in 1991 to attempt a solo career.
Woods and Brewis also worked on an album which was never released.
Kane Gang performed the music for the "Ooh Gary Davies... On Your Radio" jingle for BBC Radio 1.
As was the fashion around that time, bands would adapt songs to provide the radio station with a jingle, and embed the hook of the track in the public's consciousness.
The Gary Davies jingle was based on their track "Smalltown Creed" (from "The Bad and Lowdown World of the Kane Gang" LP).
The same track was used as the basis for the theme tune of the long running Children's BBC "Byker Grove", the television programme that launched the careers of Ant & Dec (as PJ & Duncan) and Donna Air.
Brammer continues to write songs for other artists.
Flying officer
Flying officer (Fg Off in the RAF and IAF; ' in the RAAF; ' in the RNZAF; formerly F/O in all services and still frequently in the RAF) is a junior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence.
It is also sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in countries which have a non-English air force-specific rank structure.
In these cases a flying officer usually ranks above pilot officer and immediately below flight lieutenant.
It has a NATO ranking code of OF-1 and is equivalent to a lieutenant in the British Army or the Royal Marines.