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cuffy
23-07-08, 10:26 AM
Did you write to him?
Did he fix it for you?
What was your childhood/adulthood ambition?

I wanted to do parachuting, but at the age of 10 i was classed as too juvenile in years. :(

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42100000/jpg/_42100422_jimllfixit270.jpg
Now then, now then...sha-waddy-waddy.
ooger
23-07-08, 10:33 AM
I never wrote to him but I remember finding a scrawled letter my older sister had wrote when I was about 7 to the effects of:

"Dear Jim,

Please can you fix it for my brother to disappear"

I'm sure she was jealous.

Haha
Skip
23-07-08, 11:15 AM
Two girls I went to high school with wanted to know how a pizza was made and actually ended up on the program - probably because it was a very cheap and easy one for the BBC to do!
Daimo
23-07-08, 11:18 AM
I wanted to be a fighter pilot.

Closest iv'e got is direct conact with some F15's doing the costal path, and then a flyby (i was on work ex at Manston) just for me.

Jim didn't fix it though, the radio control tower bloke did.
Razor
23-07-08, 11:56 AM
wrote but got no answer, for some reason it was too difficult to turn a 9 year old boy into a 13 year old jodie foster look a like
carty
23-07-08, 12:01 PM
Inexplicably I wrote to him saying something along the lines of;

'I've always wanted to throw a stone through a window - can you fix it for me?'

Don't ask.

I also wrote to You Bet to see if I could go on that. Again, inexplicably, I used to rearrange words in my head so that they were in alphabetical order, really quickly, ie,

rearrange, becomes aaeegnrrr.

I wanted to do loads of words in 1 minute.

Don't ask. I'm weird.

Cheers,
Matt
SoulKiss
23-07-08, 12:27 PM
'I've always wanted to throw a stone through a window - can you fix it for me?'


Glaziers fix broken windows, not Sir Jimmy

DUH!!!
stewie
23-07-08, 12:38 PM
I wrote and asked him if I could be short, a bit fat, irrestible to women and one day own a triumph daytona, I suppose 3 out of 4,s not bad :joker:
Lozzo
23-07-08, 01:00 PM
I wrote and asked him if I could be short, a bit fat, irrestible to women and one day own a triumph daytona, I suppose 3 out of 4,s not bad :joker:

Strange that, so did I. The Daytona 955i was sold last year, but I kept the other three assets.
Lissa
23-07-08, 04:37 PM
Yes I did, and no he didn't, the miserable freak!:(

I wanted to ride the Grand National course on Red Rum:D
steve.s
23-07-08, 06:47 PM
a kid i went to primery school with was on there, i think it was something to do with cleaning a crocodials teeth, a long time ago i carnt queit remember, but he was defo on jim'll fix it.
Jayneflakes
23-07-08, 10:11 PM
I wrote to him,
waste of time, there was no way he was gonna fix it for me to have a go in an amphibious truck on a fast flowing river like James Bond!

I never asked for what I really wanted have though, I had to wait for adulthood that to come along! :smt081 Now that was a rebirthday... :smt103
VolatileParsley
23-07-08, 11:38 PM
Well, I never wrote in myself but my other half and her friend did. They also ended up on the show...



...Guess what they wanted Jim to fix for them?...




...You won't believe this...




They ended up baby-sitting the Walton sextuplets!!!

I mean, come on. If you're going to ask Jim to fix it for you at least think of something more imaginative than baby-sitting FFS. I still tease her about it regularly.

Having said that, she's been on TV and has the 'Jim Fixed It For Me' badge to prove it, so, respect to her I guess. :notworthy:

Wonder how much I'd get for it on e-bay? :smt047
Messie
24-07-08, 07:24 AM
Four times I wrote to him asking if I could have a go on a Police bike. I even said I didn't mind being pillion if they didn't want me (at 11 years of age) to ride it myself.

He never answered me and I'm still a hurt child inside :(
Mr Speirs
24-07-08, 10:55 AM
I never wrote to him but I always got angry when I saw these kids asking for the most ridiculous things like:

'Dear Jim can you fix it for me to work in a button factory'

I realise now as an twenteen year old that it was the bbc being tight arses but at the time i was screaming 'anything, anything you could have asked for but working in a button factory is what you choose...plonker'

Ah what would you ask for if they started a new Jim'll fix it for adults 2moro?

Mine would be: 'Dear Jim can you fix it for me to poke George Bush and Gordon Brown in the eyes?'
cuffy
24-07-08, 11:38 AM
Mine would be: 'Dear Jim can you fix it for me to poke George Bush and Gordon Brown in the eye?'
Corrected for you ;)
Mr Speirs
24-07-08, 12:31 PM
Nice one cuffy.
Before today I was completely unaware Gordon Brown only had one eye.
sv-robo
24-07-08, 03:53 PM
Wrote to him & asked to train with liverpool fc....no reply,the miserable tracksuit wearing,cigar smoking c**t!!
Jdubya
24-07-08, 08:17 PM
I wrote to him,
waste of time, there was no way he was gonna fix it for me to have a go in an amphibious truck on a fast flowing river like James Bond!

I never asked for what I really wanted have though, I had to wait for adulthood that to come along! :smt081 Now that was a rebirthday... :smt103

Interesting... :smt104