Today's Interesting Obituary

[threebikesmcginty]

I was too cream crackered.

 

[Fnaar]

Ive never seen 'Gigi'. Is it any good?

 

[Fnaar]

Ive never seen 'Gigi'. Is it any good?

Or (having just youtubed it) maybe I have... the "Thank heavens" is a little creepy (although probably wholly innocent.

I like to call it "Sang Kevin, four ladle gulls" (try it...instant French accent)

 

[Brains]

I think it's about horse racing.

So Louis Jordan has gone to the knackers yard ?

 

[rich p]

Louis Jordan went some time ago and wasn't in Gigi

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Ron Broomfield, the man with the world's largest gnome collection has croaked. He's to be cremated in his gnome cozzie.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-32297547

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Eileen Gray, founder of the Women's Cycle Racing Association. Quite interesting, some of the chaps were bounders in their dealings with the women's team including one who when he's finished racing and was on his way home took all of the women's team spare tubes and tyres, that they'd bought themselves with their own money.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11624291/Eileen-Gray-cyclist-obituary.html

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Eileen Gray, founder of the Women's Cycle Racing Association. Quite interesting, some of the chaps were bounders in their dealings with the women's team including one who when he's finished racing and was on his way home took all of the women's team spare tubes and tyres, that they'd bought themselves with their own money.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11624291/Eileen-Gray-cyclist-obituary.html

 

[Aperitif]

She made a nice table too...

 

[accountantpete]

A bit late ( 8 years) but an interesting obit which I missed at the time.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1547158/Maurice-Flitcroft.html

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A bit late ( 8 years) but an interesting obit which I missed at the time.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1547158/Maurice-Flitcroft.html

That's excellent!

In 1988, when Flitcroft was flown in as an honorary competitor at the event, he explained that it was the first time he and his wife had been out of the house together "since our gas oven exploded".

 

[accountantpete]

Apparently his sons Gene van Flitcroft and James Harlequin Flitcroft were the first people to receive an ASBO in the UK.

They had been arguing and started sword fighting to settle the matter.

 

[Crackle]

A bit late ( 8 years) but an interesting obit which I missed at the time.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1547158/Maurice-Flitcroft.html

That's absolutely fabulous.

He fared rather better this time, playing nine holes and 63 strokes before officials realised that they had "another Maurice Flitcroft" on their hands. "Imagine their surprise when they discovered they had the actual Maurice Flitcroft," he said.

True genius.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Flintcroft looks quite a character, Seve is obviously delighted to buddy-up.

And here's our hero delicately resolving what must have been teeing error by a n other.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3754030, member: 259"]I missed this one, but there was a fine obit for Reg Drury , the former chief brewer from Fullers, something of a hero to the real ale aficionados.

[edit]Bloody hell, my spelling's up the spout today![/QUOTE]

The man at the helm of 1845, what a gent!