Today's Interesting Obituary

[Dayvo]

I've posted it before, but this is a cracker: John Worsley.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1369208/John-Worsley.html

with this classic quote:

Worsley was a connoisseur of gun-deck language and enjoyed recalling how the commandant of the camp subsequently addressed the PoWs in his fractured English. "You think we Germans know f*** nothing," he told them. "But in fact," he went on confidently, "we know f*** all." It took some time to restore the parade ground to order.

 

[User169]

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.

And were also disco dancing world champions!

 

[User169]

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

Thanks for that. I've just ordered the biography of him "Phantom of the Open".

 

[accountantpete]

Thanks for that. I've just ordered the biography of him "Phantom of the Open".

Spoiler alert -

I think it contains the following extract:

His crane cab, incidentally, had teak floorboards, a ceiling and floor in different shades of green, a luxury car seat, "an easel on which to paint, and a bookshelf on which to house a small library and a collection of notepads, into which he scribbled idle thoughts".

It should be a great read.

 

[Crackle]

Thanks for that. I've just ordered the biography of him "Phantom of the Open".

Snap. I couldn't resist after the Obituary made me laugh out loud.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Snap. I couldn't resist after the Obituary made me laugh out loud.

Double snap.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Nice one @accountantpete!!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Burnt Shavitz, the scruffy face of Burts Bees. By all accounts a bit of a nutter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/b...l?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

 

[tyred]

At least nobody's read mine yet!

 

[Crackle]

Burnt Shavitz, the scruffy face of Burts Bees. By all accounts a bit of a nutter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/b...l?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

"Two of his dogs were listed by name in the local telephone directory; he wasn’t."

“A good day,” he said in the documentary, “is when no one shows up and you don’t have to go anywhere.”

How does the dog answer the phone?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

"Two of his dogs were listed by name in the local telephone directory; he wasn’t."

How does the dog answer the phone?

Woof?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Alex Rocco, probably best known for Moe Greene in Godfather. Played an absolute ton of roles, some good TV stuff too, Kojak, Rockford, Canon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/a...or-role-in-the-godfather-dies-at-79.html?_r=0

Great scene



The result

 

[User169]

Inventor of the banoffee pie.

http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/n...sussex-inventor-of-banoffi-pie-dies-1-6861862

 

[Cheddar George]

Banoffee pie ....... a British invention ! ......... I'm standing a little taller today!

 

[User169]

Banoffee pie ....... a British invention ! ......... I'm standing a little taller today!

I'd always thought it was some kind of barbarian Australian affair.