I wonder if our former player,Bent,had a nickname.I certainly called him a few in his time at the lane.......!
Names are tricky things. For over 40 years my name never drew a single comment. Not one, ever. Then some bloke becomes extremely famous and has my name. He's still extremely famous and every time I give my name I get comments about it. I've taken to giving the full version of my first name sometimes, which I hate, just to limit the number of times I get to hear the stock 3 or 4 responses that I normally get. Mrs B worked with a bloke whose name is Richard [known as Dick] Head. He knows and told me the exact date that Jasper Carrott first unleashed the expression "Dick Head" on the unsuspecting public thereby ruining his life forever. Despite him being a really nice guy, everyone laughs. Remember that Ronald MacDonald used to be a relatively common name in parts of Scotland and nobody thought anything of it until the late 70's. Now? Not so much.
Our Premier League games against Everton and Southampton have been moved for Sky. They're now both on Sundays. http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/first-team/fixtures/tv-fixture-changes-march-2016-250117/
I don't get the parents who give their kids names that rhyme with their surnames, for example I went to school with a Sarah Kamera. It;s like they're determined to have their kids teased. And then there's one of my housemates at uni, Tallulah Radula...
Perhaps the vicar had a stutter...,alternatively based on the chant the mousers used to sing, his mother may have also been his aunt.
I was shocked to find out that the US television show "Blackish" is funny--or at least the minute I watched was. The hero has been pulled over for running a stop sign. He's a slightly overweight black man in a white suburb. He realizes he's left his license at home. He runs through various possibilities of what to say. "Officer, there's not room in my skinny jeans for me and my wallet." Cut to prison door clanging shut. "Officer, I cannot tell a lie. This car is owned by that passed out white woman." He points to his wife, asleep in the front seat. Cut to prison door clanging shut. "Officer, I'd like you to know that I'm videotaping all of this." Cut to a framed picture of the hero on a wall. Pan back to reveal women sobbing over his casket.
I consider myself a supporter of human rights and a bit of a pinko-liberal type. However, if Jack Pitt-Brooke was attacked in front of me by a gang of ruffians of murderous intent who gang-raped him first. I'd probably not intervene or summon a constable. Second thoughts, I wouldn't. At least, not until he was in insufferable agony. Then, maybe?
RIP Sir John Hurt - 77. Wonderful actor and by all accounts a thoroughly good egg. Another one bites the dust..... But when the Honours seem to be given out like confetti, how did it take til 2015 to knight him?
