I left school in 1981 A real one in ten My brief meeting went What do you want to do Chazz? Dunno sir Well there’s no jobs anyway so I wouldn’t worry about it a few months later I was signing on
Can you imagine the uproar and potential for legal action nowadays if some teacher called a kid a buffoon in a report card...? Most of my reports contained the words 'disruptive' and 'boisterous'!
Memo to self, you must find one of your school reports, and post the comments on here. 'Do they mean me, they surely do'. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Our school Careers Officer laughed at me when I told him I wanted to be a Professional Footballer. He’s not laughing now. He’s dead.
Parents were means tested for all Universities in my day (early/mid 60's). Grants were determined by parental income, or income/assets for mature students.
Quite a number of lads where I lived went on to further education. Firstly " Approved School " then "Borstal ", then reaching the pinnacle of higher education at HMP Armley. I am happy to say I passed my 11 + the only 1 at my school to do so and was taken out of that circle at Secondary School, going a different honest route.
Reminds me of an old Bob Monkhouse joke. “ they all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian… they’re not laughing now.
My ex-wife was a celebrity/guest booker for TV shows in the 1990s and early 2000s, basically choosing the guests and contacting their agents to arrange the date etc - worked for Parkinson, Graham Norton and Johnathon Ross amongst others over the years. Her point of view was that Bob Monkhouse was the best guest the world had ever seen, in a cast of thousands - a total professional and always 'on' - polite and friendly to everyone, totally happy to joke and share stories with the make up girls to the tv producers and other guests and had the ability to read a room, both on tv and off... Never fluffed an interview, a joke or a line, always supported those on TV with him and no one in that industry spoke badly of him and was highly respected.
Bob Monkhouse: The Last Stand https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b086tw3q/bob-monkhouse-the-last-stand I've not watched this yet but intend to whilst it's still available (25 days). Anyone watched it yet as I hope its good?
There is apparently a secret code teachers use on these things to say stuff like that without saying it. Doctors do it too.
Teachers say what they want to kids, could do better, buffoon etc etc etc. I got he'll never be an academic and his manner and his manners cause offence - but as soon as Ofsted criticises them they go ballistic and complain about them - pathetic really
Not seen it, but the story that I was told, was around 1991, on a TV show I don't remember, The Mary Whitehouse Experience were the main interviewees - who were front page entertainment news at the time and regarded similar to rock stars, irrelevant now to anyone under 50, and Bob Monkhouse was the secondary 'ironic' guest, who at the time was seen as a cheesy tv gameshow presenter and 'naff', if that word still exists. There was a break in filming due to director illness and Monkhouse got up, totally unprepared and entertained the audience and the staff for two hours - at the end, the guys from the MWE were laughing throughout, in awe and publicly stated that the guy was a master of his art.
Really worth a watch. Guy is a class act. The history he has with legends of comedy is unreal. Many international A LISTERS owe him. Think sometimes we underestimate the influence of our home produced entertainers.
Yup. The man was incredibly talented . Monkhouse wrote his own stuff and rarely told the same joke twice. Original,professional Comedian who could act and rattle off multiple joke after joke with ease on any subject sometimes live from an audience. My mum kept a photo of her and Bob dancing together at a Christmas bash when she worked at Imperial Typewriters on Hedon Road back in the 60s.
That reminds me of a New Year party with some friends we went too, and after the evening wore on a few were saying their new year resolution was to lose weight. So several puts £10 into a kitty, which I was asked to hold, and we planned to go on holiday together in July, so whoever lost the most weight by then would get the money. It was paid out finally on who had put on the least weight.
