Saint George's Day
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Actually, it does my heart good to know that I am not of the same nationality as Chris Moyles even though he does exhibit so much of our national character.
Speak for yourself CJC i am nothing like him... nor do i know anybody who is remotely anything like him... as an englishman you shold be ashamed of yourself for even suggesting he represents the "english character". HA!0 -
Sorry but I have just realised the unquestionable answer to the question posed by this thread.
Ladies and Gentlemen (the legend that is)
Stephen Fry..............0 -
Well I think we should all get out more and go do something really English.
If you have a choice between dancing round a maypole or being engulfed in a flaming wicker man, which would you choose?0 -
Yeah, Stephen Fry. He typifies all that is English
(ex con, pompous, verbiose, snobby....just like me!)0 -
Yep - Stephen Fry - English
But had no idea he was an ex-con - Do tell more - Cullen?0 -
Here are his Wikipedia notes:
Fry was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Marianne Eve (née Newman) and Alan John Fry, who was an English physicist and inventor.[1][2] His maternal grandparents, Martin and Rosa Neumann[2] were Jewish immigrants from Surany, Slovakia,[2][3] and his mother's aunt and cousins were killed in Auschwitz.[2] Fry grew up in the village of Booton near Reepham, Norfolk, having moved from Chesham, Buckinghamshire when very young. Fry would have been brought up in the United States had his father not turned down a job at Princeton University.[4]
Fry briefly attended Cawston Primary School, Cawston, Norfolk, described later in his 1997 book Moab Is My Washpot,[5] before going on to Stouts Hill Preparatory School and then to Uppingham School, Rutland, where he joined Fircroft house. He was expelled from Uppingham when he was fifteen, and subsequently from the Paston School. At seventeen, after leaving Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, Fry absconded with a credit card stolen from a family friend, was arrested in Swindon, and as a result spent three months in Pucklechurch Prison for fraud.[6] Following his release he resumed education at City College Norwich, promising administrators that he would study rigorously to sit the Cambridge entrance exams. He passed well enough to gain a scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, Fry gained a degree in English literature, joined the Cambridge Footlights, and appeared on University Challenge.[7] It was at the Footlights that Fry met his future comedy collaborator Hugh Laurie0 -
I thought it was a well known fact that half the content of wikkapedia was made up for a joke!Here are his Wikipedia notes:
Fry was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Marianne Eve (née Newman) and Alan John Fry, who was an English physicist and inventor.[1][2] His maternal grandparents, Martin and Rosa Neumann[2] were Jewish immigrants from Surany, Slovakia,[2][3] and his mother's aunt and cousins were killed in Auschwitz.[2] Fry grew up in the village of Booton near Reepham, Norfolk, having moved from Chesham, Buckinghamshire when very young. Fry would have been brought up in the United States had his father not turned down a job at Princeton University.[4]
Fry briefly attended Cawston Primary School, Cawston, Norfolk, described later in his 1997 book Moab Is My Washpot,[5] before going on to Stouts Hill Preparatory School and then to Uppingham School, Rutland, where he joined Fircroft house. He was expelled from Uppingham when he was fifteen, and subsequently from the Paston School. At seventeen, after leaving Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, Fry absconded with a credit card stolen from a family friend, was arrested in Swindon, and as a result spent three months in Pucklechurch Prison for fraud.[6] Following his release he resumed education at City College Norwich, promising administrators that he would study rigorously to sit the Cambridge entrance exams. He passed well enough to gain a scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, Fry gained a degree in English literature, joined the Cambridge Footlights, and appeared on University Challenge.[7] It was at the Footlights that Fry met his future comedy collaborator Hugh Laurie0 -
i think he is funny - but a bit past it.
i do think someone like basil fawlty or windsor davies' character Battery Sergeant Major Williams from ain't half hot mum
what do we reckon
Tracy0 -
Oh fair point. The bit about him being a fraudster is true, as he comments frequently in the meeja about it.
I did like him until he made an extremely offensive remark about Essex people, it made my blood boil and me lads had to hold me down because I wanted to slap him and slap him hard. I ended up shouting at the telly, which I seem to do a lot these days......0 -
lol.. what did he say?0
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Cullen - Could the shouting at the TV issue be an age thing - I have no idea how old you are so this is merely a question as you may be a mere whipper snapper
I vowed I would never turn into my parents but as age catches up with me I am finding myself less and less tolerant - And even the simplest thing can send me over the edge !
I can frequently be found scowling at other drivers, muttering under my breath, shouting at the TV and don't get me started on unruly children and parents that don't control them.
I am 42 - Not really very old so lord knows what I will be like when I am a pensioner0 -
An age thing? Hmm could be. So you don't think I'm mental then?
Alan Davies asked Stephen Fry if he had ever had the cocktail, "Sex on the Beach" and Fry's response was:"No, I have never been to Essex."
What a regionalist remark! Everyone knows that all of us here in Essex drink either real ale with no head on the pint or any number of coktails including but not limited to Sex on the Beach.
Ask Adam and Matt, when they visit they insist on a variety of cocktails being provided. Matt loves a Shirley Temple and Adam loves a Moscow Mule. I presume they were referring to cocktails???
( Don't say anything, but I am trying to broker a deal whereby I get 20% for selling their kidneys, they'll have to cut back a bit on the alcohol and salty snacks...heh heh heh...)0 -
Briiliant plan - I won't say anything its ok !0
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Thanks Pigpen. I might have to organise a collection to buy Seany Boy a brain. I'm in for 10p, any one else?0
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Thanks Pigpen. I might have to organise a collection to buy Seany Boy a brain. I'm in for 10p, any one else?
Lol im sorry no. 2 i couldnt resist... you being the upstanding pillar of society i expect you would not allow such "nonse"ence in your residence!!
Its all the late night programmes i tell ya!!0 -
Yeah, tell me about it. They are the ones I shout at mostly.0
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Well that's me done for the day
Thanks for the entertainment - Its been utterly time wasting but fun
Off now to gesticulate wildly at other road users, scowl at nasty children in the supermarket, ***** at my own children and shout at the TV - Another day in paradise
See ya0 -
As a fellow 42year old do you not find that you now have a habit of talking to yourself when reading something you disagree about in a letter.Well that's me done for the day
Thanks for the entertainment - Its been utterly time wasting but fun
Off now to gesticulate wildly at other road users, scowl at nasty children in the supermarket, ***** at my own children and shout at the TV - Another day in paradise
See ya
Got told off for doing that the other day.0 -
Speaking of which, I'm minded of the man who got Phil Collins to say 'I'm talking nonce-sense right now'. Yes, I'd like to propose Chris Morris, perhaps the only true comic genius of the last twenty years and Founder of the anti-drugs organisations - Free the UK from Drugs (FUKD) and Britons Opposed to Meta Bisturbile Drugs (BOMBD).0
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