OK, folks. The list is growing by the minute. So far we’re up to five. Here they are:
Ian Botham
Tony Jacklin
Graham Taylor
Ray Clemence
Kevin Keegan
Isn’t that just incredible?
A couple of additions from Kieran:
Donald Pleasence and maybe the Chuckle Brothers
I let the radio run on after Vincent Browne was over, playing away in the background, and there’s the usually-innocuous Eleventh Hour. I’m hardly listening, Bocking away as I am prior to retiring for the night, when I hear this dreadful RTE-style whine as some woman explains with great patience the Theseus myth.
Ond [...]
We went to Impact last night for their final Beckett offering. Endgame.
Ha!
What to make of it? Ha! I don’t know. I’ll have to think about it a lot, and maybe go again before they finish.
I won’t single out any performance. In fact, I won’t even mention just the cast of [...]
Ratzinger didn’t fall to his doom when he jumped out the bedroom window. As I was rooting around in the cellar, searching for a spare canister of polonium-210, I heard a feeble scratching sound and a little voice croaking from the shadows.
Ach, mein Gott, it has come to this, nicht war? I have [...]
All home improvement programmes are terrible, but Irish ones just seem to go one step further in awfulness, for some reason, and I can’t figure out why. Is it because they come from RTE-land. Is that it? Maybe that’s the reason Irish home-improvement programmes are shite.
What the fuck is going on in [...]
Can’t remember if I posted this or not. Captain Kirk singing Pulp’s Common People with Joe Jackson and Ben Folds. No doubt somebody will point out the mistake if I did.
. . . and a stand in the street at the turn of a joke. (As the great Guy Clark once wrote).
I sat in last night with the Bullet and Blackbeard to watch the second of the spaghetti westerns. They were called spaghetti westerns because they were shot in Spain – did you [...]
I’m a modest soul, and I don’t like to beat my own drum too loudly in case people would think I was being conceited. But at the same time, you’d have to agree that my genius has given the world some wonderful inventions.
For instance, I’ve just finished developing a revolutionary new breakfast food which [...]