'Celebrity' Masterchef?

[Viva Prat Vegas]

Filling in for Herbert Augustus Chapamn there, LA

[Burney]

I think if you are been battered around the ring for years, what you face looks like is the last of your problems

To paraphrase Hockney when describing Auden: “If that’s his face, what must his arse look like?”

[Viva Prat Vegas]

I like the CGI forearm idea

In the short term, she could ease the distraction by standing there with her arms behind her back a la Prince Phillip

Or just wear a long sleeved jumper with a glove sewn on

[Burney]

I like the CGI forearm idea

In the short term, she could ease the distraction by standing there with her arms behind her back a la Prince Phillip

Or just wear a long sleeved jumper with a glove sewn on

Or have her sleeve pinned up like someone who's lost their arm properly.

Obvious thing to say given one's age, I suppose, but the sheer number of chaps missing arms or legs or whatnot when I was growing up is an abiding memory.

[Sir C]

Or have her sleeve pinned up like someone who's lost their arm properly.

Obvious thing to say given one's age, I suppose, but the sheer number of chaps missing arms or legs or whatnot when I was growing up is an abiding memory.

Chaps selling matches or even a single shoelace, with a sign saying, 'Waterloo Veteran'. Obviously they ran the risk of being picked up for vagrancy by the beadle and thrown into the work 'us, but they were brave fellows and unfazed.

[Burney]

Chaps selling matches or even a single shoelace, with a sign saying, 'Waterloo Veteran'. Obviously they ran the risk of being picked up for vagrancy by the beadle and thrown into the work 'us, but they were brave fellows and unfazed.

It’s true, though, isn’t it? You just used to see more old chaps without limbs - for obvious reasons.
They were dignified about it, though. They wouldn’t have dreamt of waving their stumps about and frightening kiddies.

[Sir C]

It’s true, though, isn’t it? You just used to see more old chaps without limbs - for obvious reasons.
They were dignified about it, though. They wouldn’t have dreamt of waving their stumps about and frightening kiddies.

I suppose in the 70s we would have had veterans of both wws and Korea. Not to mention Ireland.

There was a common sitcom device - the henpecked (or famil-pecked) husband whose escape was to 'the Legion' - where he might fall into conversation with a bloke who understood, having been through, 'the first lot'.

Everyone had experienced it, but no one talked about it. Maybe no one talked about it because everyone had been thorugh it...

[Burney]

I suppose in the 70s we would have had veterans of both wws and Korea. Not to mention Ireland.

There was a common sitcom device - the henpecked (or famil-pecked) husband whose escape was to 'the Legion' - where he might fall into conversation with a bloke who understood, having been through, 'the first lot'.

Everyone had experienced it, but no one talked about it. Maybe no one talked about it because everyone had been thorugh it...

Turned out my great-uncle Arthur was on Sword Beach in the first wave as a wireless operator and fought all the way through to the end in Germany. But nobody knew because he didn't bother mentioning his war to anyone until a couple of years before he died. Didn't think it was terribly interesting, apparently.

[IUFG]

I think if you are been battered around the ring for years, what you face looks like is the last of your problems

I'm not sure this post got the recognition it deserves, la

[Sir C]

I'm not sure this post got the recognition it deserves, la

I hadn't noticed that. wd la