After Saki, we watched Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul which forces the odd laugh from our miserable mouths.
After Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul, we watched the majority of Greg Rusedski's interview on Jonathan Ross. Wossy likes to think he's a tennis player as do a lot of these rich celebrities with nothing but time on their hands and money in every orifice. Well let me tell you, if I had as much time and money I would thrash Wossy and his mate Cliff Richard with one hand tied behind my back. You can't buy talent, matey.
After Greg Rusedski, we watched a bit of Later With Jools. We were beginning to fall asleep as Tinariwen strutted their stuff and Betty continued to sleep for the next hour.
I woke up in the middle of a fascinating Snooker World Championship Semi Final between John Higgins and Stephen Maguire. These guys nowadays certainly know how to sink their balls. As with the tennis, however, the personality seems to have gone out of the sport. Higgins and Maguire are efficient machines. Yes, the nerves are there but none of the excitement.
I once saw Graham Miles play an exhibition frame at a Warners holiday camp. The sexual tension was there for us all to see as he almost humped the baize in his tight trousers, the light from above glinting on his balding pate. It was a religious experience for me and for the next week I wanted to be a snooker player when I grew up with all the glamour that entailed.
Graham Miles (left) - for MJ
Graham Miles? Phwoar!
ReplyDeletePhwoar? Isn't that a single red and a yellow?
ReplyDeleteDid you find your Warner's holiday camp, Geoff?
MJ - Yes, and I was inches away from him. Imagine the swarms of ladies fighting to get a good view.
ReplyDeleteMurph - Red then green. You've been too long away from the baize. Warner's was perfectly camp.
I thought saki was a drink - Typical!
ReplyDeleteIt's a little known fact that you always enjoy the telly that's on after you wake up or the bit that comes on after the video you recorded, much more that what you intended to watch in the first place.
Graham Miles... John Spencer... Fred Davis... Eddie Charlton... Ray 'Dracula' Reardon... Ted Lowe on the mic... Men who'd offer you a pipeful of shag and a half of mild then whip your ass on the baize. Happy days.
ReplyDeleteIt all went downhill when the young whippersnappers like Willie Thorne came in, with their spivvy swaggering and ostentatious waistcoatery.
Kaz - So it's the snooker again tonight as I'll fall asleep whilst watching our recording of Jools.
ReplyDeleteTim - Old skool snooker was the best. Men old enough to be your father (or grandfather in Fred Davis' case) rather than boys young enough to be your son. Thorne's a mate of Gary Lineker. Say no more.
I wonder how popular Johnathan Ross reeeeally is with celebrities...
ReplyDeleteSomewhere between Parky and Frank Skinner (who seems to have been dropped by ITV).
ReplyDeleteYou would like Lionel Shriver's new book Geoff - it is based around the relationship of a woman and a snooker player. It got slated in The Observer this weekend which made me want to buy it even more mainly for the reason that they also slated Double Fault which I loved.
ReplyDeleteI'll be stuck in Victorian and Edwardian short stories for some time to come, I'm afraid.
ReplyDeleteWas Double Fault written by Lionel's sister, Pam?
No - her cousin Vagina Wide!
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