tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.comments2023-08-13T02:31:23.806-07:00Rickbot Memory ProjectRick Bothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09754983389203055815noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-86137652825510766842009-11-05T06:22:34.570-08:002009-11-05T06:22:34.570-08:00No, it was in our first or second year there. I re...No, it was in our first or second year there. I recall because our math teacher co-wrote it and discussed it in class, and he was replaced after two years. Also, note htat I couldn't recall it if it was on before I was there.Rick Bothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09754983389203055815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-70344404802637740592009-11-05T05:59:38.679-08:002009-11-05T05:59:38.679-08:00I am almost sure that Pelinore Says was performed ...I am almost sure that Pelinore Says was performed the year before we joined Prince Henry's, so we would not have been eligible to participate. Then again, this is the sort of "almost sure" that involves trying to remember the details of a thing I didn't care about in the late 1980s so I should really say "I don't have the slightest clue but..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-15689581376798189942009-10-09T07:06:42.993-07:002009-10-09T07:06:42.993-07:00Interesting - we could have become friends much ea...Interesting - we could have become friends much earlier, as in the second year one of his cohorts also sought to recruit me to the gang. They must have been going through a phase of trying to get a brain to lead them, like the insects in 'Starship Troopers'.<br /><br />His obsession with sex was so directly in opposite with his appearance, personality and stench it was almost tragic. I recall once in the science block (fourth or fifth year) he was dancing around the glamourous babe Simi Johnson singing, "Simi and me and a pack of three!" My mouth fell open at the realisation that Stuart believed - on some level - they were the same species.Rick Bothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09754983389203055815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-65940471441237854732009-10-09T04:11:09.702-07:002009-10-09T04:11:09.702-07:00For reasons that now utterly escape me (but I supp...For reasons that now utterly escape me (but I suppose come fairly obviously under the headings of boredom and unimaginative juvenile rebellion) for about half of the second year at Prince Henry's I decided it would be fun to be friends with the fellow, and duly abandoned the coterie of what would become A-level students in my form to commit what I suppose were essentially a string of relatively minor criminal offences with Stuart and his rabble of B-tech-(and manual labour, and prison)-destined miscreants. I can't remember why I stopped - I think it just took about that long to get bored of him flagrantly copying my answers in French lessons, conversation that consisted solely of preposterous lies about the sexual adventures of what were manifestly 12-year-old virgins, and dear, dear god the smell.seamusmccauleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675560310368329753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-58447889351695653062009-09-15T03:18:51.166-07:002009-09-15T03:18:51.166-07:00I'm sure they do - I shall have a look in Nove...I'm sure they do - I shall have a look in November when I go up home. It hadn't occurred to me to go multimedia!Rick Bothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09754983389203055815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-44791772625320444482009-09-14T09:27:40.323-07:002009-09-14T09:27:40.323-07:00Do the photos still exist? Can we see them?Do the photos still exist? Can we see them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-62633794907806237022009-08-27T01:51:52.373-07:002009-08-27T01:51:52.373-07:00I hope your brother is equally ashamed for pouring...I hope your brother is equally ashamed for pouring boiling fluid over you simply for asking a question.<br /><br />Meanwhile, I wonder what would have happened if, like me, you'd inherited a box of Action Men fallen on hard times - a sort of verterans' home in a cardboard box. They had perished grippable hands or else entire missing feet or limbs. But this was just their carelessness. Their misfortune was to have been created in the Sixties and so they were lumbered with pasty skin; pecs modelled so crudely that you could shave with them; full but terribly unflattering beards and - crucially - no underpants! Round the back all was fine: their pert buttocks twinkled dully like a twink dolly. However, on the opposite side things were not so well: a sort of planed off area stretched from thigh to thigh. Not so much as Hedwig's 'just a little bulge' broke the monotonous flatness of the region. I found this risible (although I admired their stoicism about their wounds) and if I wanted to play sex with my sister's Barbies or Sindies - with her collaboration of course, no toy-rape this - then I'd use the more modern blue-arsed Action Men. 'Course, if I'd read Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' at that point, things might have been different... What was I saying?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-1204253582818664052009-08-18T08:24:14.571-07:002009-08-18T08:24:14.571-07:00I dare say anything with Jason Connery is probably...I dare say anything with Jason Connery is probably poorer as a result.<br /><br />I feared Herne the Hunter, who appeared in occasional episodes with an animal's head. What was <i>that</i> all about?Rick Bothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09754983389203055815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-74358621574860810222009-08-18T04:25:54.759-07:002009-08-18T04:25:54.759-07:00I think I may have neglected your semi-colon and t...I think I may have neglected your semi-colon and taken Equus to have been dull and gay. Let this be a lesson to me never to neglect your semi-colon again.<br /><br />Why can't John Barrowman just accept his sexuality without blaming it on his brother? I wager he pulled the same trick throughout his childhood:<br /><br />Mrs Barrowman: Who done broke this window?<br /><br />Wee Johnny (pointing at blackened foetus on the mantelpiece): He did!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-32174142212050619532009-08-18T03:48:10.873-07:002009-08-18T03:48:10.873-07:00It's only because I saw him present a programm...<i>It's only because I saw him present a programme about gay animals once that I'm hazarding he meant that he's gay.</i><br /><br />I suppose your other clue to his sexuality was when I called him "gay American comic Scott Capura". <br /><br />He also used the "serve crackers with that" line during the 1994 stand-up act, suggesting he hasn't moved far on. At least this is better than John Barrowman's exploration of sexuality, which ended with him phoning his mum: "Hey mom, you remember that still-born baby you had before me which marked the start of thirty years of grief and sorrow in your life? Yeah. What sex was it? Male, oh ma that's wonderful news!"<br /><br />Apparently, he was more delighted that this might explain his sexuality (the more men borne in a womb before one arrives, the higher the probability of gayness) than he was worried that his mum was permanently affected by the devasation of bearing a dead baby.Rick Bothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09754983389203055815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-86115555903021513452009-08-17T05:29:49.713-07:002009-08-17T05:29:49.713-07:00Presumably Scott Capura's audience were wonder...Presumably Scott Capura's audience were wondering whether he meant that he sets light to penises or preserves them. It's only because I saw him present a programme about gay animals once that I'm hazarding he meant that he's gay. It seems improbable that it was during that programme but nevertheless I recall him talking of the hygiene issue of oral sex and querying if a new conquest was going 'to serve crackers with that?' How tasteless; surely a nice glass of port would be the thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-87595261895310337192009-08-14T07:14:57.569-07:002009-08-14T07:14:57.569-07:00I used to love Robin of Sherwood. It was brilliant...I used to love <i>Robin of Sherwood</i>. It was brilliant until Michael Praed left and got replaced with Jason Connery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-14206679655825467642009-08-13T07:29:17.315-07:002009-08-13T07:29:17.315-07:00Well yes, I remember now. My memory has swollen ap...Well yes, I remember now. My memory has swollen appropriately (hurr).<br /><br />I have no idea what the garish prints are. I leave that to be forgotten.Rick Bothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09754983389203055815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-400467387183208462009-08-12T12:26:53.744-07:002009-08-12T12:26:53.744-07:00Do you not remember then the performance of Equus;...Do you not remember then the performance of Equus; the photo artist who sold us garish prints in the same building; gay American comic Scott Capura (opening line, subtly, "I'm a dick smoker [pause, audience patiently waits for punchline] When I say that in the states it gets quite a reaction, but here I guess you're just thinking 'hey, he's a American, how much worse could it get?"); that German chap who sang classical pieces in a comic style in a tent beneath Arthur's Seat whose name I confess is now lost to me; or indeed returning nightly to Kenny Young and the Eggplants? Wow, no wonder you need to write this stuff down now!seamusmccauleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675560310368329753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-44272131398057419012009-07-06T03:41:54.942-07:002009-07-06T03:41:54.942-07:00I caught an episode around that time too with Dan....I caught an episode around that time too with Dan. I didn't notice the feyness of Robin, but was surprised to see the Sheriff and Guy of Gisborne in the bath together, with around half a pound of homosexual subtext.Rick Bothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09754983389203055815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133594241773012458.post-1211219533980942982009-06-26T06:36:25.942-07:002009-06-26T06:36:25.942-07:00Back at DickRedHo, Clara and I caught an episode o...Back at DickRedHo, Clara and I caught an episode of Robin the Hooded Man - a childhood favourite of mine too and a worthy successor to Dick Turpin. I was (although you might not be) astonished to discover how pretty and how fey he was. But then, I suppose he was poncing around a forest to the synthesised strains of Clannad.<br /><br />Was Cuddles named after Keith Harris's other puppet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com