Dick Swiveller
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- Sep 9, 2011
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This came up on the excellent BBC Archive Youtube channel today
Horace was a regular fixture at the various roundabouts between Worthing and Brighton on our family weekly visits to see grandparents.Doubt he needed any gym time walking around like that.
What is it with Worthing and nutters. That guy dressed up to the nines with a bicycle hanging about on roundabouts on a Sunday waving to or abusing motorists was another one around the same time.
Not forgetting the Thomas A Becket crossroads/traffic lights.Horace was a regular fixture at the various roundabouts between Worthing and Brighton on our family weekly visits to see grandparents.
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You’re thinking Mad MaryNot enough eccentric Brits about these days. Crawley had quite a few characters, eccentrics, odd balls and nutters when I was growing up.
Just sent the photo to a mate, his wife saw it and said he was as foul mouthed as they come on occasionI remember Horace (Bertie) with his reel to reel tape player/karaoke system singing old time songs by the entrance to the pier, then all of a sudden he introduced extremely foul language into the lyrics, proper fu** cu**bollock wank type stuff. Amused us as teenagers, might have upset others though.
Mad Mary, Steve the Weatherman, Bert the Bender, Mad Max, The Detectives also known as Bill and Ben.You’re thinking Mad Mary
I have met him. More flamboyant. In can literally hear him tutting.I was in a charity shop in Ruislip yesterday afternoon and I heard this bloke come in, shouting and remonstrating with himself and the world in general. I looked up from my perusal of slightly musty polo shirts to see s/he/they were dressed in a garish combination of ladies clothing and sporting a dishevelled grown out crop and a few days' beard growth.
At this point I want to make it clear that, although I've yet to meet him, I don't think this was @AmexRuislip . What happened next was that the 10 other customers started shooting each other nervous glances and edging away towards the door. I was left musing that such an occurrence must happen dozens of times down the London Road every day and how lucky we are to live in a town so forgiving & even welcoming of 'characters'.
Well I must confess I hadn't shaved on Monday and I was in Ruislip that afternoon, but was driving on way back home.I was in a charity shop in Ruislip yesterday afternoon and I heard this bloke come in, shouting and remonstrating with himself and the world in general. I looked up from my perusal of slightly musty polo shirts to see s/he/they were dressed in a garish combination of ladies clothing and sporting a dishevelled grown out crop and a few days' on Mondaybeard growth.
At this point I want to make it clear that, although I've yet to meet him, I don't think this was @AmexRuislip . What happened next was that the 10 other customers started shooting each other nervous glances and edging away towards the door. I was left musing that such an occurrence must happen dozens of times down the London Road every day and how lucky we are to live in a town so forgiving & even welcoming of 'characters.
Corrected for you? True!Well I must confess I hadn't shaved on Monday and I was in Ruislip that afternoon, but was driving on way back home.
The strangest thing was that i did catch a glimpse of some geezer wearing some white garb, shouting I love Hugh Grant
PS: I've got the all clear now