Michael Whittaker is pretty much the only one who, A) doesn't comes off as a sexist creep, and B) sounds like he could be talking about a real woman. John Peel's answer is kinda funny too in that his standards are way lower than with most of these bozos.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:38 (seven years ago) link
Oliver Reed is probably the most vile, it's pretty incredible how much sexism and homophobia he manages to fit in such a short answer.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:40 (seven years ago) link
tbf yeah
― Check the BNM Pitchfork track review, it says Weezer too (imago), Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:41 (seven years ago) link
Pitman brings the PoMo with "What a daft question". Lichfield gets it right too. Peel narrowly misses with the "not aggressively sexy - just identifiably female" closer. All the others are either misogynistic (Ollie Reed, no surprise there), answering the question using their public persona (Lance Percival, Savile), or possibly trying to deflect the question with a joke (Lyell - Venus de Milo, she doesn't have any arms DOYOUSEE!?!?).
― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:42 (seven years ago) link
what a LAD he was though! what a legend! turned up drunk to every film set!! xp
― Check the BNM Pitchfork track review, it says Weezer too (imago), Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:43 (seven years ago) link
john pitman is the most common sense. michael whittaker seems like the most likely to have had a healthy relationship. joachim stein not bad but honesty and mystery a tricky combo
― ogmor, Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:43 (seven years ago) link
Lichfield seems a good choice for best yeah
― Check the BNM Pitchfork track review, it says Weezer too (imago), Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:44 (seven years ago) link
peel married a child irl so not surprised to hear of low standards
― wins, Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:44 (seven years ago) link
Jack Wild has the right idea imo.
I like the Earl of Lichfield's answer, but I think you need a certain amount of money to have everything happen to you "by chance", it's probably not an option for me.
― soref, Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:48 (seven years ago) link
everyone was very concerned about women's libbers in 72, eh
― ogmor, Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:51 (seven years ago) link
Fish was never married and has no children.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fish_(fashion_designer)
― Alba, Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:53 (seven years ago) link
John Peel's basically described Sheila, so hey.
They were probably an item by then
― Mark G, Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:54 (seven years ago) link
― soref, Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:48 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
:( you're probably right, revealing my weakness for moneyed flaneur types here
― Check the BNM Pitchfork track review, it says Weezer too (imago), Saturday, 28 January 2017 12:01 (seven years ago) link
I can't read the scans well enough on Zing so I voted John Hurt because he just died.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 28 January 2017 12:11 (seven years ago) link
lol
― wins, Saturday, 28 January 2017 12:13 (seven years ago) link
hahahha
:/
ahaha
― Check the BNM Pitchfork track review, it says Weezer too (imago), Saturday, 28 January 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
impossible to say how seriously this was being taken by any of them but reeds is the best obv
― Mother Teresa May I (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 January 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link
Based on his statement, Georgie Fame goes beyond Reed in the 'my interior monologue is Sid James going "Fwooooooooaaarr!" non-stop' stakes.
― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Saturday, 28 January 2017 13:07 (seven years ago) link
Georgie Fame's wife jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge iirc.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 28 January 2017 13:08 (seven years ago) link
Sad Bristols :/
― Alba, Saturday, 28 January 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
peel's child bride also a suicide, fact fans
― wins, Saturday, 28 January 2017 13:22 (seven years ago) link
a lot of these seem somewhat contradictory: honesty and love + distance and mystery; an independent woman who doesn't believe in this women's lib nonsense (ok, I know we still have some of those and they still get held up by Gamergating alt-righters as The Good Ones Not These SJW Monsters)
also I really, really hate "bird" (but not as much as "chick", thanks Jack Wild, or "dollies", thanks Johnnie Silvo, or argh yes "bristols")
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 28 January 2017 13:55 (seven years ago) link
I've known a few 'bull dykes', they were all lovely.
― Mark G, Saturday, 28 January 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
Sidney Shipton's is quite terrifying.
― Treeship, Saturday, 28 January 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link
Simon Oates' answer isn't offensive.
― Treeship, Saturday, 28 January 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link
lol that in 1970s britain 'becomes a baron on marrying' was a d-list celeb category
― j., Saturday, 28 January 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
Roger Collins (hairdresser from French of London): "So far there's always been something not quite right."
I can take a guess.
― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 January 2017 17:12 (seven years ago) link
David Broome didn't realise he wasn't supposed to give a normal answer
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Sunday, 29 January 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link
I want business cards that say "Show Jumper"
Anyhow, Where-Aren't-They-Now with these characters has become my latest hobby - I cannot stop being fascinated by the way certain people just fall off the rolls of history
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/predator-turned-prodigal-son-john-bentley-profile-1574976.html
He has, he hopes, finally settled down. After two further marriages, he is now living with a "bohemian Chelsea girl", and proudly presents a photograph of their 10-month-old daughter, Delilah. "I only go to local pubs now," he says. "I gave up my membership of Harry's Bar 10 years ago."
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 January 2017 02:03 (seven years ago) link
one assumes all of four of John's wives were naturally happy, and of course, beautiful.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 January 2017 02:04 (seven years ago) link
while they remained his wives youd imagine it was the latter but not the former
― Mother Teresa May I (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 January 2017 02:26 (seven years ago) link
how small a girl is weightlifter Brian Strange talking about?
― sarahell, Sunday, 29 January 2017 02:37 (seven years ago) link
under 322 kg, for sure http://marcolympics.org/jeux/1976/summer/lifting_r.php
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 January 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link
Brian Patten's is confusing. What "statements"?
― jmm, Sunday, 29 January 2017 03:23 (seven years ago) link
I genuinely had no idea Gyles Brandreth was a thing as far back as 1972. I sort of assumed he didn't exist before Countdown.
John Pitman seems reasonably unvile. Weird how a fashion designer wouldn't want a trendy wife (also, "trendy" is such a horrible 70s word). Imagine Britain producing two notable (ish) people called Michael Fish though.
― ailsa, Sunday, 29 January 2017 03:37 (seven years ago) link
re: Patten, I think he means statements about what people want in a wife. he seems very meta
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 January 2017 03:47 (seven years ago) link
yall are going pretty easy on whittaker's "maturity - that doesn't mean age"
code for "i want a college girl who will worship my great intellect"
― qualx, Sunday, 29 January 2017 04:26 (seven years ago) link
Next poll: knockers vs bristols.
― Johnny Cage - 4'33" Fatality (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 29 January 2017 05:16 (seven years ago) link
is there a u.s. tradition of calling them clevelands or something possibly
― j., Sunday, 29 January 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link
Isn't the Clifton Suspension bridge just outside Bristol. Cf Georgie Fame's wife, also the repeated use of the term throughout thread. Is it rhyming slang with a missing 2nd word or something?
― Stevolende, Sunday, 29 January 2017 07:35 (seven years ago) link
City
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 January 2017 07:42 (seven years ago) link
Of those not mentioned, Tom Nicholls isn't so bad.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 29 January 2017 09:47 (seven years ago) link
Bristol Cities = titties
― ailsa, Sunday, 29 January 2017 10:02 (seven years ago) link
Oates or Pitman
― niels, Sunday, 29 January 2017 10:12 (seven years ago) link
I thought Cosmopolitan was more liberated than this feature would indicate. Was that a later development?
― Stevolende, Sunday, 29 January 2017 10:30 (seven years ago) link
Don't worry, ladies, Ian McKellen, Ned Sherrin, Robert Carrier and Peter Wyngarde are just playing hard to get.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 January 2017 12:52 (seven years ago) link
Pitman is unintentional in his double-meaning and accurate vision but the better for it
To lay it out with a bit of cheese
Some fall in love the hardest (passionately) with the people they aren't consciously interrogating to see if they meet a list of requirements
And as soon as they find a total babe and things seem to click, she runs away with the burtons of the world, the dick that doesn't deserve her and probably treats her like crap and all of us are left thinking why are you even with this guy
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Sunday, 29 January 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
Isn't the Clifton Suspension bridge just outside Bristol. Cf Georgie Fame's wife, also the repeated use of the term throughout thread. Is it rhyming slang with a missing 2nd word or something?― Stevolende, Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:35 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkCity― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:42 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Stevolende, Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:35 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:42 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Maze.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Sunday, 29 January 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Georgie Fame is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance, too.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Sunday, 29 January 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
I read this as tongue in cheek? Helen Gurley Brown was the editor in the US at this point, running spreads of naked Burt Reynolds and stuff.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 January 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link
running spreads of naked Burt Reynolds and stuff.
Huh, this was actually the same issue, April 1972.
https://img1.etsystatic.com/028/0/6504358/il_570xN.614482607_op9t.jpg
― jmm, Sunday, 29 January 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
(xp) I have the album, a fine album it is too.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 January 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
Nope, this is from the second ever issue of Cosmo UK, I suspect
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/more/a15293/first-ever-cosmo-issue/
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 January 2017 21:32 (seven years ago) link
Quiz: Could You Be President
Among the most quaint ideas from 1972, the idea a woman could be elected president.
― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Sunday, 29 January 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0060/4882/products/COSMOPOLITAN_3179_1024x1024.jpg?v=1344173123
― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Sunday, 29 January 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link
'Catchable Bachelors'
― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Sunday, 29 January 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
Ah, right, that makes sense.
"Mister Germaine Greer", aka Paul du Feu.
― jmm, Sunday, 29 January 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
https://solidgoldcreativity.com/2011/08/26/who-on-earth-is-paul-du-feu-phenomenal-man/
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 January 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3320728/Country-notebook-drunken-ex-husband.html
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 January 2017 21:50 (seven years ago) link
― Stevolende, Sunday, January 29, 2017 4:30 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
these attitudes were mildly progressive in 1972, it was just that bad
― mh 😏, Sunday, 29 January 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
Somehow I had basically missed the existence of Oliver Reed until this thread. Watched the Carson clip with Shelley Winters last night. Wow, what a piece of work.
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:38 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you've been missing out on this horrible 70s autobiography title:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/dc/b2/96/dcb2964b1821050fbf1617c7729b9e76.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 29 January 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
don't think I've ever seen a bad photo of Oliver Reed
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ps9PpILba70/VqSBwD53WOI/AAAAAAAAGoU/hppSk4-1n-o/s1600/oliver_reed_tweed_pig_sweater.JPG
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01390/oliver_reed_best_1390199c.jpg
http://cfile223.uf.daum.net/R400x0/216EFD42558681D60861A0
― soref, Sunday, 29 January 2017 23:14 (seven years ago) link
No idea who that Max de Trense is but hes a bit of orright.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 29 January 2017 23:19 (seven years ago) link
counterpoint xp
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PAlacrwn-BM/hqdefault.jpghttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/9_hBnSkQZCQ/hqdefault.jpghttp://media.npr.org/assets/artslife/arts/2010/03/hellraisers/reed3-df136dccd00fff35e2bfbda60a680bfa1b727ff0-s300-c85.jpg
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 29 January 2017 23:20 (seven years ago) link
ok, add "taken pre-1980" to the end of that
― soref, Sunday, 29 January 2017 23:21 (seven years ago) link
fair
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 29 January 2017 23:22 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbfvaWcQ9uo
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 January 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
I remember watching this at the time and, along with a lot of other people it seems, finding myself rushing to stuff a video in the VCR to try to record it.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 January 2017 23:30 (seven years ago) link
Jimmy Saville - "women? I have no idea. maybe a car?"hmmm....
― Frobisher, Monday, 30 January 2017 00:11 (seven years ago) link
HERMAN'S HERMITS STILL BEING A THING IN 1972
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 January 2017 03:23 (seven years ago) link
you've been missing out on this horrible 70s autobiography title
lol, thank you for that
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Monday, 30 January 2017 05:15 (seven years ago) link
(becomes a hermit on marrying)
SIDNEY SHIPTON(Chairman: Zionist Federation):Firstly she must be prepared to be associated with me as a founder of Men's Lib ... She should be ... not more intelligent than me.
Firstly she must be prepared to be associated with me as a founder of Men's Lib ... She should be ... not more intelligent than me.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 00:25 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 3 February 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 4 February 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
landslide
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 February 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
^^^voted for reed
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 February 2017 03:21 (seven years ago) link
"Nice legs and big bristols!" says the guy who then married the Marchioness of Londonderry.
― everything, Saturday, 4 February 2017 06:03 (seven years ago) link
oliver reed among others playing to female question-asker obv
ie how can i make her the most uncomfortable & still answer the question
(gods truth just redact oliver's answer & everything that comes out of his mouth & vote on the photo)
benny hill & that au pair fella eeeeuuughhh barfbag plz
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 February 2017 07:14 (seven years ago) link
It's not obvious that the question-asker is female? Also I think there's some normalisation here - the 1970s were just a different world.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 4 February 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
https://myspace.com/guineaworms/music/song/oliver-reed-20332963-20134148
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 February 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
Oliver says the woman must "like to dominated"...https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=alGnWiFurys
― everything, Sunday, 5 February 2017 02:26 (seven years ago) link
I'm not sure Benny Hill would address another man as "dear heart"
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 5 February 2017 02:34 (seven years ago) link
shirley percival
― Mother Teresa May I (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 February 2017 10:04 (seven years ago) link
Benny Hill probably would use "dear heart" with either sex, it's a (possibly affected) local dialect thing.
― sheer presence, look and size (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2017 10:14 (seven years ago) link
interesting that Pitman wins this vote when his implied misogyny is laid on much thicker than some of the others
― sheer presence, look and size (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2017 10:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah wtf that isn't remotely the best answer
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Sunday, 5 February 2017 10:35 (seven years ago) link
(Googles)(notes manner and location of death)(winces)
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 5 February 2017 10:57 (seven years ago) link
? I just found him self-critical, tbh. "no one that good'd go out with the likes of me anyway".
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 6 February 2017 04:32 (seven years ago) link
I think, having spent far too much time on this, I like Tim Nicholls' answer the best. All I can find on him are several videos of the BBC1 signoffs from the eighties.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 6 February 2017 05:00 (seven years ago) link
for reasons i never discovered -- possibly distaste for his comedy stylings, possibly some anecdote not passed down -- my dad *detested* lance percival
― mark s, Saturday, 25 June 2022 11:03 (one year ago) link
did not know the child bride and sexual abuse stuff re: Peel, ugh
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 25 June 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
"Teenage Kicks" definitely gonna hit different the next time I hear it.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 June 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link