What I Want In A Wife article from Cosmopolitan (April 1972) - least vile man on this list?

Georgie Fame's wife jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge iirc.

Sad Bristols :/

peel's child bride also a suicide, fact fans

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")

I've known a few 'bull dykes', they were all lovely.

Sidney Shipton's is quite terrifying.

Simon Oates' answer isn't offensive.

lol that in 1970s britain 'becomes a baron on marrying' was a d-list celeb category

Roger Collins (hairdresser from French of London): "So far there's always been something not quite right."

I can take a guess.

David Broome didn't realise he wasn't supposed to give a normal answer

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."

one assumes all of four of John's wives were naturally happy, and of course, beautiful.

while they remained his wives youd imagine it was the latter but not the former

how small a girl is weightlifter Brian Strange talking about?

under 322 kg, for sure http://marcolympics.org/jeux/1976/summer/lifting_r.php

Brian Patten's is confusing. What "statements"?

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.

re: Patten, I think he means statements about what people want in a wife. he seems very meta

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"

Next poll: knockers vs bristols.

is there a u.s. tradition of calling them clevelands or something possibly

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?

City

Of those not mentioned, Tom Nicholls isn't so bad.

Bristol Cities = titties

Oates or Pitman

I thought Cosmopolitan was more liberated than this feature would indicate. Was that a later development?

Don't worry, ladies, Ian McKellen, Ned Sherrin, Robert Carrier and Peter Wyngarde are just playing hard to get.

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

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 Permalink

City

― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:42 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maze.

Georgie Fame is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance, too.

I thought Cosmopolitan was more liberated than this feature would indicate. Was that a later development?

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.

the design of this feature is just as offensive as the opinions expressed within it tbh

yeah the way it abandons alphabetical order 3/4 of the way through page 2 is bothering me a lot

lol that in 1970s britain 'becomes a baron on marrying' was a d-list celeb category

― j., Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:42 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah imho this is hilarious enough to offset any amount of alphabetical or layout goofery. also lol at all their terrible unappealing glamour shots.

dang john hurt, i thought you were cool

I think what we've learned is that nearly nobody was cool in 1972.

What are some other years in which it was nigh-impossible to be cool?

I'd like to think some of these attitudes, er, evolved over the subsequent decades. Certainly Sheila thoroughly educated Peel in this regard; I'd like to think Hurt grew up a bit too. Most of them were likely sexist pigs to their graves/dotage.

yeah you'd like to think they'd be mortified to read this now but who knows

luckily many of them are mortified anyway so

chairman: zionist federation

That's what I call an eligible bachelor.

i like tom courtenay's 'in my thirty-four years...' next to a picture of him looking, at best, fifty-eight

sidney shipton not just the chairman of the Zionist federation but also the founder of men's lib - form an orderly queue, ladies

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.

envy you your years of innocence

nice thread but unlike the rest of you i don't pass judgement on other ppl's sexual preferences, so...

haha groovy man

new board descrip

wokebag

Don't worry, ladies, Ian McKellen, Ned Sherrin, Robert Carrier and Peter Wyngarde are just playing hard to get.

I do appreciate that Peter Wyngarde provided the most possible Peter Wyngarde-esque answer to the question put towards him.

Jimmy Saville - "women? I have no idea. maybe a car?"
hmmm....

HERMAN'S HERMITS STILL BEING A THING IN 1972

you've been missing out on this horrible 70s autobiography title

lol, thank you for that

(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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

landslide

^^^voted for reed

"Nice legs and big bristols!" says the guy who then married the Marchioness of Londonderry.

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

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.

https://myspace.com/guineaworms/music/song/oliver-reed-20332963-20134148

Oliver says the woman must "like to dominated"...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=alGnWiFurys

I'm not sure Benny Hill would address another man as "dear heart"

shirley percival

Benny Hill probably would use "dear heart" with either sex, it's a (possibly affected) local dialect thing.

interesting that Pitman wins this vote when his implied misogyny is laid on much thicker than some of the others

yeah wtf that isn't remotely the best answer

"Nice legs and big bristols!" says the guy who then married the Marchioness of Londonderry.

(Googles)
(notes manner and location of death)
(winces)

interesting that Pitman wins this vote when his implied misogyny is laid on much thicker than some of the others

? I just found him self-critical, tbh. "no one that good'd go out with the likes of me anyway".

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.

for reasons i never discovered -- possibly distaste for his comedy stylings, possibly some anecdote not passed down -- my dad *detested* lance percival

did not know the child bride and sexual abuse stuff re: Peel, ugh

"Teenage Kicks" definitely gonna hit different the next time I hear it.