He did too. Stone cold classic.
― moley, Thursday, 8 November 2007 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Weirdo
― Tom D., Thursday, 8 November 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Sir Jimmy mugged for his glasses Sir Jimmy said he would give his mugger a box of chocolates Sir Jimmy Savile has been mugged by a woman in Leeds - but described it as a "marvellous" experience. The veteran star, aged 81, said the female thief made off with his John Lennon-style glasses as he was leaving a function at the Queens Hotel.
Sir Jimmy has reported it to police but compared his experience to when he was chased by fans in the 1960s.
"The fact I've not been mugged for over 50 years, I thought it was marvellous, it was just like old times," he said.
The former DJ and TV presenter, who lives in Roundhay, said he was walking down the hotel's corridor at about midnight on Wednesday when the woman pounced.
'Gave me a thrill'
"She was walking alongside me and the next thing she reaches up - I thought she was going to give me an embrace but she grabbed my glasses and took off down the corridor," he said.
"I thought, I've been mugged. How wonderful."
Sir Jimmy said that the unexpected theft hadn't left him unable to see as he has a spare pair of glasses.
He added: "I've told the police that if the girl turns up and I get my glasses back, I will give her a box of chocolates for giving me a 1950s thrill in 2007."
― Mark G, Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
y'all missed this.
― Mark G, Monday, 19 November 2007 09:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I bet he had the tracksuit on too.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 19 November 2007 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
RIP
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 19 November 2007 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link
So did he fix it or what?
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 19 November 2007 10:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Sir Jimmy Savile has been reunited with his glasses days after they were snatched by a female prankster. British Transport Police (BTP) have fixed it for the veteran star to get his John Lennon style spectacles back.
The glasses were snatched from Sir Jimmy's face as he left a function at the Queen's Hotel in Leeds last week.
The 81-year-old, who lives in the city's Roundhay area, compared the experience to being chased by fans in the 1960s and said it was "marvellous".
'String vests'
Sir Jimmy told the BBC that it was good old fashioned detective work that had tracked down his glasses.
He said officers had found out the woman's identity and tracked her down to a bar in Leeds over the weekend where they retrieved his glasses.
A spokeswoman for BTP said the woman had snatched his spectacles as "a bit of a prank" and that no further action would be taken against her.
Sir Jimmy said: "If this lady wants a souvenir, I do a good line in wearing string vests and if she wants to wrestle it off me then that's perfectly fine."
― Mark G, Monday, 19 November 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
today seems to be the Saville day, for some reason.
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 February 2008 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Owowowowowowoo Mr Forever Guy Clif-FORD Rich-ARD going down one place at. A. Time as befitting a good re-CORD Wind Me Up Open Brackets Let Me Go Close Brackets You See Uncle Ted the one and OWN-ly Mr P J Pro Bee goodness gracious naughty Mr Sir Judge Dread sir SEE NO REA SON Dignified Don
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 14 February 2008 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Dognified Ding!
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 February 2008 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Over my dead body.
― The Boyler, Thursday, 14 February 2008 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
A girl I used to go out with was a nurse at one of the hospitals Jimbo volunteered at, she said he was creepy creepy creepy, none of the nurses ever wanted to be left alone in the same room as him
― Tom D., Thursday, 14 February 2008 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember a popbitch rumour about him, which my comment refers to.
― The Boyler, Thursday, 14 February 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, yeah there's a 'thinly disguised' character in an Irvine Welsh book, etc...
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 February 2008 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
THE SAVILE I KNEW WAS NO <CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT>
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, but that was Peter Saville, right?
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
It might have been Jimmy Pursey.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I have a phone number in my phone which belonged to a friend of mine before me, which said friend claims to be the actual phone number of Jimmy Savile. It doesn't work, but my pal swears he has talked to Jimmy Savile on it in the past. There's a story of why he would at least theoretically have his phone number, but I can't remember what it is.
― ailsa, Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Is he a mortician?
― Tom D., Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
haha, no.
― ailsa, Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
says he's a beautician...
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
...not that I understand what you mean at all, oh no, hello lawyers!
― ailsa, Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/25/article-1154984-03A97ED3000005DC-871_468x614.jpg
― joe, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
man number four in "blur my face plz", um... grin.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Saville breaking the law I see.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
He's got skates on as well
― ducking kiosk monkey (onimo), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought Sutcliffe was Adam Buxton for a second.
― chap, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
That's a very strange handshake, btw.
Where is frank's thumb?
(Surely not freemasons!)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
full story: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2270180.ece
― joe, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I've gotta rep for the Ripper keeping his trademark hair and beard all these years, instead of shaving and getting a bit of an easier life maybe.
― Bernard's Butler (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Posted by: Refo
Shame on you Frank, whats next..shake hands with the suicide bombers..???
― joe, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't fathom why Jimmy Saville would want to hang around with someone famous for murdering women and carelessly dumping the bodies around Yorkshire
― Luka ModReq (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
This photo was taken 18 years ago, he might have got rid of the beard by now. Also Saville probably not breaking the law.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Grim Gordon Brown has put his foot down and said that Sutcliffe will never be released.
Great! We can ignore all expert opinions, stop hiring doctors and professionals and allow the tabloids to dictate Government policy. The same tabloids who pay 13-year-old criminals, put them on their front pages and encourage others to do the same.
― Bernard Braden Misreads Stephen Leacock (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Which "13-year-old criminals"?
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
ALL OF THEM!!!
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
After chatting to Ronnie, Big Frank spotted the Yorkshire Ripper leaning back on a window ledge.
Damn, Broadmoor was one long party back in the 90s.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
the romance of the prison system
― Reflex Gaffe (country matters), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
the horror of realising that '18 years ago' is now 1991
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Why do all the posters on The Sun HYS think that Sutcliffe has never stood trial? Very odd.
Beard hides scars from when he was attacked in Parkhurst.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link
― piscesx, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Great bit of publicity there for Capital Gold.
― www.morrissey-cock.com (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Sutcliffe is travelling through time on a magical island!
http://z.about.com/d/lost/1/0/o/Y/-/-/Daniel-Phone.jpg
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
While also working as a traffic warden...
― snoball, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently at first the guys followed police directions to sutcliffe and got stuck in a blind alley in wearside
― admin log special guest star (DG), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Just sayin.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
damn
― jed_, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Still so.
― Mark G, Friday, 10 December 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
unbelievably...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
oh aye, he was a character alright
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 June 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/ad_152781151.jpg
A company has brought out a card game called ‘British Nonces’ similar to Top Trumps where you compete using cards with well known perverts, paedophiles and killers as the subject. The roster of 52 includes the likes of Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris and late MP Cyril Smith. Categories for the game are as follows: physical threat, slipperiness, cockiness, offences, remorse and ‘nonceoriety’.
"The Spymaster from PIE"
― calzino, Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:09 (five years ago) link
the man from noncle
― repartee is deft (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link
paedophilia is SO funny
― Arthur Funzonerelli (stevie), Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:37 (five years ago) link
come off it Stevie, half of my family were abused by the catholic church and still like dark lols, without humour some of us might give up!
― calzino, Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link
mind you, I heard Jimmy S considered paedophilia to be a very serious business.
― calzino, Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:46 (five years ago) link
I was going to do a joke about PIEty, but I might going in 51 territory here!
― calzino, Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:55 (five years ago) link
https://i2-prod.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article15786722.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/1_rolf3.jpg
nothing to see here, just on old man going about his daily business. Which just by chance happened to be within the grounds of a primary on this day...
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:08 (five years ago) link
school
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:09 (five years ago) link
what am i looking at here
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:12 (five years ago) link
Rolf Harris in the grounds of a primary school, allegedly was waving at the children and was escorted out by the headmaster.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:13 (five years ago) link
i can tell what it is now
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:15 (five years ago) link
Loving kids not wisely but too well
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:15 (five years ago) link
the paedo-hunter bat signal was down on this day obv :p
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:17 (five years ago) link
this is probably another iconic scene that the tool out of The Auteurs will make a painting of at some point.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:22 (five years ago) link
what's the symbol projected from the paedo-hunter signal i wonder
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:24 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/New_F4J_sticker.jpg/250px-New_F4J_sticker.jpg
― Neil S, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:25 (five years ago) link
Specsavers going in hard
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:26 (five years ago) link
a big PIE in the sky!
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:28 (five years ago) link
lol
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:28 (five years ago) link
Can see the Sun headline, "What Is Rolf Didgeridoing In A School Playground?"
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:29 (five years ago) link
(xp) lol, perfect.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:30 (five years ago) link
I don't think he's on anything like the same Caligula-like scale but he does constantly remind me of Boris Johnson, a similar confidence trickster using TV, media, sentimentality, charity, 'eccentricity' and a similar 'yes, I actually am a gangster' double-bluff— Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) May 9, 2020
hatherley drawing some interesting + otm parallels here
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:11 (three years ago) link
Also, shit hairstyles
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
Should read that book but don’t know if I could handle it presently
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:24 (three years ago) link
I think i'm going to dive in, lol a month after finishing vol 2 of Ullrich's Hitler biog!
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:26 (three years ago) link
the dan davies book is p good tho -- unless there's a updated post #metoo edition -- it felt like he was pulling some of his punches (at least that's what i felt when i read it)
in terms of "in plain sight" saville's own "as it happens" is a good deal grimmer
lol i couldn't even finish the first paragraph of the david hare review, just take this guy's pen away forever plz
― mark s, Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:40 (three years ago) link
delete "tho" which is a relic of this post when written in a different order (take my pen away also)
Nobody give me a pen because it looks to me like tho works fine in that sentence
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:47 (three years ago) link
it implies a qualification of a fellow poster's opinion that i did not intend to make, harmless as it seems
― mark s, Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
grimmer police
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link
learning since i posted that the book was extremely heavily lawyered which may explain the aspect which frustrates me -- i shd reread it probably
― mark s, Sunday, 10 May 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EozUAEWWMAEmatf?format=jpg&name=900x900
yoikes! I can vaguely remember in the 70's when my my mum was a registered childminder he was the face of registered childminding. I know I'm not making this up because I can clearly remember some govt childminding pamphlet in the house with a pic of a black haired Savile on the cover.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
Jerry OTM ... in 1987! nowthennowthen young Billy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwUHNGq96iw
― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
saw sadowitz in a pub in ealing once, rehearsing his tour, and it was one of the funniest things i’ve seen (partly because it definitely wasn’t for a lot of the people there). then i went to see pretty much exactly the same show at the royal festival hall (bit weird) and it felt offensive and flat.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
possibly worth noting i generally loathe comedy and esp stand up comics (numerous notable exceptions aside)
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
god how pompous. but i just don’t like the whole stand up comedy thing. every fibre of me resists violently.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link
agree. there's just something cringe about the whole setup. an audience pays to have someone be funny for them. no wonder so many stand-up comics are assholes. i'm not sure why i don't feel this way about theater. the older i get the more my definition of humor turns to spontaneous riffing among friends.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
OTM. Jerry is a magician though! I mean, literally a magician.
― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
You'll like this you cunt, not a lot, but you'll like it! tbf he was a much better magician than Paul Daniels and he's often made me laugh than any comedians do.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
more
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 20:15 (two years ago) link