Oh I don't know Avant. I've got you down as a rather dapper sort of fellow, ever so slightly posh but not in an affected way. Nigel Havers-ish.....maybe slightly tweedier.
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The last time we went off down this ramble I confessed that I simply can't picture Lud as anyone other than a slightly brighter than real life, possibly more bohemian Leslie Phillips. I got told off for it then and I expect to again but there it is, a mental picture which won't shift.....
Ding....Dong !
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more bohemianLeslie Phillips.
I think there might be a helping of Dennis the Menace in the make up too Humph with the sharp satire as perfected by Ian Hislop, i can picture that elf like chuckle too, does Lud sport a stripey jumper i wonder..;)
Thats me in the firing line too.
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I wish I could guess your age HBB. You fascinate me. Modern Tudor house iirc, but that doesn't sit quietly with me. There's something amiss, but of course it's all in my mind. That's why books and radio (Wireless) are better than the Idiots Gold Fish bowl!!
Martin......D.
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Tsk... ding dong indeed.
For some reason HB (since you have chosen to repeat that caricature - frankly I prefer Bertie Wooster or even that lawyer fellow, but I couldn't afford Bertie's and don't like Rumpole's wardrobe) I think of you as having slightly wavy iron-grey hair and a tough-but-genial sort of Glasgow Italian style. Not sure if a tie but conventionally dressed and with of course impeccable shoes.
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Not too wide of the mark Lud except it's Edinburgh don't y'know with an alleged smidgen of Spanish and some Norwegian to complete the mongrel effect back along. The hair and shoes are more or less on the money but now almost exclusively jeans or shorts and a casual shirt of some kind. Used to be suited and booted a squillion years ago but now only wear a tie at funerals and a kilt at weddings......
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Rather shorter and fatter than Nigel H, I fear! - but I suppose a similar educational background. I was at prep school with his late wife's brother, Simon Williams, whom I meet occasionally - a charming man.
Humph, I imagine you as a genial, quite relaxed Scotsman.
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Rab C for example ?
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This is like reading a book when you form a clear picture of the characters, only to discover that they miscast the film.
I rather see Lud as a dashing version of James Hunt, had James reached a similar esteemed age.
Think I better sleep on it, before I describe anyone else ;-)
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Mmmm -New Proposition then - If HJ sold the film rights - who would be the stars to take on our roles :-
E.G. PU = Ricky Gervais.
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Here's my images:
I think you've all got Lud wrong. My guess is that he is in fact partly foreign; at least one of his grandparents is a refugee from central Europe, and another is either African or Southj Asian. Their conflicting quests for assimilation has led Lud to contrive his own take on the charmingly eccentric neo-curmudgeonly Englishman ... and the only flaw is that he manages all three so well, leading to the suspicion that somewhere inside it all is anarchic imp.
Pugugly is clearly a very handsome late-middle-aged lawyer, whose world-weariness has hard-earned at the coalface of out-of-hours visits to assorted miscreants in police cells. His grey-flecked hair lends him gravitas to offset the good looks, which is why he can get away with wearing suits that are way too old -- but were expensive to start with.
Westpig looks like a rugby player. Less than 6 foot tall, big-framed but not fat. His major concern in life is to apply some restraint to the sarcasm which develops after too many years of hearing lame excuses from the public.
Avant is more difficult. His writing leads me to think that he's a fairly quiet, thoughtful-but-not-overly-intellectual professional ... but his forum name makes me think of the weirdly sloping tailgates that used to adorn Audi Avants (like this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Audi_100_C3_Avant_1983....g ). So despite knowing it's wrong, I can't shake off a mental image of him as having a very odd-shaped face, possibly with a forehead that's recessed like a ski-slope.
With a name like that, J Bonington Jagworth should be a chubby 60-year-old with a bushy moustache, mostly bald but with some wild silvery hair and scruffy tweed clothes. However, such people rarely seem to have much time for self-mockery, so my image of JBJ is quite the opposite: an unassuming, somewhat short, man wearing thick glasses with clunky black plastic rims.
Stunorthants26 is clearly misleading us with his talk of weightlifting. He's clearly pictured in my mind as being built like a racing cyclist: short and thin but quite strong, with an untrendy short-but-not-skinhead haircut because it's not too much hassle. For some reason, he has red hair.
Helicopter is about 7 feet tall, and thin as a rake. His drak black hair is an apparently untamed mop like a 1960s Californian surfer, and he looks permanently preoccuppied.
Altea Ego is barely over five foot tall, totally bald and wears big round wire-rimmed glasses like an owl. He has a very stern face most of the time, which he uses as a disguise for a thoroughly boyish sense of mischief, the latter being displayed at entirely unexpected times.
Espada looks like a near-perfect clone of Robert Winston. Thick black hair, and a very expressive lived-in face, with wildly gesticulating hands. Oh, and glasses on a string. (Yes, I've seen the photos which show him looking entirely unlike this, but they are obviously wrong )
That's all. Sorry if any of these cause any offence -- I don't for a moment expect that any of them is remotely accurate. I'm looking fwd to a few wildly unflattering caricatures of me ;)
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Those are very good, NW - but I'm distraught that there isn't one for me. I'd like to confound your "not a prole" comment of last week by appearing in a set of paint-spattered overalls but I couldn't find a pair of those peculiar light brown boots with no fasteners in any of the shoe shops round here.
If it's any help, I imagine you as the lady Masters student who sits on the captain's left in the University Challenge team, taking serious but ever-so-subtly flirtatious interest in the three earnest young men to her right, while occasionally catching Paxman's eye for one of his Young People Nowadays moments.
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pretty close - my last suit was a Monsoon number in a light grey mohair mix about 18 months ago. Part of my exit strategy from the world of work was never to wear a tie again and I now own only two suits - in case of emergencies !! Went to a Governer's meeting on Friday in casuals - I was looked down upon somewhat !
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You're pretty sharp NW. My mother wasn't English although she had a European name, a Scottish mother and a firm belief in Englishness as well as the Catholic faith. The other side is Bristol and Gloucestershire though, with only the hint - rumour really, but there's no smoke without fire - of a Spanish sailor somewhere in the dim and distant.
A Kenyan met casually in Nairobi once asked me where I was from. Not wanting to say that annoying thing 'I'm British, actually...' I said I was English. He looked me up and down and said: 'You're not English.' I guess I've never been quite pink enough to really pass a serious racial scrutiny by an expert. But even when I was young there were lots of swarthy little Welshmen and South Africans and so on, so I could blend in more or less.
Heh heh. Let it all hang out and so on, comrades...
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Here's my images:>> Westpig looks like a rugby player. Less than 6 foot tall big-framed but not fat. His major concern in life is to apply some restraint to the sarcasm which develops after too many years of hearing lame excuses from the public.
Blimey, that's remarkably accurate...other than the big frame, has sort of become, er, a bit too big. But judging by some of the other admissions on here, it would seem i'm not alone.
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>>Stunorthants26 is clearly misleading us with his talk of weightlifting. He's clearly pictured in my mind as being built like a racing cyclist: short and thin but quite strong, with an untrendy short-but-not-skinhead haircut because it's not too much hassle. For some reason, he has red hair.<<
Haha, your accurate on the haircut although ive let it grow for the last 4 months and its now decidedly long and rakish according to the misses. Not red though! Brown but bleached blond streaks from working in the sun alot and getting a bit thinner than it used to be, and yes, I did grow it longer to see if I can still muster a full head of hair convincingly :-)
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I have no idea how now_wheels ended up with an almera
I always pictured her as a hippy with flowers in her hair, a long crochet dress, and driving a split screen vw camper with flowers painted down the side.,
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I have no idea how now_wheels ended up with an almera
It was an act of rebellion against my own stereotype ;-)
I always pictured her as a hippy with flowers in her hair a long crochet dress and driving a split screen vw camper with flowers painted down the side.
Haha! I have done some of that, and sometimes go back there in summer. But these days I am more usually to be found in a pair of cheap jeans, cheap top, and a fleece jacket, and crocs.
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oh no not Crocs - how disappointing.
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oh no not Crocs - how disappointing.
It's the same logic as the Almera -- no style, but minimal hassle.
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I secretly own a pair of cloth "man-Crocs" but only wear them abroad.
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I think my Crocs are the same logic as the Almera -- no style at all, but minimal hassle.
Throughout this "summer" (rain all the time) I wore only two types of footwear: Crocs or wellies. I like my wellies, especially since I have found a lightweight but robust pair which fit me perfectly and don't get left behind in the mud.
I think I am regressing to childhood, since I seemed to spend most of my early years in wellies. I have even managed to find a proper shop in which to buy them -- one where they are stashed in a big dusty jumble amongst assorted bits of minor agricultural equipment and tweed flat caps for the boys.
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NowWheels is the perfect illustration of that poem by Jenny Joseph which starts:
When I am old I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall soend my pension on summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.....
and ends:
But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
A long time to go, of course!
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I think Avant is late 50s, thick grey receding hair, eyebrows much darker, large glasses and wears a white shirt with the top button undone
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Should probably add that those of us who leave emails in our profiles can be tracked down on facebook
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I can't! Not on Facebook.
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NowWheels is the perfect illustration of that poem by Jenny Joseph which starts: When I am old I shall wear purple ... and ends: But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
Spot on! I was given a book of Jenny Joseph's poems over a decade ago, and immediately adopted the idea. I quote it whenever anyone comments on my particularly lurid tastes in Crocs.
A long time to go of course!
I wish! The years roll by faster than I thought they would.
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Now wheels said .......Helicopter is about 7 feet tall, and thin as a rake. His drak black hair is an apparently untamed mop like a 1960s Californian surfer, and he looks permanently preoccuppied......
The actuality is 6'1" and 16 stone ( most of it around the stomach) , rapidly greying hair in a number two cut like an ageing skinhead. Looking permanently preoccupied is correct... dealing with Middle East customers the cause....
NW's post does justify my image of her as Miss Marple, figuring out the facts of what backroomers are like from clues given in their posts and profiles.
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"Espada looks like a near-perfect clone of Robert Winston. Thick black hair, and a very expressive lived-in face, with wildly gesticulating hands. Oh, and glasses on a string. (Yes, I've seen the photos which show him looking entirely unlike this, but they are obviously wrong )"
"There are some similarities between us".............say he as he hits his child on the nose with a wildly gesticulating hand. Regretfully the noble Lord is both older and has more hair than me.
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Yeah, but I bet he'd be rubbish at valuing an office block in Salford !
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All my on-line stuff is done through a different e-mail to the one that I use on Facebook, therefore I should be difficult enough to track down although not impossible should someone really have that stalker's mentality!
I've had a good laugh reading through the descriptions on here, some of them are exactly how I pictured people as well, although I've got to admit, I always thought of Pug as sounding much younger than he probably actually is!
Was there another North West meet that I wasn't at? I remember making the journey down and meeting several of you guys, but am pretty sure we were sat near the window or something....
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Yeah - with Robbie, Adam and Mike (Borasport). At a pub on the East Lancs Road and we watched in wonderment Robbies electric tailgate go up and down several times!
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Yes that's it! I remember that bit, and IIRC the infamous gold Focus was there, and I was driving my black TDCi Sport at the time, it's all coming back to me now!
I still think I win the "Furthest Distance Travelled" for a meet award! :-)
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That's for sure.
Adam wasn't much more than around the corner, neither was Mike. It was a nice car that Focus.
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Thank you, NowWheels (I think). My nom-de-blog is actually taken from Peter Simple's original 'Way of the world' column in the Telegraph, JBJ being a moustachioed petrol-head who drove a 'Boggs Super-Oaf' at alarming speed everywhere, loudly denouncing policemen, pedestrians and any motorists in inferior vehicles, wherever he went. I'm not quite that bad, but I think I had more sympathy for him than his creator intended.
As for appearance, if you must know, I'm the third from the left in the Ace Cafe pic, just to HJ's right. I look better than that usually, though.. :-)
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third from the left in the Ace Cafe pic, just to HJ's right. I look better than that usually, though.. :-)
After another look at that photo, I know I'd never fit in. Far too scruffy.
If I'd known this was a website for world-class fops I'd never have got addicted to it.
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Rattle: our Anthony from "The Royle Family".
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Lud, they were all in their best bib and tucker to meet up with both HJ and their web acquaintances!
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"best bib and tucker to meet up with HJ"
Exactly. If we'd known what HJ was going to turn up in, we'd have been a lot more relaxed...
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Lud is the only one that really intreagues me. I have this this vision of Lud resembling the late Willie Rushton. I read his posts in my head with Willie's great booming voice.
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