Ex-Pistol Steve Jones seen yesterday
Yikes...!
It was 30 years ago this very day that Steve Jones didst tell Bill Grundy live on television, at about teatime, that he was a "dirty fucker" and a "fucking rotter".
"I don't believe it!" as Richard "Victor Meldrew" Wilson might say...(the 17th most eligible male in Scotland, who beat restauranteur David Bann into 18th place)
Of course, I didn't see it as it was a London regional news programme.
I would have been glued to "Scotland Today" or "Reporting Scotland" while this groundbreaking event was taking place down South.
We did fully experience the enormous outrage and fallout stemming from this event in Scotland though...
"The Filth And The Fury" is the most memorable tabloid headline associated with this volcanic event.
The language is quite tame by 2006 standards...but in 1976 it was scandalous.
There were various stories doing the rounds (probably bollocks) of people putting their foot through their TV screens, such was their moral outrage.
It was an exciting time to be young, stupid and very impressionable.
All of a sudden "Punk" went from being an underground movement to a dominant position in yoof culture virtually overnight.
My Jeff Wayne "War Of The Worlds" concept album was swiftly abandoned never to be played again (well not for a while)...
So what makes Britain great?
Well, I think one of the things that we do better than any other race on the planet is our ability to form an orderly queue.
It is what makes us special.
Our global influence has certainly declined.
However we can still cling on to this as trait to be envied.
On a different tack, one thing we lack in Britain is a national dance.
They have the hat dance in Mexico, that odd Greek dance with men with pom poms on their shoes, Russian Cossack dancing etc etc
I know England has Morris Dancing and Scotland has Highland Dancing...but there's not a specific British dance.
How about making it The Conga?
It also celebrates our ability to form an orderly queue...
In fact a new law should be passed that when a queue forms with 10 people in it, they should spontaneously break into a conga dance, wherever the situation.
Just a thought.
1 comment:
nothing to do with the blog, but i thought you'd appreciate this comment about a film from the US:
'there are inside English jokes that Americans may not understand such as "England loses on penalty kicks" which is a modern football tradition in the UK'
i knew it happened a lot but didn't realise it was a tradition! Maybe you could take this into account in future betting?
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