R.i.p. Clive James

[Inhapi]

I'll always fondly remember his hilarious lookback at the year 1991:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faeFrtiTiYU

[Stuart Galbraith]

Yes, he was really good, he always had a good yearly wrapup. I dont think ive watched a new years eve event on TV since.

 

The only consolation Is that the man got 10 more years than he thought he had, and well done on him for that.

[DougRichards]

A loss to the Empire

[Stuart Galbraith]

I was listening to an Aussie friend of his on the news this morning, supposedly he never knew his father. His father was captured by the Japanese, and survived that just fine. Then he died in a plane crash on the way home....

 

Sometimes life is unspeakably cruel. Which I guess accounts for his stoicism and sense of humour.

Edited November 28, 2019 by Stuart Galbraith

[DougRichards]

Quotes

 

On Arnold Schwarzenegger: He has a body like a condom full of walnuts.

 

On Barbara Cartland: Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

 

On George W Bush: Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

 

I still haven’t forgiven C.S. Lewis for going on all those long walks with J.R.R. Tolkien and failing to strangle him, thus to save us from hundreds of pages dripping with the wizardly wisdom of Gandalf and from the kind of movie in which Orlando Bloom defiantly flexes his delicate jaw at thousands of computer-generated orcs. In fact it would have been ever better if C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien could have strangled each other, so that we could also have been saved from the Chronicles of Narnia.

[Stuart Galbraith]