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Post by bearhunter on Oct 15, 2007 19:35:16 GMT
Hang on a minute - Jeremy Clarkson the fourth wittiest man in the UK? Are you all fucking mad? He's a complete tool. Fry I can understand, Milligan naturally, but even Wilde -- most people would name him purely because they think they should. Read his plays, he's clever, not funny.
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Post by Jim on Oct 15, 2007 19:59:32 GMT
Personally, John mccririck is madder than them all.
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Post by Blue Angel on Oct 15, 2007 20:17:50 GMT
i've always wondered what would have happened had wilde pursued a career in politics as his mother wanted him to - since he would have been allied to the home rule group of MPs in parliament it could have been quite ineresting especially as wilde has some quite nationalist moments at points in his life.
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Post by bearhunter on Oct 15, 2007 20:25:15 GMT
To be honest BA, I don't think he'd have amounted to much. His main aim was to be noticed and beautiful. Mind you, that's the same as most politicians, I suppose, so maybe he would have been fine.
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Post by bearhunter on Oct 16, 2007 19:18:01 GMT
More of a Wodehouse man myself. Or Evelyn Waugh. Wilde just makes me feel kinda empty inside. All style fuck-all substance. His father, however, was a fscinating and hilarious character. Once while defending a man against a charge of breach of promise (the guy had promised marriage to some woman and backed out after he'd got his end away) he approached the complainant and flung a penny at her roaring: "Here madam is the price of your honour! Now where's my change?"
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Post by earl on Oct 23, 2007 11:05:22 GMT
To be honest BA, I don't think he'd have amounted to much. His main aim was to be noticed and beautiful. Mind you, that's the same as most politicians, I suppose, so maybe he would have been fine. Politics is show business for ugly people. Spike Milligan was an Irishman too. |
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