I would hire a bunch of black fellas
and dress them up like this fine chap and pay them all £50k a year to just to hang around my mansion having a laugh.

Alt. I was hypocritical the day I purchased proper cycling clothes in order to go faster. They do indeed make you go faster but I swore I never would.
( Peej, Fri 3 Aug 2012, 9:42, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I say, he looks like a jolly little cove.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 3 Aug 2012, 9:43, Reply)

until 5 mins after this painting was finished he was stripped and sent back to the cellar

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 3 Aug 2012, 9:45, Reply)

I thought of a book that you will like
"This thing of Darkness" by Harry Thompson, it's a biographical novel of Darwin's first voyage on the Beagle. It is fascinating and excellent in equal measures.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 3 Aug 2012, 9:46, Reply)

I quite fancy a 'voyage on the beagle' myself,
might wake me up a bit.

That does sound very much like my kind of book actually.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 3 Aug 2012, 9:50, Reply)

Harry Thompson created Have I got news for You, amognst other popular TV shows
he also wote the excellent "Penguins Stop Play" about a village craicket team who go on a world tour, you'll probably like that less.

Cancer got him aged just 45, for eva in r hartz and bookshelves
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 3 Aug 2012, 9:52, Reply)

seems inefficient somehow

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 3 Aug 2012, 9:44, Reply)