Not sure it is worth a separate post but I didn’t know where else to post so please forgive me if you think it could have gone somewhere else.
I have always been fond of a good put-down from the time I heard the famous Churchill one against Lady Aster (?). At dinner one evening Lady A said to him ‘Sir, you are very drunk’. He is alleged to have replied ‘& madam, you are very ugly. However, in the morning, I will be sober’.
For the first time yesterday I came across comedian Paul Whitehouse interviewing Eric Clapton & Glynn Johns in 2016 after the release of EC’s ‘I still do’ album:-
PW ‘It’s a pleasure to be speaking to both the extremely legendary guitarist Eric Clapton & the also extremely legendary record producer Glynn Johns. Now, before we start lets get it clear. Who’s who?’
“You look like a bag of sick loosely tied in the middle”
Said to me from my old grammar school English teacher.
Based on my appropriation of the uniform shirt tucked into trousers.
Unforgettable.
And, he was a really nice chap.
( He should have taught at boris’s school and given this advice)