Unreliable drinking buddies

[cailin maith]

If you dont know about Catweazle, you will miss a lot of cultural references from us oldies,

like
TellingBone
Sun in a bottle
Elec-trickery
Thou art truly a great magician
Nay, thou art a toad

We didn't have Catweazle on RTE, I don't think! I'll have to swot up about him

[DaveB]

That is a fellow called Catweazle. A bumbling wizard who escaped from the Normans by falling into a lake.
He emerged in 1960's England where he though that modern technology was all magic.
It was a television series

Catweazle

It was also the name of a proffesional wrestler back in the days of TV wrestling on ITV on Saturday afternoons. Real name was Gerry Cooper and he basically nicked the name and costume to use in the ring.

He'd turn up in a sack cloth robe rather than the usual colorfull satin befre revealing his scrawny frame in a stripy wresting suit and rather than wrestling in the normal fashion would taunt his opponents by runnning circles around them, tripping them up and generally refusing to come to grips with them.

[RichardCranium]

TellingBone
Elec-trickery

I don't think I have ever said the words "telephone" or "electricity" courtesy of Catweazle.

On a similar vein, I frequently need to "put my thinking head on" which gets said in a strange squeaky, yet throaty, voice.

[The Lone Gunman]

It was also the name of a proffesional wrestler back in the days of TV wrestling on ITV on Saturday afternoons. Real name was Gerry Cooper and he basically nicked the name and costume to use in the ring.

He'd turn up in a sack cloth robe rather than the usual colorfull satin befre revealing his scrawny frame in a stripy wresting suit and rather than wrestling in the normal fashion would taunt his opponents by runnning circles around them, tripping them up and generally refusing to come to grips with them.

Those were the days eh. He was funny. There were some real characters in wrestling back then.

[Drewster]

Those were the days eh. He was funny. There were some real characters in wrestling back then.

Bert Royal & Vic Vaulkner (sp)
Mick McManus
Mick McMichael
Shirley (Big Daddy) Crabtree
Kendo Nagasaki (although he might not always have been the same man)
John?? Masambulla

[EternalOptimist]

Bert Royal & Vic Vaulkner (sp)
Mick McManus
Mick McMichael
Shirley (Big Daddy) Crabtree
Kendo Nagasaki (although he might not always have been the same man)
John?? Masambulla

Jackie Pallow

[Drewster]

Jackie Pallow

Doh!!! Of course Jackie Pallow
Didn't his "son" also appear errrrr Jackie Pallow Jr.

[The Lone Gunman]

Brian Glover FFS before he bacame an actor lovey.

Les Kellet (I think was the name) possibly the oldest wrestler you ever saw who could run rings round the kids.

[DaveB]

Pat "Bomber" Roach - Later of Auf Widersein Pet
Giant Haystacks

[Drewster]

Pat "Bomber" Roach - Later of Auf Widersein Pet
Giant Haystacks

Bomber Roach..... Wasn't he about 6'8"... Ginger Hair... Hands like Hams... Ugly as f**k

Hey Churchill!! You don't talk like a Bumpkin from somewhere daarn in the West Cun'ry do you??

Just asking!