Serious: What did Wal Greenslade die of?
Tony
(Please hold off the smart answers until someone has given a useful answer!)
MartinS
Apparently he died of a heart attack while "at stool".
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Martin S.
Pope Pie (Sy Lehrman)
"Tony" <fr...@list.afraid.org> wrote in message
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> Anyone got details of what killed dear Wallace?
>
You obviously haven't read much of the goings on here if you expect a
serious reply.
bottlebleu
>
> (Please hold off the smart answers until someone has given a useful answer!)
I know it was on a toilet in a pub - I think it was a heart attack.
nemo
bottlebleu <bottl...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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(True.) My Uncle Fred beats that. He was home on leave during the highly
naughty WW2 when a bomb fell on his house and blew him clean into the
outside toilet, where he landed upside-down and stone dead.
The odd thing was: he had such a terrific sense of humour it's quite
possible that he would have preferred to go that way!
The really sad thing was: the shock drove his wife, my Aunt Lil, out of her
mind for a time and she never fully recovered.
Bleedin' Hitler!!!
BTW: The original Invisible Man is on Beeb Beeb Ceeb Twoob at the moment and
the cop etc. are chasing a shirt round the room. Not bad FX for those days
and damned funny.
David Bromage
> (True.) My Uncle Fred beats that. He was home on leave during the highly
> naughty WW2 when a bomb fell on his house and blew him clean into the
> outside toilet, where he landed upside-down and stone dead.
On a similar note is a story my grandfather swore is 100% true. His
Uncle Stan had been in World War Episode 1 and come home more than a
little bomb happy. From 1918 until the day he died, everything that went
wrong on the farm or anywhere else was blamed on the Kaiser.
Postman late? The Kaiser's fault, of course.
Horse threw a shoe? The Kaiser's fault.
Hens not laying? It's the bloody Kaiser's fault!
Stubbed his toe on the step? That bloody Kaiser again!!!!!
Anyway, come the outbreak of World War Episode 2 and, well... you can
imagine whose fault THAT was.
On the day that Australia officially joined the war, the outside toilet
(ye olde "long drop") developed a fouler than usual smell. He had just
heard the man who did Prime Minister impressions on the wireless, so
decided to exact his revenge on the bloody Kaiser and all those other
bloody Germans. He doused the outhouse with kerosene and set it on fire.
Take that, Hitler! Oops, I mean Wilhelm!
Cheers
David
nemo
David Bromage <dbro...@omni.com.NOSPAMTHANKYOU.au> wrote in message
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The police investigated but had nothing to go on.
Judith Jacobs
I didn't wish to know that. (But apparently someone did.)
--Judith
Tony
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This question has been asked here before, and the answer at:
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From: "Graeme R. Foot"
Subject: Re: How did mike and Wally get deaded?
Date: 1999/10/22
According to Peter Eton, ace producer, interviewed for the GSPS in about
1976, I believe that Wal "just quietly exploded one day in the john..."
which sounds a rather undignified and Mr. Creosotish ending for our Wal.
1961, it was. That's all we know.
Agrees with the consenus here ...
Sound like an urban legend, but difficult to disprove (I don't suppose it
is so described on the death certificate :-)
nemo
Go to Somerset House and have a look. Then after you've seen all the silver
and micro-mosaics and pain tings you can go to the Pubic Records Office and
Kew up to see his death certificate.
Pope Pie (Sy Lehrman)
"nemo" <ne...@naughtylust.wet> wrote in message
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>
> The really sad thing was: the shock drove his wife, my Aunt Lil, out of
her
> mind for a time and she never fully recovered.
>
With all due respect to your aunt, I am struck by the conjunction of "never
fully recovered" and "for a time." Is this an example of that famous
English understatement?
nemo
Pope Pie (Sy Lehrman) <lao...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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the time I'd arrived on the scene she was just a bit, well, odd.
She got caught in the bomb blast too BTW.
That Hitler's got a lot to answer for!
Pope Pie (Sy Lehrman)
"nemo" <ne...@naughtylust.wet> wrote in message
Midwestern American who's grandmother grew up speaking German in Chicago I
must point out that my anti-German sentiments are strictly personal.
Grrrr....
(Stalks of muttering.....)
Grrr......
Sorry, I do that occasionally.....
>
nemo
She was really out of it for a time but by the time I appeared on the scene,
nine months after my dad was demobbed - surprise surprise! - she was just a
little strange.
David Simpson
furiously:
This one appeared here yesterday.
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Regards
David Simpson
Old age and treachery will always overcome
youth and skill.
nemo
David Simpson <faro...@picknowl.com.au> wrote in message
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Madder Dan
nemo
Madder Dan <c...@dammitchc2.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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Announcers:
Andrew Timothy
Andrew Timothy was the original announcer, (1951-1953). He also announced
"The Last Goon Show of them All" in 1972, as Wallace Greenslade was excused
due to death.
Wallace Greenslade
Wallace Greenslade had been a BBC announcer since 1945 and worked in a
variety of shows during and after his time on the Goon Show (1953 - 1960).
He died in 1961.
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