Harold Wilson At Pipe Exhibition

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Yikes!

 

flakyjakey

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Nice pipe though! A cherrywood-shaped Charatan perhaps?
Of little interest to anyone else here, Harold Wilson was the first sixth-former at my old (state) grammar school - Wirral Grammar School for Boys - an "Old Wirralian". He went on to Oxbridge, I didn't. thus all we share was the old school and the pipe! :lol:

 

didache

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I met the guy once - back in 1976 I think it was. Rumour has it that he actually preferred cigars but used the pipe as a prop and as a way of giving himself thinking time. A very cunning chap was Harold!
Mike

 

condorlover1

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Dec 22, 2013
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I had posted that clip somewhere else ages ago. Wilson was an odd duck and his last years in office were over shadowed by rumors of plots by the Army/MI5 to kick him out of office and install some form of government of National Unity led by Mountbatten. I once saw one of Stanley Baldwins pipes at The House of Pipes museum in Bramber in Sussex. I own one of Tony Benn's pipes along with a letter from him from the early 1980s that I got when I wrote to him at the Houses of Parliament as a student asking for one of old pipes. I doubt its worth much but its an interesting historical curiosity!

 

didache

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I met Tony Benn once too, long before he passed away! I wasn't cheeky enough to ask for a pipe though. He was a St Bruno man. His son, Hilary, is a member of parliament too, albeit more centrist than his dad ever was.
Mike

 

saltedplug

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flakyjakey: hot air on PM, yes! But being able to writer all manner of observations at will that will be read by others is a very large temptation to this member's humility, or really lack thereof.

 

saltedplug

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I said:
Liked seeing the pipes but thought Mr. Wilson too full of the hot air of himself.
flakyjakey said:
Sounds like many of us here, actually.
I said:
flakyjakey: hot air on PM, yes! But being able to write all manner of observations at will that will be read by others is a very large temptation to this member's humility, or really lack thereof.
condorlover1 said:
Who are you referring to chum?
I said: myself
I think it more than apparent that although being opinionated by way of proving who has got the biggest swinging d*ck is common to anyone posting to a forum, courtesy of the only apparent liberty of posting one's wisdom to an internet site that has a public, this is a common failing. But if a finger is pointed it is certainly pointed at me ("this member's humility, or lack thereof").
I think the flow is more than apparent. Sorry to disappoint, but that's all I have to say about this.

 

saltedplug

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How 'bout them!
Humor in writing is very difficult to detect, as it lacks affect. Emojis are the easiest way to describe tone, but I never use them to label something I say as humor because I am rarely humorous.

 
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