Toupee or not toupee

C C Csiders · May 29, 2008

Listening to the ignorant and blustering Alan Green last night moaning all the way through his commentary slots on the England match that this is "dreadful" etc. made me think about his frankly ludicrous syrup.

Who do you think has sported the most ridiculous hairpiece ever?

Along with Green, my votes would be Frankie Howerd and Charlton Harlton (both going for the combined "I think that you think I'm not bald, because why would I be wearing a ginger wig" look).

SARF · May 29, 2008

Wogan......

Yorkshire Blue · May 29, 2008

Che Wilson.

OldBlueLady · May 29, 2008

Donald Trump

C C Csiders · May 29, 2008

SARF said:
Wogan......

Always think that BBC Radio 2 should broadcast from the heart of Lancashire and rename his programme Wake Up with Wigan

canveyshrimper · May 29, 2008

Years ago there used to be a bus garage in Southend (where Sainsbury's is now). There used to be a cafe in the garage run by a bloke who had the most palpable syrup you would ever see.

It was sort of ginger, with grey sides, and looked like a moth eaten tabby.

He was the butt of many jokes on the lines of "Two teas please, one wig, one wig out" or "Do you want us toupee now or later?"

Happy days.:D

Southend_Lady · May 30, 2008

My friends nan has worn a wig for years, in fact the whole time I have known my mate her nan has had one and we are talking 10 years. She wears it due to thinning hair but it is actually a very good wig and you would never know it wasnt her real locks. Took us all a while to clock it though, as soon as she told me about it we seemed to develop the name wiggy for her. Obviously she doesn't know about it, but if she brings her up in conversation such as "Im going round to see Wiggy tonight" etc, its quite useful to know which nan she is talking about.

Funniest thing about it all though is that it is her mum's mum. So I cane my mate all the time about how hair loss is heredetory and that she best start putting extra into her pension now so that she can get a top of the range wig for when she hits her 60's!

C C Csiders · May 30, 2008

southend_lady said:
Obviously she doesn't know about it, but if she brings her up in conversation such as "Im going round to see Wiggy tonight" etc, its quite useful to know which nan she is talking about.

Hence the mutual Darryl fixation.

A Century United · May 30, 2008

canveyshrimper said:
Years ago there used to be a bus garage in Southend (where Sainsbury's is now). There used to be a cafe in the garage run by a bloke who had the most palpable syrup you would ever see.

It was sort of ginger, with grey sides, and looked like a moth eaten tabby.

He was the butt of many jokes on the lines of "Two teas please, one wig, one wig out" or "Do you want us toupee now or later?"

Happy days.:D

You worked on the buses? My brother was a conductor and then a driver there for many years - Jon Lister. I once won the jackpot on the fruitmachine in that cafe, and I heard many tales about Mr. Giles...

DTS · May 30, 2008

I have it on good authority that Franky Banks's silver acrylic barnet thing is infact a syrup.

Also JJ Price at Donny wears a wig too.....

EastStandBlue · May 30, 2008

Dave the Shrimper said:
I have it on good authority that Franky Banks's silver acrylic barnet thing is infact a syrup.

That's just hair taken from his primate chest and glued to his head.

DTS · May 30, 2008

A Century United said:
You worked on the buses? My brother was a conductor and then a driver there for many years - Jon Lister. I once won the jackpot on the fruitmachine in that cafe, and I heard many tales about Mr. Giles...

My uncle used to be the chief inpector of the buses. He still speaks fondly of his time on the job except for some idiot called Butler who was always up to some no good sexual related pranks...

DTS · May 30, 2008

EastStandBlue said:
That's just hair taken from his primate chest and glued to his head.

I heard it was a silver backed mountain monkey it came from but happy to be corrected.....

McNasty · May 30, 2008

Col Ewe fans don't wear wigs, they ram their heads up sheep's bottoms and walk about with live wigs on their heads.

EastStandBlue · May 30, 2008

The resemblence is uncanny, perhaps you're right.

Slipperduke · May 30, 2008

Out of everyone I have met in football, from players to managers to chairmen to pundits to commentators to writers to fans, out of every single person I have ever shared oxygen with, Alan Green is the single most odious, offensive, unlikeable **** of them all.

canveyshrimper · May 30, 2008

A Century United said:
You worked on the buses? My brother was a conductor and then a driver there for many years - Jon Lister. I once won the jackpot on the fruitmachine in that cafe, and I heard many tales about Mr. Giles...

No didn't work on the buses, just a frequent user of the cafe when I worked in Southend. As an aside when the bus garage was flattened the proprietor (Mr Giles?) had another cafe called the Copper Kettle near the Cricketers.

davewebbsbrain · May 30, 2008

C C Csiders said:
Listening to the ignorant and blustering Alan Green last night moaning all the way through his commentary slots on the England match that this is "dreadful" etc. made me think about his frankly ludicrous syrup.

Who do you think has sported the most ridiculous hairpiece ever?
Along with Green, my votes would be Frankie Howerd and Charlton Harlton (both going for the combined "I think that you think I'm not bald, because why would I be wearing a ginger wig" look).

Wiggy.....