Donate SIGN UP
Gravatar

Answers

1 to 20 of 23rss feed

1 2 Next Last

Best Answer

No best answer has yet been selected by anotheoldgit. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.

For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
R I P, Max.
That is sad, what a shame for him to have alzheimers.

Rest in peace Max, my thoughts go to his family.
RIP.

He had a good innings.
Question Author
Sing Along
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkszhNJmFI4
Always more sad when people have died after struggling with Alzheimers whatever age they are.

RIP Max.
Very sad to hear this news, he was a great entertainer! Bless his heart x
appaerntly he got rich when he bought the rights to the score of Oliver!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ainment-arts-12852095

Mercedes-Benz offered him £15,000 for his number plate.
Max Bygraves was an immigrant to Australia. I wonder if the Aussie AOG complained about the influx of foreigners to that country.
Question Author
Gromit

/// Max Bygraves was an immigrant to Australia. I wonder if the Aussie AOG complained about the influx of foreigners to that country. ///

What kind of person are you Gromit, totally out of order on a thread such as this to take the opportunity to get over your cheap AOG digs.

Save them for the more appropriate threads if you must, but please keep them off such sad threads as this.
I wanna tell you a story, good catchphrase, shows my age-
r.i.p. max
With all due respect to Mr Bygrave's family...I have to say, I hate the cliche 'battle with Alzheimers', or 'brave cancer fight'.

Alzheimer's is a degenerative disease for which there is no cure. No-one ever battles Alzheimer's and 'wins'. Likewise, with cancer, you undergo therapy, take drugs and if the cancer is caught early enough, may survive.

The idea that we somehow fight, or do battle with these diseases suggests we are in control of our own destiny, whereas it's truer that these is a degree of randomness, for which we have no control.
Ahhh. Nice, innoffensive man who brought a lot of cheer to a lot of people. My old uncle adored his songs. RIP Max.
SP. I've know some very brave people who have battled both Altzeimers and terminal Cancer. Yes, they lost - but that doesn't mean they just gave in without putting up a fight.
Perhaps the worst quiz show host ever, but RIP Max.

What do I mean "perhaps"?
I was just reading a quote from him the other day about someone else, can;t remember who he was praising now.
I wonder why he wasn't knighted?
I looked this morning and Max's wikipedia page detailed his three bastard children with three women other than his wife. All of that has expurged by this evening. No mention of his shagging about. Just shows, you cannot believe what uou read on the internet.
Question Author
Gromit

What are you suggesting, that we kick a man when he is dead?

That may be the way you deal with things but I think the more caring amongst us would think otherwise.

What is it with you, I though the 'Left' wished to project themselves as the 'Caring Left'?
If Bygraves had been a black rapper who had fathered six children with four different mothers then I doubt you would be saying we should respect him. More likely you would be saying he was a terrible role model. I just think fathers who abandon their children are lowlifes, whether they are scum from a sink estate or a millionaire crooner.

My thanks to the Daily Mail for filling in the details which wikipedia has deleted.

// 'For him, it is like I don't exist,' she told the Daily Mail. 'It's been heartbreaking.'
Bygraves, 88, worked as a singer, actor, comedian and TV presenter for almost 60 years. He married Blossom Murray in 1942 and they had three children, Christine, now 68, Anthony, 64, and Maxine, 59.
In 1987 Bygraves, who cultivated a wholesome, family-man image, admitted he was the father of Stephen Rose, born after a brief affair with actress Pat Marlowe in 1961. Miss Marlowe committed suicide 16 months after Stephen’s birth.
Then in 2002, it emerged that he had fathered another son, John Rice, now 65, during an affair with landlady Margaret Garriock four years after his marriage. The third love child, Mrs Sass, is the daughter of June Mack, who was an 18-year-old showgirl when she met Bygraves in the 1950s.
 
Despite his infidelities, Blossom stood by her husband, who showed little remorse and was even quoted as saying: ‘My outlook is that life is like a self-service restaurant and you have to help yourself. Sometimes when you see what the other fella has got, you want some of it too.’ //

http://www.dailymail....st.html#ixzz25ImLyqcy
Question Author
Gromit

/// If Bygraves had been a black rapper who had fathered six children with four different mothers then I doubt you would be saying we should respect him. ///

I should stop digging if I were you Gromit, why the heck introduce colour into this, have you some kind of chip on your shoulders.

But since you mentioned it, I would not have posted on a rapper black or white, because rap is something that appals me, but say a great black singer such as Louis Armstrong had more recently died, and some of his past misdemeanours came to light, I am respectful enough not to choose to highlight them on a thread mourning his passing.

1 to 20 of 23rss feed

1 2 Next Last

Do you know the answer?

Sing-along with Max, is Dead. RIP

Answer Question >>

Related Questions

Sorry, we can't find any related questions. Try using the search bar at the top of the page to search for some keywords, or choose a topic and submit your own question.