twiggy

Subject: twiggy
From: Tam the Bam (Nutter)
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 12:45 PM

Hello my name is Tom Hamilton,

and I was just wondering what was Twiggy's real name.

Thank you

Tom

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: Micca
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 12:48 PM

Lesley Hornby

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 12:51 PM

Here is a site with more details about her:

Twiggy bio

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: Emma B
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 01:12 PM

Could be our own Geoff Hughes fron the Royle Family!

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 01:43 PM

Hello My name is Pat Patterson

and I didn't particularly give a shit about Twiggy one way or another

Thank You

Spaw

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 03:11 PM

I liked her in the film of the Boy Friend.

And my names there already.

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 03:45 PM

I liked Twiggy too. Unlike Spaw, she is an object lesson in how to grow old gracefully ....

Murray

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 07:45 PM

A lot to be said for growing old disgracefully though.

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 07:46 PM

For example:

Warning

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandles, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

Jenny Joseph

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 07:50 PM

Twiggy - the bane of my youth. I starved myself down to a 7/8 and still felt like a blimp compared to her. Saw her on Broadway with Tommy Tune and wasn't impressed. And HAHA she had gained at least five pounds over the years.

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Jun 03 - 07:52 PM

And looked all the better for it, I'm sure.

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 07:18 AM

During the Biafra afair, there was a (sort of) joke that went "Sod the Ibo's - feed Twiggy".

Subject: ADD: I shall wear purple
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 07:48 AM

Thanks for posting that thing about wearing purple-- glad to know it will be here if people look it up on a search.

~S~

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: Tam the Bam (Nutter)
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 09:31 AM

Thank you all for that resonse.
Including Spaw.

Tom

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: Les from Hull
Date: 25 Jun 03 - 01:19 PM

I warmed to her when she sang (very well) Joni Mitchell's 'People's Parties' (Court and Spark) on a TV show some years ago.

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: kendall
Date: 26 Jun 03 - 07:44 AM

Why in the hell would anyone want to look like that?
I'd rather sleep with a bicycle.

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Jun 03 - 08:04 AM

....and you probably have Kendall, you probably have.........

Spaw

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 26 Jun 03 - 11:57 AM

BTW Kevin - What do mean by when you're an old woman.

Ducking and running for cover . . . .

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Jun 03 - 01:22 PM

Unfortunately "Jenny Joseph" is not a pseudonymn of me. Or I'd be coining it.

Subject: RE: twiggy
From: kendall
Date: 26 Jun 03 - 04:07 PM

Not since I discovered Llamas, spaw.