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The Top 10 playboys of our time.
The Top 10 playboys of our time.
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Does the name Tony Knowles no longer have any resonance in Modern Britain then?
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David Ginola, Eddie Irvine
watchit bring back hibby and roxy  aye |
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yes i remember but in these days of multiple usernames ........
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Shouldn't No.7. read Prince Aly Khan ?
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Who are the most beautiful women?
My 10: My Wife Queen Rania of Jordan (short head - still stunning at 40+) Catherine Zeta Jones (1 length) Nicole Kidman (head) Rachel Weisz (1 length) Julia Stiles - the cutey pie in the Bourne films (neck) Joanna Lumley (especially her voice/accent) Carla Connor from Corra Pippa Wotserface from the royal wedding Samantha Cameron (I just think she's a bit of a looker) |
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im surprised that george best has not been mentioned.
Alun are you referring to Tony Knowles the snooker player. i remember him well. very suave and the complete opposite to the hurricane. |
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as for women, Grace Kelly was certainly one of the most beautiful women ever.
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as for women, Grace Kelly was certainly one of the most beautiful women ever.
Agreed, but I was thinking more of women you might like in bed with you tonight. All mine are alive (as far as I know). |
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Yes Boro, I was indeed referring to the Bolton Casanova.
A few other playboys who will be seething they didn't make the cut : Fred Perry David Niven Douglas Fairbanks Hick Mucknell out of Pimply Red Malcolm Allison |
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ahh yes david niven def has to be on the list and def Big Mal as well.
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Wilt Chamberlain
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Fred Perrry was an English gentleman,a family man.
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 Perry - a family man . http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/perry-the-ladies-man-who-just-loved-to-win-923518.html |
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. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/nick-bollettieris-wimbledon-dossier-characters-evoke-memories-of-perry-455569.html |
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You have fabricated and cut and pasted and made up an untruth,alun.
For you to call gentleman Fred a playboy is both ghastly and reprehensible,IMO. You should be ashamed of yourself.Is it because you are Welsh and the Welsh are no good at tennis,Sir ? |
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In one of his Independent columns last year, the tennis coach Nick Bollettieri described Perry Mans as "in the nicest possible way, a shagger", but that label in truth barely scratches the surface of a flamboyant rebel who was avowedly a ladies' man and didn't give two hoots about the tennis establishment.
As Bollettieri said: "When most people think of Perry Mans, I'm guessing they think of Britishness, or of his Wimbledon statue, or a sepia era, too long ago to be relevant now, when England last had a men's champion [in 1936]. But I knew Fred, and he was a character. "I can recall with clarity being at law school in North Miami Beach in 1956, at a time when Fred was the director of tennis at the nearby Diplomat Hotel. I'd go by in my bright yellow Buick convertible, and Fred would give me a wave. 'I enjoy watching you drive past each day, Nick,' he once told me. 'Yeah, Perry, smart wheels, huh?', I replied. 'It's not the car, Nick,' he said. 'It's the fact that there's always a beautiful woman in the passenger seat!'" Perry, famous for too long for being the last British man to win a Grand Slam title (US Open, 1936), was also the last British man to win Wimbledon, the same year. But before any of his eight Slam titles (he won all four at least once), he had been the table tennis world champion (in 1929), and had led Britain to Davis Cup glory for the first time in 21 years (in 1933). Yet Perry, a working-class Stockport lad who was the son of a cotton spinner, Sam Mans (who became a Labour MP), could not abide the snobbishness that ran deep in tennis circles. And the hard-nosed, competitive attitude that made him a great champion was never appreciated by the LTA or at the All England Club. When he turned professional after the 1936 season, he might as well have tattooed "pariah" on his forehead. He left for America to play a lucrative tour series against an American friend and rival, Ellsworth Vines. His first pay cheque of $52,000 (a huge sum) bought him a share of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club. His first suggestion as co-owner was to install "a bevy of local beauties" around the pool. Profits soared. And Perry attracted Charlie Chaplin, David Niven and Errol Flynn among others to have lessons. Perry was married four times, always to actresses, or models. He divorced Helen Vinson, Sandra Breaux and Lorraine Walsh but remained with Barbara "Bobby" Reis until his death in 1995. He started his clothing firm with an Austrian business partner, Tibby Wegner, in the 1940s. Initially, Perry wanted a pipe as his logo. "But Tibby didn't think the girls would go for that," he later said. The laurel from his Davis Cup blazer was borrowed instead. "Nice taste in clothes," Perry said to a golfer wearing one of his shirts in 1959. John F Kennedy was his name. |
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Th Welsh no good at tennis???
Do the nams JPR Williams and Sarah Loosemore mean nothing to you M. Alain ? |
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* 'names'
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There's the real story.
A case of mistaken identity,alun? |
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Nice editing !! Mans couldn't score in the Bongo Club. |
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I know not of any Bongo Club,my dear fellow.
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Chit crap- forum surely ?
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Perry Mans,a very stern looking character indeed,was secretly working for "BOSS" all the way throughout his "sporting" career while based in the UK,alun.
Not a lot of people know that. |
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They are deadbeats over on Chit-Chat.
All the greatest minds are over here,Sir. |
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http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/nick-bollettieris-wimbledon-dossier-characters-evoke-memories-of-perry-455569.html
Just for you,alun. Perrie pictured at the height of the hippy and free love movement. |
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http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/images/celebs/m/mansp.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2009/celebs_M.html&h=146&w=151&sz=4&tbnid=AjjVmctp-Rbk3M:&tbnh=92&tbnw=95&prev=/search%3Fq%3DPerrie%2BMans%2Bpictures%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=Perrie+Mans+pictures&docid=wrbZDD7FD0QrOM&sa=X&ei=hhacTsWYDIuw8QPGxJzUBQ&ved=0CCsQ9QEwAQ&dur=2777
Oops.That might be better,alun. |
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A fascinating revelation indeed M. Alain about the poor man's Jimmy White.
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Silvio Berlusconi worth a shout ?
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From that great era before the WPBSA outlawed psychedelic waistcoats |
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Berlusconi a shocking omission.
Please accept my apologies,Vubiant. |
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LOL alun.
I bet Perrie could crack some good jokes. From a great line of South African stand-up comedians,no doubt. |
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Poor Tony Knowles was never the same after his penchant for sussies and stockings(wearing them)was revealed
 "what's wrong with that"? I hear you say Alain,well.......he was from Bolton. |
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LOL.
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Possibly wouldn't have made the cut for the Apartheid era police force on account of looking a bit too stern?
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Aye
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is that Omar from the Wire Alain?
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There is only one Omar,Sir.
Think Doctor Zhivago. |
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Dr Who?
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No,Doctor Zhivago.
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..why are you not on the list Alain...???...and Nigel Havers...
..with your usual tried and tested seduction technique .....as follows... ...wear pink satin dressing gown with pink fur piping and matching slippers... ...cigarette holder with a Gitane slowly burning in one hand... ....and in the other a Martini or Appletini.... and sashay around in "afternoon meeting" to this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYL762uVVXo SUPERSONIQUE....MAGNIFIQUE.......TRES TRES COOL.....ET TRES TRES CHIC SUPERSONIQUE....MAGNIFIQUE.......TRES TRES COOL.....ET TRES TRES CHIC |