A bodybuilder so smashing he can blow up a hot-water bottle!
January 12, 2010 9:47 PM Subscribe
“Muscles like melons – and a fantastic amount of puff!” Using vintage Blue Peter footage as your board, play the classic parlour game Gay or Foppish British Television Presenter? (SLYT. Via)
Noakesy! I was a big fan of Noakes, and Val Singleton too. But Noakesy had the sense of humor.
That segment made me very nervous, actually.
posted by carter at 10:22 PM on January 12, 2010
That segment made me very nervous, actually.
posted by carter at 10:22 PM on January 12, 2010
"It's more than a foot now; it's going up and up and up."
posted by Abiezer at 10:46 PM on January 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Abiezer at 10:46 PM on January 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
"I wonder how big it gets?"
posted by eatyourcellphone at 10:51 PM on January 12, 2010
posted by eatyourcellphone at 10:51 PM on January 12, 2010
Thank goodness Tellurian stepped in with the pissing elephant just in time. It's an essential part of any Blue Peter related topic. I think it's actually a legal requirement now.
posted by BinaryApe at 12:11 AM on January 13, 2010
posted by BinaryApe at 12:11 AM on January 13, 2010
"Oooo-errr! I got hit in the head by the stopper!"
posted by benzenedream at 12:11 AM on January 13, 2010
posted by benzenedream at 12:11 AM on January 13, 2010
John Noakes started life as an actor and he's admitted that the persona on Blue Peter was basically a part he invented for himself - a kind of semi-mad uncle figure fro the kids watching. If you watch the elephant bit; where he says 'he's stepping on my foot!' it's done nothing of the sort.... just Noakesy ad-libbing.
It's a real shame that his greatest hits seems to have been erased from youtube (climbing Nelson's Column, sky-diving, crashing on the Cresta run, being the button boy - the bloke who stood on top of the mast during Navy displays). He really is the greatest Englishman alive.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 2:05 AM on January 13, 2010 [2 favorites]
It's a real shame that his greatest hits seems to have been erased from youtube (climbing Nelson's Column, sky-diving, crashing on the Cresta run, being the button boy - the bloke who stood on top of the mast during Navy displays). He really is the greatest Englishman alive.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 2:05 AM on January 13, 2010 [2 favorites]
he's admitted that the persona on Blue Peter was basically a part he invented for himself
That's about what you'd figure. If you were the star of a children's education show, you would have to be a bit of a cheerleader for whatever you were presenting. Noakes couldn't very well have acted as if he wasn't interested in and excited by (in a non-sexual way, of course) meeting the wee man (5'3") with the big muscles.
posted by pracowity at 4:21 AM on January 13, 2010
That's about what you'd figure. If you were the star of a children's education show, you would have to be a bit of a cheerleader for whatever you were presenting. Noakes couldn't very well have acted as if he wasn't interested in and excited by (in a non-sexual way, of course) meeting the wee man (5'3") with the big muscles.
posted by pracowity at 4:21 AM on January 13, 2010
Oh good heavens, I remember watching that edition, aged six or seven, and just about bursting a lung trying to blow up my hot water bottle.
posted by MinPin at 12:56 PM on January 13, 2010
posted by MinPin at 12:56 PM on January 13, 2010
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Jeremy Clarkson?
posted by dunkadunc at 9:58 PM on January 12, 2010