...with more worthy topics than our beloved but nutty (certifiably so!), erf!
WE TOLERATE eccentrics here.
This thread can be locked down if it gets out of hand.
I PROPOSE instead, to make it a George Formby Miracle Man thread, for he was the latter.
Just to begin at the beginning, and then I must log off for the rest of the night.
We begin with his first screen appearance. Google the bio of Formby?
This clip is from a film, ca 1932, made on a figurative shoestring budget.
The plain girl he woos becomes, in real life, his wife for life. And what a ball-bearing hardass she was!
BOOTS:
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Next, fast forward about thirty years. Here he is, just fifty five or so,
in his last public broadcast.
He was to die in a month or two.
His heart would stop beating, just like that.
At the least, though, he was finally free of Beryl, his ball and chain,
the poor guy.
She died of cancer, too late, and instantly, George was at last, free, and married his secretary,
and enjoyed just a few months of true, wedded bliss. Then he keeled,
worked, literally to death; made old in body by overwork and worry put upon him by Beryl,
the banshee.
Look at want a
relentless woman can do to a passive man,
KILL HIM with overwork and worry:
The Last of George:
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DOUBLE CLICK to see the whole, final, happy, good-bye.
People who cannot possibly know of Formby before now,
he practically turned the War, maintaining a grueling schedule,
keeping up the morale of his nation, like no other performer, ever.
Oh, life and joy...why must we all pass away?
BECAUSE, and I am no misogynist, SOME FEW women, who MUST cling to and control their passive, loving males, will, without really meaning to do so,
send him to the graveyard years too early.
"Beryls" are rare, thank goodness for that!
MY OPINION:
had George been allowed free reign (and he did love Beryl, a co-dependency, definitely,
IF he had been allowed an easier work schedule and the occasional female extramartial fling (none was ever permitted, EVER),
he might have lived many, many years longer.
STRESS KILLS.
Do you see any of Formby in yourself? Your life-mate at all like a "Beryl"?
If so, take action now, and don't let a fifty gallon barrel of bitch (gay men in partnership kill, too)
run your life out so fast as happened to George,
and do not die for Vanity, aka, Woman or Slave Driver.
I love women. I resent the rare, driving woman,
treating her man like he were her meal ticket and mule.
