Bob Geldof, member of the undead

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Or so I would say:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39918000/jpg/_39918202_geldof203.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking: Bob Geldof, old maths teacher. Probably female, but really ugly in a Bib Geldof kind if way.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)

good lord, he looks like my high-school physics teacher!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost -- who WAS female.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

A more flattering photo...OR IS IT?

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40492000/jpg/_40492985_commissionforafrica203.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

No, he looks like a Dickensian villain in that one. And so does Bob! Hahahaha! Sorry...

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

No, he looks like a Dickensian villain in that one.

or the dude from the "ebeneezer goode" video!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Jerry Sadowitz?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

where's that picture of dylan from just before masked and anonymous came out?

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

On the evidence of the photo, Blair might as well be Bowie (circa 1985).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

he is going through his tin machine period.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

he asked me for the time once, in a hotel bar. i thought he was a bum.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha

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― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"you know bob geldof? he's DEAD."

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that Martha Stewart?

― k3rry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Dylan was ministering in prison.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Cybil Sheperd, aintit?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's Jessica Lange, but who's the other broad?

― k3rry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

My dad is convinced Bob Geldof killed Michael Hutchence because the guy married his smack-addicted ex-wife (or whatever).

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Geldof was one of the last people Hutchence talked to, I think. Some argument about custody of the kids.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

Hey, so Bob's back. What's his game this time?

1 million protestors to converge on Edinburgh to force world leaders to wipe out third world debt?

― Rumpie, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this likely to affect the leaders, who will be landing at Prestwick airport and being whisked directly under heavy security to Gleneagles, and then whisked straight back to Prestwick and home??

― Rumpie, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

no.

but it'll sure as hell affect edinburgh. if he wants to organise a mass protest, organisation is the key. saying "hey everybody, come to edinburgh, then bang on some poor bastard's door and demand they put you up" is just fucking idiocy.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I was a bit doubtful of the usefulness of having a protest a mere 50 miles away from the summit itself. I mean, why not go the whole hog and just stay in London? What is this, protest tourism?

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

What i want to know is how the hell i'm going to get to work if the city's full of protesters. It's going to be chaos.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The main point of political protests is to piss off all the normal people who actually want to do other stuff at that place and time. Didn't you realise?

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"What's better - two days of work? Two days of geometry? Or participating in something you will remember all your life," Geldof asked.

Erm... the Scottish schools will be on holiday by then, Bob. And it's the Edinburgh fair fortnight, so people won't be at work either.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Because *everyone* in Edinburgh gets a fortnight off just then. Yeah. Right. I lived in Edinburgh for 8 years, and never heard of *anywhere* having an en-masse holiday at that time.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I'm generalising as it was never absolutely everyone, but the fair fortnight is still a big thing, isn't it? (NB - I have not lived in Scotland for 8 years but it was still quite a big thing when I left, and a recent report on the Forth Bridge closing for repairs in the Scotsman noted it was particularly awkwardly timed because it clashed with the Fife fair fortnight, which is the same weeks as Glasgow IIRC)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's certainly not a big thing in Edinburgh. Maybe Fife is different.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, it's not any more then. It still was when I left, even in Edinburgh (it's where the ex-wife lived).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It's glasgow that has the fair holidays, Edinburgh has the trades which is the preceding fortnight to the glaswegian one. We certainly don't shut down in july. I work in a government building so i'd imagine we'll be on red alert.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Loads of people in Scotland still take the fair fortnight off, the weeks tend to be staggered across the country with Greenock at the same time as Edinburgh, then Paisley a week later, then Glasgow the following week.

It's not as commonplace as it was in the days of heavy industry when entire yards would sometimes shut down but it's definitely still a big thing with a lot of people, probably out of habit more than anything else.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

http://law.rwu.edu/content/images/photos/geldof_bob.JPG

― bobby bedelia, Saturday, 7 July 2007 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

I want to put him up on my shelf with all my other silly curios.

― Abbott, Sunday, 8 July 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

Napalm. Macrame. Vest. Now.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 8 July 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

Is that a HAT PIN?

― Abbott, Sunday, 8 July 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

god, his daughter really is quite fanciful, tho. i know this guy who is good friends with her, and he says that the press has ruined her life and that she knows it.

― the table is the table, Sunday, 8 July 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

Man, Mike Scott has really let himself go

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 July 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

That's Moik Scott, dude.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 8 July 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

I was surprised to Bob getting into and driving an ecologically pestiferous 4x4 parked near the Royal Free Hospital near Hampstead a few weeks back.

― Bob Six, Sunday, 8 July 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

(see)

― Bob Six, Sunday, 8 July 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

bob is poverty not climate

― RJG, Sunday, 8 July 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

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― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Saturday, 16 November 2013 09:02 (twelve years ago)

nice

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 16 November 2013 09:03 (twelve years ago)

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