Remember bokker extraordinaire Rudolf? Why, he was the matiest, red-nosedliest, work-shyest groundsman bokker of them all, was he not? Always ready to bend the ear of anyone, young or old, who happened to be within ear-bending distance, he was far and away the best-known of the (sane) bokkers at CH for many, many years. So let's have a few full-bodied reminiscences re. good old Rudolph, eh what?
And look here: does anyone know what eventually became of him? Is he living/dead? Did the governors erect a large bronze statue of him, pint-handed and leaning on his broom? And just how long was he employed at CH anyway? (He once told me that he was formerly a driver of articulated lorries till one day when the rear end of his lorry overtook the front end on a motorway, much to his surprise. But when did he first start to bokk?)
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Rudolf the Red-Nosed Bokker (Bless 'im)
Well, Uncle Rudolph was definitely there in the '70s and certainly had the air of being (a) an old stager and (b) someone who wasn't about to make a major career move elsewhere.
(As for the average bokker's IQ, I've no idea quite why they were all so powerfully intelligent and mentally well-balanced, but I've often wondered. Former Northants (?) county cricketer and Head Groundsman Bob Clark(e) was something of an interloper on the bokker scene, I always felt. Not nearly as intelligent and handsome as the rest of 'em - and he also had too many teeth, which was highly suspicious.)
Incidentally, was the renowned '70s dining-hall bokker Jose eventually chained to a wall at Broadmoor?
(As for the average bokker's IQ, I've no idea quite why they were all so powerfully intelligent and mentally well-balanced, but I've often wondered. Former Northants (?) county cricketer and Head Groundsman Bob Clark(e) was something of an interloper on the bokker scene, I always felt. Not nearly as intelligent and handsome as the rest of 'em - and he also had too many teeth, which was highly suspicious.)
Incidentally, was the renowned '70s dining-hall bokker Jose eventually chained to a wall at Broadmoor?
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Re: Rudolf the Red-Nosed Bokker (Bless 'im)
Probably before my time !Spoonbill wrote:Well, Uncle Rudolph was definitely there in the '70s and certainly had the air of being (a) an old stager and (b) someone who wasn't about to make a major career move elsewhere.
(As for the average bokker's IQ, I've no idea quite why they were all so powerfully intelligent and mentally well-balanced, but I've often wondered. Former Northants (?) county cricketer and Head Groundsman Bob Clark(e) was something of an interloper on the bokker scene, I always felt. Not nearly as intelligent and handsome as the rest of 'em - and he also had too many teeth, which was highly suspicious.)
Incidentally, was the renowned '70s dining-hall bokker Jose eventually chained to a wall at Broadmoor?
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