#george brown

[sacredwhores]

Jack Deveau - The Boys from Riverside Drive (1977)

[straightupjorking]

I can’t afford uni because some bald college dropout thinks I’m going to weave baskets??? douggy be real with us rn.

[prettiestpilotpoll]

Who is prettier?

Andrew Foyle (Foyle's War tv series, 2002)

George Brown (It's In The Air, 1938)

Voting ended onJun 6, 2025

written propaganda for Andrew Foyle: "My nomination for the prettiest pilot is Andrew Foyle from Foyle's War! He interrupted his studies to join the RAF at the start of WWII, and during the war, he served as an active combatant (surviving almost all of his friends and suffering 'combat fatigue'), helped test British radar technologies, and taught new recruits as a flight instructor in Malta.

His face is so pretty; it once was the linchpin piece of evidence in a murder investigation. His secretly gay squadmate risked carrying around his photo in his uniform pocket, and the squadmate's fiance discovered the photo. She confronted her fiance, and while they argued, she fell down the stairs and died. Anthony's photo was found at the scene of the crime, and his own father had to treat him as a murder suspect. All because of his pretty pretty face."

Written propaganda for George Brown: "He's just a silly little guy. Maybe not dashing like most of the other submissions, but I think he's cute."

visual (and video) propaganda below

Andrew Foyle:

George Brown:

[mychameleondays]

Kool & The Gang: Spirit Of The Boogie

De-Lite Records DEP-2016

Released: August 1975

[citizenscreen]

R.I.P. George ‘Funky’ Brown, founding member and drummer of Kool & the Gang 😔

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Lord Chalfont tells a story about his days as a Junior Minister in the Foreign Office. He attended a very grand dinner party, and spotted a lady standing alone in a long red dress. The besotted Chalfont staggered across to ask if she would waltz with him. The lady drew herself up: "I will not waltz with you for three reasons. First this is not a waltz, it is the Czech national anthem. Second, you are drunk. My third and greatest objection is that I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Prague".

- Auberon Waugh, Diaries (2 May 1976)

The story could well be authentically true. A variation of this story was more usually told about Lord Chalfont’s then boss, the Foreign Secretary George Brown in Prime Minister in Harold Wilson’s government in the late 1960s. Chalfont - born Alun Gwynn Jones - was a decorated soldier (a Military Cross recipient due to his bravery in action and especially a hand-to-hand firefight with communist guerrillas in Malaysia in 1957) and a notable defence correspondent with the London Times before being tapped for Defence Minister in 1964 by Harold Wilson. He was placed in charge of Britain’s negotiations to join the European Common Market. An ancillary task was to prevent the frequently inebriated foreign secretary George Brown from embarrassing the government.

George Brown is long forgotten figure in British politics but in those days he was notorious as Harold Wilson’s drunk and touchy Deputy Prime Minister. He was always falling over and/or shooting his mouth off. He had a long standing drinking problem that was obvious whenever the made television appearances. Brown, indeed, once boasted that, “Many members of parliament drink and womanise - now, I've never womanised.”

Chalfont was the source of the famous story of Brown requesting a dance from a scarlet-clad figure at a reception who turned out to be a cardinal. Only in this telling it was a ball where the Peruvian national anthem was being played and not a waltz and it was the archbishop of Lima that the drunkenly Brown asked for a dance. It was this latter story which - fanned by Chalfont and others - which became apocryphal amongst Foreign Office diplomats and the diplomatic dinner circuit for decades to come. Whatever the truth it’s a stonking good story to break the ice at any dinner party.

Photo: George Brown, British Foreign Secretary, showing his diplomartic moves on the dance floor, 1967.

[culturalappreciator]

RIP to legendary drummer & member of Kool and the Gang,

George Brown (1949-2023)

Kool & The Gang- Ladies Night Video (1979)

[iamdangerace]

Rest Easy George "Funky" Brown - Kool & The Gang