So today's Christmas cracker, as well as a lame joke, had a trivia question.

Well, the crackers were bought at a sale last February, so we can't blame the makers, but ... oyyyy....

ouch.


[eta] as a kid I never noticed that he was actually a physically imposing guy. Looking at some of the interviews from when he was young, I can imagine him being a bit of scary bastard if he wanted to be.

Rolf Harris.
Deary me.

And people talk about the good old days when it was safe for kiddies to play outside because there were no paedos and you never even had to lock your doors.
Turns out the kiddie fiddlers didn't have to raid council estates back then - they just got drunk on power and took what they wanted as perks of the job.

I know! I saw the news of it last week, i was like Nooooooo!


That said: he's not in the same tranch as Savile. This sounds more like the Hairy Cornflake - jailbait rather than kiddies, and one individual rather than a litany.

My mum loved rolf harris and as kids we were brought up on his music and shows. He still does the voice over in one kids show (olive the ostrich).

Anyway, life will go on regardless. Still, its a shame.

If Tom Baker ends up involved in any of this Imma break something up.



They should change the name from Operation Yewtree, to Operation Dismantle 70s Childhoods.

Bruce Forsyth, no!!!!

No, not Brucie.
Not yet.

Rolf Harris's songs are, with hindsight, a bit of a clue ... Two Little Boys, Jake the Peg (with my extra leg...), Tie Me Kangaroo Down ...

Tie the little boys down, sport
tie the little boys down
there's no one around sport
so tie the little boys down...

I don't even have to try, Rolf left that one wide open.

Plenty of room in this handbasket!

There appears to be a lot of show biz perverts in the Brit commonwealth.
Here we try to restrict them to Washington, DC, if we can. ;)

Harris hasn't actually been charged with anything yet has he?

only by the media

Yeah, that's what I thought.

I hope he isn't guilty, just so I can go on thinking he's a good person. I hate having childhood illusions smashed. It happens way too much.

A wise man once told me, "There are three things you will never find in this life: A perfect dry martini, a hooker that makes love with genuine emotion, and your lost innocence."