Thurlow

Cultural Enigma and Friend

This is an introduction to the man Thurlow. His is an excellent story. He is a friend of ours.

A name which has become a verb, an adjective and a noun. Thurlow is a cultural icon for British people. His is the persona which refuses to conform, despite the efforts of its owner. His strengths lie in his weaknesses. He can be found at the very heart of Britishness. It is his business to selflessly provide entertainment for others, often unwittingly but always with aplomb. On occasion Thurlow is mocked, but only by the stupid.

Thurlow has done something incredible with his life - he has chosen to ignore the compliance and regulation of the conscience and frequently succumb to the urge to piss about. In this way, he sets an unattainable example for most of us weak-willed, conformist, politically correct, part-time comedians. In this way he is an enigma.

Thurlow is also a hulk of a man who can fit his outer ear into his inner ear.

He is quite simply a genius.

Here are some reasons:

He once threw a bucket of water over his own telly and video in his own front room when aiming at a friend who simply side-stepped the attempt.
He was arrested for bare-arse-farting a British Rail Guard.
He secretly bought a Go West LP about a year after it came out and tried to deny it.
At work in demolition, he once turned off the electricity, knocked down a wall, removed a plug socket, twisted the three wires together and turned the power back on again.
He has done numerous forward rolls on packed nightclub dancefloors.
He has streaked on numerous occasions, most notably on an industrial estate with only one witness.
He got so fat that he looked like a farmhand and subsequently lost 3 stone in as many weeks.
As a child he sprayed Aston Villa on the front of his parent's house.
He owns a pot-bellied pig called Pip.
He once said to a just-married groom (2 hours after) and his new in-laws, "Do you remember the time she came at you with a knife?" Referring to the bride.
He shouted "Where's your specs madam?" at a female linesman.
He is the master of the Turkey Piss.
He once found himself at 2am in casualty with a Norwegian Luton Town fan who was having a bad drug experience while the two of them were dressed as cowboys.

There are countless other reasons why Thurlow warrants his own pages in this site. They will be made apparent over time.

Thurlow as Chameleon

Over the years, Thurlow has morphed his shape to look like relevant and famous people of the day. No one is quite sure how he is able to do this, least of all Thurlow. As the following pictures prove, he has variously been Luke Goss, Jason McAteer and a variet of Chinese people. His constant doppelganger however, has always been the Dalai Llama.

       As Luke Goss

     As Jason McAteer

  The Llama

Proof if proof were needed