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Just read the following article in today's Telegraph. If nothing else, read the first paragraph to remind us of a time which was so wonderful - I only wish I could have watched the great man (who, incidentally, attended the same school as I) smoking his 'rolling pin' sized cigar on air...
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Some good comments there Simon, or those of us that lived through it accept how things were but the accents are always the most notable difference. If you watch old black & white movines & news reels, everone use to speak more clearly than they do today. 40 yrs of trying to achive a classless accent, has meant we all dumbed down rather than achieve a middle ground. I can't imagine anyone would like to speak like Thatcher did circa '58-77 or the Queen did (yes even the Queen's accent has changed alot) but as the journalist John Junior said, they was a time when not even Guardsman swore like troopers! No you can't sit on a train or bus without teenage girls swearing like a bunch of drunk matelots, on a ship/ in a bar, not how they would have acted on public transport!Simon Bolivar: Liberator of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru & Venezuela.
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I was watching an old episode of Rumpole the other night and it was great, he smoked these tiny cigars but he 'had one on' all the time!Nic
Editor UK Cigar Scene Magazine
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