Comments on: A Tale of Two Formbys http://crookedtimber.org/2008/04/25/a-tale-of-two-formbys/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 27 May 2012 05:09:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: shteve http://crookedtimber.org/2008/04/25/a-tale-of-two-formbys/comment-page-1/#comment-237913 shteve Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:51:42 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/04/25/a-tale-of-two-formbys/#comment-237913 Hmmm ... not so many fans. I'm told Formby entertained troops in S Africa, singing in English, Afrikaans and Southern Ndebele. That Cleaning Windows clip is a bit ... pervy. A peeping tom watches on as an ugly man pleasures a woman with the strumming of his instrument while recounting his own exploits as a peeping tom. And she then gets invited to bed ... by accident! Out of context, of course. But saucy. Hmmm … not so many fans.

I’m told Formby entertained troops in S Africa, singing in English, Afrikaans and Southern Ndebele.

That Cleaning Windows clip is a bit … pervy. A peeping tom watches on as an ugly man pleasures a woman with the strumming of his instrument while recounting his own exploits as a peeping tom. And she then gets invited to bed … by accident!

Out of context, of course. But saucy.

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