Rantings of a madman continue with the next installment of Chairman Charley – the Puppet Years.
I know I have kept you waiting long enough. The audience has been itching for more helpings of wise words from The Teachings of Charley, served up with a healthy dollop of creamy goodness last night – with the help of front of the bus tagmate Mr David Poole (I really cannot unhear what I heard!) and the irrepressible / repressed but certainly not depressed – maybe depraved ?, Mr Dave Rowson.
So the question on the lips of The Chairman last night was…. drum roll please….
Q: How is it that no one ever noticed that Jeff Tracy bloke built a pool with a moveable lid for that rocket ship to come out of?
A: It was a brilliant camouflage. Do you mean Thunderbird 1?
Q: But didn’t anyone notice how much money he spent doing that? It must have cost a fortune, what were the authorities doing?
A: He was a billionaire Charley, he owned the whole island
Q: But he had that space centre as well, right in the middle of space – didn’t anyone notice that he must have spent a fortune getting all that stuff up there. The government should have said something?
A: The guy owned the whole island, Charley – I don’t think they were bothered as long as he paid his tax bills. He also had Thunderbird 2 and the underwater one.
Q: But someone should have been keeping an eye on all of this expensive stuff that he was spending his money on?
A: I genuinely don’t think they were bothered, plus Lady Penelope was minted anyway
Q: Yeah, someone should have been looking into her affairs as well
A: You do know this was just a puppet show don’t you, and not real life?
Q: But she had that big pink Rolls Royce and her own butler, Parker, swanning about all the time to these exotic places. How much would that have cost?
A: She was loaded, I don’t think it bothered her
Q: She had the lifestyle of the rich and famous, that one
Enter David Poole
Charley, it was just a puppet show on TV, it wasn’t real. How did you think that they could get away with it? They were all just puppets, not people. But I bet you fancied Lady Penelope didn’t you? I bet you had pictures of her which….
…and that, my friends ends the PG 15 of the Teachings of Charley ,folks.
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