RIP Boycie

Nice obituary from this mornings Times. Great story about Challis blowing the opportunity to feature in the Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour with a monumental faux pas which is one of his life’s retreats. Reading his life story is fascinating, not without its demons as it seems was also prevelant in Jimmy Greaves life. Worth a read.

 
I just been texting one of my mates about him. We were saying he didn’t have that many memorable one liners but he was brilliant at always being the butt of the joke.
He had more one liners than you would think actually. Indeed after Del and Rodney and grandad/Albert he was given the best one liner jokes. A selection.

“He’s a Trotter. What more can you say about the man? A couple of years ago I went down the local library and read some ancient manuscripts written by the Elders of Peckham. Did you know, five hundred years ago this was a green and peaceful area? The old Earl of Peckham had a castle where the Kwik-Fit exhaust centre now stands. Flaxon-haired maidens used to dance round the village maypole of an evening. And then one fateful medievil day, the Trotter clan arrived in a stolen Zephyr. Before you knew it the flaxon-haired maidens were up the spout, the old Earl had been sold some hooky armour and someone nicked the maypole. A hundred years after that, the Black Death arrived in England. The people of Peckham thought their luck had changed.”

“I might be able to con people into buying my cars, I might be able to convince them that you conceived and gave birth in seven days flat, but how the hell am I gonna persuade them that my grandad was Louis Armstrong?”

“It’s amazing, innit? Everything you buy off him has got something missing.”

“Come on, Marlene. Let’s go home and ignore each other for the evening.”

“If Elsie Partridge really could raise the dead, half the money lenders in Peckham would be employing her.”

“Have you ever spent an evening in Trigger’s flat? It’s like having a seance with Mr. Bean.”

“How dare you! Murdered my wife and buried her in the garden? I have never been so insulted in all my life. You know how much I’ve spent on that garden? You think I’m going to dig a hole in it?”
 
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He had more one liners than you would think actually. Indeed after Del and Rodney and grandad/Albert he was given the best one liner jokes. A selection.

“He’s a Trotter. What more can you say about the man? A couple of years ago I went down the local library and read some ancient manuscripts written by the Elders of Peckham. Did you know, five hundred years ago this was a green and peaceful area? The old Earl of Peckham had a castle where the Kwik-Fit exhaust centre now stands. Flaxon-haired maidens used to dance round the village maypole of an evening. And then one fateful medievil day, the Trotter clan arrived in a stolen Zephyr. Before you knew it the flaxon-haired maidens were up the spout, the old Earl had been sold some hooky armour and someone nicked the maypole. A hundred years after that, the Black Death arrived in England. The people of Peckham thought their luck had changed.”

“I might be able to con people into buying my cars, I might be able to convince them that you conceived and gave birth in seven days flat, but how the hell am I gonna persuade them that my grandad was Louis Armstrong?”

“It’s amazing, innit? Everything you buy off him has got something missing.”

“Come on, Marlene. Let’s go home and ignore each other for the evening.”

“If Elsie Partridge really could raise the dead, half the money lenders in Peckham would be employing her.”

“Have you ever spent an evening in Trigger’s flat? It’s like having a seance with Mr. Bean.”

“How dare you! Murdered my wife and buried her in the garden? I have never been so insulted in all my life. You know how much I’ve spent on that garden? You think I’m going to dig a hole in it?”
My favourite boycie moment was when Marlene says to Tyler “wave bye bye to your daddy” and del, Mike and trigger all wave back as well..😂
 
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