He used to front a kids Saturday morning show on the telly when it wasn’t popular for kids to watch telly on a Saturday morning. He introduced the world to Oscar – a white sock he used to wear on his hand which he tried to convince us was a puppet. There was a physics teacher at the Institute who was the spitting image of Ali Bongo and inevitably that became his moniker. All he had to do was shave off the tache and change his glasses so must assume he liked the Bongo epithet.
27 September 2013
Third Rate Les
And he’s the current president of Gabon. Blimey – he gets around.
29 September 2013
Graeme Wright
But was Ali Bongo much better than David Nixon ever was? As Nixon’s consultant on matters magical surely it would have been to Mr Bongo’s advantage, both financially and for his rep, that Nixon was as good as he could be. Jury’s out on that one, I suspect.
29 September 2013
Martin Davies
Bobby Svarc – If Ali Bongo had a ‘W’ tattooed on each of his arse cheeks, he would also create/spell ‘WOW’ when he bent over. What is his real name? You could spell your own name with tattoos of ‘B’s on each of your cheeks. ‘Muffa’, Coventry.
7 October 2013
Ron W
Whether he was better than Nixon was debateable but Nixon was far too smarmy and close to the wart faced Anita Harris to gain any real respect. One often wondered about that Nixon – Harris relationship back in the day – but everything was all clean fun and above board back then so probably no more than malicious rumour.
20 October 2013
robvarmint
If my memory serves me correctly, which appears to be less and less frequent these days, I recall that Ali Bongo apeared on the first edition of Jim’ll Fix It back in 1970-something.
27 January 2014
Paul f
Always used to get him confused with the Great Soprendo (the former Mr Victoria Wood).
11 February 2014
Cream CHEESE AND chives
The overthrown President of Gabon.
30 August 2023
Transit full of keith
“Ali Bongo’s good at extortionism”. (The Gabon one. By some accounts.)
30 August 2023
EXXO
Had the jolly old World Service on this morning to catch up on… errm, some of the jolly old world, and who was the presenter asking questions about Ali Bongo and teh Gabon coup? None other than Bebington’s finest Nigel. As a massive HMHB obsessive he must have been sorely tempted to make such wordplays as yours, Keith.
Next job to commenate for Talkshite at Luton Town – West Ham on Friday. Bet he will allude to 1985 at some point. But not necessarily to the Sealed Knot Society.
Bobby SVARC
Ali Bongo’s real name initials spell WOW
24 September 2013
2 chevrons
born in Bangalore. as was Isla Blair. pity it wasn’t Lionel Blair.
24 September 2013
RobJ
Had a ‘trick of the week’ section in TV Comic, to which I was a happy subscriber in the early 80s.
25 September 2013
Chris the SITEOWNER
Survived the Curse of HMHB for a very impressive 23 years and 152 days.
27 September 2013
Ron W
He used to front a kids Saturday morning show on the telly when it wasn’t popular for kids to watch telly on a Saturday morning. He introduced the world to Oscar – a white sock he used to wear on his hand which he tried to convince us was a puppet. There was a physics teacher at the Institute who was the spitting image of Ali Bongo and inevitably that became his moniker. All he had to do was shave off the tache and change his glasses so must assume he liked the Bongo epithet.
27 September 2013
Third Rate Les
And he’s the current president of Gabon. Blimey – he gets around.
29 September 2013
Graeme Wright
But was Ali Bongo much better than David Nixon ever was? As Nixon’s consultant on matters magical surely it would have been to Mr Bongo’s advantage, both financially and for his rep, that Nixon was as good as he could be. Jury’s out on that one, I suspect.
29 September 2013
Martin Davies
Bobby Svarc – If Ali Bongo had a ‘W’ tattooed on each of his arse cheeks, he would also create/spell ‘WOW’ when he bent over. What is his real name? You could spell your own name with tattoos of ‘B’s on each of your cheeks.
‘Muffa’, Coventry.
7 October 2013
Ron W
Whether he was better than Nixon was debateable but Nixon was far too smarmy and close to the wart faced Anita Harris to gain any real respect. One often wondered about that Nixon – Harris relationship back in the day – but everything was all clean fun and above board back then so probably no more than malicious rumour.
20 October 2013
robvarmint
If my memory serves me correctly, which appears to be less and less frequent these days, I recall that Ali Bongo apeared on the first edition of Jim’ll Fix It back in 1970-something.
27 January 2014
Paul f
Always used to get him confused with the Great Soprendo (the former Mr Victoria Wood).
11 February 2014
Cream CHEESE AND chives
The overthrown President of Gabon.
30 August 2023
Transit full of keith
“Ali Bongo’s good at extortionism”.
(The Gabon one. By some accounts.)
30 August 2023
EXXO
Had the jolly old World Service on this morning to catch up on… errm, some of the jolly old world, and who was the presenter asking questions about Ali Bongo and teh Gabon coup? None other than Bebington’s finest Nigel. As a massive HMHB obsessive he must have been sorely tempted to make such wordplays as yours, Keith.
Next job to commenate for Talkshite at Luton Town – West Ham on Friday. Bet he will allude to 1985 at some point. But not necessarily to the Sealed Knot Society.
30 August 2023