Peter Canning, Lust For Life!

[Scoffers]

The last few months have seen rather a large up turn in incidents...

I tell you what, we should start a new Thread, make it a sticky, and get folks to contribute their favourite Canning stories, then after a few months we could compile them into the "Canning Chronicles" then get it published, all profits going to the Falmer Stadium (except for a small fee for his nibs, of course)

We'd pay for the damn stadium

 

[Uncle Buck]

I tell you what, we should start a new Thread, make it a sticky, and get folks to contribute their favourite Canning stories, then after a few months we could compile them into the "Canning Chronicles" then get it published, all profits going to the Falmer Stadium (except for a small fee for his nibs, of course)

We'd pay for the damn stadium

Not a bad idea.

I do feel Tear Gas and Taxmen is a good working title for any book about the great man.

 

[Don Tmatter]

Not knowing the fella, can anyone give us a brief resume of his antics?
What has he done to be held in such high regard?

 

[Scoffers]

Not a bad idea.

I do feel Tear Gas and Taxmen is a good working title for any book about the great man.

Nice, I like it, a sort of Fatty Taxman version of "Tantrums and Tiaras" !!!

 

[Beach Hut]

Happy Birthday Big Boy - Ernest will lust after you

 

[Uncle Buck]

Nice, I like it, a sort of Fatty Taxman version of "Tantrums and Tiaras" !!!

I do think the picture earlier in this thread would be a good one for the front cover, would also push sales up as those that like hoolie books would buy it thinking it was another of those books, only to be surprised.

Alongside that picture in Poland there is another from the same incident of him essentially squeezing in between two police horses.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

who is this legendary character

 

[Scoffers]

Not knowing the fella, can anyone give us a brief resume of his antics?
What has he done to be held in such high regard?

My word, where do we start on this one fellas?

I think my most treasured memory of the man is at the Centenary Dinner at the Brighton Centre, when a pissed Canning lost his balance and crashed full pelt into our table taking it, and us, with him.

Later that evening, he was found found spreadeagled in the gutter, completely oblivious to his surroundings.

And then there was the time ........ oh, I'll let someone else take over

 

[Uncle Buck]

My word, where do we start on this one fellas?

I think my most treasured memory of the man is at the Centenary Dinner at the Brighton Centre, when a pissed Canning lost his balance and crashed full pelt into our table taking it, and us, with him.

Later that evening, he was found found spreadeagled in the gutter, completely oblivious to his surroundings.

And then there was the time ........ oh, I'll let someone else take over

Well there was the fanta incident.

The mental hospital incident.

The brick on the head incident.

The coach in Brussels incident.

The Flitwick incident.

The end up in various parts of the UK incidents, when he should be in Brighton.

The Carlisle Affair!!!!

To name a few....

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

sound like a good bloke

 

[rusty redeyes]

Happy birthday Pete, best wishes from a fellow Libran

 

[Mr Banana]

My favourite two incidents are when no-one bothered to wake him up on the train and it pulled back out again and he ended up in Bedford, and the one about him asking to be dropped off at Preston Circus on the Brussels coach.

My two personal favourites are whenever I have to apologise to people in the Evening Star, wrestle the drink Pete has mistakenly taken from their table, give it back to them and explain that they need to cut him some slack, and occasionally having to escort him home and make sure he slumps to the floor in the safety of his own flat.

He always gives me stick for posting abuse about him on here for some reason, despite the fact this is my first ever post about him. It must be my geeky face.

 

[Scoffers]

sound like a good bloke

Pete is actually a bloody nice bloke all told, and is Brighton to the core

 

[Uncle Buck]

Pete is actually a bloody nice bloke all told, and is Brighton to the core

Exactly.

Just incidents have a habit of following him...

 

[Scoffers]

Exactly.

Just incidents have a habit of following him...

I'd say incidents stalk him as opposed to follow him !

 

[Uncle Buck]

I'd say incidents stalk him as opposed to follow him !

There is some truth in that.

Oh and he fell out of a taxi the other day.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Is it fair to say he drinks over the governments maximum weekly unit intake of 21 units per week.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Is it fair to say he drinks over the governments maximum weekly unit intake of 21 units per week.

Look he has underpinned the UK cider industry for the last 40 years, so I think he probably does go a unit or 2 over that intake.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

he was drinking Cider when he was 5

 

[Uncle Buck]

he was drinking Cider when he was 5

More than likely Garth.