Well folks ... this is it. The long war of attrition between Detterling and Gene is finally over. On 29th December 2017 at 15.47 (Pacific Time) Detterling threw in the towel. All over. The end came with such surprising suddeness and finality. Detterling seemed to be on the very point of victory when, as one of the members of the Good Yarn Friday Night Club pithily commented: "My God! Detterling has snatched defeat from the very jaws of victory!" A spectacular and in the circumstances such an astonishing defeat. But then again Gene was always known to be at his most dangerous when forced onto the ropes.
Is Gene gloating? No way. This coming Friday night, 5th January 2018, in the Good Yarn no doubt some in the Friday Night Club will want to celebrate and declare 'another victory for Gene'. But Gene will not go along with this and will ask all to raise a glass to his old enemy declaring that the manner of Detterling's surrender was noble and dignified.
Gene has prepared two features for this blog - one a hilarious skit about Delia and the other a humorous but insightful piece about Detterling's nephew - but publication will be suspended until the old boy is is better shape. He has a lot to cope with at the moment: the spectacular collapse of his campaign against Gene, serious health issues, his failure to have his memoirs published and his estrangement from his nephew.
We shall all miss old Detters. Yes we shall even miss his bullying intolerance, his pomposity, his self-righteousness, and his pseudo intellectual posing.
In tribute to Detterling Gene is republishing these three photos: the hilarious shot of Detterling trainspotting in 1959 and a photo of socks in open-toed sandals and a photo of Delia dressed up as a sexpot.
Detterling aged fifteen trainspotting in 1959
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