OVERHEARD IN HARRIS & HOOLE...
(An occasional feature)
27th April 2026
Myself, Mary Winterbourne, Tony of the Big Saloon and Frances 'Fanny' Dango got together this morning in Harris & Hoole. And surprise, surprise, Johnny Bluenote was able to join us. We had so much to discuss.
MARY WINTERBOURNE: Well, we all know why we are here today. Gene has been greatly distressed by false and malicious comments posted by Detterling about Gene's father and Great-uncle. We offer Gene our support and help in avenging this malice.
GENE: Yes Mary. Thank you all so much.
My father was a brave and honorable man. An RAF pilot during WWII he was stationed at bases at Killadeas and St Angelo on Lough Erne in County Fermanagh. He and his brave companions protected the essential North Atlantic convoys. When we were children he used to take myself and my late brother Paul for summer holidays in County Fermanagh. We explored the remains of those air force bases. Killadeas falls within the Roman Catholic parish of Devenish. In the parish graveyard there is a special section where seventeen RAF pilots are buried. It's so sad that those brave men gave their lives so that a renegade like Detterling now takes the freedom they fought for to abuse those deceased pilots and my father and his valiant companions who put their lives on the line every day. Bastard!
FRANCES 'FANNY' DANGO: Disgraceful. For me Detterling is the most slimy creep ever to crawl out of a Tyneside sewer.
JOHNNY BLUENOTE: The bar steward should have his ass repeatedly kicked all the way out to Wallsend.
GENE: And the way he traduced the memory of my Great-uncle Claude!
My Great-uncle Claude was a lovely, kind and generous man. For example, with great perspicacity he foresaw my future as a writer and made me a gift of a Remington manual typewriter when I went up to Oxford in 1975.
Yes he was a homosexual man but he was celibate all his life and a mainstay in his C of E parish in Richmond, Surrey.
TONY OF THE BIG SALOON: This cries out for revenge. I suggest Swashbuckling Mulligan be drafted in to write one of his devastating satires.
FRANCES 'FANNY' DANGO: How I loved that last satire! Remember how it ended! Detterling collapsed dead as a doornail on the sofa. A few minutes later Delia was laughing and joking with Gene on the phone and both were concocting some outrageous hanky-panky.
GENE: Yes folks. I will have a word with Swashbuckling Mulligan.
But, let us now be downhearted. Remember the great recent victory we have had with the defeat of the plans to bring assisted suicide to this green and pleasant land. Let us raise out drinks to that great victory.
ALL: Hip! Hip! Hooray!
GENE: Now let us raise our drinks and have three cheers for Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Richard Moth Archbishop of Westminster who led opposition to this evil bill.
ALL: Hip! Hip! Hooray!
GENE: Now let us raise our drinks and have three cheers for Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury, who so strongly opposed this evil bill.
ALL: Hip! Hip! Hooray!
GENE: Now let us raise our drinks and have three cheers for the kick up the ass the failure of this bill has delivered to Detterling and his pinko liberal ilk.
ALL: Hip! Hip! Hooray!
GENE: Now let us raise our drinks and have three cheers for the kick up the ass the failure of this bill has delivered to that silly old bat Esther Rantzen.
ALL: Hip! Hip! Hooray!
GENE:
ASSISTED SUICIDE
IT SHALL NEVER BE
NOT IN MERRIE ENGLAND
LAND OF THE FREE.
SACRED HEART ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH GRAVEYARD
IRVINESTOWN, DEVENISH, COUNTY FERMANAGH
GRAVES of WWII RAF AIRMEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES FOR OUR FREEDOM
(Detterling look at this photo and be overcome with shame)
You are a two faced coward, Groper, and I have done with you.
ReplyDeleteI now see no reason at all not to take off the gloves and go for your balls.
You will rue your cowardice, your hypocrisy, your two-faced attitude to free speech, your filthy minded attacks on my wife and family and above all your despicable attacks on a woman dying of cancer.
"Retired Uxbridge teacher - author of the blog "Gene a voice in the wilderness" calls terminal cancer victim Esther Rantzen "a silly old bat."
It won't happen this week.
It won't happen this month.
Depending on how things progress in my own life, it will probably happen this year.
And when it does, YOU WILL WISH YOU HAD NEVER BEEN BORN, GROPER.
You are so self-obsessed that the penny still hasn't dropped, has it?
Detterling your post was removed by Google because it contained false criminal allegations.
DeleteNo it didn’t, and no it wasn’t.
DeleteIt was removed because you are a two faced bastard and coward who can hand it out but squeals like a stuck pig when he had to take it.
Criminal allegations my arse.
Even better...
ReplyDelete"Retired Uxbridge teacher - author of the blog "Gene a voice in the wilderness" calls terminal cancer victim Esther Rantzen "a silly old bat after inviting his friends to kick her up the arse".
Forget all that. It is Swashbuckling Mulligan you should be concerned with.
ReplyDeleteThe arrogant conceit is staggering - your flabby, laboured drivel evokes nothing but incredulous pity for your pathetic ineptitude as a writer.
DeleteAnd how about this for a headline?
ReplyDeleteRETIRED TYNESIDE SUPPLY TEACHER INSULTS THE MEMORY OF DECEASED WWII RAF PILOTS.
Nonsense - my remarks about y your late father and uncle were rip-roaring humour, banter and badinage between friends, at least according to you, the Groping CryBaby of Uxbridge.
DeleteAnd furthermore Detterling Esther Rantzen was determined that the evil Nazi policy of assisted suicide should be imposed on England's green and pleasant land. She deserves a metaphorical kick up the ass.
ReplyDeleteDon’t be ridiculous, Groper: calling the Assisted Dying bill a Nazi policy simply makes you look what you are - pig ignorant, stupid and malicious.
ReplyDeleteAnd insulting a woman dying of cancer is the action of a shithouse rat.
Oh! yes. Assisted dying was a Nazi policy. Example par excellence:
ReplyDeleteAuschwitz-Birkenau.