yeah....  just read that...   tis sad.

Anyways...   what I actually came in here for was to ask how you're doing Slinkeh?

There never seems like a good place to ask you...   but I know you've been through so much lately..    

I'm keeping my eye on you    (in a non creepy way) 

awwww ta! You know that feeling you get that someone's lookin at you ?! ! IT WAS YOU!!!

 Doing fine ta ditty .. missing my dad loads though . Have applied for redundancy at work.. I reckoned since everything's changing, I may as well go the whole hog and start afresh! ! Should hear soon, so fingers crossed! x

that sounds healthy (the embracing change thing & going for it full on) 

So what will you do if you get the redundancy?

Not sure! Got a few ideas.. need to wait and see what happens x

ooooh!  sounds exciting.. 

will keep everything crossed for you 

Ta! Don't drive with your eyes crossed though ! x

ok.. I won't 

RIP Jocky.

By way of tribute, here's another look at one of the "biggest cock-ups in Top of the Pops History":

I remember Billy Connolly commenting on Jocky's interview with the BBC after becoming World Campion: polite and self-effacing, it was like he'd just been invited round to his Grannie's for tea. Truly lovely bloke.

^^^^^^^

I love that tune ......................it's made me smile!

Ooh I feel really bad. I thought Jocky Wilson had died years ago

RIP Jocky

Jocky reminded me of my Uncle Eric

Seem to be men form a by-gone age, cigarette permanently in hand, beer belly and working men's pub regular.

RIP

Well said.  Most of my uncles were like him LOL.   I do remember the Jackie Wilson gaffe on TOTP too! 

The golden age of darts and double World Champ.

Left his mark 

Those were the days.....used to love watching Jocky play darts! He always made me smile...R.I.P to a darting legend 

I agree.  i remember when we only had 3 channels and there was always darts, footie or snooker on a Saturday afternoon and a Sunday... There was not much else to watch.  

And when the Darts and Snooker finals were epics that often went on til the wee small hours in a fag haze!!

 ! 

Jocky was compulsive viewing though, even through the smokescreen  

Seemingly it was not a gaffe! Dexy's midnight runners stated they did it deliberately.There ya go...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/musi.../09/artsfeatures.bbc

Kevin Rowland Dexy's Midnight Runners

[...]

"When we did a song called Jackie Wilson Said in the early 80s, there was a big beer-swilling darts player around called Jocky Wilson. For a laugh, we told the producer to put a picture of Jocky Wilson up behind us. He said, "But Kevin, people will think we made a mistake." I told him only an idiot would think that. The morning after, the DJ Mike Read said: "Bloody Top of the Pops. How could they mix up one of the great soul singers with a Scottish darts player?"

What's interesting though is that the BBC still "admit" it was a mistake! (The line in my earlier post - "one of the biggest cock-ups in Top of the Pops history" - is a direct quote...)