60 Years Of The PMC - Cheeky Chappie

2010 marks the 60th anniversary of the launch of the PMC. Yes, it's impossible to believe, but that's because it is impossible.

To mark this auspicious occasion the PMC will be taking a retrospective of some of the outstanding posts of the past six decades. From Cold War to Coldplay and from Ban the Bomb to Ban the Burka, every decade will be represented, and includes highlights from some of the most talked about of contributors...Bertrand Russell, Hunter S. Thompson, Roman Polanski, Roald Dahl and Limahl from Kajagoogoo,  to name but a few - none of them contributed to the PMC's pages (oh, hold on a second, Limahl had a regular section in the early 80s).
 
1970 saw the introduction of a new character to the Puumajacrew, the self-styled 'Cheeky Chappie', Kevin Cartwright.

Subsequently voted by readers of the TV Times as 'the funniest man of 1973', he  later did a volte face, becoming something of a hate figure, in part due to his increasingly xenophobic and bigoted attitude towards Britain joining the EEC, the recurrence of Dutch Elm Disease in the UK, and black footballers in the First Division.

The PMC would like to distance itself from this former 'contributor', who brought shame and infamy on our blog and attracted just the sort of readership we now try to dissuade, politically correct and liberal bunch that we are (not).

Anyway just for posterity's sake here is one of his less emetic-inducing contributions...


First Posted on October 24th 1970

Cor, that blue flame machine dosn't half shift, much better than my Anglia 105E- that'd be just the kind of motor I could do with when popping down to the Co-op.

And I bet the driver, what's his name, Grovelsnitch, gets the birds, even more than Barry Sheen I reckon.

I say, I wonder what the fuel bill is, lay-gennlemen, I suppose you don't just roll up at the texaco and say 'fill here up with four star'! eh?!, What, eh?! I mean, come on!

I wonder what happens when you need to change a tyre on that thing, I don't suppose you carry a spare in the back, no sir!

I say, how do you clean the windows, there are no windscreen wipers and the jet wash would just go flying all over the place at that speed.

And I wonder what the service charge is - bet it's more than the whole of Z cars put together!

Etc. Etc. ad nauseam..