alihtfc
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Post by alihtfc on Sept 5, 2013 11:36:10 GMT 1
Hi All,
Has anyone seen Jake Mangel Wurzel our lost town fan?
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Post by Lard Buttie on Sept 5, 2013 12:20:38 GMT 1
Last seen in Bradford tracking down the bloke who had sex with a dog
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 12:24:18 GMT 1
Last seen in Bradford tracking down the bloke who had sex with a dog was it jakes wife? |
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Post by Grandfather Berty of Cleck on Sept 5, 2013 12:28:20 GMT 1
Is that the bloke off Neighbours?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 12:34:09 GMT 1
Can anyone remember the time he had that message on his roof?
"Hello Concorde - you can land here at Wurzel terminal"...
It was in the days way before camera phones and social media otherwise it would have gone viral...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 12:39:07 GMT 1
He posts on here regular with username Otium.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 12:46:22 GMT 1
I cant really disagree with a single word of this...right through to the very last word....
(I guess by fat pension hes talking in context of what seems to be a very frugal existence (although he does shop at Sainsburys...you can see him at Sally Nook regularly, although probably not noticed him for a few months to be honest)).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 12:53:08 GMT 1
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Post by jonnyboy on Sept 5, 2013 12:58:59 GMT 1
Sadly I think died a while back. I remember him measuring my mums inside leg outside woolworths in the town centre dressed as a policeman with a touch of French onion seller...
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marshian
Jimmy Glazzard Terrier
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Post by marshian on Sept 5, 2013 13:04:17 GMT 1
Are you sure he's died?
I thought I'd come across him recently, & don't remember anything in the Examiner, which as a very well known local character I'd have thought they'd have printed an obituary to him.
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Post by Lard Buttie on Sept 5, 2013 13:15:04 GMT 1
Used to drive a bicycle with a load of dildo's fastened to it years ago and his dog, who he married, sat in the front basket.
Used to also see him up at the old Bullah Brothers supermarket at Sally Nook driving a volvo with a toilet fastened to the roof
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 13:40:51 GMT 1
He had a Honda Superdream with a washing line to dry his clothes whilst riding around. It also had a working hand wash basin  |
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betsvigi9
Jimmy Nicholson Terrier
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Post by betsvigi9 on Sept 5, 2013 13:58:20 GMT 1
Used to see him all the time but I haven't seen him lately. I think his house burning down knocked him for six. Surely if he had died it would have been in the Examiner.
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thewrongboy
Jimmy Nicholson Terrier
Once found Huddersfield Town graffiti in Berlin. No word of a lie.
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Post by thewrongboy on Sept 5, 2013 13:59:07 GMT 1
Sadly I think died a while back. I remember him measuring my mums inside leg outside woolworths in the town centre dressed as a policeman with a touch of French onion seller... I very much hope he hasn't died. Can anyone give us any accurate information about his well-being? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 14:12:39 GMT 1
The fire was back in 2010...he's definitely been out and about looking lively sice then. www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/fire-guts-house-huddersfield-eccentric-4995290And this was on his birthday back in May earlier this year...I'm no doctor but he looks very lively and alert....has the look of someone who has got a good few years ahead of him yet.  Tis odd that he seems to have disappeared a bit in recent months, it feels like I saw him at least once a week over Christmas. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 14:18:39 GMT 1
i see jake a few times recently outside his house when im cutting across the playing field and park across from wappy inn on lindley moor road
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 14:20:12 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 14:23:24 GMT 1
Didn't he win the Euro Millions and now lives in a very nice villa on the Cote d'Azure ?
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Sept 5, 2013 14:34:11 GMT 1
He posts on here regular with username Otium. Jake is an old pal of mine, saw him on Cross Church Street last week. I once read Dr David Weeks treatise on eccentrics which had Jake as the No1 in the World. Bizarrely i matched 14 of the 15 criteria for being eccentric as listed by Weeks. I had two scrap books with hundreds of cuttings about him from down the years but i lost one and he lost the other in his house fire. I could tell you stories all day about him, a superb human being. Still waiting to be invited to this short movie made about him, the first showing is due. |
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Sept 5, 2013 14:37:22 GMT 1
Religion "so demonstrably wrong, so demonstrably lunatic".
Well said Jake.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 16:09:22 GMT 1
Just been speaking with the director of the documentary. Jake is totally fine, she met up with him only last week.
She has recently received further funding for her film, and hopes to get it on TV, and is sending it along for consideration in the various indie film festivals at present.
Also, a painting of him is due to be up "in the library" in an exhibition soon (assumedly in the Art Gallery above Hudds main library).
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Post by 3Pipe on Sept 5, 2013 16:40:10 GMT 1
It appears that reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Post by colnevalleyblue on Sept 5, 2013 17:51:13 GMT 1
He isn't dead but had a funeral about a decade ago!
The guys a legend, I was watching some youtube footage of his wedding. Look North did a piece on it and their was hundreds of well wishers outside the civic centre.
Every Town needs an eccentric.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Sept 5, 2013 18:25:40 GMT 1
Anyone remember the old eccentric up above Meltham. Had white painted writing all over his farmhouse? The whole building covered with, i believe, religious rantings and quotes.
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Post by colnevalleyblue on Sept 5, 2013 18:31:23 GMT 1
Anyone remember the old eccentric up above Meltham. Had white painted writing all over his farmhouse? The whole building covered with, i believe, religious rantings and quotes. Mike Madden of Crackpot cottage? |
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chinaski
Frank Worthington Terrier
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Post by chinaski on Sept 5, 2013 18:33:52 GMT 1
Talks a ridiculous amount of sense. I'm only 25 but I echo all of his views above.
When I was a kid, he was talked of as a lunatic, an oddball. Turns out he was right all along. Anyone got a dog for sale?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 18:48:38 GMT 1
The barmy buggers wedding day. |
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Post by snaithterrier on Sept 5, 2013 19:32:06 GMT 1
I was once knighted as the 7th Knight of Wurzeland whilst I was having a few beers in the Wappy Springs one night.I was talking to Jake and he popped home for his knighting stick and a camera and the ceremony was carried out in the pub.....Great guy
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Post by 3Pipe on Sept 5, 2013 19:42:38 GMT 1
Better qualified for lifetime president than some snake we could mention.
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Post by Baron Mooy on Sept 5, 2013 19:42:41 GMT 1
Did he change his name to Thonas Horatio Edward Occupier at one point??
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