Glastonbury
It's OK, I'm not a week late to the festival QOTW.

Michael Eavis, the landowner and organiser of the Glastonbury Festival (known to us yokel types as the Pilton Pop Festival) was quite a common sight on the streets of our village. As he was frequently standing for local councils, parliament or other politicky stuff that I was too young to understand he'd often wander around canvassing and generally being a Somerset big shot. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't stalking him or anything, but as a kid you are somewhat dimly aware of the local personalities and he was definitely one of them.

One summer when I can't have been more than 10 or so I remember seeing him in town being filmed by local TV. I was with my mum and we were approaching down the hill behind the camera so we weren't in shot. I was quite excited because not much gets the TV cameras out in the Westcountry. Just as I was about to run past him to claim my 5 seconds of fame, my mum started giggling and grabbed my shoulder. Pointing at Eavis, she whispered in my ear that the bearded man's flies were undone! This is comedy gold to a ten year old, and I wanted more than anything else to run up and mock him, probably by asking him if he had a license to fly that low.

Mum wouldn't let me interrupt the interview though. All I remember is whining at her, "Mum, why can't I go an' tell Eavis 'e's on show?"

Edit: with apologies to Sloppy Giuseppe.
( Scrumper, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 17:01, 7 replies)

( jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 17 Jun 2009, 17:40, closed)

This QOTW...
...has been hit by a late surge of impressively creative and unexpected puns.

This is up there with the best of them, sir.

*clicks*
( TheMagicDwarf is back like ballroom dancing, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 17:45, closed)

oh my...
HYPERSPANG!
(poikes Bored sig, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 17:53, closed)

Fuck...
Should have seen that coming a mile off...
(Code of Post lives at the moment in time that is..., Wed 17 Jun 2009, 22:20, closed)

Nicely done.
Don't apologise, it's Wednesday: go pun mental.
(Sloppy Giuseppe, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 22:37, closed)

Pah
and theres me thinking we must be almost neighbours till the last bit.

Pah again i say

clicks anyway
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 0:24, closed)

WE
must be pretty much neighbours, I live 3 or 4 miles away. But I don't have the gift of awesome punnage.
( Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 12:13, closed)