Not the Colonel, but a chum of his when he was a cadet....
....had a lie backfire on him.

I shall not mention the chap's name but it began (and probably still does) with Dave and ends with Hancock.

At the age of about 19, DH went on a boozy weekend trip to Amsterdam. He got separated from his other compatriots and ended up in a dingy bar with a number of Dutch lads. In a slightly inebriated state, they all gelled instantly and more alcohol was drunk. At this point, one cloggy suddenly pointed at Dave and said (with a comedy Dutch accent) "Hey my frent, are you Nick Heyward, famuss singer of de cool pop bant 'Haircut 100????'

Please bear in mind that it was 1980.

Dave, being young, foolish & pissed modestly admitted that he was. Cue the whole bar buying him drinks, arranging young women to do indescribable things to his appendages etc etc. After a couple of hours someone lobbed a couple of guilder in the new fangled video jukebox and put 'Love plus one' on. As Nick Heyward was projected onto the wall at a frightening 600% full size, eyes swung from the young popular music combo singer to the drunken ex Grammar school teenager, and the number was up.

Luckily Dave wasn't so pissed that he couldn't outrun the cloggies, though he did have to make use of a canal to avoid having twenty of Holland's finest taking their frustrations out on his face.

Length? About 100kms according to Wikipedia.
(Colonel Blink is now officially a pretentious prick, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 22:10, 6 replies)

according to wikipedia
Haircut 100 had their first hit 'love plus one' which reached number 4 in October 1981 which contradicts DH’s statement that this happened in 1980. Also videojukeboxes were not in usage at until the mid to late 1980's and those utilised laserdiscs with a CRT screen and certainly not projector systems while assertion of a screening ratio of '600% full size' is frankly ludicrous. Even at their maximum usage they were very, very uncommon.
Although there is a history of ‘video juke boxes going back to the 1940’s in the USA Europe did not have them until the Scopitone ST-16 and Scopitone ST-36 which were made in France in the very late fifties and early sixties.
So even if the ‘dingy bar’ had one of these, had somehow been able to construct a playback system that they had rigged to have a massive projector, it certainly would not have been optimised for playing 'pop videos' a year before they came out in the charts.
(nimrodihnio making gravy for one., Fri 13 Aug 2010, 2:07, closed)

Wow!
Forensic picking apart of story. I liked the original post anyway :-)
( splorp ®, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 13:00, closed)

Well bugger me!
This means that Dave must have been either a bullshitter or a time traveller.

I favour the latter.
(Colonel Blink is now officially a pretentious prick, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 22:31, closed)

Columbo is my role model
'just one more question' (with cigar in hand while wearing shabby suit, looking at you through my one good eye)
(nimrodihnio making gravy for one., Sat 14 Aug 2010, 8:50, closed)

Is this too spooky for words....?
My wife thinks Columbo is terrific......

(This is true)
(Colonel Blink is now officially a pretentious prick, Sat 14 Aug 2010, 11:23, closed)

i use this clip
in one of my development courses, as an example of values and beliefs and the relationship between loving your job and success.
i do love the character and the shows!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta6kxSsYhAQ
(nimrodihnio making gravy for one., Sat 14 Aug 2010, 11:57, closed)