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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Tom Hawes
Tom Hawes looks a bit perplexed in this Troy Saxon picture. The "staff" he is holding
appears to be a frou-frou curtain rod popular in the early to mid 60s.
I haven't heard the expression "frou-frou" in years. But then, back in the day, you could really, genuinely, tell if you were talking to a gay man because of his choice of vocabulary. There was the "bijou residence" rather than the "town house", one "trolled" down to the off-licence (liquor store) rather than "schlepped", and if you bumped into a friend on the way, you would say "Bona to vada your eek!" (good to see your face) and at 7.00pm one tended to have a "drinky-pooh" rather than cocktails, after the Dubonnet-swilling HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother ("What ARE you queens doing? This old Queen wants a drinky-pooh.") who, on occasions, was known to have to hold on to the back of chairs on her way to bed. (7.00pm was of course another royal tradition, after HM King Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor, who would not drink until that time but then couldn't stop and in the morning, looked like a descendant of the House of Hangover rather than Hanover.) The photography might have been monochrome but the language was decidedly more colourful.
I haven't heard the expression "frou-frou" in years. But then, back in the day, you could really, genuinely, tell if you were talking to a gay man because of his choice of vocabulary. There was the "bijou residence" rather than the "town house", one "trolled" down to the off-licence (liquor store) rather than "schlepped", and if you bumped into a friend on the way, you would say "Bona to vada your eek!" (good to see your face) and at 7.00pm one tended to have a "drinky-pooh" rather than cocktails, after the Dubonnet-swilling HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother ("What ARE you queens doing? This old Queen wants a drinky-pooh.") who, on occasions, was known to have to hold on to the back of chairs on her way to bed. (7.00pm was of course another royal tradition, after HM King Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor, who would not drink until that time but then couldn't stop and in the morning, looked like a descendant of the House of Hangover rather than Hanover.) The photography might have been monochrome but the language was decidedly more colourful.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there was always the "Is he musical?" question.
DeleteAh, now in close up. But, rather distracted by that fine appendage and bush.
ReplyDeleteUnderstandable.
DeleteI've posed with similar curtain poles.
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