'Old', to the young, means your brains fell out of your ears on achieving the age of 40!
Sir Jimmy Young, OBE., CBE. was born in 1923 at "Cindyfud", Gloucestershire, my old stamping ground in my middle years. A very good singer and pianist, he was the 'dog's b*llocks'** then, with quite a few consecutive 'No 1s' under his belt in the mid-fifties, Jim actually joined the BBC in 1949, but took a DJ slot on the newly formed Radio One in 1967. R1 was (is) a "youf" pop station, formed by the Government after they forced 'pirate' radio-stations out of business. Jokes in the media about his alleged syrup*, and 'advancing years', led to a move to Radio 2, where he remained in a popular chat/items/middle-of-the-road music slot for over 30 years. He was 'pushed out' as 'too old' in 2002, despite questions being raised in the House of Commons! He did not "go quietly into the night" either, giving the Beeb a right-rollocking broadside on his last show. Audience figures promptly went down the khazi, because the young whippersnapper-directors forgot one tiny little detail. The audience were the same age!
Youth is wasted on the Young.- Oscar Wilde.
Alan
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*'syrup'= 'syrup of figs', = wig.
** dog's boll*cks ; is from the first 'Meccano' toy construction sets of the early 1900's, marketed as two sorts, 'Box Deluxe', from which we get 'dog's b*llocks' ie the best, or superlative, (and nothing to do with dogs or their anatomical bits). And 'Box Standard' from whence came 'bog-standard', meaning ordinary. Funny old lingo, English, ain't it!
