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  • Clarissa Dickson Wright dies
  • Pigface
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    She was a hell of a girl, didnt agree with her stance on hunting but was entertaining.

    ninfan
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    Hell of a career (youngest woman called to the bar) , hell of a story (very privileged but abusive childhood) and a hell of a lot of drinking away a fortune of an inheritance – the world is a sadder place for her passing.

    I suppose we’ll never hear the truth about the ‘Miranda’ tales now either 🙁

    IHN
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    I was surprised to read that she was only 66. RIP though.

    freeagent
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    Yep, lovable English lunatic – saw her interviewed a couple of times on various chat shows and she was hilarious.
    The world is a sadder place without her.
    RIP.

    spacemonkey
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    Full-bodied and lovably bonkers. RIP 🙁

    cbmotorsport
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    “Born Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright….” (Wiki)

    Wow.

    TurnerGuy
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    can’t be that surprising – she didn’t exactly look a picture of health…

    derek_starship
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    TG – nobody said it was surprising that she’s died.
    And what pray tell is “the picture of health?”

    I loved those two crazy ladies. They lived it to the full.

    No balance. Just red lined it all the way to the finish.

    RIP Clarissa darling.

    tomhoward
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    can’t be that surprising

    …Because everyone dies?

    Odd comment.

    Brilliant woman, wish there were more like her.

    barkm
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    Was very surprised to hear her theory on why we’re all depressed (lack of fat) being re-played on radio earlier.
    To para-phrase, we should be prescribing cream cakes, not prozac it seems.

    Bizarre.

    Any death is sad, I never really knew her, but she obviously had the kind of presence which will be missed by many.

    grum
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    Her agent or someone described her as being ‘totally un-PC’. What does that mean? Liked racist jokes?

    Seemed a strange comment to pick out.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Quite the character, as was Jennifer Paterson.

    kcal
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    sad to hear of her passing. uncompromising, entertaining, provocative, unapologetic, one of life’s larger than life characters 🙂

    I seem to recall she argued her ah size was caused by overdoses of quinine (in the tonic…)

    Stoner
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    totally un-PC

    Apples.

    Apple pie. Apple strudel. Apple crumble

    kimbers
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    not sure everyone will be so sad

    TurnerGuy
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    TG – nobody said it was surprising that she’s died.

    I was surprised to read that she was only 66. RIP though.

    loddrik
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    Is the world really really that much worse of with the loss of another tory toff…? I don’t want anyone to die prematurely but a woman of privilege born into money who supported the right of other toffs to kill animals for sport, I couldn’t give a toss about.

    cynic-al
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    Yup, Loddrik, politics and class defines everyone 🙄 you’d be happy to be thought of just as a chip-on-the-shoulder leftie or whatever?

    loddrik
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    That’ll do me just fine. My wife would agree with you I’m sure too.

    ton
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    lived life to the full…..nowt wrong with that.

    RustySpanner
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    Tory Toff she might have been, but she had a very interesting life.

    I admired her for her character, but suspect I’d have disagreed with her on almost everything.
    She’d have been good on here. 🙂

    Her views are irrelevant, she made the world a more interesting place.

    She was great on Desert Island Discs Linky.

    Trimix
    Free Member

    Loddrick – read up a bit on her life and then re read your post.

    (before you post anymore)

    Trimix
    Free Member

    In fact, I will help you out a bit: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/feb/13/gender.uk

    MrWoppit
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    Her partner in the “Two Fat Ladies” cooking combo, Jennifer Paterson, was asked to comment on being instructed by Linda McCartney to publicise more vegetarian recipes. She said “Well, I thought it was rather impertinent”. 😆 😆

    TurnerGuy
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    That’ll do me just fine. My wife would agree with you I’m sure too.

    you confessed on this forum to pushing drugs as a youth, didn’t you ?

    mt
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    She was very entertaining and spoke a lot of sense on many issues. Stood up for what she believed.

    “Tory Toff” you know so little.

    loddrik
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    you confessed on this forum to pushing drugs as a youth, didn’t you ?

    As an adult too. Why?

    chewkw
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    It is living that is hard not dying. Dying is easy.

    She lived a full life so nothing sad about her passing but just another journey.

    So long fat woman who speaks her mind.

    🙂

    p/s: your recipes can be complicated at times …

    MrWoppit
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    mt – Member
    She was very entertaining and spoke a lot of sense on many issues. Stood up for what she believed.

    “Tory Toff” you know so little.

    Standard STW knee-jerk reaction evident with some hereabouts.

    “Hunting” = “Tory Toff”. 🙄

    Nothing to see here…

    TurnerGuy
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    As an adult too. Why?

    just puts your sense of morals in perspective, doesn’t it?

    Don’t think she ever exploited fellow members of society to make a quick buck…

    chewkw
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    Comparing the death of Bob Crow Vs Clarissa Dickson Wright.

    The former was a pain in the arse while the latter gave poor cooking recipes (well does not suit my taste).

    Death? They all got it cheap.

    🙄

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Both characters who stuck to their beliefs rather than pander to the vox pop. Not a big fan of either but the world is a duller place without them

    loddrik
    Free Member

    As an adult too. Why?
    just puts your sense of morals in perspective, doesn’t it?

    Don’t think she ever exploited fellow members of society to make a quick buck…

    dashed
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    Like the Linda McCartney comment up there ^ somewhere 🙂

    She signed a cookbook for me once, it reads:
    “Bollocks to Blair,
    Clarissa”

    😆

    I liked the old girl, called a spade a spade or, in her case, a fat lady a fat lady. Quite a personality – her autobiography was a good read.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Yeah, because drug pushing is such a giggle, isn’t it, Loddrik?

    😐

    tomhoward
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    Yeah, because drug pushing is such a giggle, isn’t it, Loddrik?

    Certainly gives one a firm standing point when discussing morality, and ‘doing the right thing’.

    loddrik
    Free Member

    Where did I proclaim myself the moral arbiter of the country???

    I didn’t bring up my previous vocational endeavours, and it really is a ridiculous thing to bring up as a response to me saying I have little sympathy with a woman of her background.

    loddrik
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    And the term ‘pushing’… Come on???

    Stoner
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    So you damn her for her background, not actually anything she has done in her life? Well that’s OK then. That makes perfect sense.

    TurnerGuy
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    Where did I proclaim myself the moral arbiter of the country???

    You are always doing it indirectly, with snide comments about middle classes living in Surrey, other peoples politics, etc.

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