Thousands of fans have joined an online campaign to get a elderly tramp to carry the Olympic torch.
Tramp Gordon Roberts, who is well known in Bournemouth for always knowing the correct time despite never wearing a watch, has got the support of 4,500 people who plan to nominate him as their 'inspirational member of the community'.
Eccentric Gordon, 82, has spent more than 20 years wandering the streets of his Dorset home town sporting a trademark white beard, football scarf and Parka jacket.
His supporters have launched a Facebook group dedicated to making him the town's official Olympic torch bearer.
They will now nominate Gordon to the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) as a worthy candidate for the job.
The campaign is the brainchild of cousins Jade Reynolds, 21, and Looby Ratcliffe, 20, both from Poole.
Jade said: 'Gordon is just the nicest, most genuine man you could ever hope to meet.
'He's a great person - he's always got a happy word to say and everyone loves seeing him.
'So when we saw an advert for local heroes to carry the Olympic torch, he was the first person who came to mind.
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Olympic tramp!
Olympic tramp!
Typical Brits, you have to laugh..
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Are they sure that's not Michael Palin...
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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I love it...i think hes fab I hope they give it to him.
He could have dated Loopy Lou who was our town nutter back in the UK. She used to spit at everyone and call them a whore!!
I wont go into Sweaty Betty the other town nutter!
He could have dated Loopy Lou who was our town nutter back in the UK. She used to spit at everyone and call them a whore!!
I wont go into Sweaty Betty the other town nutter!
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Or he could have dated Shuffles; she used to take classes in the university Art Dept I worked in. She'd come in to the office and complain that there was dust on the floor of the ceramics studio...dust! She also was convinced that the FBI and CIA were reading her mail, tapping her phones and generally invading her privacy. She wore a wig that hadn't been washed since the Eisenhower administration, and bedroom slippers (hence the nickname...)