Captain Birdseye Has His Chips
JOHN Hewer, the man who played Captain Birdseye on TV for years, in those adverts for fish fingers has died.
Old Mr Anorak likes to think of a face when eating, whether it be Colonel Sanders for fried chicken, the frighteningly deformed Mr Kipling or Anthea Turner when contemplating a chocolate flake.
As such, he is now sown off fish finger, saying they remind him of his own mortality and of Old Mr Anorak The Elder lying in the cryogenic freezer compartment…
NOTE: In 1971, The Times featured an obituary for Captain Birds Eye. He returned in 1974. Chin up, shipmates…
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March 19th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Wonder if he is a prawn again christian
March 19th, 2008 at 11:30 am
May his Sole rest in peace
March 19th, 2008 at 11:22 am
May your cod go with you.
March 19th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Tar-Tare
March 19th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Rest in Peas!