Parsons Watch - Episode 4

We start Parsons Watch this week with a brand new theme tune:

"Duh...Duh du du de duh duh...Bah Bah Baaah...Dum Bah Bah Bah...Do De Do...laaaa (dum didi dum) Laaaa (dum didi dum) LAAAAA (dedodedode do doooo)"

Tony Writes:
There are few things more fun than using the stick of hindisght to beat a hapless hack. Cast your mind back to the start of November: Charles and Camilla were on their tour of the States. Response to the Royal couple from the Americans was hardly overwhelming, I think that it is agreed. This may have dismayed the Duchess of Cornwall, especially if she had caught Tony's column of the same week. "Camilla Parker Bowles [will become] bigger than Catherine Zeta-Jones over there" he cried. Ooh, what insight.


Parsons of the Week:

A wintery Parsons of the week as we meet the unmistakable Kristen Parsons (on the right, wearing her coat of many wolves). You are most probably asking yourself "Where have I seen that face before?"

That's right, Kristen won "Miss Teen Newfoundland and Labrador 2002". (I was going to insert a dog joke here, but that would be derogatory, cruel and unfair, and totally against the high standards I require of Parsons Watch). And anyway, none of my half-baked remarks could compete with the image of Kristen and fellow winner Lori posing with a, er... well, whatever that guy is meant to be dressed up as. (Surely it can't be that?)

***Parsons in Music***

So far in our Parsons supergroup we have Gram (guitar and vocals) and Alan (producer). Our next addition is none other than Mr Gene Parsons, drummer with The Byrds.



Although Gene's musical credentials are enough alone to get him into the supergroup, I think we'd all be lying if we didn't say that it is his moustache that really cements his position on the skins.

Although best known for his drumming, Gene has a strong interest in all of the country music instruments. As well as the banjo, he is also considering learning the Bluegrass Mandolin and maybe even how to fiddle.

Parsons Word Fact: I once spelt Parsons wrong in an A-Level maths test, substituting the second S for an O. The teacher deducted a mark from me, thus depriving me of a rare test-victory over my arch-rival, Conrad Dowding.