Temptation : The Ultimate Question

Random bored having to work Monday morning sort of question. Note Benny didn't vote for himself, and will be inordinately proud to get nil points !

Originally posted by Al Jarvis Agreed. I'm just about the only one in the office. Demotivated City.Er, you do know where the Benny's Cobweb eyes quote originates from, don't you ... Miss Diane?

Features in Fall track "Who Makes The Nazis?" - This is an allusion to 'Crossroads'(first incarnation). In the late 70s and early 80s, one of the show's best known characters was Benny Hawkins (Paul Henry), a sort of gentle-giant simpleton figure who always wore a woolly hat. He was meant to be pathetic, and was regularly used as a punching-bag for fortune - he was illiterate, his girlfriend got killed off, a Mrs Prewitt made him sleep in a garden shed, and for a while he was blinded. When his eyes were being examined, he said to the doctor 'I can't see nothing, doctor... only cobwebs!'

Originally posted by Al Jarvis Agreed. I'm just about the only one in the office. Demotivated City.

Tell me about it. There's about 5 of us here, the office is freezing, I've got nowt to do and I'm still full of cold from since before Christmas. Hurumph. Just what is the point of these inbetween Chrimbo and New Year days?

Anyway, what I always wanted to know is, what the hell is wrong with brown eyes?! ;)

Got to be blue eyes.

Originally posted by Kezzie From The Block > Originally posted by Al Jarvis Agreed. I'm just about the only one in the office. Demotivated City.

Tell me about it. There's about 5 of us here, the office is freezing, I've got nowt to do and I'm still full of cold from since before Christmas. Hurumph. Just what is the point of these inbetween Chrimbo and New Year days?

Anyway, what I always wanted to know is, what the hell is wrong with brown eyes?! ;)

Nothing at all, being a fellow possessor. They ain't featured in Temptation though !

Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes > Originally posted by Kezzie From The Block> > > > Originally posted by Al Jarvis> Agreed. I'm just about the only one in the office. Demotivated City.

Tell me about it. There's about 5 of us here, the office is freezing, I've got nowt to do and I'm still full of cold from since before Christmas. Hurumph. Just what is the point of these inbetween Chrimbo and New Year days?

Anyway, what I always wanted to know is, what the hell is wrong with brown eyes?! ;)

Nothing at all, being a fellow possessor. They ain't featured in Temptation though !

Exactly!

Yep, I know what it's like. My sadistic boss makes us all sit here doing nought (because there is bugger-all to do and he knows it but he derives a sense of enormous wellbeing from watching us hating him).

Still, all it's not lost, I have checked several jobsites (not very busy these days to be honest), arranged to have my flat's boiler checked, booked tickets for the weekend and searched for good pubs for tomorrow night). :moon:

well i like blue eyes the best, apparently you are the chosen few and are privelage if you have them. didnt the nazis only want blue eyes for the new race...

oh i have green memmerising eyes but ill vote bennys cos his the main man;)

None of the above.

The answer is brown eyes.

Is there a correct answer and a prize for guessing it ?

Originally posted by Julijana Zitnjak Is there a correct answer and a prize for guessing it ?

Yes. You're all losing at the moment.

Dated a girl from 1987-1990 whose eyes did indeed change between the 3 colours. I hadn't noticed but her sister pointed it out after hearing Temptation.

I wonder where she is now...

Strangely, my missus's eyes do exactly the same thing.

as i have green eyes, they get my vote, but on gents, i like dark, dark brown eyes, almost black....sigh. :D although i'll take the lot.

this song about david bowie, then?

if the song was about bowie, it have gone "oh you got ..i.. what the hell is wrong with your eyes?"

I notice Barney didn't write about brown eyes. Could that have been something to do with...nah forget it

I like green eyes the best of those three (brown eyes are my fave, though)

Well, all that's left is grey.

I've got really dark brown eyes with long lashes. Girls seem to like them, but I've always got eyelashes falling into my eyes.

I can't help falling in love with girls with dark brown hair and ocean blue eyes :D

Blue is my favorite color, so I'm going with blue.

:D:D:D:D anita, whose eyes are dark blue

Originally posted by melanie well i like blue eyes the best, apparently you are the chosen few and are privelage if you have them. didnt the nazis only want blue eyes for the new race...

Please don't bring the nazis into this. It's offensive.

:D:D:D:D anita

Originally posted by Monkeys in a Bubble I've got really dark brown eyes with long lashes. Girls seem to like them, but I've always got eyelashes falling into my eyes.

:D :D :D

my wife has green eyes, so it gets my vote

Well I've got really big deep brown eyes with short lashes!

Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes Well I've got really big deep brown eyes with short lashes!

yet another :D :D :D

Pity I'm half married and you're half the world away really - we do seem to score quite highly on each other's preferred attributes list ! ;)

aw, shucks!

now, if you look like alex james from blur i'll be on the next plane to fight your fiancee....

Originally posted by Al Jarvis > Originally posted by AgentWood> aw, shucks! > > now, if you look like alex james from blur i'll be on the next plane to fight your fiancee....

Get in there quick, Benjarooney. I don't think they're that familiar with Fred West, Stateside!

;)

aah, but i used to live in the UK, al, so i know all about fred and rosemary! but our mr. eyes insists that he looks nothing like our favourite serial killer from cromwell street!

Originally posted by AgentWood > Originally posted by Al Jarvis > Originally posted by AgentWood> aw, shucks! > > now, if you look like alex james from blur i'll be on the next plane to fight your fiancee....

Get in there quick, Benjarooney. I don't think they're that familiar with Fred West, Stateside!

;)

aah, but i used to live in the UK, al, so i know all about fred and rosemary! but our mr. eyes insists that he looks nothing like our favourite serial killer from cromwell street!

And to prove it he has now posted a new avatar......available in the "Best live song" thread.....

Originally posted by AgentWood > Originally posted by Al Jarvis > Originally posted by AgentWood> aw, shucks! > > now, if you look like alex james from blur i'll be on the next plane to fight your fiancee....

Get in there quick, Benjarooney. I don't think they're that familiar with Fred West, Stateside!

;)

aah, but i used to live in the UK, al, so i know all about fred and rosemary! but our mr. eyes insists that he looks nothing like our favourite serial killer from cromwell street!

He's lying! ;)

Originally posted by Kezzie From The Block > Originally posted by AgentWood> > > > Originally posted by Al Jarvis> > Originally posted by AgentWood> aw, shucks! > > now, if you look like alex james from blur i'll be on the next plane to fight your fiancee....

Get in there quick, Benjarooney. I don't think they're that familiar with Fred West, Stateside!

;)

aah, but i used to live in the UK, al, so i know all about fred and rosemary! but our mr. eyes insists that he looks nothing like our favourite serial killer from cromwell street!

He's lying! ;)

When do you want that new Patio Kez ?

it could be worse...you could look like rosemary....

Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes > Originally posted by Kezzie From The Block> > > > Originally posted by AgentWood> > > > > > > Originally posted by Al Jarvis> > > > Originally posted by AgentWood> aw, shucks! > > now, if you look like alex james from blur i'll be on the next plane to fight your fiancee....

Get in there quick, Benjarooney. I don't think they're that familiar with Fred West, Stateside!

;)

aah, but i used to live in the UK, al, so i know all about fred and rosemary! but our mr. eyes insists that he looks nothing like our favourite serial killer from cromwell street!

He's lying! ;)

When do you want that new Patio Kez ?

Come to think of it, my patio is a bit rickity...have you been up to no good in my back garden?!

Well if you can't remember.....

Originally posted by Al Jarvis > Originally posted by Kezzie From The Block> ...have you been up to no good in my back garden?!

Up to no good in my back garden?

Has Melanie hijacked this thread again?!

Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes Well if you can't remember.....

who's that funny middle class man on your pic? bring back the joy riding train theif now benny...:)

Originally posted by melanie > Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes> Well if you can't remember.....

who's that funny middle class man on your pic? bring back the joy riding train theif now benny...:)

It's Jimmy Pursey from Sham 69.

Originally posted by Al Jarvis > Originally posted by Kezzie From The Block> ...have you been up to no good in my back garden?!

Up to no good in my back garden?

Has Melanie hijacked this thread again?!

no not me al! but take care which flights you book yourself on ...

what I would like to know is, who the hell has GREY eyes ? Is Barney color blind or something ?

Originally posted by teleharmonium what I would like to know is, who the hell has GREY eyes ? Is Barney color blind or something ?

That is what color your eyes turn when you have spent 30 years in smoke filled bars - they kind of start turning grey and dull looking.

Green, of course. :)

Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes > Originally posted by Al Jarvis Er, you do know where the Benny's Cobweb eyes quote originates from, don't you ... Miss Diane?

Features in Fall track "Who Makes The Nazis?" - This is an allusion to 'Crossroads'(first incarnation). In the late 70s and early 80s, one of the show's best known characters was Benny Hawkins (Paul Henry), a sort of gentle-giant simpleton figure who always wore a woolly hat. He was meant to be pathetic, and was regularly used as a punching-bag for fortune - he was illiterate, his girlfriend got killed off, a Mrs Prewitt made him sleep in a garden shed, and for a while he was blinded. When his eyes were being examined, he said to the doctor 'I can't see nothing, doctor... only cobwebs!'

You cut & pasting from fallnet again, Benny? This seems to be a post from 3 or 4 years back from fallnet's resident BDSM rubber fetishist, which may or may not be based on fact. I prefer the earlier interpretation that Benny is a reference to Abba's Benny Andersson; the cobweb eyes - lines showing his age. Taking the reference generally, Abba = pop music in general is over the hill, washed up, history. Whichever, still a great line from a great song.

BENNY'S COBWEB EYES FOR ME!:D

Grey eyes, because I've dated a girl w/ brown eyes, one w/ green, and one with blue....so I've never met anyone quite like her before ;)

Originally posted by Conway Paton > Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes> > > > Originally posted by Al Jarvis> Er, you do know where the Benny's Cobweb eyes quote originates from, don't you ... Miss Diane?

Features in Fall track "Who Makes The Nazis?" - This is an allusion to 'Crossroads'(first incarnation). In the late 70s and early 80s, one of the show's best known characters was Benny Hawkins (Paul Henry), a sort of gentle-giant simpleton figure who always wore a woolly hat. He was meant to be pathetic, and was regularly used as a punching-bag for fortune - he was illiterate, his girlfriend got killed off, a Mrs Prewitt made him sleep in a garden shed, and for a while he was blinded. When his eyes were being examined, he said to the doctor 'I can't see nothing, doctor... only cobwebs!'

You cut & pasting from fallnet again, Benny? This seems to be a post from 3 or 4 years back from fallnet's resident BDSM rubber fetishist, which may or may not be based on fact. I prefer the earlier interpretation that Benny is a reference to Abba's Benny Andersson; the cobweb eyes - lines showing his age. Taking the reference generally, Abba = pop music in general is over the hill, washed up, history. Whichever, still a great line from a great song.

Again ? Yes this was taken from Fallnet, and the Crossroads interpretation makes more sense to me than the Abba one (though there is another song where he goes on about "Bjorn and Benny...Hi, I'm Benny")....

Well, I think I've only met one person who had close-to-gray eyes...and she was gorgeous. And since it is a rare (if not, almost non-existent?) eye color, I would go for gray. Although, I will easily go for green or blue eyes on a woman. :)

Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb EyesAgain ? Yes this was taken from Fallnet, and the Crossroads interpretation makes more sense to me than the Abba one (though there is another song where he goes on about "Bjorn and Benny...Hi, I'm Benny")....

"Again" was really referring to the lyric quotes, dragnet graphic, etc. And nice to see them used here! The (other) Abba reference is in Second Dark Age, the Fiery Jack B-side.

Originally posted by Andy T Dated a girl from 1987-1990 whose eyes did indeed change between the 3 colours. I hadn't noticed but her sister pointed it out after hearing Temptation. I wonder where she is now...

have you tried friends reunited??????????

You've got Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey eyesss

he deffo sings that bit best imo :D

Originally posted by Chris Nash There's two of us in my office. I work from my bedroom...P.S. Brown eyes actually - she was gorgeous. Sorry, not voting in this one on principle...

You got VICTORIA with you?(DALLAS ) Rocket Mick

Blue - Swedish type ? - eyes.

JJ

Originally posted by Dutch Jim says: NO! (again at special request...) Blue - Swedish type ? - eyes.JJ

Welcome back Dutch Jim!! you aint posted for aaaaaaages!!

Hey Don, thanks!!

You're quite right. I got a little bored by the forum (oooops, sorry you all!!). So just did not visit is for some time....

But Al-the-man convinced me to come back again.

Did I miss much??? (answer: .. :D)

DJ