Pitcairn Islands
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
JACKIE PALLO HAS DIED
Islanders, it is with a genuine tear in my eye, I have the grave duty to announce to you, that the great, the one and only, Jackie Pallo has died. I wish his wife Trixie and son, the most deepest sympathies from one island nation to another.
His was a gift like no other.
I will leave the BBC to describe the event:
Pallo appeared on This Is Your Life in 1973
Wrestler Jackie Pallo, one of wrestling's biggest stars in the 1960s, has died at the age of 80. Pallo, who fought before the Big Daddy/Giant Haystacks era, died at his home in Ramsgate, Kent, on Saturday after battling with cancer.
The pony-tailed wrestler, whose nemesis in the ring was Irishman Mick McManus, was known by his fans as Mr TV.
Former commentator Reg Gutteridge - Pallo's cousin - described him as "a great performer and a lovely guy".
Pallo appeared on This Is Your Life in 1973, attracting many celebrities of the day.
Guest appearances in TV shows included Are You Being Served? and The Avengers, during which he was famously knocked out by actress Honor Blackman during a fight scene.
Describing his father's battle with cancer, son Jackie junior, who fought tag-team matches with Pallo, said he had been "a bombastic character right to the end".
Pallo is survived by wife Trixie who became known to the nation for watching her husband at ringside.
RIP Jackie you provided years of harmless entertainment to millions of us youngsters.
Unfortunately, as a Pitcairn Island I was 37 years old before I watched my first fight of his on an old VHS Ferguson video star recorder, the fight had been recorded in 1970, I watched it in a smoked filled council office at approx 3am, when the supply ship docked, with 26 other islanders, I can name them all - Christian!
Jackie was wresting a overweight, but utterly georgous Kendo Nagaski, a masked Englishman, pretending to be Japanese. They must have lost a litre of sweat each.
The film was shown every month for at least a year, to a packed and half cut council office.
In reverence to Jackie, Trixie and Jackie Junior, I will be recommending to the full council on my return, that May 17th (the day we watched the video) will henceforth become a public holiday on PI. If we chose February 15th, this would clash with every other nation who decided to honour Jackie's death.
Talbot Horizon Coupe
I. M St. Range
PS some clever fekker has informed me that the composite verb in latin es tu coupe, refers to smaller, as in a smaller island, and in fact the adverb compact should be used, as in compact islands. So henceforth the PI's motto will be Talbot Horizon Compact.
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