Alex Van Halen worth $75 milion, #13 on the list of 30...

[DONNIEP]

Neil Pye should have been on the UK list

[tbone888]

I think most of these lists/websites are just simple addition. They dont take into account anything like (stated earlier) divorce, good/bad investments or simply wasting a ton of cash on a lavish lifestyle. One would have to multiply/divide the amounts ten fold in many cases to account for the variables.

[VHscraps]

Neil Pye should have been on the UK list

Heh heh. I had no idea he had a second name until I just googled it.

[vandeleur]

Heh heh. I had no idea he had a second name until I just googled it.

Nor did I , think Donniep is a big young ones fan

[VHscraps]

I keep saying to myself, 'Neil Pye' to try and figure out if there is a hidden joke, or some other allusion in that name ... I say it slowly, I say it quickly, but still it seems to be plain old Neil Pye.

Unless, of course, they meant ... Kneel (for) 'Pie'. British slang being what it is / was, who knows!

[vandeleur]

I was telling him there was kind of a follow up called bottom that was just all the violent slapstick bits but they never got it over in the states.

[VHscraps]

I had forgotten all about Bottom - totally effin mad, Rick Mayall and Ade Edmonson, two bachelors bashing lumps out of each other as they while away their lives in a grotty flat.

Kids these days dunno what they are missing.

[VHscraps]

I always used to like to see Rik getting a pasting ... 'Vyvian, I am not a poof'. THWACK.

[vandeleur]

Didn't vivian just grow up to become Eddie hitler ... Even the name used to make me s****** .... The whole show was as un PC as you could get .

[DONNIEP]

I always used to like to see Rik getting a pasting ... 'Vyvian, I am not a poof'. THWACK.

"What we need is a large consignment of very hard drugs."

God that was a funny show! I haven't seen Bottom but if it's as funny as The Young Ones then I have to check it out.

[VHscraps]

They did other stuff back then that Vandeleur will know - the Enid Blyton things. They also featured the lesser-known, but mad Peter Richardson, who played the drummer in Bad News.

That's him to the far left in this pic

[VHscraps]

I think this thread has been de-railed

[vandeleur]

"fuck off bad news " Yelled Donnington lol
Oops yeah better get back on track

[DONNIEP]

Right, just a little flashback for the Brits and then back on topic

[binnie]

Bottom was utterly fucking brilliant.

I remember being 13-14 and crying with laughter to the point where I couldn't breathe......