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BEACH BUMS OR FUTURE EIGHTIES ICONS? [UPDATED]
Okay, this is how this competition works: The first person to correctly identify both of the young whippersnappers in the above photo – or to offer a better incorrect answer – wins a very special, possibly non-existent prize. I’ll redact all correct answers until lunchtime, with the correct answer being announced at around 2pm-ish. Oh, and neither – repeat neither – is Cllr. Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan.
[UPDATED: After some consideration, the judges have decided to award the prize money to Matt, for correctly identifying future Eighties icons George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. In second place were Philip and El Kid for guessing Robert DiNiro and Harvey Keitel (long story!) In third place, finally, were Philip (again), Matt (again), Peter81 and Paul who all guessed Melanie Griffith and/or Don Johnson.
Hard luck, meanwhile, to my friend Conal, currently working in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for guessing Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson at 2.48am GMT before the competition had even officially begun. Luckily, I was up late listening to The Pogues’ A Pair of Brown Eyes, so I cunningly changed his answer to Ray Lynam and Philomena Begley. (“While Ray and Philomena sang of my elusive dream…”)]
July 27th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Jodie Foster on the left?
July 27th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Well, Duh….
Obviously on the left!
July 27th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Ray Lynam and Philomena Begley?
July 27th, 2009 at 1:40 am
Im freakishly good at this btw.
July 27th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Lynam on the left obviously.
July 27th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Yeah, Jodie Foster on the left. It follows that it’s Ryan Tubridy on the right.
July 27th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Bruce Springsteen….?
July 27th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Is it to early to be a smug prick and say ******* ******* and *** *******?
Probably.
Good photo of the couple, but nothing as tastful at that playboy shoot: http://images.bugaga.ru/posts/1147299877_46a06711590761d58f397c09dbd5f2dd68038_06_lrg.jpg
July 27th, 2009 at 8:37 am
The Captain and Tennille? (The Captain on the right, I think).
July 27th, 2009 at 8:54 am
You didn’t redact bruce springsteen – that mean its not him??
July 27th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Much harder than the earlier ones. I’m going to be hugely original and say Jodie Foster and Bruce Springsteen.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Nothing like a competition with a potential prize to get the comment count up.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:43 am
@ Jenny – yes, photographed during the making of their hit Born to Taxi Drive
@ Brian – the prize is very, very hypothetical
July 27th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Was one of them later part of a dapper crime fighting duo?
July 27th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Yes, whenever “dapper crimes” were committed, he tended to be there.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Okay, I think I know who he is, but whose the woman?
July 27th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Cybill Shepherd??
July 27th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Jodie Foster, Cybil Shepherd…. Jesus Christ, have you lads only ever seen one film from the Seventies!?
July 27th, 2009 at 11:05 am
The guy must be either Robert De Niro, Albert Brooks or Harvey Keitel. right?
July 27th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Its Robert DeNiro and Harvey Kietel…. isn’t it?
July 27th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Snap!
July 27th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Any final guesses from anyone not on their lunchbreak?
July 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Its Wham isn’t it!!!
July 27th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I’m sticking with ******* ******* and *** ******* for sure, I’m surprised nobody else went for names that contain only single characters. weird.
July 27th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
******* *******….I had a bit of a thing for her growing up. Great body. She looks amazing in that picture too.
Its all gone to botox now 🙁
July 27th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
******* ********, *** *******
boo to tha yakka sha
July 27th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I suppose you want my bank details so do you Butler?
July 27th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
@ Matt – no, the way it works is you transfer a small down payment into a Nigerian bank account. This then releases the full sum owing to you.
July 27th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
melanie griffiths and don johnson
July 27th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Well done Sean, but a tad late I’m afraid.
July 27th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
These are popular. Tell them you have a non-existent prize and they still don’t care. People just like bragging rights with competitions.
Or guessing with something funny.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Just imagine if there actually was a prize…!