Back in the heady day of the WEF one of the regular images thrown up in a thread was of David Hasselhoff. Naked, some puppies positioned across him. And trust me the image is far far worse than you just imagined.
A while ago in work one of the lads on the team annoyed me about something and for some reason we had been taking about Knight Rider earlier in the day. So after much painful googling I found the picture. I renamed it to be toolbar error or something like that and sent it to him asking him to check out the error and let me know what he thought.
He screams like a big girl. I was actually in tears laughing so hard at him. I couldn’t speak for a good couple of minutes. He saw the picture and while screaming, pushed himself away from his desk, got a good 6 feet before hitting the cabinet behind him.
Since then, we’ve made it a point to keep an eye on the Hoff’s events. Metro seems to cover him quite a bit (I have no idea why) and one of use would always remember to bring it in. Popbitch seems to be a big fan too so there is often a laugh in that. It’s spread throughout the team and everyone’s in on it. It makes us laugh. Most of the lads around know about it too and just laugh at us (and rightly so) whenever we mention it. It’s a team meme.
When we heard about the rap album being recorded by Ice T and Hassle the Hoff, there was even more merriment and he’s been the Hoff ever since.
Now he’s in Chicago down the West End. I came close to falling down an escalator when I saw the first poster promoting it on the tube a week or so ago. What’s even sadder than all of this (and yes it gets worse). We are all off to see him. Gonna get some cheap tickets, have a beer or 4 and go and have a laugh. It could be quite good fun.
So, last night, I was the in the Porterhouse in Covent Garden. Leaving do for a friend, whole load of people out and we are standing out the front drinking and chatting. All of a sudden there is a commotion on the street, a bit of a bang and a loud crash. Turn around to see one of those taxi bike things has just hit the back of a car. The car had stopped suddenly to let it’s passenger out. As it turns out the stage entrance for the Adelphi is the building next door.
It was, the one and only Hoff. A group of fairly drunken lads walking down the street noticed him and ran over to say hello. He dashed off pretty quick with just a look to the side we were at. I wonder what he must have thought to see a large group of people almost in hysterics.
The very first thing I heard from the guy I sent the photo to in the first place, before even a good morning, before I got to turn my computer on. “Did you really see him?”.
So that’s a very long explanation of why I paused all my downloads when someone put a copy of best of up. Tomorrow I burn cds and present them to my team.