British Baron Dai Llewellyn passed away yesterday. He was 61.Don't know who Dai Llewllyn is? Well I didn't either. Until I read his eulogy. It's hilarious. It makes Hugh Hefner look like a snooze-bag. His nickname was Seducer of the Valleys (he was from Wales, or you could take it as something else.) A few key points:
- Paul Callan, the journalist, recalled: 'He told me about a hilarious episode of having three debs in a bed, each of whom he was happily servicing, while a Mexican band stood naked around the bed serenading them.'
- In 2005 he slipped away with another man's date to a discreet bedroom. Things were going well, Sir Dai said, until 'the corner of the bed started to go'. Then, he said: 'We plunged through the floorboards and a wardrobe fell on top of us'.
- Sir Dai told such stories with a gusto that was infectious. He would never get up in the morning planning to make love to three women, he would say, adding 'but if it happened, it happened'.
- Taki Theodoracopulos, the Greek shipping heir, said: 'He was always short, yet he always went first class. He didn't have the kind of money other people had, but I never saw him as a hanger-on. He had his pride.'
- One of the things he was proud of was his prodigious ability to consume alcohol, yet remain sober. In an interview at the hospice last November he said he once drank eight bottles of wine, a bottle of rum, a bottle of port and a bottle of vodka in one night, yet in the morning he was perfectly lucid.
- He had children. Can you IMAGINE if this guy was your GRANDPA?"Aaaghh, gramps is telling the menage trois story again..we've heard this a million times!"
- Who are these Greek shipping heirs???! They pop up in all cultures and societies. WHY WAS GREEK SHIPPING SO PROFITABLE? Does anyone know? ANYONE?
- Baron Dai could be responsible for the continuation of the British words: dandy, rake, scoundral, and perhaps randy
