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A true English eccentric has departed for heaven to have a few gags with God. He may not be the last of the merry pranksters, but he was certainly one of the quintessential. His name is Jonathan Routh. Sadly, they don't make too many like that anymore.
His look could scare even the most hard super creep. His demeanour was always with a dard scowl. But it was the the big, shaggy eyebrows which were most disturbative. He was Boris Karloff without affectation.
One of his most known japes was to dress as a tree, wait at a bus stop, and ask the way to Sherwood Forest.
The one this correspondent likes best, is when he persuaded a crowd of tourists at London's Trafalgar Square that Nelson's Column was about to fall down, and could they help him with the need to hold it up. It worked. And many gathered to give support.
Later, he turned to writing. One of his bestsellers was: "Leonardo's Kitchen Notebooks", in which every invention was a pasta machine.
Towards the end of his life he moved to Jamaica. He had a talent for painting.
Today, his most prestigious (and expensive) works of art include 'Nuns driving racing cars', 'The Pope windsurfing', 'The Mona Lisa naked and smoking', and his masterpiece: 'Queen Victoria doing the hula-hoop and a limbo dance'.
A lot of people found his antics not funny and rude. However, there was a good-hearted minority who laughed so much that it was too late to cry.
