Famous Spaniards

[Insel affe]

These dudes

 

[nevergoagain]

Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga - The butcher of Bilbao

 

[strings]

From the world of *ahem* music, How about this man, I hear he is dating Holly Valence...

 

[NMH]

Salvador Dali
Luis Buñuel
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso

 

[thejackal]

Antoni Gaudi
Joan Miró

These 2 Catalans, along with several others listed on this thread, would probably have a shit fit if you had ever 'accused' them of being Spanish!

 

[The Large One]

Leo the African.

Again, a fictional character, but he was a Moor from Granada.

Edit: Upon reflection, when he was born, it wasn't Spain then.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

These 2 Catalans, along with several others listed on this thread, would probably have a shit fit if you had ever 'accused' them of being Spanish!

Catalonians ... don't you just love 'em

On a regional theme: Manuel Xose Budino or carlos nunez both Galician Celtic musicians, unfortunately Galicia also gave the world Franco ....

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

The Spanish Inquisition.

I bet you didn't expect them.

Quite brilliant sir!

Torquemada!!

 

[Mellotron]

Federico Garcia Lorca

My former band was named after him.

 

[Norman Potting]

Quite brilliant sir!

Torquemada!!

Thank you. I had to get off my comfy chair and Wiki him - lovely fellow I am sure. I believe he was ruthlessly efficient with an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

 

[Trufflehound]

Quite brilliant sir!

Torquemada!!

Try and Torquemada this one...


The Inquistion, let's begin
The Inquistion, look out sin
We have a mission to convert the Jews
We're gonna teach them wrong from right
We're gonna help them see the light
And make an offer that they can't refuse

Confess, don't be boring
Say yes, don't be dull
A fact, you're ignoring:
It's better to lose your skullcap than your skull

The Inquistion, what a show
The Inquistion, here we go
We know you're wishing
That we'd go away
But the Inquistion's here and it's here to stay
The Inquistion, oh boy
The Inquistion, what a joy
The Inquistion, oy oy

I was sitting in a temple
I was minding my own business
I was listening to a lovely Hebrew mass
Then these papus persons plunge in,
And they throw me in a dungeon,
And they shove a red hot poker up my ass

Is that considerate? Is that polite?
And not a tube of Preparation H in sight

I'm sitting, plucking chickens
And I'm looking through the pickings
And suddenly these guys bring down my balls

I didn't even know them
And they grabbed me by the scrotum
And they started playing ping pong with my balls
Oy, the agony, ooh the shame
To make my privates public for a game

The Inquistion, what a show
The Inquistion, here we go
We know you're wishing
That we'd go away
But the Inquistion's here and it's here to...

- Hey, Torquemada, whaddaya say?
I just got back from the auto-da-fé
Auto-da-fé, what's an auto-da-fé?
It's what you oughtn't to do, but you do anyway

Will you convert?
No, no, no, no
Will you confess?
No, no, no, no
Will you revert?
No, no, no, no
Will you say yes?
No, no, no, no

Now I ask in a nice way, I said pretty please,
I bent their ears, now I'll work on their knees!

Hey, Torquemada, walk this way
We got a little game that you might wanna play
So pull that handle, try your luck
Who knows, Torq, you might win a buck!
Alright!

How we doing? Any converts today?
Not a one, nay, nay, nay
We've flattened their fingers
We branded their buns
Nothing is working

Send in the nuns!

The Inquistion, what a show
The Inquistion, here we go
We know you're wishing
That we'd go away
So, c'mon you Moslems and you Jews
We got big news for all of yous
You better change your point of views today
'Cause the Inquistion's here and it's here to stay

 

[Pavilionaire]

Pichi Alonso

 

[Barry Izbak]

I loved watching Carlos Sainz. And have never seen a more desperate result than when his car packed up 150 yards from the end of the final stage of the final rally, which meant he had lost his World Championship.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Ben E Dorm

Or his cousin Val La Dolid

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Monserrat Caballé, lardy operatic diva.

Or Julio Iglesias. I guess they were probably Spanish?

 

[Trufflehound]

Or his cousin Val La Dolid

Was she related to Bill Bao?

Or was the old Mad Reed?

 

[The Large One]

Or Gran Ada?

Or Mal Aga?

etc

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

How about Hernan Cortez and Francisco Pizzaro, surely the only second cousins in history to have each destroyed an ancient civilisation? (Aztecs and Incas respectively)

They came from here

 

[Gafones]

Jesús.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Manuel from Fawlty Towers.