RUMOUR - Billionaire in for RFC

[rfcjoe]

Nick Hammond knows me by name. (look at me please you feckers)

We can all say that!

Don't think they can.....

[Platypuss]

Nick Hammond knows me by name.

He speaks highly of everyone.

[AlexY25]

If the billionaires English I don't mind.

I like that our club is owned by an Englishman.

But not sure if I believe it. Oh well.

It is just a rumour or gossip.

[Norfolk Royal]

If the billionaires English I don't mind.

I like that our club is owned by an Englishman.

But not sure if I believe it. Oh well.

It is just a rumour or gossip.

Madejski is Polish. The clue is in the name I think.

[Thaumagurist*]

If the billionaires English I don't mind.

I like that our club is owned by an Englishman.

But not sure if I believe it. Oh well.

It is just a rumour or gossip.

Madejski is Polish. The clue is in the name I think.

No he isn't. He was apparently born in Stoke.

[philM]

If the billionaires English I don't mind.

I like that our club is owned by an Englishman.

But not sure if I believe it. Oh well.

It is just a rumour or gossip.

Madejski is Polish. The clue is in the name I think.

Wiki = John Robert Madejski OBE DL (born Robert John Hurst on April 28, 1941 in Stoke-on-Trent) is an English businessman

[G'La]

If the billionaires English I don't mind.

I like that our club is owned by an Englishman.

But not sure if I believe it. Oh well.

It is just a rumour or gossip.

Madejski is Polish. The clue is in the name I think.

No he isn't. He was apparently born in Stoke.

Born in Stoke John Hurst. His mother married a polish airman after WWII so he changed his surname to that of his step-fathers. He still links his natural fathers surname with one of his companies "Hurst Publishing".

On the note of billionaires... I hear it could be Richard Branson

[Barry the bird boggler]

On the note of billionaires... I hear it could be Richard Branson

Now I was wondering why he offloaded the Virgin Megastore

[Royal Rother]

Nick Hammond knows me by name.

He speaks highly of everyone.

[Deathy]

If the billionaires English I don't mind.

I like that our club is owned by an Englishman.

But not sure if I believe it. Oh well.

It is just a rumour or gossip.

Madejski is Polish. The clue is in the name I think.

That is poor form, Norfers. Originally Robert John Hurst , but took his late fathers surname later.

[Norfolk Royal]

If the billionaires English I don't mind.

I like that our club is owned by an Englishman.

But not sure if I believe it. Oh well.

It is just a rumour or gossip.

Madejski is Polish. The clue is in the name I think.

That is poor form, Norfers. Originally Robert John Hurst , but took his late fathers surname later.

I thought Hurst was his father's name and he took his stepfather's name later.

[Royal Rother]

"He changed his name when his stepfather, a Polish airman during World War II, returned to Britain to marry his mother."

[Focher]

And was brought up living on the Wokingham Road

[The 17 Bus]

On the note of billionaires... I hear it could be Richard Branson

Now I was wondering why he offloaded the Virgin Megastore

i thought my virgin comment earlier was obvious enough.

I hear that as part of this very complicated deal that Branson is to go into the redevelopment of the station area with J Madjeski, and one block will be named, "The Virgin Tower"

[Norfolk Royal]

"He changed his name when his stepfather, a Polish airman during World War II, returned to Britain to marry his mother."

But if he was orignally John Hurst then he didn't take his late father's surname later.

[The 17 Bus]

Wasn't John Hurst in The Elephant Man??

[Royal Rother]

"He changed his name when his stepfather, a Polish airman during World War II, returned to Britain to marry his mother."

But if he was orignally John Hurst then he didn't take his late father's surname later.

Indeed; I was showing that, shock of shocks, you were right and Jay was wrong.

[Deathy]

Poor form again Very English though.

"He changed his name when his stepfather, a Polish airman during World War II, returned to Britain to marry his mother."

But if he was orignally John Hurst then he didn't take his late father's surname later.

Indeed; I was showing that, shock of shocks, you were right and Jay was wrong.

Indeed, but Norfers was originally (about him not being English) - straw clutching... Ahem.

[SCIAG]

There aren't any British billionaires- at least, not if you use a British billion. (£1,000,000,000,000 iirc. 1,000,000,000 is only a billion on the other side of the pond). So don't get your hopes up for a Brit!

[Broxroyal]

There aren't any British billionaires- at least, not if you use a British billion. (£1,000,000,000,000 iirc. 1,000,000,000 is only a billion on the other side of the pond). So don't get your hopes up for a Brit!

You are of course technically correct. What the Americans call a billion is a millard in English. However, I'm afraid the American usage of the term has gradually become the accepted one, even by the government. When the government talks of billions it really means ,000,000,000 (millards).
The first chancellor to use the term billions in the American sense was Denis Healey (don't think anyone did it before that). Now everyone speaks that way, so Branson is back in the frame.