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Charlie Brooker

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Charles Brooker (March 25, 1932 – December 18, 2020) was a Canadian ice hockey winger who competed in the 1956 Winter Olympics. Career From 1950 to 1952, Brooker played junior hockey with the Waterloo Hurricanes of the Ontario Hockey Association. He was a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, which won the bronze medal for Canada at the 1956 Winter Olympics. Brooker later worked as a player/coach for the Olympia Ice Hockey Club of Belgium during the 1966–1967 season. He also coached in Austria and for Waterloo Lutheran University. Outside of hockey, he worked as a salesman. Personal life Brooker died on December 18, 2020, at the age of 88. References

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Hello, I'm Charlie Brooker and you're watching Screenwipe, a programme all about television.”
— Introductory message on every episode of Screenwipe, usually said in an odd way (for example, with Brooker slapping himself as he says it).
“Forgive my pants for remaining unshitten.”
— Discussing Twilight in The Guardian 12 July 2010.
“Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.”
— The Guardian, 7 April 2008,
“You can't press a button to make Phil Mitchell jump over a turtle and land on a cloud (unless you've recently ingested a load of military-grade hallucinogens, in which case you can also make him climb inside his own face and start whistling colours).”
— The Guardian, 20 November 2006, Reality bytes back
“In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.”
— The Guardian, 10 June 2006
“The upper classes really shouldn't open their mouths on television. Whatever it is they're saying, all your brain actually hears is "Tra la la, I live in a bubble, tra la la, murder a fox, tra la la, Conde Nast Traveller, tra la la, Kensington High Street, tra la la." They should know their place and keep quiet.”
— On Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine in What Not to Wear

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Charlie Brooker: journalist, broadcaster and writer from England

Notable quotes

“Hello, I'm Charlie Brooker and you're watching Screenwipe, a programme all about television.”
— Introductory message on every episode of Screenwipe, usually said in an odd way (for example, with Brooker slapping himself as he says it).
“Forgive my pants for remaining unshitten.”
— Discussing Twilight in The Guardian 12 July 2010.
“Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.”
— The Guardian, 7 April 2008,
“You can't press a button to make Phil Mitchell jump over a turtle and land on a cloud (unless you've recently ingested a load of military-grade hallucinogens, in which case you can also make him climb inside his own face and start whistling colours).”
— The Guardian, 20 November 2006, Reality bytes back
“In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.”
— The Guardian, 10 June 2006
“The upper classes really shouldn't open their mouths on television. Whatever it is they're saying, all your brain actually hears is "Tra la la, I live in a bubble, tra la la, murder a fox, tra la la, Conde Nast Traveller, tra la la, Kensington High Street, tra la la." They should know their place and keep quiet.”
— On Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine in What Not to Wear

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Charles Brooker (March 25, 1932 – December 18, 2020) was a Canadian ice hockey winger who competed in the 1956 Winter Olympics. Career From 1950 to 1952, Brooker played junior hockey with the Waterloo Hurricanes of the Ontario Hockey Association. He was a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, which won the bronze medal for Canada at the 1956 Winter Olympics. Brooker later worked as a player/coach for the Olympia Ice Hockey Club of Belgium during the 1966–1967 season. He also coached in Austria and for Waterloo Lutheran University. Outside of hockey, he worked as a salesman. Personal life Brooker died on December 18, 2020, at the age of 88. References

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).