The Fat Controller - Other Uses of The Name "Fat Controller"

Other Uses of The Name "Fat Controller"

In Series 3, Episode 2 of To the Manor Born, during a meeting to protest the closing of the local railway station, the Rector loses his temper with an overweight representative of British Rail, played by Richard Thorp, and refers to him as "the Fat Controller".

In Australia the term 'fat controller' is also used to describe someone working within the finance industry, usually the financial manager of a company similar to the terminology 'fat cat' being used to describe people relating to government.

The name "Fat Controller" has also been given to a student magazine, an electronic snow glove and at least one public house in the United Kingdom.

It is also the nickname of Samuel Northcliffe, the malevolent influence on the life of protagonist Ian Wharton in British novelist Will Self's 1993 novel My Idea of Fun.

The British alternative rock band Catherine Wheel recorded the song "Here Comes the Fat Controller" on their 1997 album, Adam and Eve.

In the British mystery show, "Dalziel and Pascoe," the main character, Andrew Dalziel, a Yorkshire detective is called the "Fat Controller."

Electronic musician Squarepusher has a song called "Fat Controller" on his album Hard Normal Daddy.

"Fat Controller" is the name of Frostwave's 16-step analogue sequencer midi cv produced by Paul Perry.

In software development, "Fat Controller" is the name of an antipattern (The Fat Controller) related to MVC; opposite of Skinny Controller.

From Matthew Engel's "Eleven Minutes Late" about the railways, when he was interviewing John Major about Major's part in the 1990s privatisation, p.249: M.E."You drove it?" J.M. "Yes, I did. It didn't get in the manifesto by chance." M.E. "You were the Fat Controller?" J.M. "I was the Slim Controller."