All that typical posing bullshit".
The front cover showed him in typical pose – fists clenched, roaring to the skies, celebrating one of his 185 goals for the club – and there is artwork at the Tate gallery on Albert Dock that has taken less time to put together than the tribute the supporters created for his send-off.
He will be preserved in a typical pose chosen by those who knew him, and exhibited next winter at the American Museum of Natural History before being shipped back to the Galápagos Islands for permanent display at the research station where he had lived for four decades.
In plain black T-shirt, jeans and brown loafers, with dance moves like Mr Soft in the Trebor mints adverts from the 80s and a tatty towel to wipe his face when he gets sweaty, he's the antithesis of a typical posing, bling-encrusted rapper.
Even the photographs (think typical Barbie poses) are terrifying.
Typical photo poses include sitting on a beach lounger in a bikini while drinking from a coconut, or reclining in a rustic kitchen in skinny jeans, a cute porcelain bowl of vegetables in one hand.
An examination of a typical problem posed when parties contract by correspondence suggests the latter explanation.
It's retrieved by a resourceful fan who then resumes a typical Perth pose, double-fisting a couple of beers.
At a rehearsal Mr. Patton, dressed in baggy black clothes, crouched low, then struck a typical macho pose, arms crossed over a thrust-out chest.
His typical stage pose — leaning back, his free hand placed gently on his stomach as if he were pregnant — became looser, adding touches of showmanship.
