Annotated Goon Show Questions 41-50
Paul Winalski
Seagoon: Now, you see this large map of the Dacca and Ambritsar
area showing the high ground and Sunday trains to Delhi?
Dacca is of course the Anglisised spelling of Dhaka, the capital
of Bangladesh. With Secombe's Welsh accent it sounds as if he's
saying 'Dakar' (capital of Senegal), but that makes no geographic
sense. The open question is what the second place name is. It
sounds like he's saying 'Ambristar' but I've been unable to find
any place in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent with
a name resembling that. There's Amristar, but that's in the
Punjab, on the other side of the subcontinent, so it makes no
sense in the context of a "Dacca and Amristar area". Can anyone
out there make better sense of what Seagoon's saying?
42) Show 6/17:
Seagoon: Men, bad news. The Red Bladder has surrounded our
radio station at Chattagand. All our records are in danger.
There appears to be no such place as Chattagand. I did turn up
a few hits for 'Chattagang' and 'Chatagang'. Chittagong is a
large city in Bangladesh. Is 'Chattagan' an Anglisization of
Chittagong, or is this perhaps a name Spike made up to sound
like Chittagong?
43) Show 6/19:
Bannister: I said, what about the drains in Hackney? We have...
There are several other references during Goon parliamentary
debates to "the drains in Hackney". Near as I can tell, "What
about the drains in X?" is a cliche phrase for background
mutterings at political meetings, like "rhubarb, rhubarb".
44) Show 6/19:
Aneurin Bevan: What about the Welsh reactionaries, then?
Is this just a general comment about Bevan's politics, or is it
a reference to some specific topical incident?
45) Show 6/19:
Churchill: What about all this washing outside Number Ten,
that’s what I...
Obviously a topical reference. But to what?
46) Show 6/20:
Londongle: More brown power!
This occurs just before Max Geldray's tune. It's a popular
enough exclamation to be almost one of Spike's catch-phrases.
Is this a civil rights slogan (as it was/is in the US)?
47) Show 6/22:
Bannister: No, no, buddy, it wouldn’t be able to see where
it was going. I... ooooh! Did you say we were at
war, young man?
Minister: Er… yes, yes.
Bannister: I’d better go and get the smalls in at once.
(fades off)
Churchill: Better not let Anthony see you doing that.
Clearly Anthony is Anthony Eden, then PM. This would appear to
be another "washing outside Number Ten" topical reference (see
annotation 45, show 6/19).
48) Show 6/23:
McGregor: On the contrary, Professor Farvlov, the off-white
Russian scientist… is about to perfect a synthetic imitation
Russian-speaking Tuscan male Salami, that may completely
deceive the unsuspecting female.
Any significance to the name Farvlov? I thought it might be
Pavlov, the famous Russian animal behaviour scientist. Or
perhaps a play on Farlow, the bebop guitarist.
49) Show 6/23:
Grytpype: With these plans of the female he can breed a million
more and bombard Soho with its own deadly kind.
Referring to Tuscan salamis. Soho's a London district notorious
for its prostitutes, as well as theatres and more respectable
businesses. What's the connection to Tuscan salamis?
50) Show 6/25:
Moriarty: Back pay? Ohieooeioh! Sapristi Ebison Glasshouse!
Ohohieoh!
Who/what is Ebison Glasshouse?
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Roger the Saurus
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> 41) Show 6/17:
>
> 43) Show 6/19:
>
> Bannister: I said, what about the drains in Hackney? We have...
>
> There are several other references during Goon parliamentary
> debates to "the drains in Hackney". Near as I can tell, "What
> about the drains in X?" is a cliche phrase for background
> mutterings at political meetings, like "rhubarb, rhubarb".
A common complaint to politicians "What about the drains/lampposts/noise
from the pub etc.
> 46) Show 6/20:
>
> Londongle: More brown power!
>
> This occurs just before Max Geldray's tune. It's a popular
> enough exclamation to be almost one of Spike's catch-phrases.
> Is this a civil rights slogan (as it was/is in the US)?
I thought it was brown powder
> 49) Show 6/23:
>
> Grytpype: With these plans of the female he can breed a million
> more and bombard Soho with its own deadly kind.
>
> Referring to Tuscan salamis. Soho's a London district notorious
> for its prostitutes, as well as theatres and more respectable
> businesses. What's the connection to Tuscan salamis?
A euphemism for penis. Looks like a reference to dildos
> 50) Show 6/25:
>
> Moriarty: Back pay? Ohieooeioh! Sapristi Ebison Glasshouse!
> Ohohieoh!
>
> Who/what is Ebison Glasshouse?
I heard Eddystone. Eddystone Lighthouse was quite famous over here.
Glasshouse is a slang term for military prison. Put the two together like
James Joyce in Finnegan's Wake and you get Eddystone Glasshouse
How many more questions to go? Where do you find the time for all this? Keep
up the good work
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Arcaton
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> "Paul Winalski" <pr...@ZAnkh-Morpork.mv.com> wrote in message
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> > 41) Show 6/17:
> >
> > 43) Show 6/19:
> >
> > Bannister: I said, what about the drains in Hackney? We have...
> >
> > There are several other references during Goon parliamentary
> > debates to "the drains in Hackney". Near as I can tell, "What
> > about the drains in X?" is a cliche phrase for background
> > mutterings at political meetings, like "rhubarb, rhubarb".
>
> A common complaint to politicians "What about the drains/lampposts/noise
> from the pub etc.
FWIW the drains in Hackney are bloody awful. Every time we get a heavy
rainfall the gutters flood....
I know, you see "I live in Hackney and the drains pong!"
> > 46) Show 6/20:
> >
> > Londongle: More brown power!
> >
> > This occurs just before Max Geldray's tune. It's a popular
> > enough exclamation to be almost one of Spike's catch-phrases.
> > Is this a civil rights slogan (as it was/is in the US)?
>
> I thought it was brown powder
No it's brown power...not politics but a reference to an earlier shows
"Brown is better it doesn't show the dirt!" In those days brown was a
popular colour in state run places...brown below the waist rail, cream above
like on the GWR
>
[snip]> How many more questions to go? Where do you find the time for all
this? Keep
> up the good work
> --
> Roger the Saurus
> (remove bollix to reply)
Arcaton
Paul Winalski
<ro...@bollix3stevenson.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>How many more questions to go? Where do you find the time for all this? Keep
>up the good work
There are a total of 125 unresolved questions that I'm going to
inflict on the newsgroup. Consider yourselves lucky. :-) For the
past couple of years I've had a Goon-Annotation-People mailing list
that I relentlessly bombarded with many times these questions, most
of which either I or they resolved. What you're seeing here is the
last, most stubborn unanswered ones.
The whole of The Annotated Goon Show ran to 2826 pages the last time
I formatted the whole thing and printed it out, with 1870 footnotes
to the transcripts. That doesn't include all the items in the Goon
Glossary, which is anything mentioned in more than one show. The
Goon Glossary runs to 52 pages.
-Paul W.
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Paul Winalski <pr...@ZAnkh-Morpork.mv.com> wrote in article
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...
> There are a total of 125 unresolved questions that I'm going to
> inflict on the newsgroup. ... What you're seeing here is the
> last, most stubborn unanswered ones.
...
Will you post a summary the questions and answers you feel have been
resolved once the bombardment has ceased?
James Prescott
"Arcaton" <r_c...@lineone.net> wrote:
> > I thought it was brown powder
>
> No it's brown power...not politics but a reference to an earlier shows
> "Brown is better it doesn't show the dirt!" In those days brown was a
> popular colour in state run places...brown below the waist rail, cream above
> like on the GWR
Not to mention that brown trousers conceal the evidence of
Bloodnok-type afterburner accidents.
And so with almost any use of the word 'brown' by Spike.
Jim "it must have been the curry" UpperStrettonInTheWold
Paul Winalski
>Will you post a summary the questions and answers you feel have been
>resolved once the bombardment has ceased?
OK, will do.
-Paul W.
Chris
...(48) It is Pavlov (allow for Scottish accent)
...(50) Edison Lighthouse
Paul Winalski <pr...@ZAnkh-Morpork.mv.com> wrote in message news:<b1dt00tjr4kfr1g3i...@4ax.com>...
> that?s what I...
>
> Obviously a topical reference. But to what?
>
>
> 46) Show 6/20:
>
> Londongle: More brown power!
>
> This occurs just before Max Geldray's tune. It's a popular
> enough exclamation to be almost one of Spike's catch-phrases.
> Is this a civil rights slogan (as it was/is in the US)?
>
>
> 47) Show 6/22:
>
> Bannister: No, no, buddy, it wouldn?t be able to see where
> it was going. I... ooooh! Did you say we were at
> war, young man?
>
> Minister: Er? yes, yes.
>
> Bannister: I?d better go and get the smalls in at once.
> (fades off)
>
> Churchill: Better not let Anthony see you doing that.
>
> Clearly Anthony is Anthony Eden, then PM. This would appear to
> be another "washing outside Number Ten" topical reference (see
> annotation 45, show 6/19).
>
>
> 48) Show 6/23:
>
> McGregor: On the contrary, Professor Farvlov, the off-white
> Russian scientist? is about to perfect a synthetic imitation
Fred
From: JFK2
Posted: 22nd Jan, 2004 01:44 Post subject:
I may be able to help with a couple:
31) Grant Road: This is, I seem to remember, a bit of a red light district.
But I'll have to confirm this with my old old school mate who lives in
Bombay. Bear with me for a couple of days ...
34) Quants: Some English shire counties are abbreviated in this way:
Hampshire becomes Hants, Wiltshire is Wilts, Berkshire is Berks and so on.
Quants is therefore the abbreviation for the mythical "Quantshire".
38) Fred Laine: I think this must be Frankie Laine, singer of cowboy type
songs like Rawhide and Mule Train. Milligan seems to have loved the name
Fred (he had, of course, a Show Called Fred on TV) and there are many
references to real people but with their real forename changed to Fred.
David Simpson
furiously:
"FRED" ?= Friggin' Rotten Electrical Device.
echola...@gmail.com
Tony
>
> 49) Show 6/23:
>
> Grytpype: With these plans of the female he can breed a million
> more and bombard Soho with its own deadly kind.
>
> Referring to Tuscan salamis. Soho's a London district notorious
> for its prostitutes, as well as theatres and more respectable
> businesses. What's the connection to Tuscan salamis?
>
>
Tony
Judith
Love, Gina
--
Nature is a large damp space where birds fly about uncooked.
-Oscar Wilde
MartinS
> Tony <t0ny.pa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Sometime in the distant past . . .
>> >
>> > 49) Show 6/23:
>> >
>> > Grytpype: With these plans of the female he can breed a million
>> > more and bombard Soho with its own deadly kind.
>> >
>> > Referring to Tuscan salamis. Soho's a London district notorious
>> > for its prostitutes, as well as theatres and more respectable
>> > businesses. What's the connection to Tuscan salamis?
>> >
>> Soho was / is also famous for many Italian restaurants in the fifties
>>
>> Tony
>
> That has got to be one of the Goons' funniest episodes.
>
> Love, Gina
My favo(u)rite ep is Call Of The West. It has Wal playing an Indian
squaw, also Sellers as the infamous Lootenant Hern Hern. And there's a
reference to a very naughty poem about the crew of the Good Ship Venus.
--
Martin S
Ivan D. Reid
wrote in <5122efb9$0$13576$c3e8da3$dd96...@news.astraweb.com>:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9848048/Gina-Lollobrigidas-toy-boy-ex-lover-threatens-to-sue-for-defamation.html
> My favo(u)rite ep is Call Of The West. It has Wal playing an Indian
> squaw, also Sellers as the infamous Lootenant Hern Hern. And there's a
> reference to a very naughty poem about the crew of the Good Ship Venus.
--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Frederick Williams
>
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:21:29 -0500, MartinS <m...@my.place.invalid>
> wrote in <5122efb9$0$13576$c3e8da3$dd96...@news.astraweb.com>:
> > Lollobrigida? (La Lollo is now 85!)
>
> ...and married...
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9848048/Gina-Lollobrigidas-toy-boy-ex-lover-threatens-to-sue-for-defamation.html
>
> > My favo(u)rite ep is Call Of The West. It has Wal playing an Indian
> > squaw, also Sellers as the infamous Lootenant Hern Hern. And there's a
> > reference to a very naughty poem about the crew of the Good Ship Venus.
>
> And a stereo spittoon! (IIRC I have three episodes in stereo.)
a half come out of each?
--
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by
this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
Ivan D. Reid
<freddyw...@btinternet.com>
wrote in <512388C6...@btinternet.com>:
>> And a stereo spittoon! (IIRC I have three episodes in stereo.)
> Does one come out of one speaker and two out of the other, or do one and
> a half come out of each?
Judith
> Judith <JU...@withouta.net> wrote:
> > Tony <t0ny.pa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Sometime in the distant past . . .
> >> >
> >> > 49) Show 6/23:
> >> >
> >> > Grytpype: With these plans of the female he can breed a million
> >> > more and bombard Soho with its own deadly kind.
> >> >
> >> > Referring to Tuscan salamis. Soho's a London district notorious
> >> > for its prostitutes, as well as theatres and more respectable
> >> > businesses. What's the connection to Tuscan salamis?
> >> >
> >> Soho was / is also famous for many Italian restaurants in the fifties
> >>
> >> Tony
> >
> > That has got to be one of the Goons' funniest episodes.
> >
> > Love, Gina
>
> Lollobrigida? (La Lollo is now 85!)
>
> My favo(u)rite ep is Call Of The West. It has Wal playing an Indian
> squaw, also Sellers as the infamous Lootenant Hern Hern. And there's a
> reference to a very naughty poem about the crew of the Good Ship Venus.
Or maybe I shouldn't ask?
Jude the Prude
MartinS
>
>> My favo(u)rite ep is Call Of The West. It has Wal playing an Indian
>> squaw, also Sellers as the infamous Lootenant Hern Hern. And there's
>> a reference to a very naughty poem about the crew of the Good Ship
>> Venus.
>
> I confess that I don't understand the joke about the Good Ship Venus.
> Or maybe I shouldn't ask?
>
> Jude the Prude
Or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Ship_Venus
Introduction to Call of the West, read by Wal Greenslade:
It is 1867 and dead on time. The harbour of Boston is a hive of inactivity,
as English immigrants bring their shattered bank accounts to the New World.
Alongside is the Good Ship Venus...
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Martin S
Roger the Saurus
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of Kerrymuir, If I were the marrying kind and Mary had a little lamb.
MartinS
> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote...
>>> MartinS <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My favo(u)rite ep is Call Of The West. It has Wal playing an Indian
>>>> squaw, also Sellers as the infamous Lootenant Hern Hern. And
>>>> there's a reference to a very naughty poem about the crew of the
>>>> Good Ship Venus.
>>>
>>> I confess that I don't understand the joke about the Good Ship
>>> Venus. Or maybe I shouldn't ask?
>>>
>>> Jude the Prude
>>
>> Well, you could Google it. That is, if you're not too prudish.
>>
>> Or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Ship_Venus
>>
>> Introduction to Call of the West, read by Wal Greenslade:
>>
>> It is 1867 and dead on time. The harbour of Boston is a hive of
>> inactivity, as English immigrants bring their shattered bank accounts
>> to the New World.
>> Alongside is the Good Ship Venus...
>
> It's a very British naughty poem and stands alongside Eskimo Nell, the
> ball of Kerrymuir, If I were the marrying kind and Mary had a little
> lamb.
I've often seen her little lamb
But I've never...
--
Martin S
Frederick Williams
MartinS
> MartinS wrote:
>> "Roger the Saurus" <roge...@bollixbtinternet.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > It's a very British naughty poem and stands alongside Eskimo Nell, the
>> > ball of Kerrymuir, If I were the marrying kind and Mary had a little
>> > lamb.
>>
>> She also had a bear.
>> I've often seen her little lamb
>> But I've never...
>
> Down below with you, it's your turn in the barrel.
--
Martin S
Judith
> Judith <JU...@withouta.net> wrote:
> > MartinS <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> My favo(u)rite ep is Call Of The West. It has Wal playing an Indian
> >> squaw, also Sellers as the infamous Lootenant Hern Hern. And there's
> >> a reference to a very naughty poem about the crew of the Good Ship
> >> Venus.
> >
> > I confess that I don't understand the joke about the Good Ship Venus.
> > Or maybe I shouldn't ask?
> >
> > Jude the Prude
>
> Well, you could Google it. That is, if you're not too prudish.
>
> Or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Ship_Venus
>
Judith
MartinS
> MartinS <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote:
>> Judith <JU...@withouta.net> wrote:
>> > MartinS <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote:
>> >
>> >> My favo(u)rite ep is Call Of The West. It has Wal playing an
>> >> Indian squaw, also Sellers as the infamous Lootenant Hern Hern.
>> >> And there's a reference to a very naughty poem about the crew of
>> >> the Good Ship Venus.
>> >
>> > I confess that I don't understand the joke about the Good Ship
>> > Venus. Or maybe I shouldn't ask?
>> >
>> > Jude the Prude
>>
>> Well, you could Google it. That is, if you're not too prudish.
>>
>> Or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Ship_Venus
>>
> I knew Oscar Brand had to be behind this, the filthy swine.
has a lot more strings to his bow than Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads.
He has hosted Folksong Festival on WNYC AM 820 (Saturdays at 10 PM)
since December 1945 - the longest running radio show with the same host.
--
Martin S
Ivan D. Reid
<roge...@bollixbtinternet.com>
wrote in <b_OdnXDpNJtw3bvM...@bt.com>:
> It's a very British naughty poem and stands alongside Eskimo Nell, the ball
> of Kerrymuir, If I were the marrying kind and Mary had a little lamb.
#The doctor was surprised.
#But when Old MacDonald had a farm
#He couldn't believe his eyes!
...and that's the cleanest one I could remember.
Oh, no, just recalled
#Mary had a little lamb,
#Its fleece was black as soot,
#And ev'rywhere that Mary went
#His sooty foot 'e put.
...although there's probably something there that I missed, rather like the
strait-laced gentleman[1] who didn''t see the hidden meaning in this:
#There was a young fellow named Hyde
#Who fell down a privy, and died.
#His unfortunate brother
#Then fell down another,
#And now they're interred side-by-side.
[1] Detailed, IIRC, in "The Lure of the Limerick"[2] by William S Baring-Gould
[2] Bl**dy H*ll, Amazon want 124+ quid for a hardcover copy!
Ivan D. Reid
<Ivan...@ivan.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote in <slrnki6g7f.p...@smtp.orangehome.co.uk>:
> wrote in <5122efb9$0$13576$c3e8da3$dd96...@news.astraweb.com>:
>> squaw, also Sellers as the infamous Lootenant Hern Hern. And there's a
>> reference to a very naughty poem about the crew of the Good Ship Venus.
> And a stereo spittoon! (IIRC I have three episodes in stereo.)
http://www.ivan.fsnet.co.uk/goonclips/
MartinS
> Ivan D. Reid <Ivan...@ivan.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> My favo(u)rite ep is Call Of The West. It has Wal playing an Indian
>>> squaw, also Sellers as the infamous Lootenant Hern Hern. And there's
>>> a reference to a very naughty poem about the crew of the Good Ship
>>> Venus.
>
>> And a stereo spittoon! (IIRC I have three episodes in stereo.)
>
> Just remembered this old website... Enjoy, if you will.
>
> http://www.ivan.fsnet.co.uk/goonclips/
Gentlemen, somebody's supplying the Indians with saxophones. (spits)
LT. HERN-HERN:
I think I know who did it.
FX:
DANG!
COLONEL:
Bring that thing closer, will ya?
(Sellers was the Colonel, Seagoon was Lt. Hern-Hern.)
--
Martin S
Ivan D. Reid
wrote in <512e70e8$0$30792$c3e8da3$40d4...@news.astraweb.com>:
Colonel: <spits>
FX: <splat!>
Colonel: Sorry 'bout that, son!
Nemo
Moslty mine except the few marked otherwise.
Mary had a little lamb.
The poor thing caught a dreadful cold,
Coz all its wool had gorn!
Moory hid a lattle limb.
The poor thing was dyslexic.
It also caught a nasty bug
That made its left hind leg sick!
Hands up all those who thought I couldn't rhyme 'dysexic'!
Eccles: But Iyyy don't want ter put my hands up all those who thought
you couldn't rhyme 'dyslexic'!
Grams: BANGGGGGGG!!!
Owwwwwwwwwwwwwowwowwowwww!
Mary had a little lamb.
It didn't do itself much good,
'Twas quickly fat, then mutton!
So . . .
Mary had her little lamb,
For dinner with some sprouts.
Her mum said, "You can't eat your pet!!"
And gave her several clouts!
Mary had a little lamb,
The Midwife nearly died.
To add to the astonishment
It came out ready-fried!
Mary had a little limb.
Thalidomide she took.
That's why it came out all deformed,
And totally in shtook!
Mary had a little lamb.
The answer, though, was quickly found:
She'd married a magician!
Very stubborn doctor: Obstinatrician.
Mary had a little lamb.
Whence came all these albino fleas
The doctors didn't know.
Mary had a little lamb
Mary's lamb became a ram
Then Mary had a sheep!
Mary had a little lamb.
So now it goes to school with her
Between two bits of bread.
(not mine)
Mary had two little lambs.
Their names were Jack and Gypsy.
They both got foot and mouth disease,
So now they're black and crispy.
(not mine)
Mary had a little son,
Supposed to be messiah!
Now he runs a used car place,
With cars for sale or hire!
If he'd have been an ordinary lamb, they'd have been ewesed cars!
Mary had a little pig,
The pig was very sprightly.
It danced a lively Irish Jig
All day and then twice nightly!
Mary had a little calf -
Spent all its time a-mooing!
All day, all night, till it got shot!
Thus it was brought to ruin!
Mary had a big fat hen!
It came out all a-clucking!
Exhausted then the rooster died -
It gave her such a fucking!
Mary had a little lamb.
That made her so fed up with it
It woke up in a skip!
A long one . . Different metre. All the others are electric. This one's
gas!
Mary had a little lamb in bed!
She took it there because she'd heard it said,
That for tomorrow's dinner 'twould be ate.
So to hide it in her bed it would be great.
Her mother came at morning with an axe,
But Mary beat off all her wild attacks.
The lamb ran off to hide out in the clover,
But on the way the bugger got run over!!
The car careered into the kitchen garden.
The driver was polite and said "Beg pardon."
The lamb's remains were roasted on a spit.
Mary saw them; shouted out, "Oh, shit!"
She couldn't though - the car had wrecked the loo.
So all the fam'ly had no-where to poo.
They dug a pit in which to shit right there
And Mary's shovel struck
an-unexploded-bomb-and-very-thankfully-ended-the-poem-with-bits-of-her-all-flying-in-all-directions-though-the-air!
As she disintegrated, she said, "I can't think of a crater way to go!"
Cock-a-doodle-WOOF!! - Sound of a doggerel!
Mary had a little lamb
When it awoke it trotted off
And joined the bold Irgoon!
Mary had a little lamb
She said, 'Shut up" - the damned thing did -
So Mary thanked it: "Ta!"
Worth coming out of hibernation for.
Nemo
Nemo
Heaven. That's the correct plural as well.
Even Stephen Fruy or odd Stephen Fruy says penus - usually followed by a
question mark and 'Yes please!'
One of his:
I was walking upon Primrose Hill one day when I stooped to pick a
buttercup - And then I thought: What a very strange place for someone to
have left a buttock!
MartinS
>> MartinS <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote:
>>> Judith <JU...@withouta.net> wrote:
>>>> MartinS <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My favo(u)rite ep is Call Of The West. It has Wal playing an
>>>>> Indian squaw, also Sellers as the infamous Lootenant Hern Hern.
>>>>> And there's a reference to a very naughty poem about the crew of
>>>>> the Good Ship Venus.
>>>>
>>>> I confess that I don't understand the joke about the Good Ship
>>>> Venus. Or maybe I shouldn't ask?
>>>>
>>>> Jude the Prude
>>>
>>> Well, you could Google it. That is, if you're not too prudish.
>>>
>>> Or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Ship_Venus
>>>
>> I knew Oscar Brand had to be behind this, the filthy swine.
>>
> Heaven. That's the correct plural as well.
>
> Even Stephen Fruy or odd Stephen Fruy says penus - usually followed by
> a question mark and 'Yes please!'
>
> One of his:
>
> I was walking upon Primrose Hill one day when I stooped to pick a
> buttercup - And then I thought: What a very strange place for someone
> to have left a buttock!
--
Martin S
Ivan D. Reid
wrote in <gnnpt.1$9H...@fx22.am4>:
> Even Stephen Fruy or odd Stephen Fruy says penus - usually followed by a
> question mark and 'Yes please!'
> One of his:
> I was walking upon Primrose Hill one day when I stooped to pick a
> buttercup - And then I thought: What a very strange place for someone to
> have left a buttock!
countryside.
Bill Taylor
Mary had a little lamb
So every time that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go!
> > And now they're interred side-by-side.
Were interred in each other's apparel,
To keep up the morale
For Carol a chorale
Was sung, and for Coral, a carol!
(Note: this is not intended to allude to the "Oh Carol" thread.)
> Hands up all those who thought I couldn't rhyme 'dyslexic'!
That reminds me of the one about when the Dalai Lama
had to get a tooth out, and refused any anasthetic.
He wanted to transcend dental medication!
> Mary had a little limb.
> Thalidomide she took.
that was nothing but a huge ear!?"
"No?"
"It was deaf"
> If he'd have been an ordinary lamb, they'd have been ewesed cars!
A: Two-ten car men.
> Mary had a little pig,
'Twas there in the school lunch line,
Don't contradict me, 'cause I know!
(There isn't any punch line.)
-- Folk, Anon andTrad (The FAT sisters)
Stanley Daniel de Liver
<Ivan...@ivan.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2013 14:27:40 +0100, Nemo <ne...@naughtylass.wet>
> wrote in <gnnpt.1$9H...@fx22.am4>:
>
>> Even Stephen Fruy or odd Stephen Fruy says penus - usually followed by a
>> question mark and 'Yes please!'
>
>> One of his:
>
>> I was walking upon Primrose Hill one day when I stooped to pick a
>> buttercup - And then I thought: What a very strange place for someone to
>> have left a buttock!
>
> I tend to take Fry with a grain of salt, but I note his support for
> countryside.
>
--
It's a money /life balance.
Nemo
johnha...@gmail.com
> 41) Show 6/17:
>
> Seagoon: Now, you see this large map of the Dacca and Ambritsar
> area showing the high ground and Sunday trains to Delhi?
>
> Dacca is of course the Anglisised spelling of Dhaka, the capital
> of Bangladesh. With Secombe's Welsh accent it sounds as if he's
> saying 'Dakar' (capital of Senegal), but that makes no geographic
> sense. The open question is what the second place name is. It
> sounds like he's saying 'Ambristar' but I've been unable to find
> any place in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent with
> a name resembling that. There's Amristar, but that's in the
> Punjab, on the other side of the subcontinent, so it makes no
> sense in the context of a "Dacca and Amristar area". Can anyone
> out there make better sense of what Seagoon's saying?
>
>
> 42) Show 6/17:
>
> Seagoon: Men, bad news. The Red Bladder has surrounded our
> radio station at Chattagand. All our records are in danger.
>
> There appears to be no such place as Chattagand. I did turn up
> a few hits for 'Chattagang' and 'Chatagang'. Chittagong is a
> large city in Bangladesh. Is 'Chattagan' an Anglisization of
> Chittagong, or is this perhaps a name Spike made up to sound
> like Chittagong?
>
>
> 43) Show 6/19:
>
> Bannister: I said, what about the drains in Hackney? We have...
>
> There are several other references during Goon parliamentary
> debates to "the drains in Hackney". Near as I can tell, "What
> about the drains in X?" is a cliche phrase for background
> mutterings at political meetings, like "rhubarb, rhubarb".
>
>
> 44) Show 6/19:
>
> Aneurin Bevan: What about the Welsh reactionaries, then?
>
> Is this just a general comment about Bevan's politics, or is it
> a reference to some specific topical incident?
>
>
> 45) Show 6/19:
>
> Churchill: What about all this washing outside Number Ten,
> that's what I...
>
> Obviously a topical reference. But to what?
>
>
> 46) Show 6/20:
>
> Londongle: More brown power!
>
> This occurs just before Max Geldray's tune. It's a popular
> enough exclamation to be almost one of Spike's catch-phrases.
> Is this a civil rights slogan (as it was/is in the US)?
>
>
> 47) Show 6/22:
>
> Bannister: No, no, buddy, it wouldn't be able to see where
> it was going. I... ooooh! Did you say we were at
> war, young man?
>
> Minister: Er... yes, yes.
>
> Bannister: I'd better go and get the smalls in at once.
> (fades off)
>
> Churchill: Better not let Anthony see you doing that.
>
> Clearly Anthony is Anthony Eden, then PM. This would appear to
> be another "washing outside Number Ten" topical reference (see
> annotation 45, show 6/19).
>
>
> 48) Show 6/23:
>
> McGregor: On the contrary, Professor Farvlov, the off-white
> Russian scientist... is about to perfect a synthetic imitation
> Russian-speaking Tuscan male Salami, that may completely
> deceive the unsuspecting female.
>
> Any significance to the name Farvlov? I thought it might be
> Pavlov, the famous Russian animal behaviour scientist. Or
> perhaps a play on Farlow, the bebop guitarist.
>
> 49) Show 6/23:
>
> Grytpype: With these plans of the female he can breed a million
> more and bombard Soho with its own deadly kind.
>
> Referring to Tuscan salamis. Soho's a London district notorious
> for its prostitutes, as well as theatres and more respectable
> businesses. What's the connection to Tuscan salamis?
>
>
>
> Moriarty: Back pay? Ohieooeioh! Sapristi Ebison Glasshouse!
> Ohohieoh!
>
> Who/what is Ebison Glasshouse?
>
>
>
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"The Raid of the International Christmas Pudding" (17/6th)
Chattagan(d)....
There is no such place as Chattagan - if that is in fact what Milligan wrote. On at least one occasion during the show the word is pronounced as 'Chattagand'. It's amusing to speculate how Milligan came up with this word. Spikes Hindi was learnt from his aaya (Nanny) and his family's Indian servants and their children, so he remembered Hindi through a veil of childish imitation, not consciously realising what he was saying. 'Chatta' can mean 'stack'; while the homophone 'chutta' means 'fool' - that is to say "Chatta" and "chutta" sound almost the same in Hindi; 'gand' is almost certainly the word for 'arsehole', though it could conceivably be the mispronounced version of 'gaon', 'village'. If it is 'Chuttagand' that Spike meant, it would have meant 'the arsehole of an idiot', the sort of language he would have been certainly aware of when he was a boy.
Yukka Tukka Indian
yukka tukka indians
"The Choking Horror" (22/6th)
This odd line is one of two times that Milligan makes mention of the Prime Minister's washing. (The other is in 'The Great British Revolution' - 12/8th. "Come on out Mr. Prime Minister. We know you're in there! We've seen your washing on the line.") The incident it refers to involves Lady Avon, (the wife of the Prime Minister Antony Eden,) who had requested a cottager on the estate of Chequers (the Prime Ministerial country estate) to hang her washing out of view of estate visitors. The story was taken up by the Daily Mirror in January 1956, and was reported as an example of Lady Avon's (and by association Eden himself) alleged high handedness. The escalating Suez crisis eventually proved the journalists right as Eden's own political dirty washing was soon to be dragged out, putting him on the nose with the electorate - an electorate which had recently voted him and the conservative party, back into power with the biggest majority in post-war history
MartinS
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Bill Taylor
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