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Rick Lugg

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Narrator "Ten miles he swam, the last three were agony"
Seagon " they were over land"
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Gary Jackson <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in article
<199711071...@zetnet.co.uk>...
> Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
> pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
>
> Gary
>
>

Chris Hughes

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In article <199711071...@zetnet.co.uk>, Gary Jackson
<gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> writes

>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
>pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
>
>Gary
>
Eccles: (sings) I talk to the trees.....
That's why they put me away....
-- Chris Hughes, Wraysbury, Berkshire, UK.
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads;
it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries
and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all
men that doubt, after all, was safe. (H. L. Mencken)


Stuart Painting

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In article <01bceba0$a8c97140$0300...@qtts-luggrp.telkom.co.za>, Rick Lugg

<URL:mailto:rick...@intekom.co.za> wrote:
> Narrator "Ten miles he swam, the last three were agony"
> Seagon " they were over land"

Alternatively, from the same show:

Neddie Seagoon: "Is the gold safe with Moriarty?"
Gritpype-Thynne: "Perfectly safe. Wherever he and his rowing boat is."

stuart

--
De Chelonian Mobile [The Turtle Moves]


Russell Street

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Rick Lugg <rick...@intekom.co.za> wrote:
> Narrator "Ten miles he swam, the last three were agony"
> Seagon " they were over land"

Seagoon: He stepped out of the darkness and into the light
f/x: clang

...

Seagoon: "I floundered alone in the Indian Ocean... unable to speak a word of
the language. I floated on my back, front and sides but was unable to
sleep"

Russell
(or something like that)

Paul Martin

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Nov 8, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/8/97
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In article <199711071...@zetnet.co.uk>,
Gary Jackson <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> writes:
++++++
Ooh! It's a customer! Quick! Hide the silver.

> Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
> pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!

Napoleon's Piano:
Neddie: It was breakfast at Beaulieu Manor, and I was standing at the
window looking in.

The whole "What time is it, Eccles?" sequence from The Mysterious Punch Up
the Conk-er.

The "Duck" sequence from Shifting Sands.

Plus the show "Dishonoured" gets an honourable mention.

--
Paul Martin <p...@zetnet.net>
Champion barbed-wire hurdler until his tragic accident

J. Allan

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Nov 8, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/8/97
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> <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> writes

> >Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
> >pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!

Bridge on the River Why

Bloodnok: How *long* is the river Neddy?

Seagoon: Six hundred miles.

Bloodnok: And how *wide* is the river Neddy?

Seagoon: Six hundred yards.

Bloodnok: Good. Then we'll build the bridge *across* the river.

--
John Allan
Every act of a politician is a political act


John Elliott

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Nov 8, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/8/97
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Gary Jackson (gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk) wrote:
: Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
: pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!

"Moriarty, this is the Charlie who's going to drink Loch Lomond for us."

------------- http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/index.html --------------------
John Elliott |BLOODNOK: "But why have you got such a long face?"
|SEAGOON: "Heavy dentures, Sir!" - The Goon Show
:-------------------------------------------------------------------------)

Chris Hughes

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Nov 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/9/97
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In article <C6E5PIAN...@firesong.demon.co.uk>, Firesong <firesong@f
iresong.spamless.demon.co.uk> writes
>Firesong notes that Gary Jackson spake thusly.

>>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
>>pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
>>
>>Gary
>>
>
>
>Bluebottle: Do not shout at me.......... I have two O'levels and a
> budgerigar.
>
And Bloodnok's credentials - "I have the OBE and a parcel of steamed
squids..."

Gary Jackson

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I s'ppose I ought to add my own:

More of a use of radio rather than a one liner:

Neddy slighted for his size says "watch this", there follows a
regular gymnastical??! crash of drums accompanied by Neddie crying
"hup!!" At the end a fanfare and applause.

Gritt-pipe - "Well done Neddie.......I didn't know you could play the drums"

or....Did you see his assailant?

No, he had his overcoat buttoned up!

Gary


Mr M J McVay

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In article <h8qYLFAJ$ZZ0...@epicure.demon.co.uk>,

Chris Hughes <chris....@epicure.demon.co.uk> writes:
>And Bloodnok's credentials - "I have the OBE and a parcel of steamed
>squids..."

'Major Bloodnok, OBE, MT, MT and MT.'
'What are all the MT's for?'
'I get tuppence on each of them.'

Martin

Chris D. Neale

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On 7 Nov 1997, David Van Domelen wrote:

<:? >From Napoleon's Piano:
<:? >
<:? > Neddie: There, I've sawed off all four legs!
<:? > German (argh, I forgot his name): Funny, that's the first I've heard of
<:? >a piano with four legs. (add cheesy German accent to taste)
<:? > Eccles: Ey, I keep fallin' down!
<:? >
<:? > Dave Van Domelen, first heard Napoleon's Piano at a very impressionable
<:? >age, and look what happened. My parents have a winnable case against the
<:? >BBC, I tell you....
<:? >
<:? >
<:? >
It were Eidelburger I tell you


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Mr M J McVay

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In article <199711071...@zetnet.co.uk>,
Gary Jackson <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> writes:
>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
>pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!

'I've got the pencil.'
'That's a steamroller!'
'Is it? I'll kill that blasted store keeper!'

Or

'What is this sudden piece of cardboard?'

I haven't a clue what this one means but I think it's great!

Martin

Colin Fee

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Nov 10, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/10/97
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On Fri, 7 Nov 1997 19:14:39 +0000, Chris Hughes
<chris....@epicure.demon.co.uk> wrote:


>>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
>>pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!

I have two, the first a one-liner from The Terror of Bexhill-on-sea
(The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler)

Milligan: It's all rather confusing really!

And from the String Robberies (my apologies if it's not stricly
correct),

Neddie: You poor Scottish fool, can't you see that the robber has
simply cut the string in the centre and pulled the two ends apart thus
giving the appearance of a missing piece. If you pull them together
again there's the missing piece.

Sottish PC: Aaarrgh Aye yee right sir! But wait, when you do that it
get's shorter at both ends!

Neddie: Gad yes! So we're not looking a missing centre pience but
rather two short-ends! Seargant, arrest all people who own two pieces
of string.

Colin.

Bill Taylor

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Russell Street <russ...@mailhost.auckland.ac.nz> writes:

|> Seagoon: He stepped out of the darkness and into the light
|> f/x: clang

YOU WROTTEN STREET!

You have not deaded me,
but you *have* forgotted the immenginately preceeding linule...

______________________________________________________________
"He was a tall man with a military bearing,
which he tossed into the air and caught."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Nyee-hee!

---------------
Bill; (formerly reverse lexicigrapher for Reverse Polish Translations Corp)
---------------

Tony Green

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Gary Jackson wrote:
>
> Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
> pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
>

From (I think) the Histories of Pliny The Elder:
"Caesar is all things to all men"
Seagoon: "It must be hell in there!"

From goodness knows where:
Eccles (sings) "I've got my knees to keep me warm"

--

Tony Green

J. Azzaizky

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> Gary Jackson <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in article
> <199711071...@zetnet.co.uk>...
> > Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as
> being
> > pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
> >
> > Gary
> >
>

I'm not sure which show this is from but it's great:

Neddie : Coachman, can we go any faster ?
cochman: (indian accent) No sir, the chickens are tired..




Don't@ask

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On 10 Nov 1997 03:32:34 GMT, mat...@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill
Taylor) wrote:
<snip>

>Nyee-hee!
>
>---------------
>Bill; (formerly reverse lexicigrapher for Reverse Polish Translations Corp)
>---------------
That's not funny. They exist. They work downstairs from me, and a more
cheerless and garlic-sausage-wafting crowd you could not imagine.
Please, no more tasteless cracks like this, or I'll set the Polish
reverse translators on you, see if I don't!


Daniel Callahan

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I have to admit a fondness for two of the usuals:

"You silly twisted boy, you...."
"It goes right through you, you know!"

As well as (from "The Histories of Pliny the Elder"):

Julius Caeser (Grytpype): "Is he bound?"
Soldier (Greenslade): "Of his health, I know nought, sir."

That joke also showed up in season five's Robin Hood episode, but the
delivery was much improved the second time around.


Rose Conway

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>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
>>pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!

Henry: Put the kettle on Min.
Min: I can't Henry, it won't fit!

I've no idea what show it came from, I heard it on the radio years
ago and it stuck!

Rose


Marc Graham

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Nov 10, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/10/97
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What what what what what what what?

(All depends what you mean by genius, mate.)

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Trevor Stephens

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Nov 10, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/10/97
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In article <34670467...@bluemoon.co.za>, "J. Azzaizky"
<jo...@bluemoon.co.za> writes

>> Gary Jackson <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in article
>> <199711071...@zetnet.co.uk>...
>> > Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as
>> being
>> > pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
>> >
>> > Gary
>> >
Moriarty Murder Mystery - Miss Annabel Lee etc..

Moriarty: I have trodden in the steps of the masters

Gritpype-Thynne: You've certainly trodden in something

(.. or something like that)
--
Trevor Stephens

D.M. Richerby

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In article <34674136...@neovision.com>,

Marc Graham <ma...@neovision.com> wrote:
>What what what what what what what?

Only seven whats? Not very bright!


Dave.
--
David Richerby \ Are we not drawn onward to new era?
Fitzwilliam College \ -- B.V. Blomper
University of Cambridge \ http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/~dmr25/

Mike Clayton

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Can't remember the characters - but this one gets'em everytime:

Neddy (I think) "How's your German?"

Moriarty (I think) "He's fine! How's yours?"

--
Mike Clayton
Language Labs
University of Canterbury
Remove xx from address before replying

Lesley Robertson

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Nov 11, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/11/97
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The old brain must be going soft - can't remember the episode - but they
had parliament discussing the fact that building an Embassy had gone way
over budget and were told not to worry - they were going to knock it
down and put another one up at the correct price!
Lesley Robertson

Paul M Hounslow

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Eccles: "Can I get out of this grave now?"

Also

Bluenbottle: "Do you know Eccles"
Eccles: "Yup!"

And the famous

Bloodnok: "Has her husband gone?"

--
Paul Hounslow - phou...@objective.co.uk
DoD #0573 BOOF #18 UKMC #9 UK Village Idiot
"Isn't the Atlantic ocean a wonderful thing"
- Nick Hancock discussing US 'culture' with Ulrikakaka on Room 101

Rick Lugg

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Nov 11, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/11/97
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& on the german theme.........

G1: the likvid vill be put on the tail of the British Military shirts. It
is tasteless, colourless and odourless
G2: ah, but vot gud iz zat on ze tail of ze shirt?
G1: ven de vearer sits down, ze heat von his body causes the chemical to
explode,
in zis vey, ze soldier vill be neutralised
G2: it'll be vorse dan dat !

(sorry - more than one line!)


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Mike Clayton <m.cla...@avc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in article
<m.claytonxx-11...@mike.fren.canterbury.ac.nz>...

Paul Winalski

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Nov 11, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/11/97
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Mike Clayton wrote:
>
> Can't remember the characters - but this one gets'em everytime:
>
> Neddy (I think) "How's your German?"
>
> Moriarty (I think) "He's fine! How's yours?"

Along similar lines, from "The Nasty Affair at the
Burami Oasis":

Soldier (Secombe): Sir! Sir! There's an Arab riding down
at us on a flaming stallion.

Bloodnok: Watch your language!

Soldier: English, sir. What's yours?

Bloodnok: The same. Interpreter, you can go home.

Throat: Right, mate.

--PSW

rap...@research.canon.com.au

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Lesley Robertson <l.a.ro...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis> writes:

>Over budget Embassy building? Burn it down and build it at the correct price.

The Jet Propelled Guided NAAFI.

Steve Caskey

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Nov 12, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/12/97
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In Article <34683020...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis>

_The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI_ - this part of the script was based on
an actual incident of the day. Quite closely, up to just before the
solution Lesley shares with us, which would probably have appealed to
the Hon. Mems.

Another gem from the same segment, from memory and therefore to be
considered a paraphrase only:
"Furthermore, a semi-circular settee worth twenty pounds cost more
than four hundred pounds."
"Yes, but why a _semi-circular_ settee?"
"Because, sir, it was for a semi-circular vice-consul."

Plus, of course, an appearance the old "what about the drains in
Hackney?" favourite.

See my .sig for one of my favourite quotes, from _The Sleeping Prince_.

Steve Caskey, exiting through trapdoor clutching broken 'lastic
--
Just another mindless public servant at the Ministry of Education
"Did you know that a uniform attracts women like flies?"
"I wondered why all your women looked like flies."

Joel B Levin

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Nov 13, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/13/97
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In <6444ut$6...@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk>,
ma...@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M J McVay) wrote:
:'What is this sudden piece of cardboard?'

:
:I haven't a clue what this one means but I think it's great!

I have no idea what the context was, but could that have been "sodden" or
"sodding"?

Paul Winalski

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No, it's definitely "sudden piece of cardboard". The line
is by Valentine Dyall, playing the Sheriff of Nottingham
in "Robin Hood and His Mirry Mon", a special broadcast
in Goon Show series 7, and he quite distinctly says
"sudden". The dialogue is all Shakespearean
and medieval. Bluebottle has just made his entrance,
hence "sudden". "Sodden" doesn't fit because there's
no water around, and Auntie Beeb would NEVER have
allowed "sodding".

--PSW

Dave Yost

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In article <C6E5PIAN...@firesong.demon.co.uk>, Firesong
<fire...@firesong.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Firesong notes that Gary Jackson spake thusly.

> >Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
> >pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
> >
> >Gary
> >
>
>

> Bluebottle: Do not shout at me.......... I have two O'levels and a
> budgerigar.

OK, now we know how it's spelt. What is it?

Hallam 2

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Nov 14, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/14/97
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I've been trying to find the origin of the following lines (or anything close
to them. I'm relying on memory and one hearing.) Any help?
Minnie: 'enry? 'enry? Where are you 'enry?
Henry: I'm in 'ere Minnie.
Minnie: Where's that 'enry?
Henry : I'm stuck inside the rosewood piano, Minnie.
Minnie: Which one, 'enry?
Henry: 'ow many rosewood pianos 'ave we got, Minnie?
Minnie: 'old on, I'll count. 1,2,3...16,17,18...23,24,25...31,32. We've got
32 rosewood pianos, 'enry.
Henry: I'm in that one.
Minnie: Which one?
Henry: The last one.
Minnie: 'ang on, I'll get you out. (Sounds of massive destruction of a piano)
'enry...'enry...You're not in this one 'enry.

Joel B Levin

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In <Dave-ya02408000R...@news.BayArea.net>,
Da...@Yost.com (Dave Yost) wrote:

:In article <C6E5PIAN...@firesong.demon.co.uk>, Firesong
:<fire...@firesong.demon.co.uk> wrote:
:> Bluebottle: Do not shout at me.......... I have two O'levels and a

:> budgerigar.
:
:OK, now we know how it's spelt. What is it?

A budgie. Sort of like a parakeet. Or maybe it is a parakeet.


Paul Martin

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Nov 14, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/14/97
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In article <346C1AA3.33EC@osmf.b>,
Tony Green <tonyg@osmf.b> writes:

> Reminds me of when I lived in Rochdale, which has a suburb called
> Sudden. In that suburb was based a taxi company, not surprisingly called

Not just that, but they've got a posh bit called Norden.

Strange but these two words mean "Northern" and "Southern" in German.

(Living not far from Wochdale, as the locals pronounce it.)

--
Paul Martin <p...@zetnet.net>

Dougsherma

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Nov 15, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/15/97
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Here are some favorites from "Confessions of a Secret Senna Pod Drinker":

Neddie (making a pick up of Senna pods from Moriarty): Have
you got the pods?
Moriarty: Yes, but they're clearing up nicely, thanks.


Neddie: I made my way to Harley St., and burst into a doctor's
surgery.
Grytpype: How dare you burst into my surgery!! Get a floor cloth
and clean it up!!


Neddie: I take three cups of tea a day...and I'm on the run.
Grytpype: I'm not surprised.


Neddie: I was sent here for my peace of mind.
Henry: Well, it hasn't arrived yet.


Neddie: Bluebottle, how did they make you their chief?
Bluebottle: It was agony!! They was going to dead me, you know,
so I pulled my teeth out and showed them 'round.
Neddie: But you haven't got false teeth.
Bluebottle: I know! It was agony!!

Phair

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"Rick Lugg" <rick...@intekom.co.za> wrote:
My all time favourites...

From "The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis"

Grytpipe: The oasis is only ten feet wide, they'll never get a
battleship in it.
Moriarty: They could stand it on one end!
Grytpipe: British don't operate that way.
Moriarty: Nonsense! I've seen them walking to work like that!

From "The Great international Christmas Pudding"

Seagoon: Major, I want you to lead our safari
Bloodnok: Very well, but I shall need special equipment.
Seagoon: Such as?
Bloodnok: Money.

From " The Last Tram to [ somewhere or rather ]"

Greenslade: I'm from the BBC
*THWACK!*
Workman: That's for the TV programmes you give us!
Greenslade: You rotten devil, you. You hitted poor Greenslade,
nearly deading me (points to big lump on crust) toot toot toot
Bluebotte: You rotten swine, Greenslade! You pinched my lovely
little act!

Exits left on council dustcar (pooh!)
-Andre


The Breyers Traitor

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thy...@aol.com (Thynne), in article <19971115062...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, dixit:
>Trying to come up with one favorite line is tough...

Nah.... "Me grandma!"
--
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pig...@piglet.org \/ look really great." -- Jill Sobule

Iain Stuart

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Nov 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/26/97
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In article <6444ut$6...@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Mr M J McVay
<ma...@csv.warwick.ac.uk> writes
>In article <199711071...@zetnet.co.uk>,

> Gary Jackson <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> writes:
>>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
>>pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
>
>'What is this sudden piece of cardboard?'
>
>I haven't a clue what this one means but I think it's great!

Eccles "I got an electric twit for Christmas"

Ditto !


Neddie "I used to practise on Harley Street....on the saxophone."
-----------
Iain Stuart

http://www.big-iain.demon.co.uk/index.htm

** JB **

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In article <xEZDPRAK...@big-iain.demon.co.uk>, Iain Stuart <big-
ia...@big-iain.demon.co.uk> writes

>In article <6444ut$6...@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Mr M J McVay
><ma...@csv.warwick.ac.uk> writes
>>In article <199711071...@zetnet.co.uk>,
>> Gary Jackson <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> writes:
>>>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
>>>pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
>>
>>'What is this sudden piece of cardboard?'
>>
>>I haven't a clue what this one means but I think it's great!
>
>Eccles "I got an electric twit for Christmas"
>
No that was Bottle - Eccles had a "bow-wow"

If I recall it correctly wasn't that the one where Bottle also had a
toffee ashtray and liquorice dog-ends and Eccles responded with the
classic " My Mum always says that liquorice will give you a good run
for your money!"

>
>
>Neddie "I used to practise on Harley Street....on the saxophone."

--
Count Otto von Krapphausen

"Abort in Luxis"

Chris Hughes

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In article <xEZDPRAK...@big-iain.demon.co.uk>, Iain Stuart <big-
ia...@big-iain.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <6444ut$6...@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Mr M J McVay
><ma...@csv.warwick.ac.uk> writes
>>In article <199711071...@zetnet.co.uk>,
>> Gary Jackson <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> writes:
>>>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being
>>>pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
>>
>>'What is this sudden piece of cardboard?'
>>
>>I haven't a clue what this one means but I think it's great!
>
>Eccles "I got an electric twit for Christmas"
>
Bluebottle: Oh. I got a Junior Smoker's Kit, complete with Toffee
Ashtray, and Liquorice Dog-ends...

-- Chris Hughes, Wraysbury, Berkshire, UK.


Peter Jamieson

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In article <32q2bDAG...@epicure.demon.co.uk>, Chris Hughes
<chris....@epicure.demon.co.uk> writes
Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in your mind as being
pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!


From 'The Histories Of Pliny The Elder'

Bloodnok - 'Caesar and I fell out, you know.'
Seagoon - ' How did that happen?'
Bloodnok - 'You know that saying "Caesar's wife is above suspicion"?'
Seagoon - 'Yes.'
Bloodnok - 'Well, I've put an end to all that rubbish!'

From 'Six Charlies In Search Of An Author'

Bloodnok - 'Have a seat, Ned, pull up a chair.'
Seagoon - 'I'd rather stand , if you don't mind.'
Bloodnok - 'Oh, well then, pull up a floor then.'

From ' Insurance - The White Man's Burden'

Seagoon - 'So you work in a match factory, do you?'
Eccles - 'Yeah, I'm a dipper!'
Seagoon - 'You put the heads on?'
Eccles - 'No, I put the gloves on, they're boxing matches!'

Thank you my friends, it's all free!

By the way, little Jim, does anyone remember the 'Telegoons' which were
shown on the haunted fish tank in the sixties? I think they were
broadcast on a Saturday around about five on the sinful BBC. My old dad
says that might be right, but he's never been the same since he came
down with the Poona Krut.


'Big e-mails go around the world.'
Peter Jamieson
Dumfries
SCOTLAND

b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk

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On 1997-11-27 chris....@epicure.demon.co.uk said:
ch>Newsgroups: alt.fan.goons
ch>In article <xEZDPRAK...@big-iain.demon.co.uk>, Iain Stuart
ch><big- ia...@big-iain.demon.co.uk> writes
ch>>In article <6444ut$6...@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Mr M J McVay
ch>><ma...@csv.warwick.ac.uk> writes
ch>>>In article <199711071...@zetnet.co.uk>,
ch>>> Gary Jackson <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> writes:
ch>>>>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as
ch>>>>being pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
ch>>>'What is this sudden piece of cardboard?'
ch>>>I haven't a clue what this one means but I think it's great!
ch>>Eccles "I got an electric twit for Christmas"
ch>>-----------
ch>>Iain Stuart
ch>>http://www.big-iain.demon.co.uk/index.htm
ch>Bluebottle: Oh. I got a Junior Smoker's Kit, complete with Toffee
ch>Ashtray, and Liquorice Dog-ends...
ch>-- Chris Hughes, Wraysbury, Berkshire, UK.

further to which:

"The voice came from a man with a military bearing which he tossed in
the air and caught....he emerged from the darkness and walked into the
light (fx: Clang!!) "Owww!"

Jack Train as Col. Chinstrap, visiting Bloodnok: "Jus' a mo, old boy..."
(opens door) "Quiet out there!" (closes door) "Bloody goldfish!"

Bill


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Paul M Hounslow

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On Thu, 27 Nov 1997 16:16:06 +0000, Chris Hughes
<chris....@epicure.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <xEZDPRAK...@big-iain.demon.co.uk>, Iain Stuart <big-
>ia...@big-iain.demon.co.uk> writes


>>In article <6444ut$6...@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Mr M J McVay

>><ma...@csv.warwick.ac.uk> writes
>>>In article <199711071...@zetnet.co.uk>,
>>> Gary Jackson <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> writes:

>>>>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being

>>>>pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!
>>>

>>>'What is this sudden piece of cardboard?'
>>>

>>>I haven't a clue what this one means but I think it's great!
>>

>>Eccles "I got an electric twit for Christmas"
>>

>>-----------
>>Iain Stuart
>>
>>http://www.big-iain.demon.co.uk/index.htm

>Bluebottle: Oh. I got a Junior Smoker's Kit, complete with Toffee

>Ashtray, and Liquorice Dog-ends...

Eccles: "My mum says Liquorice gives you a good run for your money!"

--
Paul Hounslow - phou...@objective.co.uk
DoD #0573 BOOF #18 UKMC #9 UK Village Idiot

"Contraceptives should be used in every conceivable
occasion" - Spike Milligan

Julian S Visch

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My favourite is

Greenslade: The suns on fire you say? That would be ... (long winded explanation,
which is too complicated for me to remember)
Henry: No it is more complicated than that.

Bob Bramwell

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Peter Jamieson <Pe...@cwud.demon.co.uk> writes:

>
> In article <32q2bDAG...@epicure.demon.co.uk>, Chris Hughes

> <chris....@epicure.demon.co.uk> writes
> Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in your mind as being

> pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!

From Call of the West:

The Law: Who are yeh?
Gritpype: Lord Nelson.
The Law: Heh heh. You can't fool me. He had one arm missing.
Gritpype: That's right: I used to have three.

(I can't remember if "The Law" was a sheriff or a US army officer, but
it was Secombe playing the part.)


From Napoleon's Piano:

FX: clock chiming, speeded up, slowed down, and generally all over
the place...
Moriarty: Shhh! Seagoon, is that you?
Seagoon: No, it was the clock.


From I don't remember where:

Greenslade: Meanwhile, at the Wadi El-Dhyawhant...
FX: Phone rings
Voice: Wha' de 'ell d'ya want?


And another I don't remember where from:

Eccles: I looked up my dad's trousers, and I discovered something.
Bluebottle: What did you discover Eccles?
Eccles: That's where he keeps his legs!


Just my 2-bits worth. Of course, I'd like to keep my 2-bits, if you
DON'T mind.

--
Bob Bramwell Snail: 60 Baker Cr. NW |
ProntoLogical Calgary, AB | Life is overrated.
+1 403/861-8827 T2L 1R4, Canada |

Lesley Robertson

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b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk wrote:

> A propos of nothing at all, has anyone ever met a lady who enjoys the
> Goons?
>

Haven't you noticed the female members of this group - or is it that if
we're in the group, we ain't ladies????
Lesley Robertson

Brian Phillips

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>>>>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in yur mind as being

>>>>pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!


Grytpype-Thynne: "You know these blinds are drawn, they're not real"

- The Mysterious Punch-up-The-Conker

AAGH! (The African-American Goon Hern)

P.S. Is there a Francis Twitty II about?

Julian S Visch

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I was wondering about what he was talking about too, it is probably just in his
mind you know.

As an aside I saw a licence plate today which read bdjelly with an Irish accent.

Welsh Pig*

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Lesley Robertson <l.a.ro...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis>, in article <3483F220...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis>, dixit:

>b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk wrote:
>> A propos of nothing at all, has anyone ever met a lady who enjoys the
>> Goons?

>Haven't you noticed the female members of this group - or is it that if
>we're in the group, we ain't ladies????

It's that m-modern m-music, Min!
--
____
Piglet \bi/ *Like Welsh rabbit, only not as cheesy.
pig...@piglet.org \/ http://www.piglet.org/momentum

mousetrap

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In article <3483F220...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis>, Lesley
Robertson <l.a.ro...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis> rambled:

>b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk wrote:
>
>> A propos of nothing at all, has anyone ever met a lady who enjoys the
>> Goons?
>
>Haven't you noticed the female members of this group - or is it that if
>we're in the group, we ain't ladies????
>Lesley Robertson

There are a few of us about (both females and ladies....)
--
mousetrap

"I can see a miracle, and through it all we rise and fall, tear it apart and
stay forever and I know where heaven is, and somewhere in between miracles
happen"

James Prescott

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In article <65vg2e$j9r$1...@cn1.hw.ac.uk>, b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk wrote:

> A propos of nothing at all, has anyone ever met a lady who enjoys the
> Goons?

Yes. About four years back. She was a Hern, and didn't know
where to get her hands on more goonery. I was able to send her
several cassettes.

--
--
All my best,
James Prescott <ja...@nucleus.com> OR <pres...@acm.org> (PGP user)

r.axten

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Dec 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/3/97
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Would that be before or after the "Running, Jumping and Standing Still
Films"?
Alwso I dimly remember the words "Its the Cathode Ray tube Show folks!"
What would that have been from?

Robin Axten
"Have a Gorrilla!"

Andy Davison

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On 02 Dec 1997, Lesley Robertson <l.a.ro...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis>
said ...

>
> Haven't you noticed the female members of this group - or is it that if
> we're in the group, we ain't ladies????
> Lesley Robertson

Bloodnok: Woman? That name rings a bell. Where are me old medical charts?

--
Andy Davison
andyd...@oiyou.force9.co.uk
www.geocities.com/motorcity/3102

D.M. Richerby

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In article <01bd0034$3e6137e0$08b39a8e@robin>, r.axten <rax...@ican.net> wrote:
>"Have a Gorrilla!"

No thanks -- I only smoke baboons.


Dave.
--
David Richerby \ Are we not drawn onward to new era?
Fitzwilliam College \ -- B.V. Blomper
University of Cambridge \ http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/~dmr25/

Simon Slavin

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Dec 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/4/97
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In article <3483F220...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis>,
Lesley Robertson <l.a.ro...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis> wrote:

> b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > A propos of nothing at all, has anyone ever met a lady who enjoys the
> > Goons?
>

> Haven't you noticed the female members of this group - or is it that if
> we're in the group, we ain't ladies????

How can we notice you if you don't post occasionally ?

I have fond memories of Tina at the Weekend called Fred.
They might have been fonder but I didn't have the guts to ask her.

Simon.
--
Simon Slavin -- Computer Contractor. | Excessive quoting from Shakespeare:
http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk | gag me with a folio.
Check email address for spam-guard. | -- scl...@ernie.bgsu.edu (Susan Clerc)
Junk email not welcome at this site. | I receive about 2.5 junk emails a day.

Lesley Robertson

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D.M. Richerby wrote:

> In article <01bd0034$3e6137e0$08b39a8e@robin>, r.axten
> <rax...@ican.net> wrote:
> >"Have a Gorrilla!"
>
> No thanks -- I only smoke baboons.
>

All together now - Baboon Show!!!!
Lesley Robertson

Gary Jackson

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The message <ULwXBmE3...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk>
from mousetrap <mous...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk> contains these words:

> There are a few of us about (both females and ladies....)

Hey, you got out of uap. too!

Gary


mousetrap

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In article <199712051...@zetnet.co.uk>, Gary Jackson
<gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> rambled:

I've been quietly enjoying the favourite lines and wishing I had a
stereo to play my records (three of which I purchased second hand about
6 months ago and haven't heard yet)

Julian S Visch

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You silly twisted girl you, just lift your left leg over your right elbow
and you will be free before you can say Jack Robinson.


Dougsherma

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>Is there any one line from the Goons that sticks in your mind as being
>pure genius? If so, let's have 'em!

From "The Lost Colony":

Grytpype: Pardon me, sir. I couldn't help overhearing what you
said.
Neddie: Why not?
Grytpype: You're so blasted noisy.
Neddie: What? Steady, flunky. Who are you?
Grytpype: My card.
Neddie: McCard. A Scotsman, eh?

Moriarty: Forty-thousand-million-billion dollars!! That money must
be worth a fortune!!

Neddie: You're so tall.
Grytpype: So I am. But you too can be tall, Neddie. Buy my
book, "How To Be Three Inches Taller."
Neddie: Then what?
Grytpype: Stand on it.

Bloodnok: Oh brave Seagoon. Step forward for the mystical
initiation ceremony....Now place a hundred dollars in the
palm of your hand. Now say after me, "This is *your*
hundred dollars."
Neddie: This is *your* hundred dollars.
sfx: cash register
Bloodnok: [1990's all leather, politically incorrect type comment]


Chris Hughes

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In article <ULwXBmE3...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk>, mousetrap
<mous...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk> writes

>In article <3483F220...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis>, Lesley
>Robertson <l.a.ro...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis> rambled:

>>b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk wrote:
>>
>>> A propos of nothing at all, has anyone ever met a lady who enjoys the
>>> Goons?
>>
>>Haven't you noticed the female members of this group - or is it that if
>>we're in the group, we ain't ladies????
>>Lesley Robertson

>
>There are a few of us about (both females and ladies....)
Whatever happened to "women"?
-- Chris Hughes, Wraysbury, Berkshire, UK.
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads;
it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries
and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all
men that doubt, after all, was safe. (H. L. Mencken)


Gary Jackson

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The message <D4Jid4Hc...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk>

from mousetrap <mous...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk> contains these words:

> I've been quietly enjoying the favourite lines and wishing I had a


> stereo to play my records (three of which I purchased second hand about
> 6 months ago and haven't heard yet)

Wash them in boiling water until they shrink enough to fit the CD then.

Gary


mousetrap

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In article <199712070...@zetnet.co.uk>, Gary Jackson
<gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> rambled:

I haven't got a stereo *at all*
--
mousetrap, who only owns about 6 CDs and has to play them at work, when working
late....

Harry

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Dec 7, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/7/97
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Peter Jamieson <Pe...@cwud.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>SNIP<

>By the way, little Jim, does anyone remember the 'Telegoons' which were
>shown on the haunted fish tank in the sixties? I think they were
>broadcast on a Saturday around about five on the sinful BBC. My old dad
>says that might be right, but he's never been the same since he came
>down with the Poona Krut.

Yur, I remember 'em every time I read anything about them they are
generally described as a very poor relative of the radio shows... I
thought they were very good. I was born after the Goons radio shows
finished, but I can still remember the puppets: they made an indelible
impression on me as a child, especially Eccles and Bloodnock [then
came 'Do Not Ajust Your Set', 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' and
Monty Python... what chance did a child stand?], and I'd love to see
an episode or all again...

Harry

>
>'Big e-mails go around the world.'
>Peter Jamieson
>Dumfries
>SCOTLAND


Cliches are holes in the bucket of life...

Delete "nospam." from email address if replying!
or send to: ha...@pobox.co.uk
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Witchfinder

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While you were off-line, Peter Jamieson <Pe...@cwud.demon.co.uk> snuck
in the back door and left THIS on the mantelpiece:

>From 'Six Charlies In Search Of An Author'
>
>Bloodnok - 'Have a seat, Ned, pull up a chair.'
>Seagoon - 'I'd rather stand , if you don't mind.'
>Bloodnok - 'Oh, well then, pull up a floor then.'
>

And later in the same show:

Bloodnok: "Sit yourself down - pull up a chair"
Ned (I think): "I'd rather stand'
Bloodnok: "Very well, stand on a chair"

and a couple from The Scarlet Capsule

Min: "Nonsense! According to my qualificumespyspms these skulls were
dropped by the Germans in 1943"
Ned: "Unexploded German skulls! I hadn't thought of that!"
Gritpype: "Elephant soup with squashed spuds"
Ned: "I hadn't thought if THAT either"
Gritpype: "Sabrina in the bath"
Ned: "I do have SOME spare time!"

Curses to my parents for playing me "Six Charlies in Search of an
Author" at a very early age (me, that is, not....oh you know)

Ned (typing): "The author left the room!"

Jim Spriggs:"I put you in it!"
Ned: "RIGHT in it"
Jim: "Silence!"

I'll get me coat.
--
Workshy Fop - in the pub already
eeh-up mail address has been flattened by Big Tins of Spam
Now! At http://www.vorbis.demon.co.uk - new Quake pages
and a guestbook where you can leave yer coat. Good that, in't it.

r.axten

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Witchfinder <adr...@vorbis.arse.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<348ad497...@news.demon.co.uk>...


>
> Min: "Nonsense! According to my qualificumespyspms these skulls were
> dropped by the Germans in 1943"
> Ned: "Unexploded German skulls! I hadn't thought of that!"
> Gritpype: "Elephant soup with squashed spuds"
> Ned: "I hadn't thought if THAT either"
> Gritpype: "Sabrina in the bath"
> Ned: "I do have SOME spare time!"
>

Whatever happened to Sabrina? As a callow and impressionable youth i
remember being impressed with her talents. About 38 inches as I recall


Thynne

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Dec 8, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/8/97
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One of my favorite lines...(I think it's from "Burning Embassy" of "Ill Met By
Goonlight".)

Bluebottle: Eccles, are all your family brainy?
Eccles: My father was clever.
Bluebottle: What did he do, then?
Eccles: Nothing. He was REALLY clever.

"Thynne"

Thynne

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This line comes up again and again....

Bloodnok: Has her husband gone, then?
Seagoon: Bloodnok, this is not the time to think of women!
Bloodnok: Isn't it? Well, let me know when it is, I'll be there.

And in a similar vein:
Seagoon: Bloodnok this is a fine time to turn coward!
Bloodnok: I know that's why I chose it.

And in a more similar knee:
Seagoon: Plan X, what's that?
Bloodnok: First train to Dublin, then submarine to South America.
Seagoon: You're not going to run away from the enemy?
Bloodnok: There's no point in running away from anyone else, is there?

And in a slightly dissiminar set of teeth:
Retired field marshals queueing for their pensions:
Spriggs: Stand aside, Jimmmmmmmmmm. I am field Marshal Spriggs
I tell you. I want to get to the front.
Peter: You never wanted to get there during the war, did you?
Spriggs: Are you calling me a coward? You're a liar, I'm a retired coward!

"Thynne"

Chris Clinton

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I think that the luvverley lass from Swindon has passed on - I read it
in an obituary somewhere.
Four pallbearers were used to carry her out two abreast.

Chris from Saska-chewing.

b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk

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Dec 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/9/97
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WHAT Jack Robinson? Never heard of HIM in a Goon Show before. "Yes, well
we can't all be Melvyn Braggs." (Moriarty.)(Anachronism.)

(Question: Does Melvyn Bragg understand Goon Shows? Watch this space.)

"Right, lads, - round the back for BRANDEEEE!" (Bloodnok, passim.)

"Pass him what?" - Eccles.

"Nurse, he's out of bed again" - Tim Brooke-Taylor, MD (who he? -
Spike.)

SHUT UP ECCLES!

exit thro' little hole in middle of record. Like Oasis only musical.


Bill, aka mae...@cix.co.uk. Tel/fax/msg [44 or 0] 131 336 4502
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b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk

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WHAT weekend called Fred? I've got a weak end but it's not called that.

You can send commercial emailers a bill for downloading and archiving.
Apparently $500 is more or less usual. Anyone tried it with junk
telephoners?

Nothing to do with Goons. Wash my mouth out.

Keith Crossley

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From a long forgotten episode.. something like "well take this needle and
put it on the record and run around and around in circles"
Or was this just a setup for that line?

--
Keith Crossley; Webster, NY

mousetrap wrote in message <7pE8JnBr...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk>...

mousetrap

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In article <66idm4$13ig$1...@node17.cwnet.frontiernet.net>, Keith Crossley
<kcro...@frontiernet.net> rambled:

>From a long forgotten episode.. something like "well take this needle and
>put it on the record and run around and around in circles"
>Or was this just a setup for that line?

It wasn't but thanks for the chuckle.....
:-)
--
mousetrap

Simon Slavin

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In article <l5GCYEAC...@epicure.demon.co.uk>,
Chris Hughes <chris....@epicure.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <ULwXBmE3...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk>, mousetrap
> <mous...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk> writes
>
> >In article <3483F220...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis>, Lesley
> >Robertson <l.a.ro...@stm.tudelft.nl.removethis> rambled:
> >

> >>Haven't you noticed the female members of this group - or is it that if
> >>we're in the group, we ain't ladies????
> >

> >There are a few of us about (both females and ladies....)
>
> Whatever happened to "women"?

Bloodnok: Nothing to do with me, I tell you ! I was nowhere near
there at the time.

David Jones

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Nice

r.axten <rax...@ican.net> wrote in article
<01bd0034$3e6137e0$08b39a8e@robin>...


> Would that be before or after the "Running, Jumping and Standing Still
> Films"?
> Alwso I dimly remember the words "Its the Cathode Ray tube Show folks!"
> What would that have been from?
>
> Robin Axten
> "Have a Gorrilla!"
>

> > By the way, little Jim, does anyone remember the 'Telegoons' which were
> > shown on the haunted fish tank in the sixties? I think they were
> > broadcast on a Saturday around about five on the sinful BBC. My old
dad
> > says that might be right, but he's never been the same since he came
> > down with the Poona Krut.
> >
> >

Julian S Visch

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In article <66i3qe$m58$2...@cn1.hw.ac.uk>, b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk writes:
|> WHAT Jack Robinson? Never heard of HIM in a Goon Show before. "Yes, well
|> we can't all be Melvyn Braggs." (Moriarty.)(Anachronism.)

Never heard of Jack Robinson on goon shows? You haven't lived!!

There are three time it occurs

Needy: Don't worry bloodnok, I will have you free before you can say
Jack Robinson
Bloodnok: <quickly> Jack Robinson, <quietly> you liar!


I can't remember the wording for the other 2 but they were great!

Julian S Visch

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In article <Eg7j7ECQ...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk>, mousetrap <mous...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk> writes:
|> mousetrap

Not Kevin Mousetrap?

Trevor Stephens

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In article <01bd037b$a903c820$15b39a8e@robin>, "r.axten"
<rax...@ican.net> writes

>
>
>Witchfinder <adr...@vorbis.arse.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
><348ad497...@news.demon.co.uk>...
>>
>> Min: "Nonsense! According to my qualificumespyspms these skulls were
>> dropped by the Germans in 1943"
>> Ned: "Unexploded German skulls! I hadn't thought of that!"
>> Gritpype: "Elephant soup with squashed spuds"
>> Ned: "I hadn't thought if THAT either"
>> Gritpype: "Sabrina in the bath"
>> Ned: "I do have SOME spare time!"
>>
>Whatever happened to Sabrina? As a callow and impressionable youth i
>remember being impressed with her talents. About 38 inches as I recall
>
42+1/2 - 19 - 36 according to

www.goon.org/usgoons/sabrina/sabrina.htm

I don't beleeeve it!
--
Trevor Stephens

b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk

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On 1997-12-10 math...@math.canterbury.ac.nz(JulianSVisch) said:
ma>Newsgroups: alt.fan.goons
ma>In article <66i3qe$m58$2...@cn1.hw.ac.uk>, b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk writes:
ma>|> WHAT Jack Robinson? Never heard of HIM in a Goon Show before.
ma>"Yes, well |> we can't all be Melvyn Braggs." (Moriarty.
ma>)(Anachronism.) Never heard of Jack Robinson on goon shows? You
ma>haven't lived!! There are three time it occurs
ma>Needy: Don't worry bloodnok, I will have you free before you can say
ma>Jack Robinson
ma>Bloodnok: <quickly> Jack Robinson, <quietly> you liar!
ma>I can't remember the wording for the other 2 but they were great!

He's right!
Bill


Bill, aka mae...@cix.co.uk. Tel/fax/msg [44 or 0] 131 336 4502
GM8APX, qthr=No 6, EH4 6JY==Cave felem==No Rectangulars=Ikke Hawkering

Quem deus vult perdere prius dementat

Russell Street

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Thynne <thy...@aol.com> wrote:

> And in a similar vein:
> Seagoon: Bloodnok this is a fine time to turn coward!
> Bloodnok: I know that's why I chose it.

Seagoon: Bloodnok, you are acting like a coward
Bloodnok: I'm not acting...

Russell
(from the knees of the same name)

r.axten

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Ah me! I always break out when handling such large figures! And can you
imagine in metric! The bind moggles!!

Trevor Stephens <tre...@crook-hall.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<YMyqDGAi...@crook-hall.demon.co.uk>...

Paul Winalski

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Julian S Visch wrote:
>
> Not Kevin Mousetrap?

No, his cousin, Angus Prune.

--PSW

Paul Winalski

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On 1997-12-10 math...@math.canterbury.ac.nz(JulianSVisch) said:
>
>There are three time it occurs

Indeed there are!!

In "The Case of the Missing CD Plates", number 5
of the 6th series:

Henry Crun: (to Neddie) Don't you worry, young man. We
shall have that heavy piano off you before you
can say "Jack Robinson." But don't say it for the
next seven hours.


In "The Mummified Priest", number 1 of the Vintage
Goons series:

Seagoon: Stay where you are, Major. I'll... ha ha...
I'll have you out before you can say "Jack
Robinson."

Bloodnok: (immediately) Jack Robinson. (pause) You liar!


In "The Kippered Herring Gang", number 5 of the Vintage
Goons series:

Seagoon: Bloodnok, how long to drive down to Brighton?

Bloodnok: I can drive you there before you can say "Jack
Robinson" in Chinese.

Seagoon: I can't say it in Chinese.

Bloodnok: Curse! Then we're going to be held up.

Seagoon: Bloodnok, I'll learn to say it in Chinese.
Just... just... just give me time.

Bloodnok: All right, six month's hard labour. Take him
away, will you?

FX: DOOR CLOSES

Greenslade: Six months later....

FX: DOOR OPENS

Seagoon: (in fake Chinese) Yung-ting-mateevan-hobbinton!

Bloodnok: What's that?

Seagoon: (normal) "Jack Robinson" in Chinese.

Bloodnok: Splendid! While you were saying that, I drove
you to Brighton.


--PSW

mousetrap

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In article <66kt4b$hup$2...@cantuc.canterbury.ac.nz>, Julian S Visch
<math...@math.canterbury.ac.nz> rambled:
>In article <Eg7j7ECQ...@cheeseshop.demon.co.uk>, mousetrap <mousetrap@chees

>eshop.demon.co.uk> writes:
>|> mousetrap
>
>Not Kevin Mousetrap?

err, no, not last time I looked.....
--
mousetrap, with an absence of kevins

Witchfinder

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While you were off-line, thy...@aol.com (Thynne) snuck in the back

door and left THIS on the mantelpiece:

>And in a more similar knee:


>Seagoon: Plan X, what's that?
>Bloodnok: First train to Dublin, then submarine to South America.
>Seagoon: You're not going to run away from the enemy?
>Bloodnok: There's no point in running away from anyone else, is there?
>

Isn't this the same one where we hear via the gift of ears

Ned: "Eccles! How's yer german?"
Eccles: "He's fine, how's yours?"

and

Ned: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you"
Gritpype: "You've proved them wrong, haven't you Ned"

Witchfinder

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While you were off-line, Chris Clinton
<ccli...@carlton.paschools.pa.sk.ca> snuck in the back door and left
THIS on the mantelpiece:

>Four pallbearers were used to carry her out two abreast.
>

ROFL

Witchfinder

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While you were off-line, "r.axten" <rax...@ican.net> snuck in the back

door and left THIS on the mantelpiece:

>Ah me! I always break out when handling such large figures! And can you


>imagine in metric! The bind moggles!!
>

My boggles don't mind at all.

IGMC.

Jeff York

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adr...@vorbis.arse.demon.co.uk (Witchfinder) wrote:


>Ned: "Eccles! How's yer german?"
>Eccles: "He's fine, how's yours?"

Narrator.. "The prison camp was full of British officers who'd sworn
to die rather then be captured"..

--
Jeff.
je...@jakfield.xu-netx.com (remove the x..x round u-net for return address)

... No problem is ever too big to run away from...

Julian S Visch

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In article <66lkjm$l5o$1...@scream.auckland.ac.nz>, Russell Street <russ...@mailhost.auckland.ac.nz> writes:
|> Thynne <thy...@aol.com> wrote:
|>
|> > And in a similar vein:
|> > Seagoon: Bloodnok this is a fine time to turn coward!
|> > Bloodnok: I know that's why I chose it.
|>
|> Seagoon: Bloodnok, you are acting like a coward
|> Bloodnok: I'm not acting...

Bloodnok: He can't call me a coward and get away with it
Red Baron: Bloodnok! You Coward!
Bloodnok: He got away with it!

Rick Lugg

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fx: smack
Eccles: owwwwwwww
Bluebottle (challenging tone): You hit my friend Eccles again and see what
happens
fx: smack
Eccles: owwwwwwww
Bluebottle: see, that's what happens
--
Rick Lugg Voice: +27 82 578 6706
Telkom, South Africa Fax: +27 12 326 2423
email rick...@intekom.co.za Time: GMT+2

Julian S Visch <math...@math.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in article
<66q2mv$pqo$1...@cantuc.canterbury.ac.nz>...

David Samuel Barr

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Rick Lugg wrote:
>
> fx: smack
> Eccles: owwwwwwww
> Bluebottle (challenging tone): You hit my friend Eccles again and
> see what happens
> fx: smack
> Eccles: owwwwwwww
> Bluebottle: see, that's what happens


Um.......isn't it the other way around????, i.e.:

fx: smack
Bluebottle: owwwwwwww
Eccles (challenging tone): You hit my friend Bottle again and


see what happens
fx: smack

Bluebottle: owwwwwwww
Eccles: see, that's what happens

Paul Winalski

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Julian S Visch <math...@math.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in article
<66q2mv$pqo$1...@cantuc.canterbury.ac.nz>...

> Bloodnok: He can't call me a coward and get away with it


> Red Baron: Bloodnok! You Coward!
> Bloodnok: He got away with it!

That's Red BLADDER, not Red Baron.

--PSW

Rick Lugg

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Hmmm, maybe it is backwards

spooo

must have been the keyboard


--
Rick Lugg Voice: +27 82 578 6706
Telkom, South Africa Fax: +27 12 326 2423
email rick...@intekom.co.za Time: GMT+2

David Samuel Barr <dsb...@mindspring.com> wrote in article
<349127...@mindspring.com>...

Russell Street

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Julian S Visch <math...@math.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> There are three time it occurs

> Needy: Don't worry bloodnok, I will have you free before you can say
> Jack Robinson


> Bloodnok: <quickly> Jack Robinson, <quietly> you liar!

Crun, to Seagoon: Don't worry, we will get you out from under that
heavy piano before you can say Jack Robinson. Just don't say it for
another three hours...

or something like, from 'The Case of the Missing CD Plates'

Russell
(from the body of the same name)


b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk

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On 1997-12-13 russ...@mailhost.auckland.ac.nz said:
ru>Newsgroups: alt.fan.goons
ru>Julian S Visch <math...@math.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
ru>> There are three time it occurs
ru>> Needy: Don't worry bloodnok, I will have you free before you can
ru>>say Jack Robinson
ru>> Bloodnok: <quickly> Jack Robinson, <quietly> you liar!
ru>Crun, to Seagoon: Don't worry, we will get you out from under that
ru>heavy piano before you can say Jack Robinson. Just don't say it for
ru>another three hours...
ru>or something like, from 'The Case of the Missing CD Plates'
ru>Russell
ru>(from the body of the same name)

Seagoon specialised in being run over by Minnie and Henry. After the
wick in their engine had gone out, the unconscious Seagoon (who could
not hear) was asked whether he needed succour.

"Just what I need! A glass of succour!"

Silent enim leges sunt inter arma

Mike Brown

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Bloodnok: "Gad, it's hot in here. Turn one of those women off and put
some more ice on the fire."

--
Mike Brown
Luton, Bedfordshire, UK
http://www.radiolink.net/mb


Katharine Buchanan

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Greetings all,
I recently heard my first goon show and am now utterly hooked. Can anyone
recommend a place to purchase more? I am in California so mail order or
local venders would be best.

Thanks very much, excessively if possible,
Kate

Lachy Darby

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Captains Log StarDate Sun, 14 Dec 1997 13:33:15 -0800 "Katharine
Please send Large amount of splonge to the following address
...............


No Carrie>>>>>

Thanks

Lachy Darby
ga...@voyager.co.nz

If you think god cares about money,
Just look at the people he gives it to.

crun

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there are several purveyors of things goon on the wirlwudweeb:

try http://www.orma.co.uk/intabs4.htm (recommended)

or http://www.musicshop.co.uk/default.htm

not a chance of finding a local purveyor in sinful californ...


poor poor jim tigernutts!

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