The Essex girl joke
Phillip Herring
Why does an Essex girl have "C" and "A" on her knickers?
...so she doesn't put them on backwards.
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These opinions (c) 1992 Phil Herring (p...@cs.uow.edu.au)
Price@itd0.dsto.gov.au Ian Price
p...@cs.uow.edu.au writes:
>Why does an Essex girl have "C" and "A" on her knickers?
>...so she doesn't put them on backwards.
I also heard this on Drop the Dead Monkey& on SBS Tuesday ( I think)
Great show if you missed it have a look next week.
I might be a bit ignorant but the story behind this one eludes me. Can
anyone enlighten me to the background?
Thanks in advance.
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Ian Staples
As part of the preliminaries they were interviewed by the priest who was to
do the job. After the usual formal discussion they all grew more relaxed
and chatty. The priest remarked that there were many good-looking young
women in the district now. The soon-to-be-a-bride replied that she was
suprised that a celibate man of the cloth should notice such things. The
good father replied in turn: "Just because I'm on a diet doesn't mean that
I can't read the menu!"
The above tale drew a response from a woman reader a few days later:
"If he's only on a diet, what does he do for nibbles?"
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Tim Roberts
>In article <1993Jan13....@cs.uow.edu.au> Phillip Herring,
>p...@cs.uow.edu.au writes:
>>Why does an Essex girl have "C" and "A" on her knickers?
>>...so she doesn't put them on backwards.
>I might be a bit ignorant but the story behind this one eludes me. Can
>anyone enlighten me to the background?
"C & A" is a well-known department store in England that makes their own
lingerie etc.
Tim
ewa...@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au
Thanks Tim,
But I think the question really was, What's an Essex girl?
C&A is roughly equivalent to Target. Loved the sycophantic interview.
But, how does DtDD refer to events inthe last 14 days? The epsiode was
shown in the UK on Jan 7.
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Robert Lipping
> In article <1993Jan13....@cs.uow.edu.au> Phillip Herring,
> p...@cs.uow.edu.au writes:
>>Why does an Essex girl have "C" and "A" on her knickers?
>>...so she doesn't put them on backwards.
>
> anyone enlighten me to the background?
I'm not absolutely certain but I think there's a chain of stores in the UK
called "C and A" or something. And they sell lingerie.
As for why pick on Essex girls... dunno. Sounds like a variation on
the interminable blonde jokes.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Robert
Fred Curtis
>But, how does DtDD refer to events inthe last 14 days? The epsiode was
>shown in the UK on Jan 7.
They film bits of it (I suspect all of it, unless they have God doing
the continuity) a few days before it goes on air. Only a very small
part of the script refers to recent events - the bulk has been written
before the season starts.
Fred, whose news and mail delivery are currently up the creek :-(.
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Fred Curtis
>But, how does DtDD refer to events inthe last 14 days? The epsiode was
>shown in the UK on Jan 7.
Yet more detailed info:
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From rec.arts.tv.uk Tue Jan 19 01:40:28 1993
From: no...@lonemb.demon.co.uk (Noel Bradford)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Drop the Dead Donkey - Jan 7, 1993
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 11:58:56 +0000
Organization: The Embassy BBS +44-(0)992-448903
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>> How DO they produce the show so quickly?
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AG> There was an article about DtDD in the West Australian last week referring
AG> to its cult status. They mentioned that the topical jokes and voiceovers
AG> are written right up to the time of filming. I guess they have a general
AG> plot then just slot a few extra bits in. Let's hope a commerical channel
According to an article in the evening standard that herald the start of
the last season the writers have a basic plot drawn out however they
start working on the actual script on the sunday before the show and
the voice overs are writen & recorded no more that 6 hours before
screening.
Noel