Not so crabbit now! [2]

In some ways!

Updated for the 21st century:

Ooh, it says its not available in my country ! Bloody Spoil sports !

Awh ! thankyou Halfy

Reminded me of all the nicknames back in the day (I think the meme started with Bandersnatch Cummerbund).

Nice to see an American version My son still hasn't got the hang of English "wordism" yet The odd thing I say on a daily basis, that is recognisable by anyone else, is still a mystery to him

{{ Grab your cordwangle and enjoy! }}

halfwise wrote:Cheered me right up.

http://www.kiwireport.com/times-husbands-and-wives-aired-out-their-dirty-laundry-in-funny-posts/

Loved the one about the kit-kats

Pettytyrant101 wrote:{{ Grab your cordwangle and enjoy! }}

Oh I did love him & I just love this daft, crazy load of jibberish !

{{There is something in particular about the generation of writers, performers and comedians between the 1950's and the 80's I love. There is a pure joy in the English language, its ridiculousness, its fun, the sounds themselves and the ways you can mess with meanings.
Stuff like Ronnie Barkers Mispronunciation of words sketch-



Or even the playfulness and the satirising of the use of language in Yes, Minister-




Someone like Kenneth Williams I could just listen rattle on to for ages, he enthuses such a joy in the words themselves and conventions that surround them and subverting them. And like many of that generation of entertainers he pulled himself form a harsh working class background so intellectualism for him was a playground to discover. I often find with that generation there is a fascination with their craft itself too, with understanding it which always yields interesting insights.








And of course he was always unique and daring. Heres Julian and Sandy from the BBC Radio comedy sketch show Round the Horne. Th epremis eof the show is that Horne is the name of the shows host/presenter/narrator around which varies characters swirl, with favourite recurring ones every episode.
Julian and Sandy being among the most popular. They were a comedy gay couple in a mass audience radio show, that brilliantly and subversively was broadcast at lunchtime on a Sunday at a time in the UK when being openly homosexual was punishable with imprisonment. Also of note is that in keeping with the fun with words motif much of the phrases they used were a slang of the time common in the gay community as a means for gay men to recognise and converse with each other in public places without giving away their sexual orientation. One of the genius things about Julian and Sandy is that boith got away with a hell of a lot because the BBC execs didn't know what they were saying, and secondly as nothing could be said openly, either for broadcasting law reasons and because you couldn't in real life either they get away with so much more by suggestion and innuendo.
The premise with the Julian and Sandy sketches is that every week they have some new scheme or business they are running or involved in which Mr Horne will wander into.


and can't help but end on a song, another of Williams ballads in the guise of traditional English country-song bard, Rambling Syd Rump, The Ballad of the Woggler's Moulie- }}

I remember all those Petty & bloody love it ! I thought "Round The Horne" was ahead of its time, the stuff they got away with & the things they said ! Ive got the episodes on discs somewhere & it always makes me laugh

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{{On the hydro thing its another reason England are so deserate not to give us independence, we provide 85% of the UK total hydro power. }}