An Unexpected Journey as seen by Petty Tyrant

Yes, very Goon Show ish that line.   And that's some of the highest praise you'll hear from me.  

Do you go in for that sort of thing Petty?

coming out each morning in my edition of the PJ News- Orwell


Not sure what sort of mood that must send you off to work in!

"very Goon Show ish that line"- Blue

Yeah I am a fan of the Goon show, also a big fan of Round the Horne.

Always thought this Kenneth Williams song was very much in the humour of Forumshire - a joy of words, a lot of silliness, and more than a hint of naughtiness without ever being simply crude-



And the amazing they got away with it at the time (given you could get arrested still for homosexuality at the time)- Julian and Sandy from Round the Horne-



I think if Williams were still alive today, he'd write for the Archet Bugle.

Oh fa la la
Thick cinnamon sticks
in big cream buns
that came from France
overlund,
and apple strudel
with candy canes
stuck in the middle
when Joy Smith came
around to see us, Randy!

Oh tra la la
Oh cabbages
with jelly rolls
and sweetie melons
sucked quite whole
and chocolate starfish
in white sauce
with Fanny there
and of course
good old fashioned, Randy!

Oh farty ferry fa
lovely double buns
in juicy juice
and double breasted squab
in white runny mousse,
and carrot, parsnips
and asparagus,
and pretzels up
the blunderbus,
When Joy Smith comes
with Fanny, Dick and Randy.

"What's for dinner, Randy?" by Kenneth Williams - the Lost Recordings.

Channelled by
Wisey Banks

I'm aware of Kenneth Williams through Just a minute and a bit through Hancock. And of course his wonderfull Parkinson interviews.

Not heard the things you posted, though I have heard of them. Will see if I can get around to having a listen.  

Great stuff so far (particularly liked the account of Thranduil on his giant moose ), but I'm a little stuck on this bit:

“An adventure!” Bilbo said, realising this must be his new cue to get flustered and run indoors, “we don't want any adventures here today thank you. Good morning!” he turned to go in but  paused and said, “Hey you were right, the whole good morning thing in this is totally pointless,”

How is it made pointless? Don't get me wrong, I think the movie botched this scene as it did pretty much everything else, I'm just a bit unclear on this point.

In the book the whole good morning thing is a joke playing on english manners.
At the end of it there is a punch line- where Gandalf acusses a flustered Bilbo of using 'good moring' to mean get lost.
Bilbo reacts like any good Brit would when he has politely insinuated you should leave and you rudely and blatantly point this out- he gets doubly flustered and embarrassed and in a desperate attempt to cover his embarrassment he invites Gandalf round to tea.

In the film PJ sets up the good morning conversation- but he leaves the point of it off- the entire ending where Gandalf calls Bilbo out and where Bilbo invites him to tea. Film Bilbo never does invite Gandalf to tea.

Ah, okay, gotcha. Thanks!

And, yeah, PJ really scraped the nuance out of this scene. But what else is new?

Bluebottle wrote:We wear it like a badge of honor.   

no. NO! I wear it like a badge of honour! *fucking newbie* 

I learn from the best.  

Well, that certainly shut me up for a minute.  

I thought someone would be proud.

Now why when I dig myself into holes do I keep digging deeper to try to get out?

{{{æ håpe du fatte at æ kødde me dæ }}}

i am the norcing queen!!

Oh, I always take that into consideration.  Well, at least after the first 10 times.  

Strangely in talking about norcing we seem to have combined to norc Pettys thread again.  

Well at least it'll give him a push towards the most crabbit award.  

he'll win that either way well.. maybe sinister will take it this year

Well, there has been some explosions of late.   So he was saying somewhere he felt a bit threatened.

Like here:

http://www.hobbitmovieforum.com/t384p705-favourite-computer-games-of-all-time

oh. wow. impressed go lance (i like how u keep referring me to different threads )

Norc wrote:no. NO! I wear it like a badge of honour! *fucking newbie* 

...says Forumshire's fourth Fjordian member.

Norc wrote:oh. wow. impressed :Dgo lance (i like how u keep referring me to different threads )

Yeah, it almost turned into a bit of a trip didn't it.  

Eldorion wrote:

Norc wrote:no. NO! I wear it like a badge of honour! *fucking newbie*

...says Forumshire's fourth Fjordian member.

I think norc has made it clear she was only pulling my leg.  

Eldorion wrote:

Norc wrote:no. NO! I wear it like a badge of honour! *fucking newbie* 

...says Forumshire's fourth Fjordian member.

third.

Bluebottle wrote:

Norc wrote:oh. wow. impressed :Dgo lance (i like how u keep referring me to different threads )

Yeah, it's almost turning into a bit of a trip isn't it.  

and what a trip..

All the way from "Off Topic" to the "Creative Corner."  

We could always move the conversation to the computer thread, I guess. If you want to take in any more sights.  

ooh, what happened over there?

Lances explosion.  


http://www.hobbitmovieforum.com/t384p705-favourite-computer-games-of-all-time

Bluebottle wrote:I think norc has made it clear she was only pulling my leg.  

I thought it was clear that I just give Norc shit sometimes. She knows how to respond when it annoys her; look at my title.