Like A Frog Up A Pump
Sounds like one of Les Dawsons,
Replied: 5th Jun 2011 at 17:20
Indeed it was. 
Or rather a Farmer from Tadcaster, according to Les on an early 70's Parkinson interview. (As just seen earlier on telly) 
The reason I asked was that I recalled another Northern funnyman using the line in a TV series. 
Replied: 5th Jun 2011 at 17:24
Last edited by dustaf: 5th Jun 2011 at 17:24:50
Wait 'til Gwim puts two and two together. He will berate me for my previous post.
Replied: 5th Jun 2011 at 17:27
He will be along shortly no doubt Be prepared
Replied: 5th Jun 2011 at 17:32
It was series two, episode one.
In Blackpool.
Replied: 5th Jun 2011 at 17:34
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'Who said that?'
It wasn't a frog.
Replied: 5th Jun 2011 at 17:40
Ooops. Apologies to the anuraphiles out there. 
Replied: 5th Jun 2011 at 17:42
'Who said that?'
A frog might croak it.
Replied: 5th Jun 2011 at 17:50
Just been trying to find who it was that found dead eels in a pump. (Or were they snigs? )
Anyroad, whoever it was, proved that the water supply was linked to a dirty pond and responsible for illness.
It wasn't John Snow. He found that another pump in London was responsible for a cholera outbreak. (Or rather the local water supply)
He removed the handle as an experiment and folk were unable to use it.
Featured on an Adam Hart-Davis show. There's a pub named after Mr Snow and the handle-less pump is still there.
Replied: 5th Jun 2011 at 18:02
Consider me to be suitably outraged.
*Shakes fist above head*
Replied: 5th Jun 2011 at 20:06
Last edited by the_gwim_weaper: 5th Jun 2011 at 20:06:45
See 11:30
I should have said the phrase was repeated in an exchange between a Northern funnyman and another mon.
There is an out-take video on youtube, but there are a lot of naughty words uttered by both Mr Bowen and the 'other mon'.
Replied: 6th Jun 2011 at 13:27
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