Not A Handbag.

But a purse.

HERE

Back from the flicks

Mester; what was the name of the private company in Common As Muck?

Was it Prospre or something similar? Possibly Belgian.

Resisting trawling through clips, but it's been bugging me.

It was something like that, Douglas Henshall off that primeval show was the head of the new company.

Brian Forget!

Excellent...

Reminded me of the time the Lady walking ahead of me sped up so I did too, she began running so I ran too, she screamed so I screamed as well. I never even saw what we were running from.

Is a large purse a Handbag?

Lovely find, mester. (Propre)

I wasn't far off. (But not near enough)

Really got absorbed in the HB clips. Love the 'Pychiatrist' episode.

Oh; apologies for the tandem. I wouldn't usually cause such a distraction. Am a good lad I am.

I don't think I have ever seen or heard of a funnier woman than Hilda. A great clip of her clog dancing is on there too.

Yes, I saw that.

Do you know, I found myself wondering if they were using another person for the close-ups of the dancing clogs.

I wondered to myself if modern talentless acts had caused me to be so cynical.

Variety background, mester, she would have had to know a bit of everything. But I know what you mean, and that's sad.

True. I knew straight away it wouldn't be a double. Sad that the thought occurred.

Similarly, M&W were experienced hoofers.

Not a handbag. But a purse.



A purse is a handbag in America, not Wigan.

Gerrim telt.

Mester:

Hancock 'The Tycoon'


RIVAL GREEK TYCOON:In my country we have a saying: "He who hunts the tiger must expect to be eaten."

HANCOCK:In our country we also have a saying: "He who annoys the elephant must expect a tusk up the bracket!"

Do you know I spotted that when I was looking up the "Bracket" question, mester. By then though the moment had past so I didn't bother.

Oooohhhh, get her.

I actually heard it very recently, then googled.

A tusk up the throat? A tusk up the jaw?

Sounds like a lower target to me.

Alf Hall

Danny Ross doing the quickest fall and recovery known to man, pure magic and talent.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Is he quick or what!

Blink and miss it.

It's my favourite clip and Danny was also a favourite too, in those films and with Jimmy Clitheroe.

Sorry for the late replies in posts, av not geet time't fart these days.

Do it in a bottle, then you can appreciate it later.

There was something on telly the other week (possibly QI) about saving such gas being recommended as a way of warding off the plague, or something similar.

It was QI

Fry said Methane was not the gas that was ignited.

That is a better clip than where lee evans deflates, then pumps himself back up.

Les Dawson did a similar thing.

I haven't seen Les's version, sadly.

I have a vague recollection of Milligan doing something on those lines. Then again, I could be confusing him with Peter Sellars blowing up his parrot.

A punch up the bracket?
Where did that originate?
I thought it was The Army Game.
Which came first, Hancock or Army Game?

Hancock 1955

Army Game 1957

Hancock it is then.

I think Alfie Bass continued the saying in Bootsie & Snudge.

It must have been in regular parlance somewhere.

Had G&S 'invented' the term, I think we'd have heard more about it.

See 'scrote' and 'naff'. Both claimed to have been coined by Porridge writers Dick Clement and Ian LeFrenais.

I think you will find "Naff" coming from the polari, mester, used by some folk who's practice took up most of their time in the 1960's.

Unless Clement and LeFrenais are a couple of omi polones.

Of course.

I'm mistaking the fact that they claimed to have brought it into modern parlance.

On the thing I saw, Princess Anne was mentioned. She made the front pages for saying 'Naff Off' to someone.

Possibly the 'Britain's best Comedy' competition. Johnny Vaughan (ex lag) presented the case for 'Porridge'

I've often wondered about G&S

Hmmm, best to keep your hand in dearie!

Oooooh, get her.

Are G&S Gilbert & Sullivan?

Is that a euphamism, Jo Anne?

Galton and Simpson. They wrote for Hancock and created Steptoe and Son.

Sarn't Major Claude Snudge and Private Montague 'Excused Boots' Bisley.

Not a euphamism, Dostaf. (I wouldn't know a euphamism if I fell over it.)

G&S - Galton and Simpson

Gilbert & Sullivan Only goes to show, 'If you don't ask ... you don't guess!'

Interesting read

Ater Hancock, they decided not to use comedians and decided to rely on actors. they said that actors followed a script and let the writers sort out the funny stuff. Or words to that effect.

Harry H Corbett was had great potenital as an actor, but was sadly typecast as Harold Steptoe.

Indeed dostaf - HHC was a classically trained actor, he had very fine tastes, was a lover/collector of fine art, dressed very stylishly and hated the fact that he had become typecast.

His father also collected fine pieces of art too, mostly under his homberg and at funerals.

18:45

Homburg mester? Hombburg?

You're confuisng Albert with the lad from Cheam, he with the asrakhan collar.

Google tells me humburgs feature a 'gutter crown'.

He's wearing a bowler for the funeral, silly me.

G&S makes me think of Andréas Voutsinas, a Greek actor and theater director. Although, of course, In the English-speaking world, he was best known for his roles in three Mel Brooks films, The Producers (1968), The Twelve Chairs (1970) and History of the World, Part I (1980).

Oh! Cheating, but sticking to your word is it, Jo anne?

I was about to put a February explanation on the other thead, but don't need to now.

Poor Ken's Arm

Certifried

BINGO!

I knew I'd recently seen something with a play on the word 'certificate' recently.

Was scratching my head about it when I read Jarvs DVLA thread.

Looking back at those old clips fills me full of neuralgia.

Who needs Kreskin!

If they get on your nerves, don't watch 'em, Joseph.

Mentalist

By the way, mester, Ken Parry was another I met on a few occasions in the Belle Green Pub. He would come home to Ince to visit his family that still lived there. I had forgot all about Ken until that clip.

I was on about him recently, mester.

A thread turned into a 'Spring And Port Wine' quiz.

Infamy! Infamy!

Didn't he play the pawn shop chap or similar?

I remember there was always a bit of tension with Ken and his family after a few rounds of drinks, which he paid for everytime.

"If they get on your nerves, don't watch 'em, Joseph. "
Very good, Jo Anne.

Yes mester. He was the Pawnbroker who they took the dad's overcoat to.

Thanks, Joseph.

Dostaf's thread turned into a 'Spring And Port Wine' quiz.

That's right, mester, I remember now. Thanks for the link Jo Anne.

I just found it and was about to link the ruined thread, Jo Anne.

I'd forgot that it was one of mine.

They are easily forgot, mester!

Cheeky sod.

Joseph -

All done in the best possible taste!

Muck sticks, you know.

It's a good job 'he' doesn't know how to fling thwaaarts!

Aye, especially in our faces.

Is it best to be thick-skinned? A mudpack doesn't do this pachyderm any harm.

Expect daub

Who flung dung? 2:49

"Thw***rt away if it makes thee happy."

Why the asterisks?

Nowt wrong with the odd thwaaart, Jo Anne.

Number of a's used denotes strength of thwaaart.

2nd Nov 2008 at 21:00

Not again.

I was just about to paste this:


Posted by: jo anne (11450)

You two wigan world gentlemen are certainly getting all this Thwaaarting down to a fine aaart!
Replied: 1st Nov 2008 at 16:37

Then type

Mester; er's gone all posh on us.

From here

That XRH linked to a smutty clip.

That was in the day when I'd risk it - now I just asterisk it.

Mache's letter "a" is missing.

If he uses both hands he'll manage to find his 'a'.

If he uses both hands he can find it single-handedly?