How could I ever forget Dame Celia? Or Rambling Syd Rumpo, or Bill Pertwee's Eamonn Andrews skit, or, most of all, the bona, nay, the fantabulosa, Julian and Sandy? Young and furrin readers won't know what they missed. Makes you fair wring your lallies with despair, it does.

I vaguely recall that chicken sketch ... I used to like Rab C ... it was then I first became grateful for subtitles.



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*giggle*

Rab C doesn't need subtitles. Pah. It's the common language of Glasgow drunks. I understand it well. Er...



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My dad used to put the subtitles on to watch Para Handy. I saw one or two episodes at my parents' house and loved it.

Magistrate: What did your captain say to the captain of the other boat?

Crewman: Och, I'm no' sure.

Magistrate: Well, was it anything derogatory?

(Pause)

Crewman (doubtfully): Is that a swearie word?

Magistrate: No!

Crewman: It wasnae that, then.

I thought it was priceless humour. Did anyone else see it?



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Sarah

Och, Para Handy wass aal richt on the television, but for the rale thing you must chust puy the pook, d'ye ken. If Dougie wass here he would tell you. Chust sublime!



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Jon - I'd love to know how you wring your lallies. Lallies = legs! Oh, I'm so Bold!

'Gallus' - that's one of my favourite Scots words.

Dante: could you post the Ten Commandments in Glasweigan for me, pretty please. I read them in the People's Palace and loved them. If they'd been available on a postcard, I'd have bought them.

Oh, yes! I'd love to see that!

Flanders and Swann! Gotta love 'em.

I was singing 'The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics' in my physics class last week, and strangely enough my class thought that I'd flipped... I tried to explain to them that it was not the product of my deranged mind but in fact a song of great cominc genius and they just gave me queer looks and shuffled sideways from em on their stools.

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Heh. Lucky I'm still living at my parents - I wouldn't have had a clue, but my mum has "A Glasgow Bible" - not sure if these'll be the same ones you saw, Skiffle, but they're quite good! I'll give you the bit before too:

At this time God had some wise words tae gie tae his servant, Moses. A big cloud suddenly covered the tap o the mountain. Lightnin flashed... thunder rumbled... the hale mountain seemed tae shake like mad. Nae wunner the bairns o Israel wir feart.

When Moses heard a trumpet blast, he got the divine drift! He stertid climbin. Reachin the tap o Sinai, he listened tae his Heavenly Faither.

"Hear this, ma son," says the Lord.
Moses wis ready tae hear.
"I hiv brought ye oot o Egypt in safety. I want ye noo - you an aw yer people - tae staun by these rules:

One ... Serve me an me alane.
Two ... Take nae heed o ither idols.
Three ... Honour ma name - aye - respect the name o the Lord, yer God.
Four ... Nae workin oan the Sabbath.
Five ... Love yer faither an mither.
Six ... Nae murderin.
Seven ... Nae theivin.
Eight ... Nae lyin.
Nine ... Stick fast tae yer ain partner.
Ten ... Nae greedy habits.

Moses came doon fae the mountain an telt the folk aboot God's rules.
"Listen tae me," says Moses. "Ye've heard God's Laws. Pit up yer hauns if ye promise tae agree tae aw the rules."


Heh. I quite like that, though it does miss the best bit of the normal ones, about coveting thy neighbour's ass...



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Next time give em the Hippopotamus Song, and make them join in the chorus. My favourite is Madeira (all unperforated ...)



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You know, I don't think that they'd know that either...

A terribley uncultured lot are my physics group... Well, for the most part.



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Oh it's so nice to hear that other people here seem to love the same things as I do (again!) -- I've been a big fan of Flanders and Swann since I first heard "I'm a gnu" at the age of 11.

Like Sarah, I was always randomly coming out with F&S references at school, and everyone thought I was just being strange. And Thermodynamics is one of my favourites ("Hey, that's entropy, man.")

For anyone who doesn't know their stuff (actiually, nearly everyone does, you just don't realise it -- they wrote the Hippopotamus song, as Jon mentioned) Michael Flanders described their work like this:

"The purpose of satire, it has been rightly said, is to strip away the veneer of comfortable illusion and cozy half-truth. And our job, as I see it, is to put it back again."

I'd be hard put to recommend any particular song or monologue as their best, but "A Song of Patriotic Prejudice" always makes me cry with laughter. You can find the lyrics here, among other places:

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Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

"...and they practise beforehand, which ruins the fun!"



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I've never encountered Flanders and Swann. Hmph.

However, a Best Of CD featuring most of the aforementioned songs is available, so I may buy it, trusting you lot as I do.

Not till I get paid, though.



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Oh, how I love Flanders and Swann! I sing the Hippopotamus Song with great glee whenever I get the chance. They are also (in "The Whale") responsible for one of the most imaginative rhymes outside the works of Ogden Nash:

"If ever I catch that school of porpoises,
They won't get no habeas corpuses..."

Gotta love 'em!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

If you like their songs then you'll probably like Michael Flanders' "Built-up Area" monologue (about Stonehenge, and [suitably for Nextians...] carving White Horses on the hills, and such), which I've already quoted from briefly in another thread...

"Who are you calling 'Neolithic'?"

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This was willed where what is willed... can get rather silly.

I concur with Sarah B, "...and they practise beforehand, which ruins the fun!"
Best line of theirs.

I also like the horn concerto. Rhyming 'horn' with 'gone' - inspired.

Dante: If you're staying at mine when you come to Jasper's Leeds do, then I've got a copy so you can get a taster.

Rob - excellent! I'll look forward to it!



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We've got 'At the Drop of a Hat' and 'At the Drop of Another Hat' on tape at home. Listened to whenever we get the chance.

I also like the one about horoscopes... cracked me up the first time we heard it, the way it just sort of... stops....



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*sigh* Something else that's obviously just a Pommie thing so we Aussies can look on and wonder.