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From: mossop@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Antony Mossop)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Gordon Bennett!
Date: 16 Dec 1992 23:19:38 GMT
Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
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In article <srgcraf.10.0@grace.cri.nz> srgcraf@grace.cri.nz (Ross A Fletcher) writes:
>In article <nrp.724083939@reading> nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Innocent hootenanny brides" Neilski) writes:
>>Subject: Re: Gordon Bennett!
>>From: nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Innocent hootenanny brides" Neilski)
>>Date: 11 Dec 92 14:25:39 GMT
>>swilder@infoserv.com writes:
>>
>>>Could someone explain what is meant by the exclamation in the
>>>subject (i.e., Gordon Bennett!). I notice that it's used 
>>>liberally by characters with working-class accents (Zoe Angel,
>>>Holly, the RD computer with an IQ of 6000, et al) and have 
>>>always wondered if there was a real Gordon Bennett.
>>
>>Yes, there was - he was the proprietor of some American newspaper late last
>>century, and he was the bloke that sent Stanley into deepest darkest Africa
>>to track down Livingstone.
>>
>>The world's first papparazzi?
>>
>>-- neilski
>This may be true but I believe that "Gordon Bennett" is actually a 
>euphemismic contraction of "God in Heaven" as an exclamation 
>although a working class Pommie could confirm this - if anyone 
>admits to being one.  It seems to be favoured by Londoners e.g. Arfur Daly 
>in "MInder"
>
>Ross


No, I believe it became an exclaimation because he was completely out of
his tree, at least in the view of the common folk back then.


Tony Mossop, geophysics, Stanford
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Yes Prime Minister
From: srgcraf@grace.cri.nz (Ross A Fletcher)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 23:24:27 GMT
 <92Dec16.172714.33530@acs.ucalgary.ca> <BzEtB8.Hvn@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Industrial Research Ltd

In article <BzEtB8.Hvn@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> mefoster@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Mary Ellen Foster) writes:
>Subject: Re: Yes Prime Minister
>From: mefoster@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Mary Ellen Foster)
>Date: 17 Dec 92 15:21:07 GMT
>In article <92Dec16.172714.33530@acs.ucalgary.ca> garbe@smith.phys.ucalgary.ca (Greg Garbe) writes:
>>                                      ^^^^^^^^
>>Actually, the Honorable John Hacker was the Minister of Addminatrative Affairs
>>as opposed to ordinary backbencher.
>>
>Make that James Hacker, I think (haven't read the books for a while - think
>I will again now since you have reminded me of them!)

For those unware of the connection between the two programmes, bungling 
James Hacker gets to be Prime Minister by default.  All the other members of 
Cabinet seem to disgraced themselves and the retiring PM  offers it to Jim 
because there is no alternative.  I understand that it was one 
of Maggie Thatcher's favourite programmes even though it 
epitomised Thatcherism.  Although a good deal of it appeared to 
be "over the top", you always had the uncomfortable feeling that much of 
it could be based closely on fact.  

"There are none so blind as those who will not see"

Ross
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From: Ted.Bebenek@launchpad.unc.edu (Ted Bebenek)
Subject: Yes Prime Minister
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:52:14 GMT

The other day, I saw three episodes of a series called 'Yes Prime
Minister'.  I was wondering how many episodes of this were made, and 
if there was a series before this with the same actors.  (I think I 
saw something like 'yes minister' mentioned in a post).  Any answers to
my questions would be helpful.

Thanx.

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From: steveo@mel.dbce.csiro.au (Stephen Oakes)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Humbug
Keywords: Black Adder Humbug
Date: 8 Dec 92 23:58:46 GMT
Organization: CSIRO, Div. Building Constr. and Eng'ing, Melb., Australia

In article <thomas.47@yap.las.uiuc.edu> thomas@yap.las.uiuc.edu (Susan Thomas) writes:
>I was watching a rerun of _Blackadder's Christmas Story_ and at the 
>beginning Blackadder came into his shop saying "Humbug."  He had a small 
>white paper bag and offered it to Baldrick, who took something out of it and 
>ate it.  So..what is a humbug?

Bah! Humbug!  Silly Yanks!  Might as well ask "What is a git?"!

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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: lester@s1.elec.uq.oz.au (Sean)
Subject: Re: Rowan Atkinson on Married With Children?
Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering,University of Queensland
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:53:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.153148.4980@burrhus.harvard.edu>, glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:
|> In article <1gh5hfINN78i@phakt.usc.edu> ecayce@phakt.usc.edu (Edgar Cayce) writes:
|> >
|> >I saw that one, it was a two part episode. Was pretty funny, indeed. 
|> >There was some kind of an ancient curse laid on the Bundys, in which 
|> >some town in England would be in eternal darkness until a male Bundy was 
|> >killed there.... Meanwhile a large tourist trade had sprung up over the past 
|> >couple hundred years, to see the ever-dark village. (Funny scene of the line
|> >at the town limit) The end gets kind of predictable though.
|> 
|> I've seen it too, and Rowan was NOT in it,  to my memory

  Yes, I agree - he wasn't in it.  It was Bill Oddie of The Goodies in this episode.

Sean.
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From: bdowning@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Downing)
Subject: Re: Phraseology....
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix & Think_Tank BBS
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:13:10 GMT

In article <Bz3Ax3.Hww@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Rob Vickery writes:
>
> msb0+@andrew.cmu.edu (Maulik Harish Shah) writes:
>>Hmmm. I know what Git means, but In a few britcoms I've seen the phrase "Sod Off"
>>(Like in Baldrick's First Name in Black Adder III) used a few times. I assume
>>its the equivalent of "fuck off?" (pardon my french.....)
>
>almost, I reckon 'sod off' is more amicable than 'fuck off', like you can tell
>someone to sod off without losing any (or many) teeth.
>

Unless they meant Baldrick's name to be "Sawed Off." With all the
double-entendres flying around on BA, I wouldn't be surprised...



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From: ajchoutm@cs.ruu.nl (Arjan Houtman)
Subject: Monty Python
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:56:32 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
Keywords: Life of Brian/Holy Grail

And now for something completely different...

Is there anybody out there who has the complete script of Monty Python's
"Life of Brian". 'Cause if there is, I'm very interrested in it and I'd really
like a copy. Please E-Mail it if you have it. 

Also, I have the complete script of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". So if
anybody is interrested in it, let me know.

Arjan Houtman
ajchoutm@cs.ruu.nl
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From: TREHARAJ@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Gordon Bennett!
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:32:04 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

>In article <nrp.724083939@reading> nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Innocent hootenanny brides" Neilski) writes:
>>Subject: Re: Gordon Bennett!
>>From: nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Innocent hootenanny brides" Neilski)
>>Date: 11 Dec 92 14:25:39 GMT
>>swilder@infoserv.com writes:
>>
>>>Could someone explain what is meant by the exclamation in the
>>>subject (i.e., Gordon Bennett!). I notice that it's used
>>>liberally by characters with working-class accents (Zoe Angel,
>>>Holly, the RD computer with an IQ of 6000, et al) and have
>>>always wondered if there was a real Gordon Bennett.
>>
>>Yes, there was - he was the proprietor of some American newspaper late last
>>century, and he was the bloke that sent Stanley into deepest darkest Africa
>>to track down Livingstone.
>>
>>The world's first papparazzi?
>>
>>-- neilski
>This may be true but I believe that "Gordon Bennett" is actually a
>euphemismic contraction of "God in Heaven" as an exclamation
>although a working class Pommie could confirm this - if anyone
>admits to being one.  It seems to be favoured by Londoners e.g. Arfur Daly
>in "MInder"
>
>Ross
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------

==============================================================================
'God in Heaven' to 'Gordon Bennett' surely we're not that daft? I prefer the

first explanation and it rings a bell in the murky depths of my mind.

Andy
From: mmt@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Blackadder shown on TVO
Date: 11 Dec 92 22:59:20 GMT
Distribution: ont
Organization: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine


This is supposed to have distribution limited to Ontario, Canada.  If it goes
astray, I apologize.

For those who may not be aware, TVO is broadcasting all the Blackadder
series on Thursday nights at 9:00.  Yesterday's was the third of Series 1
("The other one" son of Richard IV, in which he became Archbishop of
Canterbury).

Does anyone know whether they will do the out-of-series Blackadders as well?
-- 
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Beauty being skin deep, it would seem that the hippopotamus has an
epidermal advantage that it has somehow failed to exploit. (Jack Kent)
From: TREHARAJ@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Rodney Rude
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:57:35 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

==============================================================================

I don't know about a supplier but I've got a couple of his tapes.


Andy
From: rob@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Gordon Bennett!
Date: 17 Dec 92 11:58:43 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

as a semi-cockney it would be pronounced Gawd'n'evan not Gord in anywhere.

mind you I aint got no clue where it came from like. :-)

R.
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From: grove@uk.tele.nokia.fi (Paddy Grove)
Subject: Re: Gordon Bennett!
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications, Transmission Product Development,
	Cambridge, UK
	<923214183204@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:03:56 GMT


>>Yes, there was - he was the proprietor of some American newspaper late last
>>century, and he was the bloke that sent Stanley into deepest darkest Africa
>>to track down Livingstone.
>>
>>The world's first papparazzi?
>>
>>-- neilski
>This may be true but I believe that "Gordon Bennett" is actually a
>euphemismic contraction of "God in Heaven" as an exclamation
>although a working class Pommie could confirm this - if anyone
>admits to being one.  It seems to be favoured by Londoners e.g. Arfur Daly
>in "MInder"
>
>Ross

->> 'God in Heaven' to 'Gordon Bennett' surely we're not that daft? I prefer the
->> first explanation and it rings a bell in the murky depths of my mind.

    But why do you think the name of a newspaper proprietor should become an
exclamation, as opposed to any other famous figure of the time? The obvious
reason is that "God in Heaven" (in Cockney accent "Gord in 'eaven") sounds a
little bit like Gordon Bennet, hence the corruption. 

    I don't claim to be a *working class* Pommie, but it's a common
expression in Britain, not just among Londoners. I wouldn't use it myself -
it's a bit tame - a bit like "Goodness gracious!" of "Crikey!", although it
has a slightly different meaning (usually an expression of exasperation).

    English lesson over,

        Paddy

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From: david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
Subject: Re: Gordon Bennett!
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 00:37:51 GMT

grove@uk.tele.nokia.fi (Paddy Grove) writes:
>But why would anyone use the name of a newspaper proprietor as an
>exclamation? The obvious explanation is that God In Heaven (with a Cockney
>accent -> Gord in 'eaven), sounds a little like Gordon Bennet the famous (at
>the time) papparazzi, so that's where the expression came from, i.e. it was
>both the explanations above.

According to "The Real McCoy" by Eileen Hellicar:

"The expression 'Gordon Bennett!' is often used as an exclamation of amazement
or even as a mild expletive, so it may come as a surprise to know that there
really was a Gordon Bennett.
...
One of the rawest tales told about Gordon Bennett happened on New Year's Day,
1877. Already drunk, he arrived at a party being given at the Fifth Avenue
home of his fiancee, Caroline May. After more drinking, he unbuttoned his
fly in front of all the guests and urinated into the blazing fire. Bennett
was taken by the scruff of the neck and thrown into the street. Next day
Caroline's brother Frederick horsewhipped Bennett outside his club, and this
led to a duel which fortunately ended without bloodshed. From then on, most
of the respectable homes were closed to Bennett and he took refuge in France.
And there he gave rise to yet another famous story. He arrived at a restaurant
without a reservation and was very annoyed to find that all the tables were
occupied. Rather than wait, he sought out the owner and bought the restaurant
on the spot for a million francs. He then ordered a table to be cleared
immediately, and sat down to his favourite meal of mutton chops. After the
meal he gave the deeds of the restaurant to the waiter, telling him that there
must always be a table ready for Gordon Bennett and that there must always be
mutton chops on the menu.

No wonder people shook their heads and in desperation said: 'Gordon Bennett!'"
-- 
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Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong	david@cs.uow.edu.au
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From: stuartj@esg.mentor.com (Stuart John)
Subject: Re: Rik Mayall (and Bad News Tour)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:41:52 GMT
Reply-To: stuartj@esg.mentor.com
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 

In article <Bz3IJG.JHx@newcastle.ac.uk>, S.E.Rigden@newcastle.ac.uk (Simon Rigden) writes:
|> >>|>   [ original post deleted ]
|> 
|> >>   I'm very confused by this post! "Bad News Tour" is one of the
|> >>episodes of "The Comic Strip Presents". It is only 30 minutes long and
|> >>is BRILLIANT. Also, your description of the ending is not as I remember
|> >>it. At the finale gig, only 2 people and a small dog turn up. There is
|> >>no attack by the audience. There is of course "More Bad News" (Comic
|> >>Strip again, a few years later) which I haven't seen. Maybe that
|> >>includes the scenes you discuss. Certainly there is no sign of The
|> >>Scorpions or Ozzy Ozbourne in "Bad News Tour".
|> >>   I would sum it all up as like "This is Spinal Tap", but better. And
|> >>curiously, Bad News (alias Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Ade Edminson and
|> >>Peter Richardson) had a real single out too!
|> 
|> >also 2 albums and another single!!
|> 
|> >MArk.
|> 
|>  Bad News also played a few concerts if I remember correctly.
|>  They released two albums 'Bad News' and 'The Official Bootleg' and a piss-take
|> of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' - what is the other single mentioned above?
|>  The albums and TV shows were hilarious, I've watched and listened to them over
|> and over again. I think the problem with Bad News was that some people failed
|> to see the joke and actually thought they were serious !! I think that
|> demonstrates how bad the current HM scene must be if you can't tell the
|> difference between the joke bands and the "real" bands.
|> 
|>  Anyway, to get back to the point - the Bad News albums are definately worth
|> getting.
|> 
|>  An interesting point is on the official bootleg (which sounds improvised)
|> where Rik Mayal makes a comment about how crap Carry On is (said as Rik Mayal,
|> not as his character "Colin") and then a couple of years later appears in a
|> Carry On film himself!
|> 
|>  Well, just my opinions - bye for now.
|> 
|>  - SER
They definitely did a tour, I remember them playing Margate ! wehey.
The other single was 'Cashing in on Christmas' , as heard on Bootleg, without
the talking all the way thru.
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From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: help me identify this show
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:04:02 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>>|> It's called "Alexei Sayle's Stuff, and is of course named after the fat
>>|> Cockney bastard who does the show
>>   ^^^^^^^
>>
>>Nope, he's a fat Scouse, perhaps even Wooly-back, bastard.
>
>
>A lot of his earlier stuff was based on his home in Stoke Newington (NE London)
>I think he must have moved there while quite young.
>
>"...northern wanker, where's your loaf of Hovis ay? cunt, shit, wank, piss.."
>

He's also got the Stoke Newington bit on the comedy album of 'The Secret
Policeman's Other Ball" 






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From: streater@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Tim Streater)
Subject: Re: Gordon Bennett!
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:07:30 GMT

I remember discovering that Gordon Bennett was a world-class American hot-air
baloonist from around the turn of the century. Can't remember where I read it
though - or which part of the south of France I was in when I noticed that the
road that I was on was called "Avenue Gordon Bennett"

Straight up, Guv! (sorry - couldn't resist).

tin.
From: rmv@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Robin Vickery)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Yes Minister/ Yes Prime Minister
Date: 17 Dec 92 10:30:39 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University


I write:
>
>The Complete Yes Prime Minister
>by Jonathan Lynn & Antony Jay
>published by BBC Books
>ISBN 0 563 20773 6
>
Mika Latokartano writes:
>
>  Does this include the Yes Minister stories as well?  I have two books,
>  Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, but can't remember now if the
>  word "complete" belongs to the title of either of them.
>

No it's just the 'Yes PM' stories, if I remember right originally the Yes 
Minister stories were published as a single volume and the Yes PM stories
as two volumes. They have been published in different forms since. The 
copy in the library here was the BBC Books version combining the Yes PM
books in one volume hence 'the Complete Yes PM'.

	-rob


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From: ahall@library1.library.carleton.ca (Alison Hall)
Subject: Re: Reggie Perrin
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:57:44 GMT

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin starts on PBS (WNPE/WNPI Watertown NY)
in January 1993.
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From: sprooney@unix1.tcd.ie (Simon Rooney)
Subject: Re: Zig and Zag
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:12:07 GMT

>>   the best comedy in the known universe is a program called The Den on RTE
>>   television...the puppets Zig and Zag have recently come to the uk on the 
>> breakfast.......but have been on RTE for years with Dustin the turkey...
>>    if you can get RTE check em out...
Wel considering most of the readers of this group are Americans, I
doubt they've even heard of Radio Telifis Eireann.

>>    on monday to friday....3pm to 6pm....RTE 2
>They're funny only if you are mentally deficient.....having seen on them on
>Network (RTE) 2 more often than I care to admit, I find them repetitious in the
>extreme.
Yeah, well, most of us are, so...

>>    laugh like crazy...
>Only if you're mad yourself to begin with......give me Alexei Sayle any day
Sorry. We haven't got him in stock at the moment. Would you like to
order one?

>>   schleppel
EEK!

>james p mc bride
>university college dublin
mNSioi
Trinity College Dublin.
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From: dfl@cch.coventry.ac.uk (bozo)
Subject: Rodney Rude
Summary: He's not British but .....
Keywords: RUDE
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:20:21 GMT

Hi, some people may consider this to be in the wrong newsgroup... but
if those people could point out a better one (I couldn't find either 
alt.comedy or alt.comedy.australian) I would be grateful......

Rodney rude is very funny if someone offers you a tape etc, take them up on
the matter .......

However my copy (which was passed on to me by hand) has been borrowed never
to return :-<

I live in the Midlands (GB) and am quite willing to travel anywhere around 
here or I'll be in the Warrington, Liverpool, Manchester area over Chrimo

Does anyone out there know of a supplier that I might be able to reach?

Cheers in advance....
(Jeez I hate it when no-one replies, oooh I Hate that ......)
Damien




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From: jseaver@oconnor.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Blackadder III: Scarlet Pimpernel
Date: 14 Dec 1992 20:12:22 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <1992Dec14.152756.4799@burrhus.harvard.edu> glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:
>In article <1gbedkINN66i@bigboote.WPI.EDU> jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver) writes:
>>	The only way I think you can see it in the U.S. is to go down to the
>>video store, buy/rent "Blackadder III: Dish and Dishonesty, Sense and
>>Sensibility, Nob and Nobility", and enjoy.
>>
>But what video store has it? Tower Records (Boston) doesn't have the tape,
>and I've yet to see ANY BA tapes in any other place

	Really?  They had several copies of all eight (nine?) BlackAdder tapes
in Play It Again music/video in Yarmouth, Maine (small town, decent store).
That information's not much good to you, though.  However, I HAVE seen the BA
tapes in WGBH LearningSmith in Boston.  They've got a lot of other good British
stuff there, too; it's the only place I've been able to find tapes of Poirot in
the U.S. (I'll probably have to buy them, my _______ roommate thinks _______
Cheers is the _______ best show on TV...)

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