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From: pjh@eng.cam.ac.uk (P.J. Hogben)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: What is a "git" / "smeg" etc, Paul Merton
Date: 10 Apr 92 09:34:58 GMT
Organization: cam.eng

markt@harlqn.co.uk (Mark Tillotson) writes:

>Kristy Gleason kristy@dssdev.dec.com writes:

>> To the best of my knowledge, (I'm not British), a 'git' is someone who acts
>> like a jerk toward someone else... or a lesser 'b*stard' or a 'sh*t'... I could
>> be way off on the definition, but this is what I've gleaned from the many
>> British friends that I have... *shrug*

>I was told once that it is taboo slang for "illegitimate", ie just
>another way of saying "bastard", but has lost this meaning to most
>people.

I thought "get" (which is what people have been saying "git" came
from) just meant "offspring" - not necessarily illegitimate. If I
remember correctly it is from the same root as "to beget" (as in the
Bible they have a lot of "and **** begat ######" so it is obviously
fairly old (of course the meaning may have changed since then)).

Philippa Hogben 

pjh@eng.cam.ac.uk  (reverse if posting from Janet)
From: Steve.Varty@newcastle.ac.uk (Steve Varty)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british,connect.audit
Subject: Re: ALO, ALO ?????
Date: 6 Apr 92 12:50:46 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

veitch@vxcrna.cern.ch (Liz Veitch) writes:

>  Yes, but you should try watching it on the French networks, dubbed
>into French - gives it a whole new twist!

I saw a couple of Pink Panther films in France with dubbed French dialogue, and
the French couldn't see why we found them so funny!  Think about it.

Steve.


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From: ccaajmg@ucl.ac.uk (John Gallinari)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Mornington Cresent (game)
Date: 7 Apr 92 10:17:09 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

>In article <1992Apr06.114352.126104@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk> ucjtrjf@ucl.ac.uk 
>   (Jonny Farringdon) writes:
>>>>>>|> So, Ladbrook Grove.    J.
>>>>>>	Wimbeldon South.
>>>>>Googe Street
>>>>        Kenmore Square
>>>feat.  Hainalt.  {David Brooks}
>>Blackfriars  {Thames Link}  J.
>Embankment	 >-patrick.
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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf on NBC?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 04:06:10 GMT

mlbst25+@pitt.edu (Monica L Boyle) writes:

>Is it just me or has it occurred to anyone else that NBC will probably ruin
>the show?

 Well, to be brutally frank, there was a looooong thread on the
American Red Dwarf oh, around a month ago on rec.arts.tv.uk, with just
around everyone saying how they felt American TV ruined British TV
shows when they hopped the pond.

 So the answer to your question is No. It *has* occurred to others.
Me? I'm reserving judgement until I actually see the pilot, assuming
it's ever broadcast. But I ain't optimistic...

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge)
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to....
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 09:34:25 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.184939.13320@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v128juxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Schuyjuannah) writes:
> In article <1992Apr8.025713.2306@bradley.bradley.edu>, larry@bradley.bradley.edu (Larry D. Stratton) writes...
> > 
> >   Penelope Keith (sp) of "To the Manor Born"?
> > 
> >   After many reruns I think I just saw the last episode where
> >   she gets married.  Was that the last?

Yes, that was the last episode.

> >   I know she did 'Neighbors' after that (I think) but where is
> >   she now and what is she doing?

I'm not positive, but I think "Good Neighbors" (aka "The Good Life") predates
"To the Manor Born".

> Penelope Keith was on the first season of "Executive Stress", from 1987.

And Peter Bowles (from "To the Manor Born") replaced Geoffrey Palmer as
Keith's husband after a season or two.

The most recent thing I've seen Penelope Keith in was "No Job For A Lady",
where she plays an MP. I think this is from around 1990 or so.

I don't know what she's up to these days.

                                       -Dave Dodge/dododge@wam.umd.edu
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: snow@netcom.com (Tim Szeliga)
Subject: The Marty Feldman Show
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 19:35:06 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Marty Feldman
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: 

My first exposure to british tv comedy was through a summer replacement,
when NBC brought The Marty Feldman Show over in ?68? .  As I recall,
it was written by the guys who later became a sizable chunk of Monty Python.
It was very strange and bent my mind in ways Wayne Fontana could begin to
imagine.
 One sketch resurfaced on a Secret Policeman's Ball album, of the old tories
reminiscing about how poor they were as children, one-upping each other,
unitl they are raving how there were sixteen of them, living in a shoebox,
had to get up half an hour before they went to bed, walk seventeen miles to
the factory in ill-fitting shoes ("At least you ~had~ shoes"; "At least ~you~
had feet!").  
  When the traffic dies down about PBS imports, maybe we can discuss Stephen
Potter and his Gamesmanship series, or John Cleese starring as Sherlock Holmes
with Arthur "Good Lord" Lord as the Bionic Watson in "The Strange Case of the 
End of the World", or Peter Seller's "Guide to Accents of the British Isles",
or my all time fave, Marty Feldman's "Cautious Love Song (I'm Moderately In
Love With You)".
 
Tim Szeliga    snow@netcom.com
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habitually asking questions, or it can mean being so sure that there
are no answers that one simply issues denials instead.
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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: steve_h@pandora.uucp (Steve Howarth)
Subject: Re: Viv Stanshall (was re: Neil Innes)
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:25:00 GMT

markt@harlqn.co.uk (Mark Tillotson) writes:

>> >>  [stuff about tubular bells deleted]

> [ stuff about rawlinson's end deleted ]
>  
>There is, I believe, another album as well, but that might just be
>optimism on my part...

I think it was called 'Teddy Boys Don't Knit'
I heard it playing in a record shop once but can't remember any of it.
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From: Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk (Adrian Waterworth)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: The Goodies
Keywords: Big Bunny, Loony Animals, Eky-Thump!
Date: 13 Apr 92 10:28:31 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder) writes:

>Bill Odie (sp?) died a few years ago.  I have see the other two other
>shows in mid to late 80's.  Nothing recently.

	AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! I'm sick of hearing this story. So
far as I (and most other folks know) Bill Oddie is alive and well and
presenting some nature programs and narrating others and twitching
(i.e. bird-watching) somewhere in the UK. Leastways, I think he is
still in the UK.

	...and Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are both still alive
as well.

	The only notable death of a British comedian in recent years
was that of the late lamented Graham Chapman from the Monty Python
crowd.

	We now return you to your regularly scheduled insanity.

				Adrian.
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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: The Goodies
Keywords: Big Bunny, Loony Animals, Eky-Thump!
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:03:48 GMT

eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder) writes:
|> Bill Odie (sp?) died a few years ago.  I have see the other two other
|> shows in mid to late 80's.  Nothing recently.

Bill Oddie appeared in John Mortimer's "<damn-i-forget-the-title-but-it-was-
the-sequel-to-Paradise-Postponed>", which was on PBS a few weeks ago and
was presumably made quite recently.  He played the bird-watching
environmentalist who seemed to go off his rocker...

How did David Threlfall keep that sneer without permanent physiological
damage?
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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: snow@netcom.com (Tim Szeliga)
Subject: Re: Sike Milligan
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 19:22:48 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Apr05.022038.19832@cavebbs.gen.nz> bclement@cavebbs.gen.nz (Bruce Clement) writes:
>In article <1992Mar31.202552.25378@acsu.buffalo.edu> dunleavy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Houston Dunleavy) writes:
>
>>	Does anybody know if a sixth volume has appeared? 
>
>"Goodbye Soldier" I read it some time back & can no longer remember exact 
>details, but it is about his return to civilian life & his early days in
>the civilian entertainment industry (All from shakey memory).
>
>
>-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: mshaner1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Melissa Ynes Shaner)
Subject: Re: "The Tomorrow People" - Need Info
Reply-To: mshaner1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Melissa Ynes Shaner)
Organization: Swarthmore College
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 17:29:10 GMT

You forgot Tyso - the gypsy kid.
I've forgotten Peter - guy from the future?  Huh?  Boy has it been a while.
The Asian girl's name was Hsu-tai, I think.
"Heart of Sogguth" was my favorite episode too.  Why did you like it?

- Melissa
mshaner1@cc.swarthmore.edu
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: beckera@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Andrew Becker)
Subject: Re: cast AYBS
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1992 19:04:17 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1992Apr3.231647.1618@cis.ohio-state.edu> bohren@flounder.cis.ohio-state.edu (arthur william bohren) writes:
>Original Cast of Characters: 
>
>   Maintenance: Mr. Hammond
>
>   - At some point a new maintenance man replaced Mr. Hammond, but I can't
>     remember what his name was or when it occured.

  Now I thought this was the other way around.  I thought that Mr. Mash started
  as the maintenance man, to be replaced by Mr. Hammond (or is it Harmond?)
  at the start of the 2nd or 3rd season.  Anybody know which way this really
  went?  Just curious.

			
			Andrew (Baloo) Becker
			beckera@mozart.cs.colostate.edu
From: burkems@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Red Dwarf on NBC?
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:24:04 GMT
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA


    Could it TV guide report be true?

    Could NBC really be considering picking up Red Dwarf for its fall schedule?

     



                                           - Matt
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: winalski@tle.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Subject: Re: Fun in the Sun (Red Dwarf)
Reply-To: winalski@tle.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 19:28:57 GMT


In article <1992Apr7.145935.607@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>,
ee02jb@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Jonathan Bennett) writes:
|>
|>
|>Its cold outside,
|>there's no kind of atmosphere.
|>{I'm/we're} all alone, more or less.
|>Let me fly 
|>far away from here,
|>Fun, fun, fun,
|>in the sun, sun, sun.
|>
|>
|>I want to lie,
|>shipwrecked and comatose,
|>drinking fresh mango juice
|>goldfish {dunno}
|>nibbling at my toes
|>fun, fun, fun...

The line reads:  "goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes".

--PSW
Xref: sparky alt.comedy.british:622 rec.arts.tv.uk:2446
From: dmf@aber.ac.uk (Darren Michael Forbes)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british,rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Ever Decreasing Circles
Date: 6 Apr 92 09:31:54 GMT
Organization: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

In article <1992Apr03.224849.9267@cavebbs.gen.nz> colin@cavebbs.gen.nz (Colin Osmond) writes:
>In article <1992Mar31.183224.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
>>They're currently showing the Britcom "Ever Decreasing Circles", starring
>>Richard "Sugar-Coated" Briers, here in the States.  I've been watching it
>>for several weeks now, and I don't get it.  Can somebody explain the concept
>>of this show to me? I mean, is this guy supposedly to be senile, or just
>>retarded, or what?
>
>No, not retaded or senile.  Just the ultimate organiser.  The whole thrust of
>the show is Martin's predeliction for organising things, and getting involved
>in community neighbourhood activities.  To the extent that he has taken on too
>much.  That and he worries about minuitae to the nth degree.  His nemesis in the
>form of his neighbour is brilliant.  Martin triesd to be one up on Paul, but
>never quite seems to make it....
>
>
>There is very little middle-ground for the viewer, and its probably a show
>one either likes or hates.
>
   This is a show I hate.  I dunno, it just gets really irritating
seing one guy loose in every episode to Mr Smug.
   Shows in which there are many characters all compeating against
each other are (IMHO) much superior.  I get the same kind of cringe
from "Ever Decreasing Circles" as I do from the godamm awful
"Keeping Up Appearances".  Any show which contains a character I
want to strangle slowly to death is distinctly unfunny.  It would
be OK if the characters had any redeaming features (Lister, Basil) but
I just dont see any in them.  The lead from "One Foot In The Grave" is
OK, at least he's cynical.  That comedy in the old people's home
would be miles better if they shot the totally pathetic manager and
assistant.  I just can't stand them at all.  I have to stop now
before I start foaming and ranting about the state of British sit-coms.

>
>
>
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From: umboule3@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason S. T. Boulet)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf -- Holly vs Holly
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:22:10 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Queeg is not the backup computer, just Holly trying to get a little respect
for what he does.
From: mason@habs11.enet.dec.com (Gary Mason)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Blackadder questions
Date: 14 Apr 92 13:40:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

>These parodies involve the cast of Blackadder being the crew of a Federation 
>vessel, the HMS Tallyho.  Blackadder is the Captain, George the first officer,
>Baldrick the helmsman, Percy the tactical officer, and Darling the counsellor.
>With a few other characters to be added in the future.

I know it's just fantasy, but weren't Percy and Darling the same character,
albeit in different periods? Same actor anyway?

Cheers...Gary
mason@habs11.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: eliz@world.std.com (Elizabeth Lear Newman)
Subject: collecting Red Dwarf quotes
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 14:34:20 GMT

Ok, we've seen the first part of the Blackadder quotes list, but I
want Red Dwarf quotes too!  Unless someone can point me to a list of
them that already exists, I hereby volunteer to collect Red Dwarf
quotes.

*Mail* them to me, and I'll release a list of them in fortune format
in a couple of weeks.  

						...eliz
						  eliz@world.std.com


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From: voyager@irishmvs.cc.nd.edu (R.allen Jervis (its just pronouced 'luxury yacht'))
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: The Kenny Everett Video Show (?)
Date: 10 Apr 92 12:52:38 GMT
Distribution: global
Organization: University of Notre Dame

The header says it all.
I seem to remember this gem from about the early seventies, on our
PBS, but I know next to zilch about it. Probably even got the name
wrong. I do recall an animated feature in this show called
"Cap'n Kremmin" or maybe it was all the pine sap I was inhaling at 
the time...
Anyways, I like to set the ol' grey matter straight on this,
so any info youse guys can send my way would be appreciated.
I'd even be interested in seeing this again just to see if it was
as bad, er unique as I recall it...

and wasn't there something about "the vaguely attractive Carla?"

R.allen Jervis
University of Notre Dame
voyager@irishmvs.cc.nd.edu

ps: wasn't it "Goldfish jobes nibbling at my toes?"
..fun, fun fun...
From: Ted.Bebenek@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Ted Bebenek)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: cast AYBS
Date: 12 Apr 92 19:02:06 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <28631@brahms.udel.edu> cbrooks@brahms.udel.edu (Chris Brooks) writes:
>A few questions about the cast of Are You Being Served?--
>
>Are Miss Brahms and Mrs. Slocomb the only two characters to have worked
>in the Women's Department?

Yes.

>Which of the men's juniors Lucas or Spooner originated the role?  I'm
>curious because when I started watching the show the character was named
>Spooner, then Lucas , and last night Spooner was introduced as the new
>junior salesperson.  Sorry I don't remember the names of the actors,
>just the characters.

Mr. Lucas (Trevor Bannister) (sp) was the first one, followed by Spooner
(Mike Berry).

>Which Young Mr. Grace ended the series?  Last night YMG with the white
>hair seemed to be leaving the show to be replaced by the Mr. Grace with
>the dark hair and half glasses.

The first Mr. Grace was the one with the white hair.  He was the one
they called 'Young Mr. Grace'.  The one that followed him was the one
with the half glasses, but he didn't appear in the last few episodes.

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From: larshaug@ifi.uio.no (Lars Haugseth)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Mr. Bean
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:34:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: ifi.1992Apr9.173423.14311
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Originator: larshaug@kolsaas.ifi.uio.no


In article <kjetilfp.8@sofus.dhhalden.no>, kjetilfp@sofus.dhhalden.no (KJETIL FAGERNES PEDERSEN) writes:
> Just a little question...
> 
> How many episodes of Mr. Bean has Rowan Atkinson made. I was just wondering 
> about if I've seen them all. I think I've seen 4 episodes.
> 
> Thanks in advance............all you British comedy fans out there!
> 
> Kjetil, Norway

No, it's much more than that! Let me see....

 1. Exams
 2. Beach
 3. Church
 4. Cinema
 5. Queen
 6. Swimming pool
 7. Lunch in the park
 8. Restaurant
 9. Supermarket
10. Police Station
11. Disco
12. New TV set
13. Library
14. Bus Stop

That's all I can remember. They are all available on VHS,
and 13 & 14 is extra-sketches that hasn't been shown
on television.

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From: ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: cast AYBS
Summary: Felicity Kendal, crinkles, etc.
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:54:37 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Well, I hardly thought I would trigger such a response with this Felicity
Kendal stuff.  I wrote the original post as a reference to the Young Ones bit
about F.K. ("if you've got anything bad to say about Felicity Kendal, just
go ahead and say it!"  "Rick... I *just did.*")

In other words, I was only trying to perpetuate a bit, not regale the masses
with a manifestation of some Kendal-inspired lust.  The fact that I DO lust
after her is therefore immaterial and of no consequence, and any remarks I may
have made concerning the degree to which I would like to take a bath with her
in a tub full of steak sauce are not to be considered significant in any way.
From: coxm@Software.Mitel.COM (Michael Cox)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Ripping yarns
Summary: Python, BBC videos
Keywords: Python, Ripping, TV
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:54:04 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.

In article <1992Apr2.135041.1200@trdlnk.uucp> joe@trdlnk.uucp (Joe Panfil) writes:
>Has anyone seen any of the episodes of Ripping yarns on video.
>To refresh you're memory (and mine). I'm almost positive this
>comedy series starred Micheal Palin and maybe one other guy of
>Python fame.
[A couple of lines deleted.]
>Thanks,
>Joe

Joe,
   Up here in Canada we can get them (three episodes per video, and I've only
seen two tapes) at our local W.H. Smith Bookstores (it's a British company).
   Terry Jones also (sometimes) starred in the episodes although he was more
behind the scenes (directing, editing, writing, writing an unrelated book etc).
   BTW in the same bookshop we can get:  Monty Python tapes, Black Adder tapes,
Yes Minister tapes and several more.  Sorry no Goodies.  In fact you can also
(as I remember) get the William Harnell Dr. Who series too.
     Sige
     Michael
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