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From: lycaon@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Gerald Hough)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: What is a "git" / "smeg" etc, Paul Merton
Keywords: SMEG Red Dwarf
Date: 14 Apr 92 02:20:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: mentor.45262
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Apr10.132822.11965@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:
>In article <MARKT.92Apr8223721@wundt.harlqn.co.uk> markt@harlqn.co.uk (Mark Tillotson) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr1.181743.1619@e2big.mko.dec.com> winalski@tle.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
>>>I was pretty shocked to hear smeg used so often as a cuss-word on Red Dwarf.
>	'Smeg' comes from Smegma. Look up a good English dictionary for
>the meaning though it is a substance on the end of a man's (obviously)
>penis (apparently !). A cheesy type. Dunno the cause, any doctors out
>their ?? (medical I mean ).
>	Neil

Smegma is very similar to toe cheese.  Ya get it when ya don't properly
wash yer'self.  So if you take that in the context in which it's almost
always used, it ain't a good thing to be called.  It's all in the 
"Spooge" family of substances...

Spooge: (spuuj) n.  [Unknown origin, though I use it a lot]  Any fluid
or semi-fluid substance that is secreted or excreted from the body.
examples- blood, sweat, snot , toe-cheese, smegma, but usu. meant to
mean sperm.

There's also a hard-core musical group in America called Smegma-egg, tho
I can't tell you where they got THAT one...

--Jerry.

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From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british,connect.audit
Subject: Re: What's more vulgar to a Brit?
Date: 12 Apr 92 11:02:29 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <1992Apr11.125340.24495@samba.oit.unc.edu> Ted.Bebenek@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Ted Bebenek) writes:
>In article <1992Apr04.115811.2773@ibmpcug.co.uk> hdrw@ibmpcug.co.uk (Howard Winter) writes:
>>
>>With the above in mind, I would give the following as my own assessment
>>of vulgarity, in decreasing order:
>>
>>Fuck off!    2
>>Dickhead!    4
>>Wanker!      1
>>Bastard!     3
>>Prat!
>>Berk!
>>Get stuffed! 8
>>Sod off!     7
>>Up yours!    6
>>Piss off!    5
>>Git!

	I would be surprised if anyone used the others. There are the
missing ones though. Motherfucker is the #1 offensive world on TV.
To women Twat is the most offensice derogatory remork you can call someone
(male or female). Both of these should be at the top of the list.

>>'Smeg' is an invented word (short for 'Smegma', I believe) to get round
>>not being able to use any real swear words in what was after all a comedy
>>programme.  As such it has no real meaning (so no actual vulgarity).

	It does have a meaning. See a dictionary. Has two spoken meanings.
The dictionary meaning and a replacement for xxxx off, xxxxhead. Personally
I have used Smeg and Smegma as insults long before Red Dwarf appeared on
the scene.

>>
>>There have been a number of words which I believe have been invented on
>>British television for just this reason, and some of them have got into
>>common usage.  Others I can remember:  'Naff' (from the Ronnie Barker
>>series: 'Porridge') and 'Bonk', from a series whose name I can't remember,
>>but it had Helen Atkinson-Wood (and Lenny Henry, I think) among others.
>>Anyone remember what it was ?

	iBonk. The Sun newspaper claim to have invented this one but it
has been in circulation for absolutely ages.


>>The single-finger sign isn't used in Britain, as it is in Europe,

	I don't get you here. The middle finger is widely used in the UK
with the same meaning as using it in the states. Does it mean something
different when expressed in French/German.Italian ???

>I remember seeing an episode of Red Dwarf (I think the title was 'Better
>Than Life') where they were playing a video game that lets you do
>anything you want.  In one part, they were on a beach, when Lister and
>Cat got on a motorcycle, and both gave Rimmer the middle finger before
>driving off.  Would a people in the UK consider the middle finger as a
>vulgar gesture, even though it isn't used that much?


	Yes it is considered a vulgar gesture. I definitely would not use
it in front of my parents (not at them !), whereas the V I would. In
Red Dwarf V Kryten used the single finger well in RDV/6: 'Back To Reality'.

	Anybody got a FAQ list for vulgar gestures. I think the Italians have
one bringing the thumb and first finger to the Adams apple. Dunno what it means,
I forget.


	Neil
From: jimmy@pyra.co.uk (Jimmy Aitken)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Useful Britsh words (was Re: What is a
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:20:28 GMT
Reply-To: jimmy@pyramid.com (Jimmy Aitken)

In <1992Apr9.092220@imhfhp16.epfl.ch> bogstad@imhfhp16.epfl.ch (BOGSTAD Mark IMHEF DME EPFL) writes:

>I've heard a rumor that it was Princess Anne who "invented" this
>word when some press photographers were doing their job a bit too
>well and coming too close to her. She replied "Naff off" to the 
>photographers....

>Don't know if it's true. Anyone else heard this rumor before...

It hit the front page of the UK tabloids when it happened.  However, I
don't think the word was invented by her, as it was used on the
commedy series "Porridge" for at least 2 years before the incident.  I
would guess that she got it from TV and wanted an exclamation to use
that wouldn't be taken as swearing.

Jimmy
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From: markt@harlqn.co.uk (Mark Tillotson)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Viv Stanshall (was re: Neil Innes)
Date: 7 Apr 92 11:48:33 GMT
	<1992Mar29.224556.18908@acsu.buffalo.edu>
	<1992Mar31.012059.11009@samba.oit.unc.edu>
	<31MAR199209033195@moose.cccs.umn.edu> <11286@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Organization: Harlequin Limited, Cambridge, England

> >>      Does anybody know what happened to the rest of the Bonzos?  Viv
> >> Stanshall and Roger Ruskin Spear in particular.  Spear's  "Electric Shocks"
> >> is a kind of SubGenius-style clasic, IMHO.
> 
> Viv Stanshall showed up on the seminal Mike Oldfield album "Tubular
> Bells" (1973) at the end of side one, doing the "Master of Ceremonies" bit
> and announcing the various instruments as they come in.

Thanks for posting the fine bit of Stanshall from Tubular Bells, but I
feel I should point out that Viv has done some other things...

"Sir Henry at Rawlinson End", an album, which later got made into a
film, chronicals a day in the life of an eccentric English
`gentlemen'.  I can't begin to describe it in a few paragraphs, but a
couple of snippets from memory will give a flavour...

``Hubert was unusual:  During the summer, aligned with the earthly
  axis, he would lie down, and with that loathsome bluey roman clockface
  tatooed about his lower half, think about Jean Harlow very hard, and
  from the shadow cast tell the time with remarkable accuracy.  Henry
  told him to `put a sock on the sundial bit' and Hubert now entertained
  visitors by standing in the hall, asking them to stand on his feet,
  and in a dreadful mo-no-tone speak their weight.''

``Scrotum, the wrinkled retainer, came in and hung his greasy fez on a
  peg, and with a sound like the crumpling of plastic egg-cartons,
  coughed and oh-arrh-thricketed.  Aunt Florrie asked him `do you want
  to wash your hands?', Scrotum replied `No, thank-ye ma'am, I did
  that up against a tree before I came in.'''

(Apologies for getting those quotes all scrambled, it must be time to
listen to it again!)

There are lots of songs interspersed with the dialogue, naturally.

The film is superb, and features Viv himself playing the eccentric
Hubert, and has Dennis Horden as the retainer, Denise Coffey plays a
brilliant Mrs E.  The scene where they play billiards on horseback
springs to mind as one of the nice touches!!
  
There is, I believe, another album as well, but that might just be
optimism on my part...

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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran Mohan Karnik)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Are You Being Served?
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:42:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr9.164258.24600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.

In <1992Mar25.083914.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> ac05@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:

>In the Dallas/Fort Worth area too.  The local PBS also had a Mrs Slocum
							      ^^^^^^^^^^
>contest, with four volunteers dressed as Mrs Slocum.  I'm really looking
					  ^^^^^^^^^^
>forward to the new series.

>Sumangala Bhattacharya
>ac05@untvax.bitnet

	Pssst! it's Slocombe, puhleeeese

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From: lkirby@axion.bt.co.uk (Lewis Kirby)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: The Marty Feldman Show
Date: 9 Apr 92 11:36:10 GMT
Reply-To: lkirby@axion.bt.co.uk (Lewis Kirby)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


In article <n=pjrf-.snow@netcom.com>, snow@netcom.com (Tim Szeliga) writes:

|>   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" ...

The "Gamesmanship" shows starred, among others, Richard Briers (not him again!!!) and were moderately okay (but remember this is a Brit speaking).

The Sherlock Holmes thing starred John Cleese and Arthur Lowe, and it was called "The 
                                                         ====
Strange Case Of The End Of Civilization As We Know It".

Lewis
From: dj107@eng.cam.ac.uk (D. James)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Contemporary radio comedy ?
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:36:21 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK

In article <1992Apr8.171524.5362@vax.oxford.ac.uk> wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:

>> 
>The trouble is that the best radio comedy shows (After Henry, the Mary
>Whitehouse Experience, Whose line is it anyway?) are snapped up by the TV. I
>have to say that if the appallingly unfunny shows you mention are examples of
>your sense of humour, you won't like the excellent shows being turned by the
>BBC today. These include programmes like The News Quiz, the Roy Huddlines and
>Week Ending which wouldn't travel well, and couldn't stand the delay in

The News Quiz is consistently _the_ funniest radio programme being turned
out by the BBC today, and has made the transfer to television (i.e. "Have
I Got News For You") easily as well as Whose Line Is It Anyway did. I'm off
to the recording of the News Quiz Election Special tomorrow lunchtime
(Friday) - I always wanted to find out how much libellous stuff ends up on
the cutting room floor. Probably as much as gets left in "Have I Got News
For You".

David James, Speech Lab, University of Cambridge, UK
Mail: dj107@eng.cam.ac.uk      Voice: +44 223 332808
Snail-Mail: Downing College, Cambridge, CB2 1DQ,  UK
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From: bryer@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jeff Bryer)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: good neighbors
Keywords: jam, scones, scones, scones
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:22:33 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

In article <1992Apr1.235951.10592@husc3.harvard.edu> koumis@husc4.harvard.edu (Anthony Koumis) writes:
>Just a note to say that I liked Good Neighbors alot.  It has Penelope
>Keith in it who I think is wonderful.
>
>She was also in "To the Manor BOrn" which is extremely funny.
>
>Someone was wondering about the name of the series where a married
>couple pretends not to be married so they can work in the same firm.
>The name escapes me at the moment but it had P.K. in it.  The frist
>series had the father from Butterflies but then they bagged him and
>brought in Peter Bowles who had starred with P.K. in To the Manor Born
>so the chemistry between them was better.
>
I believe the show you are referring to was Executive Stress (at least that
is what they called it in North America).  I love the theme to this show
and have been trying unsuccessfully for years to find it on tape.  It
is by Julie Covington and for the moment I have forgotten the name.



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From: ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Lewis AJ)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Tom Sharpe
Date: 6 Apr 92 09:57:33 GMT

In article 2552@pony.Ingres.COM, bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob McQueer) writes:

>BTW, I know that there was a recent TV adaptation of "Porterhouse Blue".  I
>didn't see it, but I have doubts about trying to adapt Sharpe to the screen,
>and I found "Porterhouse Blue" to be one of his milder, less interesting
>books.  I DARE them to try "Wilt" or "Ancestral Vices".

Porterhouse Blue was very well done, but it was the adaptation of Blott
on the Landscape that I liked - starring George Cole amoungst others, 
it was killingly funny, and managed to build on the book while remaining
on the whole faithful to it.
From: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: What is a "git" anyway?
Date: 9 Apr 92 12:49:58 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel) writes:
: >What is a "git"?  [...]
: 
: Yes, in usage it applies to an idiot or jerk ("jerk" would be the American
: equivalent).
: 
: My personal belief is that it is descended from the noun "get" -- and means
: "offspring of an animal".

I think "get" is used by Liverpudlians in preference to "git".
I refer you to the song "I'm So Tired" on The Beatles "White album".
One of the verses goes:

	I'm so tired,
	[something something something]
	Although I'm so tired,
	I'll roll another cigarette
	And curse Sir Walter Raleigh,
	He was such a stupid get.
                             ^^^


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From: v026ltr5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Monty)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Black Adder in Buffalo
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:29:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.1992Apr6.142853.22133
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr6.140239.21471@acsu.buffalo.edu>,
v128juxa@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu (Schuyjuannah) writes...
>For anyone who a Black Adder fan and resides in Buffalo, NY, you'll all
>be happy to know that they've *kept* their promise and Black Adder is
>on at 10:30 PM Saturday nights on Channel 17 (PBS).
>It debut 4 April with "The Foretelling" and if they are aired in chronological
>order, the full run of all 4 series will be completed by the end of September.

Well, geez... thanks for telling us ahead of time! Well, at least
I'll get to see most of them. I've never actually seen a full
episode before. Ah well.

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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: scobbie@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Jim Scobbie)
Subject: radio 4/2 comedies & are you being served
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:13:23 GMT

For those in the San Fransisco bay area, can anyone tell me if
a non-shortwave station broadcasts any of these comedy shows,
like 'I'm sorry I'll read that again' (or 'haven't a clue')?
Or are they available on the world service? If so, what is
its frequency? How do I find out what is on the world service here?

For those in net-land, you might like to know there is a wee war going
on between 2 public TV stations who show masses of are you being
served. They have hours at a time during pledge drives. It's on KQED
at 7.30 monday to thursday, a primetime show. I grew up during the
show's first runs, and went from loving it to hating it during
adolescence. Now again (this is your fault Michelle!)  I love it. It
is basically smutty, rude and old-fashioned - such a relief!  I don't
know if it is just Britophiles and expats who like it, but toilet
humour, smut and stereotypes are fairly unacceptable here on the
peninsula amongst nice people, and I need my fix. I imagine some
people have a lot of problems deciding what to think since it combines
a nice wee 'positive' gay character with its dreadful sexism. Poor them. 

Jim


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From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Stephen Fry
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:34:27 GMT
Organization: New York University

Can someone out there fill me in on just what happened to Stephen Fry
recently?  He confessed to cocaine abuse, I believe...?


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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel)
Subject: Re: What is a "git" anyway?
Organization: Cadence Design Systems
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:18:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr2.052909.2218@ducvax.auburn.edu> kenneth@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>
>What is a "git"?  It seems to me in the context that it is used, it seems 
>that it means an idiot or someone who is incompetent.  I don't know if I
>even spelled it correctly, but I tried.  :)

Yes, in usage it applies to an idiot or jerk ("jerk" would be the American
equivalent).

My personal belief is that it is descended from the noun "get" -- and means
"offspring of an animal".

-Pete Zakel
 (phz@cadence.com or ..!uunet!cadence!phz)

My God, I'm depressed!  Here I am, a computer with a mind a thousand
times as powerful as yours, doing nothing but cranking out fortunes and
sending mail about softball games.  And I've got this pain right
through my ALU.  I've asked for it to be replaced, but nobody ever
listens.  I think it would be better for us both if you were to just
log out again.
From: jmunro@wyse.wyse.com (Jim Munro x2497)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: What is a "git" anyway?
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:20:10 GMT
Organization: Wyse Technologies San Jose, Ca

When I was a lad, it was always said thet the literal definitions was
'the illegitimate child of a prostitute'.

Jim Munro
From: pm3_norr@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Paul Norris)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Mornington Cresent (game)
Date: 8 Apr 92 08:29:49 GMT
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England

In article <1992Apr7.144515.12189@osf.org> dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
>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.
>|> >>I should point out that it's Wimbledon, Goodge and Hainault (I'm fairly
>|> >>sure but not positive about the last one), and thus, under the 1978
>|> >>"spelling retributive" ruling I am allowed the following (otherwise illegal)
>|> >>move :
>|> >>Embankment    {Patrick Gosling}
>|> >Fascinating the way this is developing.
>|> >Let's see.  Tow..  no that would be too obvious....
>|> >Tottenham Court Road   {Paul Norris}
>|> I allmost forfitted the game then, it *looked* so simple 
>|> from Tottenham Ct Rd. Now, it's no anti-clockwise through Kings-X, so ..
>|> Green Park      {J}
>Wheeee!  Cardiff Central. (sorry; I can't ssttop lauighing( (hint, think
>rugby, then Rugby). {DB}

David, David....

Bristol Temple Meads {PMN}

Paul
From: Steve.Varty@newcastle.ac.uk (Steve Varty)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british,connect.audit
Subject: Re: What's more vulgar to a Brit?
Date: 13 Apr 92 08:10:30 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

Ted.Bebenek@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Ted Bebenek) writes:

>I remember seeing an episode of Red Dwarf (I think the title was 'Better
>Than Life') where they were playing a video game that lets you do
>anything you want.  In one part, they were on a beach, when Lister and
>Cat got on a motorcycle, and both gave Rimmer the middle finger before
>driving off.  Would a people in the UK consider the middle finger as a
>vulgar gesture, even though it isn't used that much?

It is not used in the UK as much as the two fingers, but RD is very
Americanised in its use of the spoken and visual word!

Steve


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From: kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: AYBS names
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:14:45 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: kji@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU

Remember when Mr. Humphreys' first name was originally Wilberforce?  I wonder
why it was changed to Claybourne?
From: alph@wsinfo01.win.tue.nl (G.J.W. Hagenaars)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Blackadder script, help needed
Summary: no
Keywords: Spelling chequer.....
Date: 3 Apr 92 10:02:33 GMT
Reply-To: alph@win.tue.nl

Hello boys and girls,

I've been busy transcribing a Blackadder script, Blackadder goes forth, 
episode 1, `Captain Cook'.

However, I could use some help checking the spelling, and the (often)
ambiguous words I came across.

So, IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WILLING TO GIVE ME A HAND?

To make sure that my mailbox is not flooded with requests to hand out
the script: I will post it to the net, eventually; that is, as soon as 
it is properly reviewed.

I would prefer someone who has the actual episode on tape. As I have. 
(There are still some sentences missing).

Greetings
Gert-Jan Hagenaars

Some beans and some beans is four beans.
(Baldrick)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: going to london...
From: stevens1@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:17:39 MST
Reply-To: stevens1@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona, College of Engineering and Mines, Tucson

i will be in London in mid-May and would like to see some of my favorite
British comedians in the flesh.  I'm a devoted fan of Whose Line is it Anyway,
with Tony Slattery and Josie Lawrence being my especial favorites.  But above
all I would like to see John Sessions performing live.  If anyone knows any
info about the WLIIA cast and their other projects, please reply.
Thanks!
From: Grandma@Forest
Newsgroups: alt.forgery
Subject: A lame-o forge
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:33:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr8.033301.6391
Reply-To: The Grim Reaper
Organization: Hehee

How hard is this to trace?
Newsgroups: alt.forgery