Just one question: Is Richard Stillgoe still going?
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Just one question: Is Richard Stillgoe still going?
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You mean, stil!
I’ve just http://www.orpheus.org.uk/richard_biog.htm">Googled him. I stand corrected. Or sit corrected, actually.
Very wise.
Although Catterick alone was worth the license fee. Not that I pay it. (Someone else does.)
By the standards of his time, I think Oscar certainly was!
🙂
html? -How To Make Letters
Compared to some of my ‘formatting’ yours seems inherently stable.
I remember Round The Horne (I only my “4Ever39″ button to attract attention) and here’s another joke:
Q:”Why was Poe so hungry all the time?”
A:”Looking at that bird made him ravenous”
But then the question we must ask ourselves is… wait for it… Was Thornton wilder?
(Cue roll on drum and splash cymbal.)
re. also “Polari (also seen as ‘Palare’) is a gay slang language”.
Dear Q.,
You may have forgotten that I once worked in the ‘Merchant navy’. Polari was used extensively by some of the crew – “queens” as they were known, on board ship.I knew one whom we called “Dora Brown – The Silver Queen” (but that ‘episode’ will have to wait for a future blog or perhaps ‘she’ may make an appearance, at some stage, in my current, on-going sagalet “Here’s Looking At Me Kid!”).
Regarding the descriptor/expression “queens” -in the very early sixties the word “gay” was still commonly used as an adjective whose meaning was “Full of, disposed to, or indicating joy and mirth; light-hearted, carefree” and had not yet changed into the dominant (no pun intended) word meaning as used nowadays (that change started to happen towards the mid-late sixties).
It is very refreshing to read Parlare again, Quentin, and to be reminded of “Bella”, “Dora” and one or two others from those times, whose ‘images’ had slipped down into the archives of my memory, and you have brought a grin to my face, directing me to that link. Thank you.
Oscar, Oscar, as a child, did your mother call you wild?
Did she say “Please don’t do that!”, did she say “Take off my hat!”
Did she ever say “I fear the English ‘attitude’ is queer –
Regarding Ireland’s bold idea- on revolutionary rhymes,
And one must say, with some dismay,
That none appear, that’s very clear, within the London Times.
That’s why, wild boy, I use a ploy to publish all my stanza.
I write my poems here*, you see, and call myself “Speranza”
Oscar, Oscar, as a man, did you learn more in the ‘can’
Were you wild in Reading Gaol?,
Or were you Wilde, withdrawn and pale?
Oscar, Oscar, Wilde or wild, your legacy leaves me beguiled.
(c)lokutus_prime 2005
I must be more careful with my html.
Vic Reeves joke: “True or fales: Lynne Faulds Wood?”
Works better spoken, when the spelling different isn’t there. obviously.
Didn’t see it I’m afraid – I don’t tend to catch much TV.
This is only tangentially related, but I thought Catterick was the best thing that’s been on telly in ages.
Almost as bad as my jokes.
But anyway, http://www.chris-d.net/polari/">bona to vada your eek again, and thank you for screeving your fantabulosa poem.
I am reminded of one of my favourite jokes from Round the Horne:
Do you know Poe’s Raven?
I never listen to gossip, dearie.
My pleasure.