tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post6475810996127424308..comments2024-02-13T10:20:04.888+00:00Comments on David Hepworth's blog: Mrs Slocum: the joke goes on foreverDavid Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-8585963794713318712009-07-02T20:56:53.405+01:002009-07-02T20:56:53.405+01:00Nice piece guvnur.
Any particular reason for wri...Nice piece guvnur. <br /><br />Any particular reason for writing it though? Did someone else die, or is it just Michael Jackson's favourite show?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-65651512478978784162009-07-02T16:00:27.055+01:002009-07-02T16:00:27.055+01:00Lee: I think that just shows where hackery ends an...Lee: I think that just shows where hackery ends and great comic acting begins.<br />Archie: It's a black day that isn't lightened in some measure by reading the words "Hylda Baker's Nellie Pledge". But I think they all owe a debt to the work of Norman Evans.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tROn6LOvPAYDavid Hepworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03541581777824775884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-4651865230288408962009-07-02T15:10:15.232+01:002009-07-02T15:10:15.232+01:00I'm sure that Mollie Sugden would have been th...I'm sure that Mollie Sugden would have been the first to admit that Mrs Slocombe owed a huge debt to both Hylda Baker's Nellie Pledge and Jean Alexander's Hilda Ogden.Archie_Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04582569974503175543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-36085682438513712512009-07-02T14:36:05.969+01:002009-07-02T14:36:05.969+01:00Though I watched one of the 'One The Buses'...Though I watched one of the 'One The Buses' films again last year thinking it might provide the same kid of stupid saucy chuckles but it was just awful.londonleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08431179744928331353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-54930204624628426982009-07-02T14:34:23.268+01:002009-07-02T14:34:23.268+01:00I must admit "sitting at home with their puss...I must admit "sitting at home with their pussies" made me laugh. Sometimes I think my sense of humour has regressed, I don't find Woody Allen all that funny anymore but the phrase "my pussy" makes me giggle.londonleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08431179744928331353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-43986774289943184602009-07-02T13:19:15.213+01:002009-07-02T13:19:15.213+01:00Actually I've got the AYBS Christmas specials ...Actually I've got the AYBS Christmas specials on DVD (which had to be imported from the US) - my kids 9 and 12 love it - but not as much as they love On The Buses. Literally tears and scream ups, when we capped it at two episodes per viewing ..<br /><br />Mrs Slocum's character was the Lady Bracknell of the lingerie department<br /><br />Word verification was 'pulom' you couldn't make it up could youMondohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11199468951602465556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-26045626021016717612009-07-02T10:16:42.487+01:002009-07-02T10:16:42.487+01:00Never could stand AYBS but now that you've int...Never could stand AYBS but now that you've introduced the idea that Mrs Slocombe actually = The Wife of Bath I'm going to have to rethink. Dammit.ageing hipsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12647157883729105068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-72200595297975230012009-07-02T09:43:31.085+01:002009-07-02T09:43:31.085+01:00I was amazed to find that Grace Bros actually exis...I was amazed to find that Grace Bros actually existed when I went to live in Sydney in 1989. And the main city store at cnr George & Market Sts seemed unchanged from at least the time AYBS was first on TV. (Around the corner, the more upmarket David Jones store still employed a smartly dressed man to operate the lifts, one could almost imagine the AYBS intro theme playing there). I'm sure many a visitor wondered if young Mr Grace was in his office upstairs. Gradually things changed: lines were discontinued and now even the name has gone, it's been rebranded Myer. The memories live on through my photo collection: too many have the then ubiquitous bright red Grace Bros carrier bags as badly placed picture elements.PFactonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-25805260933518346262009-07-02T08:29:00.089+01:002009-07-02T08:29:00.089+01:00I don't think I realised the extent of the dou...I don't think I realised the extent of the double entendre names in AYBS until reading this post. Obviously we all saw Ms Brahms, but the others are equally filthy:<br /><br />Mrs Slocombe<br />Mr Humphries<br />Capt. Peacock<br />Mr Lucas<br />Mr Harman<br />Mr Rumbold<br /><br />Or has the heat addled my brain?John Inneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11860116651243372579noreply@blogger.com