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Good evening. It's good to be back with you again, isn't it, Ronnie? Yes, it is.
And in a packed program tonight, we shall be reading excerpts from the book
written by a man who tried to carry a refrigerator from Athens to
and gave himself a hernia.
It's called A Fridge Too Far.
And then we hope to talk to Mr. Tiny Adcock, who spent his entire working
in the circus, clearing up after the elephants.
He'll be telling us how, as a child, he took his first steps in the business.
But first, the news.
England's team for the World Cup was finally chosen today.
It's Holland.
Peter. Peter and Margaret Nibbs, the newly married mountaineers, today made
unsuccessful attempt on the north face of the Matterhorn and two successful
attempts back at the hotel.
And there was traffic confusion at London Airport this morning when Raquel
popped in.
There was total chaos later when she popped out.
This afternoon, Mr Callaghan left on a tour of friendly countries.
He'll be back tomorrow.
And today came news that geneticists at Cambridge have crossed an elephant with
a contortionist musician to get a four -ton version of Andre Previn that can
tickle its own ivories.
And finally, speaking today at the Weymouth Women's Institute, an unmarried
mother of three blamed her situation on the fact that she was sheltered too much
when younger.
First in the bus shelter, then an old aileron.
Then the sketch which follows.
I play three major roles.
And I play one small role, two tea cakes and a very long piece of French bread.
An eightpenny ice cream cornet, please.
What flavour?
Er, cheese and onion.
Cheese and onion? We don't have cheese and onion.
All right, then.
Smoky bacon?
They don't have smoky bacon, either. They don't make ice creams in them
flavours. Well, you used to have. We didn't. Well, what have you got, then?
We've got strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, dairy, vanilla, nut sundae,
whip, Cornish cream, plum surprise, rhubarb full, knickerbocker glory,
toffee, brittle neapolitan, cosmopolitan, marshmallow, spearmint,
continental, orange, lemon, lime, lychee, pineapple, pomegranate and ugly
Is that all?
Yeah, that's all, yeah.
I'm sure you used to do salt and vinegar. No, no, we never did salt and
ever. You used to do. No, we didn't. Never ever since I worked here have we
salt and vinegar ice cream. Well, how long have you worked here then? Three
weeks. I've never ever done salt and vinegar ice cream.
Well, I think you're deluding yourself.
You do now. All right, I'll have something else.
Sorry, what did you say you had again?
We've got strawberry, vanilla, blueberry, blackberry, gooseberry, fall
shallot, marmalade, onion, lemon, glycerin and menthol, sugared almond,
apricot, seed of knock of glory, banana, collard green, grapefruit, grapefruit,
bright water and green gage jelly.
Do you serve any of those without walnut chippings?
No, we haven't got no walnut chippings, but you could have them without
chocolate sprinkle.
I don't like chocolate sprinkle. I only like them without walnut chippings.
Well, we haven't got any walnut chippings, so you can't have them
chippings, can you? Well, you don't seem to have anything, do you? You haven't
got smoky bacon, you haven't got cheese, none. Look, they don't make ice cream
in them flavours. I've told you that before.
Oh, all right, I'll have something different. I'll have a packet of crisps.
flavour? Raspberry ripples.
Good evening.
My name is Jimmy Dimwitty.
Now, I want to talk to you tonight about the work of an important consumer
organisation called the Anti -Shoddy Goods Committee.
Now, the purpose of the Anti -Shoddy Goods Committee is to protect the public
from the crafty baddies who are selling goods that are grotty, dirty, dowdy,
gaudy or shoddy.
Now, let's take an example.
Supposing you go into a pet shop and they try to sell you a mangy corgi or a
pudgy budgy or a namby -pamby -bamby that you think is a ruddy pansy.
Don't get... Valley Huffy with a shop assistant champion. Just come along to
and in a jiffy, if you're lucky, we'll thrash out the nitty -gritty and clear
the hanky -panky.
We love the hurly -burly of a juicy argy -bargy, and we will not shilly -shally
until all is hunky -dory.
And the same applies to buying a house. We are the people to complain to if an
estate agent tries to sell you a filthy, slummy semi with a nasty, sooty
chimney, and a toxic, turby study in a gloomy, dingy lobby that's as nifty and
smelly as a privy in a navy.
Or a baby in a nappy.
Or a carzy in Benghazi.
A lot of complaints we receive, of course, are about food in restaurants.
The other day, a man came in and told us that he'd taken his wife out to dinner
at the West End, and he'd ordered a sukiyaki with some really spicy chutney
a cup of milky coffee and a scrummy chocky vicky.
A pointy -toity flunky with a gravy on his dick, he brought them yucky -tooty
-fruity and it didn't have a cherry.
Then they found a creepy crawly and committed harikiri and a sticky roly
on the mutton sweeties of it.
And the cherry wasn't beefy and the turkey was all tacky and the plate of
minestrone tasted more like cock -a -leekie.
His tummy felt quite rummy, for the cap he was so sleazy he contracted beriberi.
He was feeling mighty queasy.
When he went to spend a penny, he felt such a silly billy, because he couldn't
dilly -dally, it just happened willy -nilly.
Well, you see, he was looking very peaky, he was feeling very grotty, and
spent all day on Sunday sitting sadly on the potty, so he came along to ask the
Anti -Shoddy Goods Committee.
And we told him very plainly why he felt so ruddy. Shocking.
So if you've bought a whiskey and it's made you rather frisky, or just a little
cookie that's looking for some nookie, or if you're feeling dicky and if dicky
takes the mickey, or if you're feeling in the pinky and pinky's feeling perky,
and if perky's feeling rocky and rocky feeling kinky, then you'll all be very
lucky if you don't end up in Chokey.
You can do the hook. If you
think that'll do any good by golly, you must be pretty silly, ruddy,
crazy, or just jolly sloppy. Nighty -nighty.
The yokel murders.
Discovering the bodies of several yokels dressed identically had aroused the
suspicions of our two heroes, Piggy Malone and Charlie Farley.
Arriving at the remote Devonshire village of Drake's Bottom in search of
they had taken lodgings at Darkling's Farm.
Welcomed with great warmth by the farmer's wife, they prepared for bed.
Charlie was the first to receive an unexpected visitor.
But Piggy's intruder was an even more startling surprise.
After the initial shock, Piggy sprang into action.
He knew he'd become the pawn in some deadly game, and he had to work fast.
Stuffing the body under the bed, he was about to go and get Charlie when fate
gave our story another twist.
Lucy Lee, the gypsy girl, a wild, passionate child of nature, whose body
vibrated with the joys of life, and whose heart was a fortress, flanked by a
couple of fairly hefty turrets.
Brave indeed was the man who was prepared to do battle with her, and on
particular night, her big guns were pointing at Piggy.
And Piggy, dumbfounded, could only wonder at the shape of things to come.
Who are you?
I'm Lucy Lee, daughter of Ishmael Lee, king of the gypsies. Well, what do you
want? It's a bit late to come round selling clothes pegs, isn't it?
Here.
You've got a drink.
Oh, it'll be cold.
I should think you are in that dress.
Here you are.
Oh, thank you.
Come on in, sit down.
Oh,
it's lovely.
That's warm the cockles of me heart, that is.
It's wonderful for warming your cockles, that is.
They still look pretty cold to me.
Now, listen, would you mind telling me... So fast, what's your hurry?
People said I got nice eyes.
It's not a question of eyes, is it?
What do you think of my body?
Oh, it's your body, is it? Where did you get it from?
I've always had it, ever since I was a baby.
Oh, my.
This ginger wine has made me feel quite tipsy.
That ginger wine happens to be neat whiskey.
Oh, dear.
I'll just lie back here for a minute.
Come on, you as well.
What are you talking about? Good Lord.
It's George Merrifield.
Is he dead?
Now, just a minute, just a minute. How do you know that it's George Merrifield?
You can't see his face.
I know his boots. He never used to take them off.
Madam, I must know why you're here.
I've come to tell you of impending danger to you and yours.
Oh, I see. It's the gypsy's warning, is it?
Shouldn't I be crossing your hand with silver?
Or in this case, your leg?
These parts is bedevilled.
Take heed of a poor gypsy girl and listen to her drunken words.
Black must do a bound here.
And initiations in the churchyard.
And the de -flowering of maidens.
Get away while the going's good.
But not before you've given up your cuddle.
I was going to tell Charlie all about this. He's up there on his own. He'll
never sleep a wink.
This is all very nice, Lucy, but I really think you ought to go, you know.
If the farmer's wife caught me, she'd give me what for?
She'd give you what for anyway if you'd give half a chance.
Yes, I don't intend to.
Come on.
We can continue this at some later date.
Oh, I'm just not sure if I can.
I feel so drunk.
Where's my shoes?
I've a good mind to get out myself, you know.
It's all getting a bit far -fetched, this.
Oh, don't worry. No harm will come to me as long as you don't interfere.
Have you seen my other shoe?
Here you are.
Listen, what makes you so sure that I'm safe?
I'd be a gypsy.
I don't know about these things.
You've got a lucky face.
I think that's a matter of opinion.
All right, then.
Now I'm going to make you lucky all over. Here we go.
Chief, have you got a woman in there?
No.
It's the radio.
Well,
would you mind just listening to it, not bouncing up and down the bed with it?
Oh,
I'll speak to you in the morning.
Now, if you don't mind, Elsie and I will get back to bed.
Elsie? Yes, Elsie.
Great big silly thoroughbred bitch.
There
you
are. You've got to keep your strength up, you naughty boy.
Chief, she's after you and all.
I know, but what am I going to do about it?
Well, you can discourage her. That's what you can do.
You've got enough in your hands with a little gypsy girl as it is.
Up half the night.
I'm surprised you've got the strength to lift that knife and fork.
Look, I've just explained about all that, haven't I?
What worries me is that the body under the bed has disappeared, as well as the
gypsy girl. When I woke up this morning, they were both gone.
got the key to her room, she might have popped in in the middle of the night.
Then she would have seen the gypsy girl, wouldn't she?
She'd never have allowed that. She'd have been on me like a ton of bricks.
If you'd been on your own, she'd have been on you like a ton of bricks.
No, she saw you all right. Saw you both, as a matter of fact. That's what she
meant, don't you see, when she just said there, you naughty boy and all that
belting around the face with these great fists of hers.
So you reckon she took the body, eh?
Well, must have done, mustn't she?
Why? Why? I mean, you know, she's not... Is she in it for the money?
She don't need money, not with all this land and cattle.
I mean, you can't say she doesn't look well -fed, can you?
No.
She covers a pretty big acreage.
Priced a rump steak today, she's sitting on a fortune.
There's only one thing to do. I have to go and investigate this black mass in
the churchyard.
See if the gypsy's warning's true.
I have to go after dark.
What, on your own?
Yeah, a better amount. really. You stay here and look for the body.
You know, on my own, because I can be, you know, a bit more light -footed than
you, you know.
You can be a bit clumsy.
Clumsy?
No, I didn't mean clumsy. I didn't mean that, sorry. It's just that the two of
us, you know, two of us will make twice the noise.
See what I mean? If I go and moan, you know, I can be quiet and delicate.
What is the secret of the black man?
Where has the gypsy girl gone to?
Just how big is the farmer's wife's smallholding?
Find out next week in another exciting episode of Stop!
You're killing me!
I wonder why he did it.
Eh?
I wonder why he did it.
Who? God.
God? Yeah, God, yeah.
Oh, God.
Did what?
All this.
Watney's did all this.
I'm not talking about the pub, you book.
I'm talking about the heavens and the earth and the mountains and the seas and
the fish that swim in the seas and the birds that fly in the air and the
creatures that crawl upon the dust and the plants that groweth out of the
I don't know.
Big project, wasn't it, eh? Well, not for him, it wasn't. I only took him six
days. Yeah.
Marvellous, isn't it, that, eh? That's marvellous, that, his six days.
Took the council six months to put a toilet in me bathroom.
And after he'd done it all, he flooded it. Yeah.
Same thing happened in my bathroom.
To top it all, to top it all, he created us.
In his own likeness. I can't accept that.
It says that in the book, doesn't it? In his own likeness. Well, we can't all be
like him, can we, eh? I mean, I doubt very much if you're like him.
I mean, I can't imagine a God with national health teeth and piles.
The medical term for it is asteroid.
Yeah, I know that, I know that.
You see, I reckon where God made his big mistake was to give us a head.
Now, if I was God, now I'm not God, don't get me wrong. No, no.
If I was God, if I was God, I would do away with the head altogether.
Knock it on the headlight.
I would incorporate the eyes, nose and mouth in the chest.
But listen, if you got rid of the head, where would I put my grass helmet?
Well, I've got a couple of suggestions.
Cut your attic for once.
They tried this getting rid of the head before, you know. When? During the
French Revolution.
Only most of the patients died.
Now, I'm talking about a complete rethink design -wise. Because you've
been very hot and do -it -yourself, haven't you? Yeah, yeah.
And another thing I'd give us, I'll tell you what else I'd give us and all, and
that is a third eye.
In case the other two went in a blink, you mean.
Yeah, yeah.
Now, if you was God, now, you're not God, I know that. No, no, fair enough.
if you was God, where would you put that third eye?
Very difficult, isn't it?
You know, loads of places where you, you know, could put it, isn't it?
Put it in your belly button, couldn't you?
That's no good. You'd be blinded by your vest.
Where are you going to put it, then?
On the end of your pointing finger.
Well, think of the things you could do with it. You could go like that, look
round the corner.
I was coming, so he did bump into you. You could look over an eye wall like
that, couldn't you?
You could look behind you like that.
You could even look down your own ear like that.
You could even look down other people's ears and all like that.
Yeah, it's true.
Mind you, listen, what happened to you short -sighted? You couldn't have little
glasses in the end of your film.
But you'd be less short -sighted by the length of your arm.
There's a lot of things you could do with it.
Mind you, on the other hand, there's a lot of things you have to stop doing
it.
Yeah,
there is a lot of things.
There were a lot of things.
Wearing gloves for a start.
Yeah, rolling your own, dialling telephone numbers. No, that would be all
see, because if you was left -handed, you could put them on your right -hand
point of finger. If you was right -handed, you could put them on your left
point of finger, see? Yeah, that would be handy, in case you were to remain
ambiguous, you mean.
Ambidextrous.
Ambidextrous? I thought that was a mouthwash.
Oh, is it? Yeah.
It would be wonderful, wouldn't it, to be all -powerful, totally in control of
all, you know, to be God, to be totally in control of everything, wouldn't it,
in that way? Yeah, yeah. Go to your head, though, wouldn't it?
Well, it couldn't do. You wouldn't have one, you see.
You see, your eye, this time, is on the end of your finger. Of course it is,
yes, on the end of your pointy finger. That's right.
I forgot that, yes.
It's a...
Ooh!
I see suspenders are back in fashion.
Delta Tango 1 to Foxtrot Whiskey Bravo. Over.
Foxtrot Whiskey Bravo receiving. Go ahead, Delta Tango 1.
Over.
What do you think of the new policewoman? Over.
Very arresting, Delta Tango 1.
She can oil my truncheon any time.
Over.
Affirmative, Foxtrot Whiskey Bravo.
Am responding also.
Delta Tango 1 to Zulu Charlie India. Over.
Zulu Charlie India receiving.
Go ahead, Delta Tango 1.
Over. May I borrow your rubber? Over.
Affirmative, Delta Tango 1.
Over.
Over and out.
Roger, Zulu Charlie India. Your rubber time at 15 .31. Over.
Foxtrot Whiskey Bravo to all units.
Did anyone see the match last night? Over.
Delta Tango 1 to Foxtrot Whiskey Bravo. Yes, I saw it. Over.
Not a bad match, considering that last up and under. Over.
Negative, Foxtrot Whiskey Bravo. I was glad when it was over. Over.
What did you think of it, George?
I didn't see it. I was...
Didn't give you your call sign. Didn't give you your call sign. Now you're up.
Fred wins again.
That was the third game I won on the trot.
What shall we do now?
Let's watch the Nolan sisters.
Over.
Peace.
Before you shot him And take you in his arms And drive you wild
Here's rather an unusual story about an octopus, which I hope will not give
offence to any octopus lovers watching tonight.
Well, everything's possible, you know. I remember when I was small, and
I have been smaller, never any bigger.
That is a story I put around, and that story I put around about my being bigger
is entirely wrong.
When I said that if I hadn't upset our local witch doctor, I'd still be in the
Grenadier Guards.
That's a lie.
But as I was saying, all things are possible. Now, when I... You're seeing
now, aren't you? When I was a small child, I was once in love with an
Now, this was after we got rid of the budgie, you know. Well, he had to go,
because he kept saying, Who's a pretty boy, then? Who's a pretty boy?
Until my father began to take it personally.
And bought himself some eye shadow and a handbag.
What I was saying was I dearly wanted a little pet.
And my father, you know, never had much money. You know, he would have had, you
know, if he hadn't spent it all on eye shadow and handbags.
So he bought me an earwig.
Well, he never actually bought it, you know. He got it off some people down the
road who had more earwigs than they wanted.
And I really...
I really loved that earwig.
I'd do anything for him. Saturday mornings, I used to hang about the
see if I could pick him up an ear.
And I used to teach him tricks, you know, little things. And then one day
had, at the pub, they had an unusual pets competition, you know.
And I took my earwig along in a matchbox and I put him, you know, in his little
hoop at his piano and got the tightrope out there in front.
He got up and...
And when the judge... I cracked my little whip, you know.
I had a little cotton whip. I used to crack it. And out he came.
Out he came to go up the tightrope. One of the judges said, look at that bloody
earwax.
But I digress. And back to the story about the octopus, which concerns a
chap who got himself a job in a zoo.
And the first morning, the man in charge said to him, he said, this morning, he
said, I'd like you to clean out the octopus.
And the chap said, um,
uh, how do I, you know, how do I do that, he said.
Because he's not very bright, this chap.
He said, um, how do I do that, he said. Actually, the crew, now I'll tell you
why the crew are laughing, because that voice is a very lifelike impersonation
of our new producer on the show.
Hello, Ron, he said.
I don't know why I'm laughing. I'm not very careful. The unemployment
population, the unemployment population, would have risen next Monday to 1 ,200
,000 and a half.
Although I must be fair and say that this one, this new producer, is better
the other chap, you know, or the other fellow. He had to go, you know.
He drank as well, you know.
No, this man doesn't drink half as much, to be honest with you.
He spills most of it.
I actually heard this joke last night at the other producer's farewell party. We
had a very quiet affair, to be honest.
Actually, as good times go, it would rate about the same as being trapped in
lift.
The BBC were trying out their latest technique to save on drinks.
They hide the barman's hearing aid.
you're trying to order a drink. We have two Jehovah's Witnesses trying to talk
you out of it.
Then the record players all broke down. All the record players broke down
completely. So we put the telly on.
And a few of us danced to Match of the Day.
And then the head of light entertainment showed us the home movie of his
divorce.
It's a rather sad story, actually. She was a German girl, you know, and they
during the war.
They could never agree on how to bring up the children, you know. He wanted
to go into show business, you know, and she wanted them to attack Poland.
LAUGHTER Which rather luckily reminds me of the joke I
was telling.
The chap.
The Polish octopus, remember the one?
I suppose that sounds a bit contrived, doesn't it? Well, you've got to admire
the style, haven't you?
Haven't you?
I know you're out there.
I can hear you breathing.
So the zookeeper said to the new man, he said, what I want you to do is get the
octopus out of his tank, dump him in the wheelbarrow, clean out the tank, then
put him back again. Off you go.
A little while later, back comes the chap, he says, I can't get him out of
tank.
Keeps holding on to the glass with his teeth, with his suckers, you know.
Slip of the tongue.
Slip of the tongue on this program, I could be back on Magic Roundabout.
And it can get pretty damned hot in that doogle skin.
So the man in charge said, if he won't behave himself, you'll have to use the
shovel, he said. So a few minutes later, the chap came back. He said, it's no
good. As soon as I prise one arm loose from the shovel, he gets a grip of the
other one, like this.
The man said, no, you don't do it that way at all. He said, you take the
you give him a whack on the head with it, and he goes, oh, me head, and then
pick it up.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's wonderful to be with you again.
She's been terribly excited all day. Now, don't overdo it, dear, because you
want to tell all the ladies and gentlemen all about what we're going to
you go, dear.
Well, this evening, Dame Hilda and I thought, bearing in mind... Don't forget
tell them about the Jubilee year, dear.
Indeed, yes. Bearing in mind that, of course, this is Jubilee year. Yes, they
know that, dear. I'll just tell them all that.
All right. We thought we'd take a little peek into the past, other famous royal
years, and the gracious history of our dignified and gracious and beautiful
royal family. Yes.
Thank you very much, Evadne. Thank you.
First of all, the first coronation of Edward VII, that was in 1902.
My goodness, as long ago as that is, it only seems like last year. No, no, no,
Daddy, you're thinking of the repeats on ITV, dear.
1902 was, of course, the heyday of the music hall.
Gertie Guitana, Mari Lloyd, Vesta Tiddy. Yes, and of course, my very own
favourite, George Tickle. Do you remember him, the famous female
Oh, bent as a fork, dear.
Camp as a row of silver sausages.
As clear as a tin of sardines. Yes, I know. We need to go into that. Do we,
dear? I mean, it takes all sorts, doesn't it? Let me sing you a song now.
like to sing you a song now. One of George Tickle's favourite songs. His
drag songs. Now, you will have to bear with me, of course.
Because, remember, I am a woman playing a man who is playing a woman.
At least.
Yes.
The song is called Moderation. Thank you.
to introduce myself to all you lovely men.
My name is Miss Golightly, and I'm on the loose again.
My engagement to the Duke of Dis was broken off last May, and he sent me to
south of France for a nine -month holiday.
Now I'm back in circulation. I've rejoined the social world.
I'm really awfully popular and have been since a girl.
But I do have certain standards, and I never let them drop.
I'm very good at most things, but I do know when to stop.
If I'm drinking at a party, then I stop when I'm half -tight.
I believe in doing things in moderation.
If I'm dining with a man, I only stop out half the night. I believe in doing
things in moderation.
I went out... with a footballer, he really was sublime.
I said, are you a halfback as I sipped his gin and lime?
He said, no, I'm centre forward, so I stopped him at half time.
I believe in doing things in moderation.
When cuddling with a motorist, I don't mind if he swerves. I believe in doing
things in moderation.
I tell him, take your time and please go easy around the curves. I believe in
doing things in moderation.
london once lured me to his lair he asked my hand in marriage but i told him
then and there i just held up two fingers and said that's all i can spare
believe in doing things in moderation
The 111th coronation year of our dear George V and our beloved Queen Mary. Oh,
yes, the dear thing, dear thing. She loved Gilbert and Sullivan, you know,
because everyone did. Oh, yes, I loved Gilbert.
Did you? Not personally, dear, did you? No, no, no, I did know him intimately.
He wrote this rather special version of I Have a Song to Sing In, especially for
me, you know. Oh, yes. Yes, indeed. I invited him to my house on Primrose Hill
one wintry afternoon. I offered him something warm in the conservatory.
He wrote me this. I hope you're going to like it. Oh, yes, of course they'll
like it. Of course they will. They always do. I always enjoy this myself
I'm allowed to play my little tambourine in the middle, in the little twiddly
bits. Thank you very much. Off we go. Go.
I have a song to sing.
Sing me a song.
I sing of a man who is six foot tall, whose legs are strong and hair.
Whose muscles bounce right through his clothes With some of these and lots of
those Who I saw last night as he danced on his toes In the dance of the sugar
plum fairy Lady, oh, lady Misery me, lackaday me It
plainly shows he's one of those Trust me to pick a fairy
I have a song to sing, oh Sing me a song
Whose skin is bronzed and shiny Whose face is lean Whose eyes are bright Who
hits each ball right out of sight I played around with him last night And
handicap is tiny If
you'd been on the green You'd have seen what I mean His handicap was tiny
His handicap was trying.
Now we would like to finish with what we call our farmyard medley. Thank you.
With Mabel and Molly, we thought that it might be jolly to spend our summer
holidays down on the farm. We wanted no dramas with gentlemen farmers,
so we wore very thick pyjamas, so we bumped to no harm. But we found what
us tick was certainly nothing rustic, and we can't wait to get our bus ticket
back to Vauxhall. Young girls from the city went down to the nitty -gritty,
cows... And chastity just don't fix a thing.
His name was John, and he works hard for his wages. The baggy
trousers he has on have been in the family for ages.
Old and patched, but they still work hard. So used to him they've grown now.
If he's out courting and he loses them, they trot home on their own now.
Early one morning, just as the sun was rising, I heard someone saying in the
valley below, mind where you're putting it, you've got your foot in it. It
wasn't what it was and why, I never know.
Where the bee sucks, where the socks are.
Where the pig's thighs, their thighs are.
Where the picnic lies, there I die, I'm not a spy. Too easy, why? They look so
wide, they smell so high.
If it gets worse, I shall die.
wondering why they built the farmhouse right next to the sky meridy meridy
wondering why pig's known as pork when it's poked in a pie pig in a poke and
pork in a pie
Where the cows slip, there slip I.
Where the cows slip, so do I.
In the meadow grass I lie.
There I sigh and walk the fly.
On the cow patch I do lie.
I'll just have to tell you when to come to the meadow grass.
Dreamily, dreamily shall I live now.
There with the cow pants that comes from the cow.
Dreamily, steamily, shall I live now.
Meat -eating daisies and carved meat in cow.
Right in the cow pants that comes from the cow.
Well, that's all we have time for tonight, but before we go, the late
Mr. Percy Tweeter, a Warminster stereo enthusiast, today celebrated 25 years of
marriage. He paid tribute to his wife's high fidelity and said that although her
bass had developed a wobble, she still went smoothly at three speeds and turned
on at the touch of a finger.
And British scientists... Do it again.
Which puts them in second place behind French scientists who do it again and
again.
This week, research teams from Dunn and McDougall, working together, have
produced the world's first self -raising hat.
Next week, we'll be meeting the ornithologist who took his hearing aid
mended eight months ago and hasn't heard a dicky bird since.
And finally, let us remind you that the new BBC series, How to Improve Your Sex
Life, goes out for the first time tonight at 11 .45.
Just in case you missed it, it will be repeated at 20 -minute intervals
throughout the night.
So, it's goodnight from me, and it's goodnight at 20 -minute intervals from
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