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Good evening. It's wonderful to be with you again, isn't it, Ronnie? Yes, it
certainly is. And in a packed programme tonight, I shall be interviewing the
scientists who have managed to produce a pill in cream bun form.
It's so you can eat your cake and have it.
Then I'll be having a few words on the phone with the man who crossed an Irish
spinster with the potato marketing board to get a woman who's grateful for small
Murphys.
But first, the news.
Earlier this evening at Wexford, the All -Ireland Tree -Felling Championships
was won by tree -fellers from Dublin.
The go -slow of jockeys continues.
Last Monday's 3 .30 at Cheltenham has just finished.
And the stewards have called for an oil painting to decide the winner.
Officials at Hayward's Heath Zoo have stepped up their search for a mate for
poor homesick Brutus, their lonely, sex -starved elephant, after he was found
earlier today trying to board a Jumbo at Gatwick.
The mystery of the chimney found in the middle of the Sahara Desert was finally
explained last night. The Irish engineer read the plans upside down.
It's meant to be a well.
An unfortunate fire at New Scotland Yard today destroyed hundreds of criminal
records, including deck of cards by Max Bygrave.
Finally, our political correspondent
tells us that a gay conservative has been crossed with a very young liberal
give a fairy Tory with a nappy ending.
And now a sketch featuring Mr Ronnie Corbett, who in his early days was an
artist's model, but had to give it up because he had so little to show for it.
Ah, good evening.
Good evening.
Tickle your body with a feather tonight.
I beg your pardon?
As in particularly grotty weather tonight. Oh, yes.
Rosalie, that sweater looks a little risky. Pardon?
I say, I'd better have a little whiskey. Oh, yes, of course.
I thought you said something about my jumper. No, no, no, that's very nice.
Oh, thank you. Mustn't get hiccups or they'll fall out. What did you say?
I just heard the cricket score. They're all out.
Now, who's this silly arse with an ugly daughter?
I beg your pardon?
I say, would you kindly pass the jug of water?
Thanks awfully, you dozy fish face.
What? I say, thanks awfully cozy, this place.
You don't mind my saying so. You seem to be saying things other than what you
say you're saying, if you see what I mean. Oh, well, that's a moustache, you
see. It tends to muffle my voice somewhat. The wife likes it so.
shave it off and drown it in the sink.
Otherwise, you'd what? I'd shave it off. I'm sounding indistinct.
Oh, of course.
You're a nice little girl, aren't you?
Do you drop them for a friend?
No.
I said, have you dropped in on your friend?
Oh, no. He's my boss.
He's an accountant.
Oh, well, an accountant, yes.
My name is Collinson, by the way. I sell long hooters to alligators.
You what? I sell computers and calculators.
So this is your secretary, what? Yes, yes. We're working late at the office.
Going back for a squeeze and a cuddle? Yes, going back for VATs and a muddle.
Yes, she's, uh... As a matter of fact, she is my new secretary. I had to sack
the last one.
Ah, she ignored your advances.
Yes, she was a bore at dances, yes.
I suppose this one's a right little goer.
Yes, she does write a little slower, but I don't worry at all.
I can see her sort, yes. She's one of the mad with desire brigade.
Strange that you should realise that. What?
Her dance with the fire brigade.
Come on, dear, we must be going. I want to look up your skirt and down your
dress.
I want to look up Lord Burton's town address.
I think that's somewhere in my drawers.
Oh, that sounds like an invitation.
If I were you, I'd lurch through those drawers and get her back to the office.
Yes, I'll search through her drawers and get her a bag of toffees.
Yes, but let's talk about you.
You'll never drown with those water wings.
I beg your pardon? I say you ought to wear brown with those sort of things.
It's not really your moustache. You're actually saying those things, aren't
Well, just trying to drum up a bit of trade, that's all.
What sort of trade? I sell deaf aids.
Pardon? Oh, good.
Morning. Yes? Do you sell beans?
Yes. Yes, I'd like a tin of beans, please.
What sort would you like? Well, not particular, really. Oh, you're not
particular, are you?
Can I tell you a little story, sir? When I first took over this little shop, it
was a sort of general store, you know, sold a bit of everything, you see. And
would have remained so to this day, had not the first customer that crossed that
threshold. Asked me for a particular type of beans which I didn't have in
Now, that taught me a lesson, that did, you see, because I lost money over that
sale, didn't I? And I vowed then and there that no -one would ever catch me
without a particular variety of bean in stock.
I've got the lot here.
In fact, that's all I sell now, beans.
That's all I sell. I've got baked beans, I've got boiled beans, I've got butter
beans, French beans, kidney beans.
I've got haricot beans, string beans, soya beans, runner beans, lima beans,
green beans, black beans, brown beans, chilli beans, curry beans, broad beans,
narrow beans, big beans, little beans, fat beans, thick beans, flat beans.
I've got beans and sausage, beans and pork, beans and meatballs, beans and
liver, beans and kidney, beans and chicken, beans and frankfurter,
beef burger, steak burger, bacon burger, cheeseburger, limb burger, silly
burger, ham, lamb, lamb.
dare to drag your carcass in here and tell me you're not particular?
Well, sorry, I didn't realise.
Right. What sort of beans do you want?
Well, you say you do any sort of beans. Try me.
Well, I have a tin of beans and frog.
Frog.
Common frog, tree frog, green frog, brown frog, blue frog.
Common frog. One tin of beans with common frog.
Anything else? Yes, I'll have a tin of beans and dromedary. Beans with
dromedary, certainly.
There we are, one beans with dromedary.
There we are.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'll take that back. That's camel.
With dromedary.
Is that a lot then, sir? No, I'm going to have a tin of beans with leg of South
Madagascan lesser -spotted pigeon -toed orangutan.
Right, ladies. all their flakes?
Or would you rather have beans with big toe of Paraguayan penguin?
Or would you rather have beans with boiled giblets of Himalayan snowman? Oh,
knickers! Oh, eh, come here, come here.
Lay silk, cotton, French, or camel.
it has been decided that this is the last Christmas to be spent in the Old
English Manor.
As from next year, due to an EEC agreement, Christmas will become Euro
Christmas. We'll be linking hands across the sea.
What will this mean? Well, it won't be easy.
It will be a time of closed factories and non -productivity when the tide of
new technological miracle is turned off like an empty bucket.
To illustrate the problem, here is a graph.
Here is another graph.
And here is the first graph upside down.
Here are some hands across the sea.
And here is an empty bucket.
And here is a picture of the Prime Minister.
But things aren't as bad as that.
Now, what will... Thank you. Now, what will your Christmas...
What will it be like? Well, of course, you won't be allowed turkey, because
turkey isn't a member of the Common Market.
have West Germany instead.
Roast West Germany with Brussels sprouts.
Followed by European Christmas pudding or Europe pudding. Who's a pudding?
Europe pudding.
Now, after your Christmas dinner, you will all pull your European crackers.
Provided you finish with your pudding, of course.
Now, here... Here
is the new seventh stage European cracker.
The Italian stage has failed.
Now, here is next year's special Eurojoke.
Who was that lady I saw you with last night?
It wasn't my wife, it was my wife.
Jamaica? No, she's a departee of her own accord.
My dachshund has no hooter.
have Christmas at once. Europe would be a very vulnerable place if a hostile
power attacked it when everyone was pulling their wishbones and wearing
three sizes too small and climbing down chimneys stoned to the eyeballs.
So Christmas will be staggered. In future, every day will be Christmas Day
somewhere. Very simply, it will work like this. For people in Britain,
will start as normal in October.
France will have Christmas on March the 9th.
Denmark on April the 18th.
and Luxembourg due to computer error on August the 86th.
Wales will have its Christmas amalgamated with the Jewish New Year.
And, of course, we shall continue to ignore Scotland.
Now, if all that sounds complicated, here is an easy guide.
of Christmases in 1981.
This is due to a statistical freak who works in the office here.
And Germany won't have a Christmas until 1998.
Served you right, you silly old crow -tits.
Now, if you wish to visit other areas during their Christmas period, a permit
will have to be obtained from the stationery office. This is designed to
people with caravans having Christmas all the year round.
Thirdly and lastly, here is the European gift -wrapping paper, you see,
Europaper. Now, you must do up your presents in this or you'll be shot.
It shows an Italian waiter stuffing a French onion into a Danish pastry
by Princess Grace of Monaco.
And on the back, it's the other way round.
Not the old Danish pastry, right?
And, of course, special stamps will be issued retaining the spirit of Christmas
with the Queen's head in one corner and the Parson's nose in the other.
about wraps it up. Or if it doesn't, of course, you'll have to use two pieces.
Now, don't forget, in Europe, they are one hour ahead of us. So you will have
go to bed an hour earlier and sleep on the right.
This means you will have an extra hour in bed to do whatever you normally do.
Only for longer.
And sooner.
So if you haven't started yet, get on with it. Good night.
And you say she had triplets, Ed, and she wasn't even married?
That's right.
She didn't even know who the fathers are.
Oh.
I bet she's calling them some names.
She is, yes.
Mavis, Mick, Mandy, I think.
You know what, I put it all down to, of course, I put it all down to this
women's lib and pomography, you know.
Well, if it wasn't for women's lib, we wouldn't be out here tonight enjoying
ourselves, would we, eh?
I'd be home, you know, chained up as usual.
Oh, is that what gets George going, is it?
No, dear, chained up in the sink, you know, spilling away all them tea leaves.
Oh, I see, yes. Sid prefers a bag, you know. He's got this thing about grouts.
Careful, dear. I think the governor's wife's one. Careful what he's saying.
What, a bag? She is, she is.
No, dear, a kraut. No, no, not a kraut, dear. A grout. What's the matter with
you? Someone been putting alcohol in your gin and orange?
You know, I shall never forget the first time Sid turned me on. No.
On the seafront when we met, you know, he was this sailor with a big bag of
prawns.
You know what they do to you, don't you? What, sailors, dear? What did he do to
you? No, sailors, dear.
Prawns, prawns. Oh, yes. They are a sort of disiac, you know.
Disiac? Yes.
Afro, you mean, dear? No, not afro. It's a hairstyle, isn't it, afro?
No, it's all black and frizzy. No, dear, they've got pink whiskers. No, black
frizzy hair, love, they've got. Prawns, dear, have got pink whiskers.
is he was trying to stuff me with them.
Trying to lower your resistance, was he?
What he was trying to lower, love.
I'll tell you something, it didn't make me fond, it just simply made me maudlin,
you know.
Yes, I've always kind of liked him, funnily enough. I was only thinking
him today to read the paperback.
Who? Reggie Maudlin.
That's Sid, not politics.
Oh, sorry.
I often wonder where Sid's politics are.
Same place as George's, I presume.
Now, what I mean is, what I really mean is, you know, is he more comfortable to
the left or the right?
I mean, you've got to have your commitment somewhere, dear.
You've got to be in something.
When he's wearing his tight jeans, I can see there's something he's definitely
in. What's that?
Agony.
Nice pub, this, isn't it? It is nice. Yeah.
Could do a little scrubbing brush here and there. Oh, the governor's going to
get someone to come and clean it, yeah.
We ought to have an outing here every week, you know. That's what I say we're
going to, because two blokes in the public bar have recommended that the
governor has us every Friday night.
Oh, do you think we ought to go as far as that?
Has us as what, dear?
Scrubbers, dear. Cut the scrubbers.
Do we know these two fellas? I don't know. They're in the public bar at the
moment. I just have a peek.
Do we know them? Oh, my God. Do we know them? I should think we do.
Well, who are they, then? George and Sid. Oh, dear, dear, dear.
George, you're a pretty knowledgeable chap, aren't you?
Yes, yes.
Yeah? Well, do you think you ought to take any notice of rumours?
Pardon me?
Well... Fell over at the bar and he just said to me, he said to me, your wife's
after anything in trousers.
What does he mean? She's a pickpocket or what?
Oh, no.
Oh, no. He said it with kind of what's -her -name, you know, a wink. You know
what I mean? Oh, did he? Yeah.
Oh, well, see, that's different, isn't it? Yeah.
Yeah, what, how do you feel about your little one?
Well, my little, well, she's different, isn't she? She's different. Yeah, well,
yeah, she's bigger, isn't she, for a start? Yeah.
No, no. I mean, you'd never... She's no raving beauty or anything. You'd never
get her on page three.
No. You wouldn't get her on page three and page four put together, would you?
No,
she's not as bad as all that. No, no, don't get me wrong. But what I mean to
is, where women is concerned, and particularly with my age, you see, I've
been that much of a... Well, I've never really fancied... You know, I've never
really actually been a... I mean, I've never... You know what I mean, don't
Whereas you always have, ain't you?
Well, no, no more than kind of... What do you mean, no more than kind of? Well,
no more than normal, you know. I mean, more than you, but no more than normal.
When you was on your honeymoon, you used to have your nightcap with your
afternoon tea, didn't you?
Come on, me and Lil didn't go up every night early, did we? Be honest, eh?
Very often we'd stay, well, maybe till even the end of The Archers, you know.
That's what I'm talking about. You see, well, because I am not so much as...
As others. As others, you see. I have the opportunity to stand back and view
women from a distance, you see, as it were. Because I... I mean, you see,
they're not like us, you know. They are not like us. They're not like human
beings at all. They are a completely different species.
Different species, because they... They have these... They have these places,
don't they?
Places? Yeah, you know. You've heard of the erosive zones, haven't you?
Well, I've seen pictures of them on holiday brochures.
No, no, no.
Erosive zones, that is the medical term for a place that a woman's got, you see,
where if you touch it, she goes mad.
Well, you and Lil's got one of them.
Yeah, a purse.
I'll give you a for instance, look. Yeah? Look, yesterday evening, well, it
last night, about three o 'clock this morning, actually.
Edie woke me up, see?
Thought I heard a bit of a noise, yeah. Yeah. Do you know what she wanted me to
do? She wanted me to nibble her ear.
Ear? What, ear in the pub, you mean? Her ear,
her ear. A lug hole ear. A lug hole.
See, that is one of her erosive zones, her lug hole. Yeah.
That's why she keeps having them fantasies about that bloke who came to
up with a deaf aid.
Well, listen, if all she wants you to do is nibble her ear, why does all that
noise and commotion carry on commotionally? Well, that was me. See,
going to the bathroom to get my false teeth to nibble it with.
But, you see, if women have got more erosive zones than what they're entitled
to, you see, then they could get out of control. They could become a rump of
maniacs.
Really? Yes.
Really? So you think there might be something in this? Well, I think it's
grounds for divorce.
Really? Yeah.
Well, you'd know more about that, wouldn't you? I mean, because you're
knowledgeable about the law and all that, aren't you?
Because you used to clean them windows at solicitors, didn't you?
I mean, me, I don't know a lot about that legal word and the terminology and
that. Now, the other day, for example, I was reading a newspaper about a divorce
case, you see?
Yeah. Now, tell you what, in this paper, they described a woman as his estranged
wife. Oh, yeah. Now, what does that mean? She bar me? Yeah, yeah, that's
Yeah, she's a loony, so he's outing her, giving her big eats. Ah, yeah. Now,
later on in the same article, he said that the marriage was non -consumated.
Now, what's that mean? Well, that is Latin, that is. That's Latin for rotten
cook.
See, she's a rotten cook, so he can't eat the meals, so they remain non
-consumated, you see.
On the sideboard, like. Ah, right. So not only is she balmy, but she can't
That is it in a nutcase, yes.
You see, I think you could divorce your Leo on them grants.
What, because she was barmy, because she couldn't cook?
Well, both, be honest. Yeah.
I mean, I don't know why you married her.
Well, I had to, didn't I?
She got me into trouble, I had to do that.
Got you into trouble?
Yeah.
You shouldn't let her mess you about in the first place. It wasn't in the first
place, it was the second place.
Where was that?
Round our place.
You coming, then? Where are we going? Round my place.
All right.
Listen, but you'll have to do something about it, Cindy, won't you, eh?
Otherwise, you'll soon become the laughingstock, won't you, eh? People
start pointing things at you in the street, won't they?
Eventually, you'll be getting them unanimous letters.
Why?
Why, he said.
Your wife's after any of your trousers. No, he's talking about you, isn't he?
Oh, well, you're all right, eh?
awfully well.
Yes,
I always know where he is when he's batting, darling.
After a minute, I'm trifled nervous, you know, the fact that you live so near
the ground.
But he's out there in the middle, 35, not out, and in wonderful form.
Aren't I in wonderful form, darling?
Of course you are, darling.
Oh, lovely shot.
Beautiful. He's very strong off his leg.
Aren't I very strong off my legs, darling?
Of course you are.
Let's enjoy ourselves.
He's well on his way to a hundred.
Oh, and he's folded, he's folded. Oh, my God.
Good heavens, I'd better be off quick.
Oh, but he won't be back for five minutes.
I know, but I'm in next.
One morning when the sun was high, there was a big red melon in a big blue sky,
but the wind in the east was blowing up kind of cold.
I looked at my watch. It was still on its chain. I could see where the time
going to rain. I thought it was just a day to search for McCleary's gold.
There was a guy who I've heard tell who could ride a horse. He could ride it
well, but he couldn't shoot a gun to save his doggone life.
He took a pot shot at the sheriff and missed. By all accounts, he was a little
bit drunk, so they strung him up and got a widow out of his wife.
Now he's hidden his gold in a little old shack beyond the creek near the
railroad track, and his widow, Betty Jane, she lived there still.
I knocked on the door, and she let me in. We sat in the parlor, and we drank
pink gin, and we drank till the sun went down behind the hill.
Now Betty Jane was a woman and a half, and she liked to love, and she liked to
laugh, and she giggled and groped around like a lovesick kid.
She dragged me off to her boudoir room, and I caught a McCleary in his tomb, and
a shiver shot through my shirt tail, so it did.
I ain't gonna say what went on that night, but I quit the shack in the early
light, and I staggered out like a wrestler leaving the ring.
Now, I can handle myself in a fight, but she floored me 15 times that night when
I was so damn drunk I didn't feel a thing.
And I realized as I sat in the cold, I'd found romance, but I'd found no gold,
and I'd come out just as poor as I'd gone in.
It was just as well, because behind the tree, a beady eye was glued on me, a no
-good gambling man called Mickey Finn.
Now Mickey would be chasing Betty Jane and our little romance would cause him
pain. You could tell by the way he ground his teeth in his back.
And the way he stiffened and went all tense and banged his head in a nearby
fence. Crossed his eyes and danced in his steps and hat.
Now Mick was mean and Mick was flicked and nobody wanted a medal with Mick in
spite of the fact that he's only five foot three.
When he draws his gun, you take my tip, you run, because when he fires, he fires
from the hip, which means he almost hits you in the knee.
I stack it at my feet and back indoors where Betty Jane lay in her vest and
drawers while Mickey let loose with everything he'd got.
He was shooting crazy and throwing rocks. I jumped for cover like a blue
fox, and from then on, things began getting kind of hot.
Now, I ain't a guy to stick out my neck, they can call me coward, but what the
heck. If you don't surrender, you end up dead. Brave.
I decided if the gold was there, then Mitch and Finley could have my share, so
started looking around for something white.
Wave.
I rushed to the other side of the room, and I stuck the drawers up on a broom,
and I waved them out of the window for Mitch to see.
Jaw went loose and his face went puce. He thought they were a trophy, not a
truce, to show him Betty Jane had given in to me.
He began letting loose with everything he'd got, and Betty Jane's drawers got
rid of the shot, and suddenly my eyes fell out of my face.
I fell into a hole in that wonderful pair. A stream of coins fell through the
air. Clear as gold, I had found his hide in the air.
I hurriedly wrote a note to Mick, saying, Stop shooting and get here
Call it quits and share McCleary's gold.
I wrapped it round a rocky throne, but my aiming is quite as good as his own.
caught it with his head and it laid him flat out cold.
Well, that's the story of McCleary's gold. Remember, men, all you've been
these widow women might be Middle Asian plain.
But don't let that stop you. Take a tip from me. Just try your luck. You could
very well be she's sitting on a fortune like Betty Jane.
Now, my story tonight concerns an Irishman who is not terribly bright.
Now, sorry, that may seem a bit obvious, but I mentioned that right at the start
because I don't want to imply that all Irishmen aren't terribly bright.
No, I'm sorry,
I'm not one of these comedians who constantly makes cheap jokes about the
No, I don't. It's very nice. I mean, there's a very sweet Irishman, for
who opened a fish and chip shop at the end of our road last week.
Monday night, his first night open.
The customer walked in and said, fish and chips twice.
The Irishman said, I heard you the first time.
Now, I don't do these sorts of jokes, and I don't think it's very fair. Well,
mean, let's face it. For me, that kind of thing would be professional suicide,
because I happen to be very big in Ireland.
Among the little people, I am very big.
In fact, over there, a lot of folk think I am one of the little people.
I remember a few years ago when I was in Ireland on holiday, I went out one day
for a little walk in the country, and I just sat down in this cow field, rather
apt, actually, because it was Pancake Tuesday.
And a lady who was passing by noticed me and insisted on taking me home and
keeping me in her bedroom all night because she said I was lucky.
As it turned out, I was pretty little.
That's another story which I'm not telling you. Sometimes being small can
its advantages.
I mean, sometimes it can be very embarrassing. I mean, I remember when I
left school, for a time I did a bit of work as a male model. I used to pose for
the centre pages of rather racy magazines, you know, like Shorthouse.
Flower graders only.
Usually. Usually wearing... Well, if it wasn't for me, you'd all be getting
lumpy flowers.
Usually wearing nothing except a black bowler hat, displaying all that nature
had given me.
Never received so many get -well cards in my life.
No, it's very hard to believe I know, but in those days, I was incredibly
You know, everywhere I went, people kept laughing at me.
I wish they were in the audience tonight.
So I decided to take one of those bodybuilding courses. It was quite good.
They sent me one of those little contraptions where you sit and exercise
feet on pedals, but it never actually moves in the spot.
Austin 1100.
I also bought myself a set of chest expanders, you know.
Only trouble was the wife started practising with them. In the end, she
it.
I used to lie next to her in bed and I couldn't see the alarm clock.
Do you have WhatsApp?
I seem to have strayed from the point somewhat, which won't please the
too much. No, well, he's obsessed at the moment with this fear of the show
overrunning. Sometimes, you know, he lies awake at rehearsals worrying about
And he's not very happy with me anyway this week because...
To be honest, he didn't really want me to tell this particular joke, to be
honest. On Wednesday, I got the royal summons to his office.
As I opened the door and stepped over his secretary, I... I can see I've
a bad moment.
He said, Corbett, he said, he said, Corbett, I said, I tell you, he said,
don't you tell them that awfully funny joke this week about the shellfish?
I said, I'm sorry, but I don't know any jokes about shellfish, I said. He said,
yes, you do?
The one about the sex -mad cockle?
Who goes out every Saturday night and pulls a muscle.
I said, I'm sorry, but I happen to think that's absolutely pathetic, that.
I mean, the one I've already got is a lot funnier. He said, all right. He
there's no need to boast, he said. No need to boast, he said. It was nice.
coming from a man who every night walks into the BBC bar and shouts, mine's a
large one. I thought, well, that's pretty much it.
So, onwards, onwards, very quickly. There is this jumbo jet, you see, you
flying through the night across the Atlantic to London, and all the
are sitting comfortably in the first -class compartment, waiting for the joke
begin. Suddenly, a voice comes over the intercom and says, Attention, please.
He said, this is your captain speaking.
Well, it's... Actually, he didn't hold his nose.
I just did that because I wanted to give you a little touch of realism.
I didn't want you to think the story had anything to do with an Airbus captain
who went, this is your captain's vehicle. I'm just filling you in. A
I had just at the last minute.
He said, this is your attention, please.
Your attention, please. We are cruising at an altitude of approximately 35 ,000
feet above the Atlantic, an average speed of 560 miles an hour. And number
engine, we have just lost number one. engine. As a result, we shall now be
20 minutes late at Heathrow.
Well, the passengers took the news fairly calmly, then a few minutes later
comes again.
Your attention, please. I'm afraid number two engine has gone.
This means we shall be about 40 minutes late arriving in London. Well, oh dear.
Well,
another half hour goes by, then the intercom is switched on yet again.
Attention, please.
Number three engine has now dropped completely off, and I'm afraid we're
to be a couple of hours late on this run. What a nominous silence.
It sends over the whole plane, all the passengers.
Then up pipes this little Irishman sitting in the corner.
He said, let's hope we don't lose any more of these engines, otherwise we'll
up here all night.
We'll be
right back.
Oh, I went to a party with a real cool dish. She was drinking cherry brandy and
she drank a lot of fish. When we did the shake, she spilled her booze. There's
one wearing pig's waist shoes.
A bundle of fun.
I'm a three -ply knee -high son of a gun. Gonna twist and shout with the gals
and guys.
What I just twist, it brings tears to my eyes.
I was being rather peckish and I thought I'd stop. For a bit of cotton batter in
the old chip shop. But they got no pot, it was out of stock.
Yeah, we just rocked salmon sauce. Yeah, let's rock. They got hit, had it been
sold. They got hit, had it been sold.
They got rocked, salmon is scared.
They got chickens, heads in a plate.
It's a party in the morning, but it's rockin' round the clock.
You big Bible day, yeah.
I was walkin' back from stains.
When it came on cats and dogs.
And it drenched my drapes and drains.
Put the muckers on me tops.
Well, it nearly has a fit.
When the people starts to stare.
Cause me pants to trunk and split.
Round the London derriere.
Round the houses it blew.
I got chilly round Fulham.
Round the Arsenal, too.
Just squelching back from stage.
Oh, my pants were sopping wet.
That's why I call them migrates.
I've got a great big Honda. And I've got a little trike. We've got about a
billion. We really give them hell. They love to press my hooter. And to ring my
little bell. Get out of the way.
I'm tall in the saddle.
And I've got a BSA.
I goes into the garage. It really was a dump.
Well, shall I stick the oil since the geese are at the pump? I smooth me Tony
Curtis as I tell him you know where. It's one pint of me motorbike and two
on me head.
It's so quick.
I'm a lunchtime cowboy.
I'm a milk bar kid.
I rode a piccadilly one Friday night in March.
A great big lorry belts me one right up the Martin Lodge. They take me to the
doctor. The doctor comes around saying, you should take it easy because you're
looking different now. Let's go to town.
Don't play great, don't play wrong. I just require that you never bugger
We'll be right back.
I was driving up the mecca with a roller called Rebecca, what a bird.
What a bird.
What a figure, what a figure, what a rocker, what a reaver. What a turner.
I was getting from the warm, my figure back, he's got enormous, oh, I'm a bird.
He was six foot three.
That is quite a sight.
When I danced with her, I got two black eyes.
Because those knuckles on Rebecca, they were like a double -decker in the sky.
One, two, three o 'clock, four o 'clock, shout.
Forget your blister, don't forget your couch.
If you're short, if you're stout, we're going to rock around the clock tonight.
We're going to rock around the clock tonight.
We're going to rock around the clock tonight.
That's all we have time for tonight, but before we go, the late news.
Yes, first, this afternoon's Tipperary Games.
In the final of the tug of war, both teams were disqualified for pushing.
In an interview shown tonight, Angela Rippon confessed to having a selfish
streak. She did it at four o 'clock in the morning when most of us were fast
asleep.
And finally tonight... News that the latest from the Japanese electronics
industry is the surgical truss cum calculator, which means you can count on
own support.
Next week, we'll be hoping to meet Dougal Wicks, the man who arrived at
tonight's furniture design fancy dress ball completely swathed in tinfoil with
castors on both feet and a black velvet cushion on his head.
He later won the consolation prize for making a complete stool of himself.
And we'll be having a word with the scientist from the vice squad who's
a red light with a plastic bag and come up with a brothelizer.
Until then, it's good night from me. And it's good night from him.
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