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Discussion Groups / English Usage / September 2010'American Express? - that'll do nicely!'.
An English TV ad, circa 1983, where various men would present their plastic to a succession of beautiful women who would reply, as above, in a posh, alluring manner. And then, one day, BBC2's Not the Nine O'Clock News had Pamela Stephenson say... 'American Express? - that'll do nicely and would you like to rub my tits?', and the ad was *never* seen again, lol! Nick from England > An English TV ad, circa 1983, where various men would present their plastic > to a succession of beautiful women who would reply, as above, in a posh, [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > and the ad was *never* seen again, lol! Didn't Pamela also pull open her blouse as if to make said mammeries more accessible? Or is that just the distortions of my more fevered imagination playing havoc on my memory (again)?  SignatureZhang Dawei: Beijing, P.R.China. (Native BrEng Speaker) Please use Reply-To header for email address. This will remain valid for at least two weeks from date of posting. >> An English TV ad, circa 1983, where various men would present their >> plastic to a succession of beautiful women who would reply, as above, in [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > more accessible? Or is that just the distortions of my more fevered > imagination playing havoc on my memory (again)? Yes, she did: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF-U9nL9Ios> SignatureLes (BrE) > > In article <i7u88n$bg...@news.eternal-september.org>, > > pacif...@btopenworld.com says... [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > -- LOL - well found! In article <6db63e2a-481a-4f51-bd6a- 49bc6db1b6cb@x42g2000yqx.googlegroups.com>, pacifico@btopenworld.com says... > [...] > > Yes, she did: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > LOL - well found! Agreed! Other comedy sketches of some relevance to this newsgroup can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWMcRlE1mQ&feature=related Unfortunately, I can't find the Two Ronnies sketch I particularly like: the sketch involving, I think, the Slobodian Restaurant, in which Corbett visits a foreign restaurant in London (one presumes) where Barker is the waiter who speaks little or no English. Unfortunately, many Slobodian dishes have names that sound like English words (if a little mangled at times). So every request Corbett makes, or. later, every complaint he makes, is taken to be yet another item ordered from the menu. For instance, at one point Corbett says, angrily "Disgusting!", to which the waiter responds "Ok, Deece Gustings... That's a hell of a lot of gustings..." (they turn out to be coconut halves with carrots sticking out of the centre of them). At the end, when Corbett gives up and asks for "The bill", that is yet another item from the menu: in this case, a mound of rice with assorted strange stuff surrounding it, and a toucan's beak pointing up out of the centre of the mound. In another message (Message-ID: <VA.00000103.0059106a@me.invalid> ), Daniel James corrects some errors I made about Frankie Howerd and Up Pompeii! (Howerd played the part of Lurcio and not Ludicrus Sextus). Many thanks to him for correcting me! SignatureZhang Dawei: Beijing, P.R.China. (Native BrEng Speaker) Please use Reply-To header for email address. This will remain valid for at least two weeks from date of posting. > In article <6db63e2a-481a-4f51-bd6a- > Unfortunately, I can't find the Two Ronnies sketch I particularly like: Do you recall the Swedish (?) restaurant: "FUNEX?" "SVFX" "FUNEM?" "SVFM" "LFMNX" Ian > "FUNEX?" > "SVFX" > "FUNEM?" > "SVFM" > "LFMNX" And here it is, slightly different to how my poor addled brain remembered it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWMcRlE1mQ Ian >> In article <6db63e2a-481a-4f51-bd6a- > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > "SVFM" > "LFMNX" "FUNET?" Bill in Kentucky >>> In article <6db63e2a-481a-4f51-bd6a- >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > "FUNET?" I made up that line, but when I viewed the video, I saw that it was in that. Bill in Kentucky > > In article <6db63e2a-481a-4f51-bd6a- > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Ian Yes. very funny. I think I gave a link to that in the message you commented on, but perhaps it didn't come through correctly? SignatureZhang Dawei: Beijing, P.R.China. (Native BrEng Speaker) Please use Reply-To header for email address. This will remain valid for at least two weeks from date of posting. >> In article <6db63e2a-481a-4f51-bd6a- > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Ian I'm fairly sure that that one was Benny Hill, and that the "language" was supposed to be German. Another example of Hill's German involved a German lady writing to the south-east England pen-friend: OLCINVU URNSX IMNSN > In article <i7u88n$bg...@news.eternal-september.org>, > pacif...@btopenworld.com says... [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > more accessible? Or is that just the distortions of my more fevered > imagination playing havoc on my memory (again)? Dunno, but remember a green monster came out of a pool and she flashed her protuberances, lol - wish that was on YouTube! > > In article <i7u88n$bg...@news.eternal-september.org>, > > pacif...@btopenworld.com says... [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Dunno, but remember a green monster came out of a pool and she flashed > her protuberances, lol - wish that was on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kJyqBs5d0 fr. On Sep 29, 10:30 am, "Fr J. Hackett" <dontbesobloodyno...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > In article <i7u88n$bg...@news.eternal-september.org>, > > > pacif...@btopenworld.com says... [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kJyqBs5d0 LOL - thanks, rfr - you just made an old man very happy! :-) |
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