This is how I interpreted it too.
No FT until July? That sucks. It’s on BBC America all the time. Not that I’m rubbing it in or anything.
Andrew Sachs. He’s also been in a lot of serious stuff–he starred in an excellent mini-series about the Warsaw Ghetto a few years ago (he is originally from Germany; his family fled the Nazis when he was a small child).
He does a lot of documentary narration, but you obviously wouldn’t recognise his normal voice from seeing him as Manuel. It’s worth checking the credits on BBC documentaries. It’s pretty much stitched up between him, Robert Lindsay and Sean Pertwee.
AS for the OP, I agree with the “Bhudda” = Christ explanation.
Borndodgy : what do you mean by 'write the word Brittish (sic) Humour 100 times please. ’ mean?
If you didnt mis hear it, then I agree with the christ explanation.
Thanks, Coldfire. You’ve made my day.
Dont kill me for my missspellingg… it is not me… it is bad souls telling me to do it…
Whatever,… I haeouve to use Coldfires link nöw…
Nukeman,
I think Borndodgy is trying to draw attention to the way you American chaps spell ‘humour’ as ‘humor’.
I was trying to draw attention to his misspelled signature…
(you say ‘tomato’, but I say ‘tomato’ - let’s call the whole thing off!).
Originally posted by London_Calling
“BTW, I still think Cleese climbing out of the broken down mini, walking off camera and then coming back to whack the hell out of the car with some foilage is the funniest thing I’ve ever, ever seen.”
No not a Mini, its an Austin 1100 estate, a standing testimony to why our car industry is mostly run by foreigners.
I don’t think the word “bugger” would have benn shown on TV pre-watershed on BBC either.
glee, im from England too!
I think the Fawlty Towers scene gets confused with a very similar scene in Clockwise (IMHO, the funniest British film of the last 20 years), which did involve a Mini.
Nukeman,
ooops! :o
so that should have read 'I think Borndodgy is trying to draw attention to the way American chaps spell ‘humour’ as ‘humor’
Were you living there when they made the film?
Yes I was - I saw Hugh Grant on the set. They had enormous lights up which were taller than the houses on the street (4 storeys) and they spent ages scrubbing the pavements and stuff. The blue door exists as well but that flat isnt behind it. The garden they filmed it in is across the street from me ( I hate that end bit with all the tai chi and frolicking children - that so never happens.) [as an aside, the book he is reading to her on that bench is Captain Correlli’s mandolin which is a briliant book]
Notting hill was crap though, nowhere near as good as four weddings.
When you said living there when they made the film, I assumed that you meant clockwise for some reason. Thye filmed part of it at the boys school next to mine & John Cleese could be seen striding up and down our drive with a gaggle (giggle?) of adoring sixth form girls behind…