Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health … what have the Romans ever done for us?
After a few more of these remarks, I shall be appearing in a sketch, so stay tuned.
Look, are you insinuating something?
Well, it’s a joke name, sir.
Tell me sir, have you confused your cat recently?
Two people have just fallen out of that window to their almost certain death.
Oh how horrible… Will they stop at nothing?
Kiss me, Hardy!
This is the back of the house, with Uncle Ted coming round the side to the front.
Bicycle Repair Man! But… how?
I meant that rhetorically.
Look! We can’t afford it! The BBC are short of money as it is.
Get on with it. Get on with it!
Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do… except perhaps my wife and some of her friends… oh yes, and Captain Johnston. Come to think of it most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that’s beside the point.
Good evening. Tonight ‘Spectrum’ looks at one of the major problems in the world today - that old vexed question of what is going on. Is there still time to confront it, let alone solve it, or is it too late? What are the figures, what are the facts, what do people mean when they talk about things? Alexander Hardacre of the Economic Affairs Bureau.
All brontosauruses are thin at one end; much, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end. That is the theory that I have and which is mine and what it is, too.
Look, you’re a busy man—
I’d like to be a martyr. How do I go about being one?
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
All right. All right. We’ll kill him first and then have tea and biscuits.