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The Two Ronnies. - The Plumstead Ladies Male Voice Choir. Does anyone else miss these guys?

Marionville 10 Jan 11
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They performed some brilliant songs. I seem to remember another one involving bold Sir John and a comely lass which was hilarious.

CeliaVL Level 7 Jan 13, 2019

I’ll try and find it.

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Damn Ronnie Corbet looks SO like my mother in that sketch.

That wig in that style - so 60's.

@FrayedBear She was still dressing like that when she died 10 years ago.

@LenHazell53 She didn't want to age? In fact, she has succeeded in that is how you remember her - a beautiful concept and the only way that people can live after death. Thanks for the share.

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A time when "knick knack paddy whack" was acceptable and decried as being PC inappropriate by snowflakes trying to control the rest of the world with their nonsense.

FrayedBear Level 9 Jan 12, 2019

Why would it be un PC? A knick knack is a musical instrument made of bones and a paddywhack is a neck ligament from an animal, often called a bone and fed to farm dogs.

@Cassiopeia Everything seems to be deemed un pc today! The uninformed and uneducated probably think the “paddy” bit refers to the Irish!

@Cassiopeia I seem recall the rest of that song as performed by the two Ronnies goes on to refer to much more. Knick knacks were things, frequently pot ornaments that my grandmother used to keep in display cabinets to supposedly beautify her surroundings. And a paddywhack was a club for hitting an Irish person with. Though I see that the dictionary defines it simply as a spanking or an Irish person.
Perhaps I misrecall/ remember.

@FrayedBear Can’t remember...that’s all there was of it on YouTube.

There is a very , VERY Un Pc version of the that song that was popular in my school that involved a building site and an Irishman, a Scotsman , another Irishman, a Manchester man all assaulting a west Indian worker and an English foreman intervening to shout.

Mick, Mack, Paddy, Wak leave the W(deleted)g alone

No the most enlightened of times

@Marionville No you don't misremember

@LenHazell53 The point is "Did it accurately and unequivocally convey the message?" And that is the real purpose of language imo. I also take a very dim view of those people who now wish to deny that such was not common occurrence. It is like saying to the Jews that they cannot continue to highlight the existence of the holocaust. Interesting that they wish to whitewash the IDF holocaust against the peoples whose land they are stealing.

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Yes it was a stroke of genius putting them together on the Frost report
Ronnie B, Tim Brook Talylor, Ronnie C and John Cleese (sometimes Marty Feldman) were the team.
From that we got The Two Ronnie and I'm Sorry I'll read that again, which morphed in to The Goodies on TV.
What ever happened to this kind of absurdist humour?

Political correctness, beige people and snowflakes.

Maybe it’s just us getting older and humour is a generational thing, but it’s hard to beat all the great comedy acts from the Sixties until around 2000. Then pc and alternative humour seemed to change everything....and we got old!

@Marionville
I used to think that but over the years I've introduced my son and my niece to old comedy such as the 2 Ronnies, Bottom, Allo Allo, Laurel and Hardy, Morcombe and wise even Norman Wisdom etc and they have loved it, and wonder why there is nothing like this today.

@Marionville, @FrayedBear "beige people " (meaning washed out or colourless, not brown) A great term in introduced by Billy Connolly, love his humour, along with "The V neck sweater Brigade" "Volvo People" and "The surname clan"

@LenHazell53 too little political correctness / too tame / too polite / too many snowflakes to get upset?

@LenHazell53, @Marionville Also modes of living changed in that cars became more numerous, housing expectations changed, work expectations changed, politics changed / beliefs in society changed.

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Definitely. Love the classic Fork ‘andles!

Geoffrey51 Level 8 Jan 11, 2019

Yes...already posted that one.

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