Wasn't 'Wakey! Wakey!' Arthur Askey's catchphrase?'
These days catchphrases from 'The Fast Show' often fall on deaf ears.
I was heartened though, when a young Millenial knew who 'Swiss Tony' was when I observed that the lift (escalator) he kindly summoned for a friend on a mobility scooter had a voice recording that sounded just like 'The Fast Show' character.
Summoning a lift is like making love to a beautiful woman.
Something I remember every time I see a contestant on a TV game show, or any celebrity, expressing surprise, horror, amusement or any kind of emotion. They seem to think it necessary for the mouth to gape open to the widest extent. No dear, I don't want to see the back of your tonsils.
Egg custard tart in my mother's family was known as donkey's nod. Apparently because of an exchange that once took place (before I was born) something like this
Mother ...'do you want a piece of this?'
Father ....(no reply but nods head)
Mother.... 'Donkey's Nod' (this must be an archaic saying expressing annoyance at someone just nodding a response)
Younger brother 'Can I have some of that Donkeys Nod too please'
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It was how he introduced his Sunday lunchtime radio programme Billy Cotton's Band Show, very loudly
No, it was Billy Cotton
Summoning a lift is like making love to a beautiful woman.
Something I remember every time I see a contestant on a TV game show, or any celebrity, expressing surprise, horror, amusement or any kind of emotion. They seem to think it necessary for the mouth to gape open to the widest extent. No dear, I don't want to see the back of your tonsils.
Mother ...'do you want a piece of this?'
Father ....(no reply but nods head)
Mother.... 'Donkey's Nod' (this must be an archaic saying expressing annoyance at someone just nodding a response)
Younger brother 'Can I have some of that Donkeys Nod too please'