I've got far better things to do than blog these days, so instead here is a (rather late, but heartfelt) tribute to one of the great stars of the firmament by one of the great stars of the firmament. Known as Counte Edwarde Scissorhandes or Captain Sam Sparro or Dr Hillary Jones to you, he is top muddy booted actor Johnny Depp."Oi am 'aving a fag"Hi, I'm here to say a few words about one of...

I know that’s not strictly accurate, but they really don’t seem to understand the British sense of humour. After the various conversations I have had with Americans about Monty Python1 and how most Americans think it’s just weird, there are reports today that Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy has been banned. Specifically, following the death of Mollie Sugden, people were leaving messages on Twitter and using the hashtag #MrsSlocombesPussy. Now, if you’re English and older than about 10 you will perfectly understand the reference and will undoubtedly tickle you just thinking about it. If you’re American though I doubt, unless you’ve seen the TV Show “Are You Being Served” you will understand what the hell it means. So, Americans, you need to...

…I never did see it. Mollie Sugden and I share a a birth place, town wise, she used to live just round from where my aunt lives and I used to pass the place when going to the park. But I never did see her pussy… Click here to view the embedded video. …though there was a strange smell round the park. Looks like Twitter and a bunch of Yanks took objection to #MrsSlocombesPussy trending on Twitter, funny as it was a reasonable hit in the States and a friend from over there used to like it and he was still in his teens. © Toxic Web...

Are You Being Served was one of the quintessential British comedies, being part sitcom, part music hall and a lot of double entendre. The cast was wonderful and the script really quite forward looking (in a now backward kind of way). So it is with great sadness that I heard of the death of Mollie Sugden, the comic actress best known for her role as Mrs Slocombe in the 1970s series. She is obviously held in great regard around the world as she has since become one of the largest trending topics on Twitter, with even Jonathan Ross adding his tweets to get the tag  #MrsSlocombesPussy (kicked off by, erm, yours truly at the suggestion of Lucy Tweeting) to the top of the Twitter tree. Mrs Slocombe joins Miss Brahms (Wendy Richard) at the great sales counter in the sky. Rest in Peace,...

I was a little perturbed by the heat of the argument that developed on my “Michelle and I” post. I had no idea grammar was such a barricades-inspired issue. Anyway, after my Donaghian philosophical foray I’m going to bring us back down the brow again with a little tribute to Wendy Richard. Time was when this was practically an EastEnders blog, so frequent were my exflorescences on the horrors of taste perpetrated by whatever EastEnders episode (to say nothing of the horrors of taste perpetrated by Leslie Grantham, between whom and his co-star I gather there was little love lost) -  and many of them were probably about Wendy Richard. The episode of Pauline’s death was so preposterous, so ridiculous, so depressingly over-the-toply unuplifting and just sad -...

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