[78-L] They let this on the BBC?! (Warning: PG-13..get your 13 year old to explain them ^

[David Lennick]

I found this while googling something else. Evidently, trad jazz man Humphrey 
Lyttleton was known for more than his trumpet playing. These are double 
entendres from his days on the panel show "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue". (Not 
OT, Humph made 78s..but these weren't part of them.)

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Tales of the lovely Samantha

The activities of Samantha, Humphrey Lyttelton's fictional but ever-ready 
companion on 'I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue', were charted in some of his best 
asides. A selection:

* Samantha went along to the gramophone library earlier to collect the teams' 
records. It's pitch black down there, so Samantha and the elderly archivist 
have taken to searching the shelves by candlelight, which can be messy, so 
while Samantha passes down the discs, the nice man holds the ladder while he 
cleans the dust and wax off in the dark.

* Record researcher Samantha has made one of her customary visits to the 
gramophone library where she runs errands for the kindly old archivists, such 
as nipping out to fetch their sandwiches. Their favourite treat is cheese with 
homemade chutney, but they never object when she palms them off with relish.

* As usual, Samantha has been down in the gramophone library researching the 
teams' records, aided and abetted by the two kindly old archivists, Curly Smith 
and Chalky White. Samantha was saying she's been helping them rearrange their 
work rosters recently. Chalky was getting a bit worried that Samantha might 
reduce his overtime shift, but cheered up when instead he saw her shorten Curly's.

* DJ Samantha has been doing her usual extensive research down in the 
gramophone library, aided by the kindly old archivist. It's hard work, and she 
says they both get quite weary, so the archivists have a fold-up bed to take a 
nap in the afternoons, and has provided Samantha with a comfy reclining 
armchair so that she can put her feet up while he gets his head down.

* Samantha spent a few hours down in the gramophone library researching the 
teams' discs earlier, and took her little dog with her. She likes to dress the 
little thing in her own stylish canine clothing range, and the elderly 
archivists say they all appreciate her doggy fashion.

* Samantha has to nip off to the National Opera, where she's been giving 
private tuition to the singers. Having seen what she did with the baritone, the 
director is keen to see what she might do for a tenor.
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