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

[David Lennick]

Paul Shaffer just got a howl from the audience for describing Cher as "wearing 
a Victorian coat with her hands in a muff". Ah, the good old days of innuendo.

dl

Tom wrote:
> Somewhat innocuous compared to hiphop lyrics extolling crack
> cocaine use, killing cops and beating up women, if you ask me.
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 12/23/08, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: [78-L] They let this on the BBC?! (Warning: PG-13..get your 13 year old to explain them ^
> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
> Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 11:36 PM
> 
> 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.)
> 
> dl
> ======
> 
> 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.
> __________________