[78-L] goon show Q. for British listers

[joe@salerno.com]

I remember the TV commercials for cigarillos.

joe salerno


Eddie O'Strange wrote:
> It's a nickname for a cigarillo, popular in the 50s and 60s.
> They are/were thinner, and quite a bit longer than a cigarette,
> and brown like a cigar, tasting like a cigar not a cigarette.
> Some had a plastic mouthpiece.
> - Eddie, NZ
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> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:21 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
>>   
>>> Doesn't Neddy respond "No thank you, I've just put one out" when
>>> Grytpipe-Thynne says it on one show?
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> Brian Bashford wrote:
>>>     
>>>> I don't think it meant anything at all. It was just one of dozens of
>>>> catchphrases invented by the writer Spike Milligan.
>>>>
>>>> Brian B.
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: "joe at salerno.com" <jsalerno at earthlink.net>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 1:42 PM
>>>> To: "78-l" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>> Subject: [78-L] goon show Q. for British lister
>>>>> Hello All Yall across the pond from Texas,
>>>>>
>>>>> When Neddie Deagoon, Moriarty, or another Goon Show character meets
>>>>> someone and says "Have a gorilla?" what does that mean?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> joe salerno
>>>>>
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>> Sounds like a spoof of a cigar or a cigarette ad to me!  Like 'Hav-A-Tampa'.
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