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"Wrong answer......now you die!!"

[tonym]

And although I don't like to take the rise out of people's appearance I knew where they were coming from with this:

I must admit I don't understand people making fun of Camille's looks...I mean, shit; look at what she's getting! It's Mr. Ed and Dumbo!

Oops; cancel that trip to England...

Oh I don't know, you can visit my decaying corpse hanging from the gallows in the Tower Of London.

[JSngry]

Bit late I know, but a useful definition of the lurgy would be Galloping Spot Rot.

Appreciate the response, but I'm afraid I don't know what that is either. Tuberculosis? A disease of elm trees? A cancerous dog w/an overactive thyroid?

Sorry to be so "American" about all this.

[tonym]

Bit late I know, but a useful definition of the lurgy would be Galloping Spot Rot.

Appreciate the response, but I'm afraid I don't know what that is either. Tuberculosis? A disease of elm trees? A cancerous dog w/an overactive thyroid?

Sorry to be so "American" about all this.

Well it was a term that the Goons used on radio in the 50's/60's apparently, to describe an unspecified, not very serious illness.

Just found this:

The word lurgy usually appears in the phrase “the dreaded lurgy” – referring to a fictitious and highly infectious disease, apparently invented and made a byword by the Radio Goons. The earliest citation in The Oxford English Dictionary is from1954. It’s a quote from Radio Times to the effect that: “On this week’s Goon Show poor Arnold Fringe is suddenly stricken with the dreaded lurgy”. However, there is a possibility that this word was not invented by Spike Milligan (and his associates in lunacy). It appears that there was an expression “fever-lurgy” which was a British dialectical variation on a more common expression “fever-lurden” (recorded from the 16th century and meant “the disease of laziness”). The “lurgy” variation is recorded in the English Dialect Dictionary (1898).

[tonym]

And this, which you'll appreciate :

Lurgy

The Lurgy is the English equivalent of that perennial American playground favourite cooties.

For the uninitiated, the game is played thus.

A child, usually from a poor family, with nervous excema, a lazy eye, a faint smell of wee and glue ear, is singled out by the others.

It is announced loudly that 'X has the Lurgy'.

It is the rule that anyone who subsequently touches X will catch the Lurgy thus reinforcing their loneliness, mortification, self-loathing and alienation.

The taunting should be carried out over a period of several months. If the child is not found hanging in the gym he usually goes on to become a personal effectiveness coach, a traffic warden, a pederast or a Tory.

The last paragraph being especially appropriate.

[JSngry]

Thanks, Tony. I've only heard 2 or 3 old Goon shows, but my god, they were brilliant. Are there any collections of old shows available today?

[AllenLowe]

I actually, somewhere in my collection, have an old Goon Show LP -

[JSngry]

Yeah, I had that one. It was on Pye, right? Released mid-70s & marketed w/the Python connection to the fore?

Don't know what happened to it. Maybe it contracted the lurgy....

[AllenLowe]

well, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition -

[tonym]

well, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition -

Wasn't that Python???

edit to say sorry Allen, just spotted the reference to the LP.

Edited March 3, 2005 by tonym

[tonym]

Thanks, Tony. I've only heard 2 or 3 old Goon shows, but my god, they were brilliant. Are there any collections of old shows available today?

I bought my Grandad a video of Milligan et al doing a stage routine a few years back. I'll ask him what it's called.

[JSngry]

Thanks!

[tonym]

Also Jim, on BBC Radio 7, they regularly (weekly) play repeats of the Goon Show.

You can listen online with Win Med Player or Real Player

Next Monday's show

Last Monday's show

(second link down)

Edited March 3, 2005 by tonym

[JSngry]

This keeps getting better!

[tonym]

This keeps getting better!

We aim to please. Have a nice day y'all

[Tony Pusey]

tonym, perhaps its not too late to save your sorry ass! Not if enough of us remember M De Sade advice to his countrymen `One more effort Frenchmen if you would be republicans! ´

I had completely forgotten the origins of the lurgy and thank you profoundly for your erudite contributions!

Reg E Side

Edited March 3, 2005 by Tony Pusey

[A Lark Ascending]

I'm never too sure where all the supporters of the monarch live.

Whenever we get to the purpose of the monarchy in citizenship lessons I find 14 year olds excel themselves with their complete and utter contempt.

[Tony Pusey]

Bev, they live in Saxe Coburg.

[A Lark Ascending]

Bev, they live in Saxe Coburg.

So we have Easy Jet and Ryan Air to blame for flying droves of them over from Saxe Coburg International Airport to fill the streets during the Queen Mum's funeral and the whatever Jubilee a couple of years back?

[Tony Pusey]

Yep, and some were bussed in from Windsor.

[Adam]

I'm never too sure where all the supporters of the monarch live.

Whenever we get to the purpose of the monarchy in citizenship lessons I find 14 year olds excel themselves with their complete and utter contempt.

Maybe there aren't really any, but people are too distracted or lazy to realize that they can kick them out.