Yup, the cheeky chappie himself - I think it was him signing off with
"When violets are blue..." etc, Patrick. Trust you to remember ;-)
Martin
Patrick McManus wrote:
>Max Miller !! a lot about peasants plucking??? P
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>Subject: Re: any formalists in the crowd? Having difficulty with scansion;
>wondering if the piece is worth working on ... I know the rhyme scheme isn't
>right
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>Come on, Dom, am I the only one to remember the famous comedian of yore
>who told us about the quandary of the fellow who crossed a river on a
>log & came up against a young lady going in the opposite direction,
>without any space for manoeuvring - he didn't know whether to toss
>himself off or block her passage. I think he got tossed off BBC radio in
>the 40s for similar lapses of bon goût. And there's a Mr Tossoff in
>*Ulysses* somewhere, on the very witty translation of which into German
>I remember S.S.Prawer remarking in the TLS a couple of decades ago.
>Martin
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>>Time for a straw poll, I think. Hands up if you knew that the
>>expression "to toss off " meant "to masturbate".
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