Bob Monkhouse

Just been watching 1/30 minute programme about above. All the usual adoring suspects were making their contribtion to this programme earning their gold. BUT did he ever make you laugh so much that you cried like tommy cooper laurel and hardy john cleese etc etc. NO. Is this a case of smoothness over talent?

I agree, I know humour, like music, film and so on are all a matter for the individual to decide upon, but I can't really say he was one of the greats.

Can't say I'm comfortable with dissing dead people, but I found him a bit smarmy.

Funny thing this. In the 70's I hated Tommy Cooper and Norman Wisdom. I just didn't see how slapstick was funny. Bob Monkhouse was smarmy, and Bernard manning was crude.

Now Tommy cooper has me in tears, Norman Wisdom's Pitkin films give me a nostalgia fix, while Monkhouse and Manning display a cleverness that today's comedians just don't have.
I don't know if it's the times that have changed or just me, but when I see Russel Kane or Julian Clary on screen I long for the cleverness of those old timers.

The craft of the job has gone, those old guys learned their craft, which is what made them funny.

Now this "funny" thing is really funny. I know inside my head what makes makes me angry[b][/b]. The multitude of publc injustice......crooked politicians bankers bonuses(and our complicity in the system that promotes corruption) the illegal war.......i could go on and on. I know what enrages me and why.......the oap beaten to a pulp(you've seen the pictures) by some scumbag thief that gets a few months behind bars and then our money for "rehabilitation". Inside my head i know what makes me sad......the child left asleep in a push chair next to a fire....the ferry overturned in the channel coz someone hadn't closed the loading doors....and many more things. I know inside me about fear jealousy courage, about the wonder of reading a good book about the many good and inspiring things that make me feel good. I can understand these things. BUT it's really funny I don't know inside what it is that makes me laugh and cry at the same time. What is it about Tommy Cooper that makes me smile and laugh just thinking about him. Same with Goon Show, Pythons, Fawlty Towers. Yeah this funny thing is really funny.

Holy mother forgive me because i am about to sin by telling a joke on this forum......................

Lady went to see her doctor
Doctor i have been feeling very tired and lethargic is there anything you can do to help?
How long have you been feeling like this?
Well its been going on for a few months.
No other symptons?
No doctor.
Well it is not unusual and we do have a treatment that should make you feel better. I shall give you a months supply of testosterone tablets that will improve your body balance. Come back in a months time and let me know how you are.
A month later
And how are you feeling now?
Much better doctor
Good very good. And any side effects from the medicine?
Not really doctor, just i have noticed i am a little bit hairier than usual
Oh nothing to worry about that is normal and will settle down in time.
Oh thank you doctor
By the way Mrs.... where have you noiticed you are hairier?
On my balls doctor.

Is there a link between your joke and 'pubic injustice' from your previous post?

That's an amusing and witty bit of writing, but you'd have to be a complete twat to actually hit the submit button and send it to a real person..!

Perhaps, but you'd be surprised how many complete twat's there are.

I know we've banged on about it here for a while now, but the current high prices we're seeing for 2cvs have got me thinking. I will *never* be able to afford another 2cv. At least not anything I could jump into and drive. I currently have one 2cv, the red one I'm trying to fit that BMW engine into. I also have that yellow one in my parents garage that I still can't be bothered with (it's 90 miles away). Part of me thinks I should MOT the yellow one, sell it and buy something I want.

My worry is that without that car, sooner or later the red car will be scrap and/or written off, and I won't have one any more. What then? I can't just go out and buy one, I just dont have that kind of money sitting about. It's like staying with a bird you don't like 'cause you're scared of being single.

As much as I've moaned about people cashing in on them, I'm now thinking "There's potentially £3000 in the garage, why not have a slice of the action?".

The last two 2cvs I bought were both scrap when I bought them and tarted up quickly to be used as everyday cars, I'm sure there might be a few more rotten or bent piles of shit out there waiting to be stumbled upon and bodged back onto the road but it's obviously not the common occurance it once was and both these cars were bought mainly because the opportunity was there, not because I really wanted them, espescially in the case of the Bamboo.

Obviously both those cars, had they been sold on eBay or 2CVTV would have gone for £500+ because people think that's what rotten shite is worth nowadays. (that manky pink P.O.S. with mould and rust all over it went for £800. £800!! My W123 was only £750, and that didn't need an assload of work before it was possible to use it)

Where are these meandering rambling thoughts heading? Well, I don't know. I've got the pox in a massive way with things this winter. I wonder whether I should accept things have changed, yeah it's all very sad etc and just make some cash out of the whole affair.