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  1. 22nd November 2006, 12:10 PM #1
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    Default All we had was a piece of Cardboard to live in....

    Hi, i need your help.
    I am chasing the script from that radio play (i think thats what it was) that has the irishmen talking about what they had when they were growing up, and they would out do each other...

    something like this... (in modern terms)

    When i was a kid we only had a 12inch colour tv..

    Gee you had it good, we didn't have tv, we had to listen to the radio....


    etc...

    Can anyone help!

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  2. 22nd November 2006, 12:26 PM #2
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    It was two Cornishmen and it's a Monty Python skit. That might help you google it. Lovely skit that.

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    I thought it was two Yorkshire men.

    edit: Actually, here you go:

    http://www.phespirit.info/montypytho...rkshiremen.htm
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    Quote Originally Posted by craigb View Post
    I thought it was two Yorkshire men.

    edit: Actually, here you go:

    http://www.phespirit.info/montypytho...rkshiremen.htm
    You're right ... of course, but I started to type this before you put up the link. That's scary, you press the button for a quote and the message is different to what it was a moment ago :eek:

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    two Cornishmen
    Close!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daddles View Post
    two Cornishmen
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    Don't tell a Yorshireman that

    Just read the script - could hear the accents in me head n all. Ahh, them was the days. Didn't have a radio ...

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    This sketch (or a version of it) was originally done on 'At last, the 1948 Show!' in the late 1960's so pre-dated Python.
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    Errr.... HOW many yorkshiremen?

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    Quote Originally Posted by snowyskiesau View Post
    This sketch (or a version of it) was originally done on 'At last, the 1948 Show!' in the late 1960's so pre-dated Python.
    I guess that since Cleese, Idle and Chapman were a core of the '48 show, it probably was an evolution of the original idea then!

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    I've got it here somewhere. It was more than 2 though. There were 4 or 5 of them in the Monty Python version.

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    Gentlemen,
    thanks for your help.
    I knew you would come through with the goods.

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    http://www.phespirit.info/montypytho...rkshiremen.htm

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    What was that someone said recently about reading what others had posted

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    Doh !

    Not me.

    Think I'll go and find a 5 year old thread to open.

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo


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