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GUEST,mayomick BS: pete and dud's taxi driver (1) BS: pete and dud's taxi driver 09 Nov 12

Pete and Dud's taxi driver

Pete and Dud's taxi driver's skit about having Bertrand Russell in the back of the cab seems to have been based on a real incident . As recounted by TS Eliot's wife in this letter to the Times:

Letter to the Times, Feb. 10, 1970:

Sir,

My husband, T.S. Eliot, loved to recount how late one evening he stopped a taxi. As he got in, the driver said: 'You're T.S. Eliot.' When asked how he knew, he replied: 'Ah, I've got an eye for a celebrity. Only the other evening I picked up Bertrand Russell, and I said to him: 'Well, Lord Russell, what's it all about,' and, do you know, he couldn't tell me.'

Yours faithfully,

Valerie Eliot

here's the pete and dud script
http://www.phespirit.info/derekandclive/come_again_08.htm

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