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14 Jan 06 - 10:47 AM (#1648586) Subject: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: GUEST,Menzies Dalziel Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen (A-hem...) I wish to propose that a new Government Department be instituted. I speak here of The Ministry Of Silly Names'. Do we have any other nominees? I believe, however that because I have the silliest name of all of you, I should be chosen to head this very important arm of our Civil Service. I leave the podium to the floor. Menzies Dalziel CBE GC KGB VCR DVD CD-RW |
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14 Jan 06 - 08:09 PM (#1648588) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Bill Hahn//\\ Is this like the Minsitry of Silly Walks---John Cleese (who really came into his own in Fawlty Towers)? By the way if you get the DVD of the episodes---check the spelling on the titles---never noticed it on the weekly episodes---a clever bit. Bill Hahn |
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14 Jan 06 - 08:31 PM (#1648602) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: John O'L I noticed it. It was different every week. It was something we all at my house looked for. What will it be this week? (We don't get out much.) |
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14 Jan 06 - 09:05 PM (#1648624) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: wysiwyg Oh yes, let's do have it. I hear these all the time. Now there will be a place to post them, hooray! ~S~ |
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15 Jan 06 - 11:16 AM (#1648770) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: the one fanny puckering. i knew this lady she would get so red faced, when asked surname first. |
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15 Jan 06 - 12:30 PM (#1648823) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: GUEST,Judge dread At the Ministry of silly names. Miss Franny was about to start work and the Director decided he should gather the staff together to introduce her. Her name amused him and before the introduction he said to himself, over and over again "I must remember the 'R' I must remember the 'R'" When the time came to introduce her he actually remembered the 'R' but his introduction did not go quite right! Having forgotten her actual name, he introduced her as miss 'Prussy' |
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15 Jan 06 - 03:06 PM (#1648935) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Nigel Parsons For those who don't know the Guest who started this discussion on 'silly names' it should be pointed out that he is also known as Mingiss Dee-Ell CHEERS Nigel |
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15 Jan 06 - 03:13 PM (#1648940) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: GUEST Donuel Dale Neverno |
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15 Jan 06 - 03:23 PM (#1648951) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Donuel never know what? |
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15 Jan 06 - 03:26 PM (#1648955) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: MudGuard Not my idea *), but still a good one: The ministry for the reduction of bureaucracy *) the idea is from a British TV series at least 10 years old, in Germany it ran under the title of "Yes Minister". I don't know the exact name used in the original TV series - I only saw the German translation. |
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15 Jan 06 - 03:28 PM (#1648958) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Peace "I leave the podium to the floor." I did that once. It was the result of drinking some 30-year-old Scotch. |
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15 Jan 06 - 03:55 PM (#1648971) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Lonesome EJ I once aspired to be the Director of the Ministry of Running Up the Steps Two at a Time and Shouting Out Ha Ha Mabel I Caught You. But I don't think I could handle the responsibility any more. |
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15 Jan 06 - 03:57 PM (#1648978) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Peace "I was a receptionist once for two days. I couldn't take the pressure. Sometimes the phone would ring; sometimes it wouldn't." Can't recall which comic that's from. |
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15 Jan 06 - 04:00 PM (#1648982) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Bill D Silly names of people, or silly names of Ministries? Englebert Humperdinck needs to know. |
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15 Jan 06 - 04:06 PM (#1648983) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: lady penelope Oooh, that's not funny - I'm really bad for suffereing from antici.............pation..... |
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15 Jan 06 - 06:28 PM (#1649096) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: GUEST,Judge dread Condaleesa rice sounds like a nice sort of Chinese foos |
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15 Jan 06 - 06:28 PM (#1649098) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: GUEST,Judge dread sorry 'food' |
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15 Jan 06 - 06:30 PM (#1649099) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Peace Englebert Humperdinck--born 1854 and died 1921. |
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15 Jan 06 - 07:04 PM (#1649123) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: frogprince Hey, what's wrong with a little Chinese foos now and then? |
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15 Jan 06 - 07:08 PM (#1649126) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Snuffy It was "Yes, Minister" in Britain too, Andi. And when I first heard the joke in the 1960s he said "Miss Crunt", not "Miss Prussy" WassaiL! V |
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16 Jan 06 - 07:51 AM (#1649441) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Mr Red Sure it wasn't Miss Regina? (Canadian version) |
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16 Jan 06 - 08:14 AM (#1649456) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: GUEST,Mingulay at work There is a driving school near me with the very silly name of "Impact". I also thought it was Miss Vaginia Crunt, but I'm also very silly. Sketch stopped!! |
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16 Jan 06 - 09:57 AM (#1649515) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Georgiansilver Obviously a woman of many parts... |
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16 Jan 06 - 08:02 PM (#1649842) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Snuffy Apparently Miss Crunt's name is Deirdre |
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16 Jan 06 - 08:43 PM (#1649870) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: number 6 "It's all chief and no father down the avenue of lane The soap has lost its lather the loves gone down the drain It's all time and no future at the Department of Breath The clothes aint made to suit you the peas are boiled to death" ... excerpt of the Ministry of Bag by Jack Bruce sIx |
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16 Jan 06 - 09:04 PM (#1649887) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Bert Menzies is that kinda like Menses? |
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16 Jan 06 - 09:35 PM (#1649906) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: GUEST,Menzies Dalziel Could I further entreat our noble company to consider our very own Ralph Fiennes. Who, I ask you, would want to have a name that was straightforward to pronounce? Not I. Not I. |
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16 Jan 06 - 11:14 PM (#1649971) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: Little Hawk Berkeley Breathed (the author of the comic strip Bloom County) |
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17 Jan 06 - 04:13 AM (#1650045) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: GUEST,Mingulay at work Mingies old boy, do you by any chance mean Sir Ranulph Twisleton Wykeham-Fiennes Bt.OBE (b.1944), described as Britain's greatest living explorer. Or are you really referring to the actor chappie who's only claim to silliness is the fact that Ralph is pronounced Rafe? Snuffy - Deirdre Crunt is, I believe, the granddaughter of Vaginia. This is, of course, an old Fenland name from East Anglia and is believed to be a corruption of an older Norse version. Yours sincerely Loada Billhooks (Gentleman) |
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18 Jan 06 - 03:59 AM (#1650711) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: GUEST,Janine Heard on end of radio programme "...the associate producer was Jo(e) King..." They can't be serious! Janine |
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18 Jan 06 - 04:20 AM (#1650720) Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names From: GUEST,L. Eytus It's OK for you lot taking the Mick but have a thought for me and my brother, Arthur Our mum & dad must've had a seriously warped sense of humour (or not) Cheers Laurenge |