"I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, "(Margo Channing)
Can I Thrust By...I'm a Diabetic
I think I have stolen most of Julie Walter's one Liners over the years and all of her best ones can be heard in this priceless sketch from the 1980s........
I remembered it almost line for line when I was being served by a very lacklustre woman at the service station on my way to my brothers. As I stood waiting for her to notice my very existence (she was chatting to her friend Carol on the phone about a sports bra that didn't fit!) I very nearly said
"You've a look of Eva Braun!"
She wouldn't have understood even if I had
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I think my favourite is 'two soups' I could watch that one over and over.
ReplyDeleteBriony
Wish this had been on Canadian TV! Would have LOVED it!
ReplyDeleteSusan, on Desperate Housewives, pulled the diabetic/dialisis card a few episodes back and she got in front of some people at the supermarket.
ReplyDeleteAh, Wood & Walters. They were (are) brilliant!
ReplyDeleteJohn, I love your suggestion about twinning flower shows. NZ and North Wales. Why not? I am impressed that you found my other blog, btw!
I had a clerk ignore me the other day while she addressed envelopes. She finally said " I need to get these paychecks out". I wanted to say "there won't be any paychecks if you ignore your customers".
ReplyDeleteUtterly priceless! I had to play it 5 times, I was laughing so hard I kept missing bits!
ReplyDeleteKate
So many rude people in the 'service' industry.
ReplyDeleteEspecially if they think you can't (or won't) go anywhere else.
I don't know if I'm glad to know we're not the only ones with that problem or not!
Pricesless! I often use her phrase "I'm borderline hypoglycemic" when I need to eat. xxx
ReplyDeleteThanks for this JG.
ReplyDeleteJW & VW giving us a masterclass performance of British sitcom at its very best. There’s another clip that crops up now and again from another series, of JW in a black & white sketch, stood outside a bomb wrecked house, dressed as a ragged, hunched over old lady with the most deranged expression on her face. It cracks me up every time I see it. No one else comes close to topping her when she does this stuff. Brilliant.