Steptoe and son

more musical jokes

What's the definition of a gentleman?

-Someone who can play the saxophone, but doesn't.


(may substitute accordion, accordion to taste)

What's the definition of an optimist?
A choral director with a mortgage.

Hi Grand Duke from the red rose county, grrrrrrr


McTag, the horse was indeed called hercules, did you see that episode where Steptoe senior saw that hercules had dumped about ten pounds of manure in the street so he picked it up with his bare hands and put it on the cart to take home to spread it on his garden, and then he continued eating his sandwich. A man of true breeding.

"YOU- DIRTY- OLD- MAN!" oft quoth Harold.

When I was young, the milkman and the scrap metal man and the bobbin sticks man all had horsedrawn carts, pulled by Clydesdales like Hercules.

Massive huge beasts, especially to a child. Happy days.

Wow! Georgia Brown. Welcome to A2K. That a sweet name.

Hilarious, McTag, and panz, I'll have you to understand that my Mama played banjo but she did have several records.

I sorta remember A Day in the Life of a Fool. Was it in a minor key?

Don's a good bloke, isn't he.

I thought I'd heard em all McTag, I'm actually old enough to remember "knocker ups" who were employed to tap on your bedroom window with a long cane to wake you up in time for work, the idea was that until you came to the window and waved to him he would keep tapping until you had no choice but to get out of bed.

But even I've never heard of a bobbin sticks man, what did he do?

The bobbin sticks man sold wood for kindling for coal fires.

The bobbin sticks were small cylinders of wood about two inches in each dimension, or two inches across and three inches long.

Maybe they were offcuts from wood for cotton reels or bobbins made on a lathe, for the textile industry which was prevalent in our area, but I don't really know. He had a big cartload of them, partly covered by a tarpaulin. He shovelled them with a big shovel, made shiny by wear, into hessian bags. His name was Mr Crossan, an Irish name. He had a very loud voice when he shouted his cry of "Bobbin Keh...yup!"

True story. During the popularity of Sandford and Son. There was a junk man in Virginia whose partner was a black guy. Painted on the outside of his truck, was the logo:

Dummy and son.

Letty, probably the most successful T.V. British comedy ever was one called "Fools and Horses" it probably wouldn't translate into the USA language very well, being as it was about a couple of cockney brothers who were described as "market traders" or as we call em "spivs" Their name was Trotter and their firms name was "Trotters Independant Traders"

It took the public years to catch on that their firms initials were T.I.T.

"New York, Paris, Peckham..."

Link to BBC article

Believe it or not, Brit. I caught on immediately. Ha ha, bloody, ha ha!

I know a little cockney, guv.

Having a wee bit of a problem getting into the site.