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Thomas wrote:

Sorry for butting into this thread without having read it: But I just ran into a now-dead British comedian on YouTube. I really liked what I saw so now I'm wondering if any of you Brits can tell me more about him. His name is Peter Cook. Does the name ring any bells with any of you?

He's a legend. The funniest man of the 50 60 70s. Died a while back now. Wrote heaps of stuff for Cambridge University footlights/TW3 and the birth of satire...I think..and tv and radio, though constantly censored for booze and bad language. Wrote with Dudley Moore. When Britain did Funny Peter Cook wrote it. Just off the top of my head...probably all wrong...there is stacks about Cookie on the web.

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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore had a great record album out years ago. profanity personified.

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They were hopeless. Bloody depressing not to put too fine a point on it. Made you feel like crying. Why anybody would wish to belong to a species if it was anything like they depicted it beats me. It was distinctly unfunny unless you assumed it was a double bluff and they were really Mumsie's little darlings really trying to pretend they had grown up and were men of the world by poking fun at those foibles of our nature they were allowed to poke fun at, not least by their own sense of decorum, and thus proving themselves to be superior beings just like Mumsie had always told them they were.

It was quite funny if you assumed that.

They weren't "ex-Navy" comics like Benny Hill.

Now he was funny and he made you proud to belong to a species as he portrayed us to be.

Guardian readers hated Benny.

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Thanks, guys!

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Thomas wrote:

Sorry for butting into this thread without having read it: But I just ran into a now-dead British comedian on YouTube. I really liked what I saw so now I'm wondering if any of you Brits can tell me more about him. His name is Peter Cook. Does the name ring any bells with any of you?

You mean there may still be anglophones somewhere on the planet who are unaware of the works of Peter Cook? :wink:

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McTag wrote:

You mean there may still be anglophones somewhere on the planet who are unaware of the works of Peter Cook? :wink:

I'm sure those a bit older than Thomas surely know him ... and his classics of tv satire.

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The name Dudley Moore conjures up for me a short man who played the piano, and a playboy-drunk.

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McTag wrote:

Thomas wrote:
Sorry for butting into this thread without having read it: But I just ran into a now-dead British comedian on YouTube. I really liked what I saw so now I'm wondering if any of you Brits can tell me more about him. His name is Peter Cook. Does the name ring any bells with any of you?

You mean there may still be anglophones somewhere on the planet who are unaware of the works of Peter Cook? :wink:

Not anymore. I was probably the last.

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I just looked at my local British Army's website.

To my great surprise I noticed
"The commonest types [of cakes] are Schwarzwälderkirschkuchen ..."

Not that I doubt it (though they listed 'pineapple cake as third, which seems to be more than doubtful).
But shouldn't it be "most common"?

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"Commonest" is okay as an alternative to "most common", I think.

We call it Black Forest Gateau (Schwarzwald is just the German name for the English term "Black Forest") :wink:

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I know - although we seldom translated the walk in the Black Forest :wink:

(Thanks for the clarification - give my trust back to 20th Armoured Brigade.)

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McTag wrote:

Tico wrote

"When he failed or refused to identify himself, he was properly arrested"

It seems he asked the person demanding ID to explain his authority for asking it. (In all the Hollywood "B" movies I've ever seen, the cops always flash a badge (which could be a coke-bottle top for all the perp knows)). And, the cop's uniform was covered by a "rather louche" bomber jacket, adding to the general confusion.

Whereupon the prof had his legs kicked from under him and he was pinned face-down on the footpath (sidewalk) and handcuffed.

Is that "proper"?

He was told he was under arrest and he resisted. It is in fact "proper" for a police officer to forcibly arrest someone who is resisting arrest, and that very often includes kicking their legs out from under them and pinning them face-down on sidewalks while being handcuffed. I don't know what the cop looked like, but I think we all know the attitude of History prof. must have been extremely poor for it to have escalated to the point where he was getting arrested without having ascertained the authority of the cop to do so. The attitude dripping from his penned letter to the newspaper and the video and telephone interviews I watched leave no question in my mind of how uncooperative History prof. was with the cop who was only trying to do his job.

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Thomas wrote:

Sorry for butting into this thread without having read it: But I just ran into a now-dead British comedian on YouTube. I really liked what I saw so now I'm wondering if any of you Brits can tell me more about him. His name is Peter Cook. Does the name ring any bells with any of you?

I know Peter Cook solely by his very, very brief performance as the Clergyman with the pronounced speech impediment in the movie "The Princess Bride."

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dadpad wrote:

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore had a great record album out years ago. profanity personified.

Dadpad...

You c*nt!

Evenin' all!

x

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Ticomaya wrote:

... the cop who was only trying to do his job.

Actually, he was on a parttime job for the Hilton Hotel, and not on duty as a police officer. (Wearing a police uniform and with it working for someone else .... is a crime here.)

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

Ticomaya wrote:
... the cop who was only trying to do his job.

Actually, he was on a parttime job for the Hilton Hotel, and not on duty as a police officer. (Wearing a police uniform and with it working for someone else .... is a crime here.)

No need to try and correct me here, Walter, although I know you cannot resist the urge to try and do so ... I understand that fully. He IS doing his job even while working his extra job for the Hilton -- which he had permission to work by the City of Atlanta. It's not a crime here, and presumably not in Atlanta. He is still a licensed and commissioned law enforcement officer.

Afternoon, smorgs.

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Ooops, I didn't know that had posted - i got 'critical error'!

I'm not just posting 'Dadpad, you c*nt' willy nilly, you know, not even 'cos it's day 2 of my no smoking - but I was being Peter Cook.

x

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Better forget the pampering then!

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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - duz me 'art good to 'ear of them, it duz!

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