Are you sure that wasn’t Larry Grayson?Ken Dodd was using it - at least ostensibly with its original meaning - all through his career, well into this century,
"What a gay day for sticking a cucumber through your neighbours letterbox and shouting "Quick, quick, the Martians have landed!!".
(Actually Grayson probably Did mean the other usage of “gay”)
Larry Grayson`s catch phrases were indeed "What a gay day" and "Shut that door" and Larry was as camp as they come.Are you sure that wasn’t Larry Grayson?
Ken Dodd was using it - at least ostensibly with its original meaning - all through his career, well into this century,
"What a gay day for sticking a cucumber through your neighbours letterbox and shouting "Quick, quick, the Martians have landed!!".
And there is one of my favorite songs.Reminds me of the line from the song, I'll Be Seeing You, 1938. Famous recordings by Crosby, Sinatra:
"I'll be seeing you. . .
In everything that's light and gay"
Whenever I perform it, I kind of swallow the word and hurry to the next measure. Otherwise, there might be some unintentional humor.
Yes and in Salad Days there’s a song that goes “We’re looking for a piano! A piano? Yes a piano! Just any old piano? No, one that makes you gay!”.. these days it’s usually played for intentional laughs..Reminds me of the line from the song, I'll Be Seeing You, 1938. Famous recordings by Crosby, Sinatra:
"I'll be seeing you. . .
In everything that's light and gay"
Whenever I perform it, I kind of swallow the word and hurry to the next measure. Otherwise, there might be some unintentional humor.
I think - and a bit of Googling seems to confirm - that "What a gay day" began as a Ken Dodd catch-phrase,Are you sure that wasn’t Larry Grayson?
I dimly remember Dodd saying “what a beautiful day.. “ while waving a feather duster around.. but I will absolutely take your word for it
One if my favourite sci-fi stories concerns the adventures of a spaceship called “The Streaker”.. (the humour of that name never strikes the author) and its crew of dolphins and humans
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David Niven was a very witty and urbane man. He also endeared himself to my generation, because in 1939, he immediately left Hollywood and returned to rejoin his old Regiment and distinguished himself in the ensuing War.
Well all I can say is I don’t find it at all boring, but possibly I am a very boring person, who am I to judge... I hope you enjoy “Sternenflut” if you can get hold of it. And yes that is s a classic Jim Burns artwork on the cover..I think you were talking about this story, which I did not know before.
I am surprised by the German judgements / assessments (?) on Amazon and I do not know if the translation was not so good or the story is a bit long-winded but all find the idea of the "uplifted species" good but the story-telling itself was described by German readers as a bit "boring". I think I buy it to decide it by myself.Startide Rising - Wikipedia
Still my favourite Poirot, Sorry David Suchet and Kenneth Branagh...
David Niven`s brother was also an officer in the Medical Corps and later in the mid 1950s was Colonel Commandant of the British Military Hospital in Singapore.
Would that be anywhere near Changi prison? Perhaps he could look over the wall and see how @Barbaria1 is getting on...
Well all I can say is I don’t find it at all boring, but possibly I am a very boring person, who am I to judge... I hope you enjoy “Sternenflut” if you can get hold of it. And yes that is s a classic Jim Burns artwork on the cover..
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