I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is back on Radio 4. (If that link doesn't lead to the current episode, then you can usually find an old one
here.)
Can you believe that Humphrey Lyttleton is 86? (I believe that, if you care about such things, which I admit I don't, he pretty much functions as a walking history of jazz.) I realize that we long ago came to accept
Desert Island Discs without Roy Plumley and we have even come around to the idea of world without Alistair Cooke, but I fear that sooner or later Humph is going to...retire....whereapon the ravens will fly away from the Tower of London, the licence fee will be abolished, and England like Numenor will sink beneath the waves.
Blah blah blah, improvisational comedy; blah, blah, blah, last vestige of music hall tradition; blah, blah, blah, both precursor and descendant of
Monty Python and
The Goodies; blah blah blah, very rude jokes.
I used to know the technical word for the grammatical construction where you say "precursor and descendant of" where strictly one ought to say "precursor to and descendant of". I want it to be "sylepsis", but that's believing you are the only person in the whole world. It's not a useful word, I admit, but I was pleased when I discovered it existed, and now I have lost it, like Pooh and his honey and the cheese. I digress.
Very rude jokes.
Define "Countryside". "The act of killing Piers Morgan."But mostly very silly jokes.
Complete the following well known phrase or expression:
"It takes two to..." "...to be the Archbishop of Cape Town". "As mad as a March..." "....on Baghdad."From time to time, Gordon starts to worry about what it means to be English. If he listened to
Clue, he would know the answer. (Which raises the question: if he
doesn't listen to
Clue, what business does he have running the country? Neil Kinnock was a big fan.)
There is a blue plaque to
Willie Rushton on Mornington Crescent tube station.