S11E11 Gemma Jones, Anouska Hempel, Barry Norman, Dinsdale Landen.
S11E12 Gemma Jones, Anouska Hempel, Barry Norman, Dinsdale Landen.
Host/Team captains: Robert Robinson, Frank Muir, Patrick Campbell.
S11E12 Gemma Jones, Anouska Hempel, Barry Norman, Dinsdale Landen.
Host/Team captains: Robert Robinson, Frank Muir, Patrick Campbell.
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00:00Peruvians bump into each other.
00:02LAUGHTER
00:05Kamanchaka.
00:07So it's that, and now Barry Norman tells us.
00:11Kamanchaka.
00:13The final C can be spelt... You could have a K instead of final C.
00:17Thank you. It is a long name for a very short, parasitic worm
00:22that lives in West African rivers and attacks passing bathers.
00:26And it gets into the veins and it crawls up the leg
00:30and lodges in the pelvic region
00:33and causes all kinds of irritations which I don't want to talk about.
00:36I don't even like to think about it. It's a nasty thing.
00:39It's a kamanchaka, it's a parasitic worm, to be avoided at all costs.
00:44Thank you. Yes indeed, I should think so. Now, Gemma Jones.
00:47A kamanchaka is a Mexican fiesta
00:51and it provides an opportunity for Mexican horsemen to show their prowess
00:56by doing things like galloping at great speed
00:59and plucking sticks from out of the ground
01:01or riding blindfold or bareback through hoops
01:06and it's rather like badminton horse trials, really.
01:10So it's a rather nasty worm.
01:12It's a Mexican kind of horse show and it's a sea mist in Peru.
01:16Patrick.
01:19Sorry. Patrick.
01:22The man said, speak.
01:25On the day that we find Peruvians, Bolivians bumping into one another
01:32and crying, oops, after ole.
01:35Not disregarded altogether.
01:38Got the joke out, though.
01:41You did the joke, first of all.
01:45Awful worms get into the pelvis, quite possible.
01:48Mexican...
01:50I think it's Bulgarian, not Bulgarian, Bolivian.
01:55It's a... No, it isn't a...
02:02I've been overruled here. It's a little Mexican horse festival.
02:07It's a Mexican horse show, yes.
02:09Gemma, two or bluff, tell us.
02:12Behold.
02:22Now, you were nearly going to choose something else.
02:24Who knows, might well turn out to be the true definition.
02:26Let's see the true one.
02:28Let's have it, lad.
02:35Yes, it is the sea mist in Peru.
02:38Far-fetched, though that is.
02:40Far-fetched, though that be.
02:42Gemma is the next word, and Patrick defines it.
02:48Let's take two elderly fishermen...
02:51Mm-hm.
02:53..with two elderly fishing boats.
02:55Mm-hm.
02:56And one of them breaks down...
02:58Man or the boat?
03:00Wait, wait, I'm explaining it as best I can.
03:02This is a complicated nautical matter.
03:04One boat breaks down...
03:07..and the old fisherman in the boat that hasn't broken down
03:10is counting up to throw his friend a gummer,
03:13in addition to the tow rope.
03:15Because...
03:18..if the old fisherman, towing his broken-down old friend,
03:21finds that the tow rope is part of it,
03:24at least he's got the gummer still between them.
03:27What is it?
03:29It's a tow rope.
03:31A kind of secondary tow rope.
03:34Right, yes, yes.
03:36Little doubt there for a minute.
03:38Not much.
03:40Dinsdale, London now.
03:42Well, a gummer, it's not so very surprisingly,
03:45has something got to do with teeth.
03:47I mean, not with the molars and incisors,
03:50but with the teeth of a saw.
03:52A carpenter's saw.
03:54A gummer is a skilled artisan
03:56who works with a file to deepen and enlarge
04:02an old, worn saw,
04:04thereby giving the latter a very new and useful life.
04:07It's very simple.
04:09Yep, right. So, Anoushka Hempel, what do you tell us?
04:13Well, a gummer is an Australian word.
04:16Gummer, you know?
04:18It's a prospector's hut that they used to make out of wattle
04:21and eucalyptus branches and all that sort of thing.
04:24And the prospector used to go in there out of the shade
04:27with his hat and his corpse on and sit in there,
04:30you know? Gummer.
04:32Gummer shade.
04:34LAUGHTER
04:36Why not? Why not?
04:38I have no idea.
04:40Well, it certainly... It seems that it's a useful rope.
04:43A useful rope used by the seamen.
04:45It's a saw improver and it's a prospector's hut.
04:48Frank. Hat.
04:50Hut. Hut.
04:52No, those things with corks around it.
04:54No, no, they had the hat on with the corks
04:56and they got in the hut called the gummer.
04:58Methinks the lady doth help too much.
05:01I don't think it's...
05:03I don't think prospectors had huts.
05:06They either went into digs...
05:11..during the gold rush...
05:13..or they slept under trees by a billabong.
05:17So we're not having that.
05:19I don't think you can improve saws
05:21by deepening the slot in the middle.
05:23I think you sharpen the teeth
05:25and when there's no teeth left, you shuck them away.
05:28So I'm afraid it must be my dear friend Patrick's
05:32ridiculous secondary tow rope.
05:34The one the seamen use when need arises.
05:37Patrick, was that true?
05:39Or were you teasing again?
05:41Dear friend, I was teasing.
05:43APPLAUSE
05:48All rubbish. We need to know the truth now.
05:51Aha.
05:54Thank you very much indeed.
05:56APPLAUSE
06:00You can improve saws and gummers do.
06:03One all.
06:05Scadden's the next word. Barry, your go.
06:08Well, you could call a scadden a kind of weenie bopper bee.
06:12I'm sure you wouldn't want to, but that's what you could call it.
06:16It is a very young bee that has come too early out of the cell
06:20and is not yet able to fly.
06:22It's a very tragic sight.
06:24You can see them all round the hives looking down at these scaddens
06:28weeping because they know it's going to come to a sorry end.
06:31It's a very technical word,
06:33which is possibly why you might not have heard of it before,
06:36and it's only likely to be used by a professional apiarist.
06:39But a scadden is... That's it, it's a young bee.
06:42LAUGHTER
06:44A crying young bee.
06:46Stranger things have been known. Gemma.
06:49A scadden is a word used for the little twist of paper
06:52that you might tear off a large piece of paper
06:55in order to make a spill to light a fire,
06:57and in Lancashire it has an even more specific meaning
07:00because it's that little twist of paper
07:02that the schoolboys used to tie onto the tails of their kites.
07:06A scadden.
07:08Great. Now, Frank.
07:11A scadden existed as a scadden for a few hundred years
07:16and then became a crappula.
07:18Sorry.
07:20LAUGHTER
07:22And then it became a crappula,
07:24and then, after a few more hundred years,
07:26it became a hangover.
07:28And I think it's rather interesting
07:30that that waking up in the morning
07:32with a mouth like a tram driver's glove
07:35and the twitching and the little fairies with rubber hammers
07:38hitting you on top of the head
07:40has always been with us, only the word has changed.
07:44It certainly has changed.
07:46LAUGHTER
07:48So it's a bit of paper.
07:50It's a hangover and it's a young bee.
07:52Dinsdale.
07:54Yes. Hmm.
07:56I don't think I believe at all in the tragic story of the bee.
07:59You?
08:01No. And I don't believe...
08:03Keep out of it. ..these kites.
08:05Sorry, that wasn't asked for.
08:07I think it's this hangover.
08:09This hangover, which Frank spoke so movingly.
08:13Bob Love.
08:18APPLAUSE
08:24No, no. Who gave the true definition?
08:27That's your... Oh, dear.
08:29It's there.
08:31APPLAUSE
08:35It's a young bee turned down, Dinsdale, yes.
08:37Means a young bee.
08:39Ring-a-ling, get another one, spanners.
08:41Spanners, but there. Dinsdale, your go.
08:44What's spanners? I mean, it's quite simply an upper-class nickname for Spain.
08:49I mean, likewise, you have Twickers for Twickenham.
08:52LAUGHTER
08:54Can I please finish? And Rugger for rugby,
08:56and, of course, Starkers for stark naked.
08:58LAUGHTER
09:00Possibly deriving from España, the Spanish name for Spain,
09:03the nickname is, I admit, completely obsolete,
09:06but last being noted in a Punch article in 1909.
09:09Spanners, as we chaps used to call it. OK?
09:12Yes.
09:14Anoushka now.
09:16Well, spanners is a word that...
09:19Well, it's really... It's a dirty word now.
09:22It's got something to do with work.
09:24In the old days, you could do your spanners, which was...
09:27Instead of working an eight-hour day as such,
09:30you could work all your eight-hour days
09:32all the way through from the beginning of the week,
09:35so that you could finish your spanners on Friday lunchtime
09:38or Thursday evening,
09:40if you worked terribly hard and consistently,
09:42and it was called doing your spanners.
09:44Very reasonable.
09:46Dropping dead. Yes.
09:48What are you going to tell us now, Patrick?
09:50Spanners is...
09:54It's a game rather like the game of marbles,
09:57but much more like the game of boule.
10:00I mean, bowls. I mean, English bowls.
10:03Little Victorian lads used to play spanners
10:06on the drawing-room carpet.
10:09All afternoon.
10:11Hour after hour, spanners.
10:13They even had mixed spanners.
10:16No!
10:19Only in the presence of an old aunt
10:22or an otherwise authorised chaperone.
10:28So, you tell us... Ah.
10:30No. No.
10:32It's a game of marbles played under those circumstances.
10:35It's a great name for Spain,
10:37and it's the total hours of work you worked within a given period.
10:41So, Barry Norman, he chooses.
10:43Yes. Yes, right.
10:45I think that the spanners for Spain
10:47is rather like codders for Codswallop.
10:49I don't think we'll have that one.
10:51And there's this other business of working...
10:53Working spanners, working...
10:55And then Patrick.
10:57The truth isn't in Patrick, of course.
10:59He's usually telling lies.
11:01But I think on this occasion, he's telling the truth.
11:04You select the one. He said it was marbles played on carpets.
11:07Plump for me. I've plumped for you, Patrick.
11:09Did you plump? I plumped.
11:11I plumped for him to plump for me.
11:13Yes, right.
11:15You were dead right to, wasn't you?
11:17APPLAUSE
11:24You plumped to some good effect.
11:26I'm rather against plumping, but just now and again...
11:28You are against plumping.
11:30Yes, indeed. It's got to be stopped.
11:33But he's right.
11:35Marbles played on a carpet in Victorian times
11:37was called spanners.
11:39Now we have
11:41Clamponnier, I suppose.
11:43Gemma Jones.
11:45Clamponnier is a really ghastly musical din.
11:48A real cacophony of dreadful discordant noise.
11:52That's a Clamponnier.
11:54And to quote some advice upon piano playing
11:56from the Girls' Annual of 1876,
11:59continuous depression of the loud pedal
12:01will serve but to produce
12:03an unmelodious Clamponnier.
12:07Handy sort of word, yes.
12:09Frank?
12:11I would suggest to you,
12:13I merely suggest it,
12:15the word Clamponnier
12:17really comes from the early part
12:19of the 18th century.
12:21Sort of after
12:23Vanburgh built the new Haymarket Theatre.
12:26It was the...
12:28It was the
12:30very wide centre aisle
12:32of a theatre
12:34during which,
12:36during the intervals of the play
12:38in which the ton,
12:40the nobility were wont
12:42to chat and saunter
12:44and stroam amongst,
12:46sometimes during the acts.
12:48It was known otherwise as Fop's Alley.
12:52Yes, Barry?
12:54Clamponnier is a tall,
12:56long, high, narrow horse.
12:58It is, if you like,
13:00an equine Patrick Campbell
13:02or Frank Muir, although I don't think
13:04it has quite the moustache or the bow tie of Frank.
13:06But it is rather like that.
13:08It is a long, tall, narrow horse.
13:10It's longer than the paston,
13:12which is the bit between the hoof and the fedlock.
13:14And it has this long, high, narrow appearance.
13:16And that's what a Clamponnier is.
13:18Yes, well.
13:20So it's a disagreeable sort of a noise.
13:22It's the aisle in the middle of this particular theatre
13:24where you can stroll, if you were posh.
13:26And it's a tall sort of horse,
13:28resembling the old gentleman who captained the teams.
13:30Now, Anoushka, you choose.
13:32Poker faces, team.
13:34Give nothing away.
13:36Yes, I feel a bit poker-faced, too, about it.
13:38What do you think, Patrick?
13:40Two to one chance, my dear.
13:42Shall we have a quick bit?
13:44Well, I've got a feeling that it's
13:46probably the aisle
13:48where all the nobility got together
13:50to do their Clamponniers.
13:52I'm giving nothing away.
13:54Don't, don't, don't.
13:56I don't think Barry was right, and Gemma
13:58could have been right, I don't know.
14:00But you're going to choose one, Frank?
14:02Yes, I'm going to choose for Frank.
14:04Frank said it was the aisle in which people strolled.
14:06True or bluff?
14:08No.
14:10APPLAUSE
14:16No, chaps didn't.
14:18They didn't stroll there.
14:20Team, here it comes. Watch closely.
14:22Well, not again!
14:24APPLAUSE
14:30Tall, thin, lovable, horse.
14:32Now we have another word.
14:34It's carol.
14:36And, Anoushka Hempel, your turn.
14:38Ah, well, now, this word is a nostalgic
14:40reminder of the old days,
14:42where in a grocer's shop or a draper's shop
14:44there used to be that amazing little bit
14:46of wire that ran around the shop.
14:48And when you paid your bill,
14:50you gave the money to this little man
14:52in his white apron, he took the money
14:54and he put it into this rather lovely
14:56brass cylindrical thing,
14:58clamped it up to the wire,
15:00and it zoozed all the way around
15:02to the lady in the accountant's desk
15:04who was sitting there, and it dropped into her lap.
15:06She took the money out, put back in
15:08the receipt in the right change,
15:10took it back onto the wires,
15:12went all the way around the room again,
15:14came down to the person who'd served you,
15:16and zoozed all the way around
15:18is the little thing called the carrel.
15:20Well, I don't think you left anything out there.
15:22LAUGHTER
15:24Patrick, now what do you think?
15:26It's a long journey.
15:28Carrel, or rather carrels,
15:30little kind of cells,
15:32are the carrels.
15:34You'll find them all...
15:38Alexis drew cathedral cloisters.
15:40Little private retiring rooms
15:42for monks that had enough
15:44of the churning around the cathedral.
15:46I'd want a little moment of privacy
15:48for themselves.
15:50I'd read or have some real fun
15:52like a little game of solitaire.
15:54LAUGHTER
15:56Well, it's in those
15:58that the game of solitaire goes on
16:00with monks.
16:02Dinsdale.
16:04Well, good air.
16:06Very well-known word to people like
16:08the late Winston Churchill, indeed to Lew Grade,
16:10because it happens to be the inner part
16:12or the core of a, guess what,
16:14a cigar. It's very simple.
16:16It's the tube with the smallest and topmost
16:18leaves of a tobacco plant
16:20around which the larger and the outer leaves
16:22are wrapped and rolled.
16:24For your further education,
16:26I might add that this outer wrapping
16:28is known to those in the business
16:30as its gown, spelt
16:32G-A-W-N.
16:34So they say.
16:36It's an overhead zazza, I think you said.
16:38Good word for it, too.
16:40Monks, annex, and it's the core
16:42of a cigar, the centre bit or...
16:44Anyway, Gemma.
16:46Oh, my goodness.
16:48Anoushka's description was so nostalgically
16:50precise.
16:52I nearly had a blub, that little
16:54brass corral.
16:56Tempted to go for that.
16:58I rather like the idea of the monks
17:00having a bit of private time off
17:02in a corral. Don't like the
17:04cigar, so I'm
17:06toying between Anoushka and Patrick.
17:10Something to do with carols
17:12and monks
17:14playing solitaire. Yes, I think
17:16I'll plump for Patrick's cell.
17:18Oh, plump away, plump and feel free.
17:20So, yes,
17:22monks annex, Patrick, you did say it now, didn't you?
17:24True or bluff?
17:26Get back in there.
17:28Looks well pleased.
17:30Leave out your plumping.
17:32Oh, no!
17:34APPLAUSE
17:36APPLAUSE
17:38Nicely done.
17:40All that about carols.
17:42Ah, nice to see some thought
17:44processes. Gamalang.
17:46Well, I don't know how you pronounce it, Frank.
17:48Visit
17:50almost any, I would say,
17:52Javanese or Samoan
17:54discotheque
17:56and you would probably hear
17:58the music of the
18:00gamalang, because
18:02a gamalang is a Javanese
18:04or Samoan orchestra
18:06given...
18:08It's a sort of combo
18:10comprising almost entirely
18:12percussion instruments.
18:14Rectangular pieces of metal
18:16and they go in a lot for gongs.
18:18It's a sort of
18:20ba-ling-do-ing-do-ing-do-ing
18:22bang-bang-do-ing-do-ing
18:26It's that kind of
18:28gamalang.
18:30Is there a second verse?
18:32LAUGHTER
18:34You were leading with your chin there, Patrick.
18:36Leave it alone. Barry?
18:38Well, a much more prosaic
18:40explanation. Gamalang is the
18:42produce of a Red Indian's kitchen
18:44garden. Whatever is grown
18:46within the vegetable
18:48garden area of the
18:50Red Indian compound
18:52that's called the gamalang and they're
18:54likely to grow stuff like
18:56nukatugu, which of course, as you know, is a small
18:58parsnip, or a weewanpok
19:00which is an even smaller potato.
19:02And indeed, any wigwam, you could
19:04hear them saying, pass the weewanpok.
19:06That's what a gamalang is,
19:08they grow the weewanpok on it.
19:10Now, Gemma,
19:12your turn.
19:14A gamelang is the piece
19:16of cloth that's worn round
19:18the leg, tied round the leg,
19:20either above or below the
19:22knee as you choose to stop your stockings falling down.
19:24In other words, it's a garter.
19:26There's an old country phrase, to cast a gamelang,
19:28which means to woo
19:30or seduce or otherwise entice
19:32a prospective husband by casting
19:34a gamelang.
19:36So, well,
19:38it's a Javanese orchestra, it's a kind of
19:40a garter, and it's a Red Indian's
19:42allotment. Patrick,
19:44choose a way.
19:48If it's an orchestra,
19:50it's called an orchestra, it isn't called
19:52a gamalang.
19:54It is called an orchestra.
19:56Indian
19:58garden
20:00drapery.
20:04But that's all I was aware of.
20:06What? What you said about
20:08a gamelang.
20:10Yes.
20:12It's a garter.
20:14A garter. Gemma Jones,
20:16true or bluff?
20:18Oh!
20:24Not a garter.
20:26Who gave the true definition of gamelang?
20:28It's you.
20:30Oh, no!
20:36I think you deserve
20:38an encore, Patrick, and you might get never known.
20:40Anyway, lovely singing.
20:42Lovely singing, it's Javanese
20:44orchestra. 6-1, goodness me.
20:46Filister is the next one.
20:48Patrick, his go.
20:52Filister is a
20:54pen's name for
20:56a cobweb.
20:58You know what a cobweb is?
21:00A spider's web, vaguely.
21:02It's...
21:04It kind of lurks around
21:06in
21:08deeper bits of
21:10wheelchair.
21:12If the women
21:14folk of the house, including one's wife,
21:16had not been too busy
21:18with the feather duster,
21:20you can say to somebody,
21:22I'm deeply sorry, Derek
21:24or Eric,
21:26but my place is simply draped with filisters.
21:30Thank you.
21:32But only in wheelchair.
21:34Now, Ginsdale Landon's
21:36turn.
21:38A filister was an alchemist's
21:40retort. It was a glass or
21:42earthenware vessel that an alchemist
21:44used in his efforts to transmute base metals
21:46into gold.
21:48It's a word, strangely enough, that occurs
21:50once in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem
21:52The House of Life. I'll read that to you.
21:54Destroyed of it?
21:56No, not all of it.
21:58Destroyed of honour,
22:00he shall so endure a brimming
22:02of the filisters of wrath
22:04for certain years.
22:06Charming.
22:08Very moving.
22:10Well,
22:12filister is a German word
22:14that means
22:16philistine
22:18and it's a rather derogatory
22:20word that was used by German university
22:22students for those
22:24lesser creatures who hadn't had any
22:26education whatsoever and they used to call them
22:28filisters.
22:30I see. Well, it's an alchemist's
22:32retort. It's a cobweb
22:34in wheelchair and it's an
22:36uneducated German, according to
22:38educated Germans.
22:40Frankly yours.
22:42I asked Gemma what she thought
22:44and she said, and I said, do you really think so?
22:46She said, no.
22:48Thank you
22:50for your help.
22:52This is rather difficult, isn't it?
22:54Could it be a cobweb?
22:56What are they supposed to think it's
22:58first?
23:00Filament, I suppose.
23:02Alchemist's old
23:04retort. I've got an old retort for an alchemist.
23:08Plaster or the
23:10German...
23:12Is there a ph in German?
23:14I don't know.
23:16No, true indeed.
23:18Well, let's...
23:20I've no idea about this, have you? No.
23:22We'll go for
23:24darling Anoushka, who's looking so beautiful
23:26and hasn't had much chance of waving your card
23:28at me.
23:30Yes, I think so.
23:32It's the uneducated German of which you spoke, Anoushka.
23:34True or bluff? Here he comes.
23:39Bullseye!
23:49These moments, seven-one,
23:51make it all worthwhile. We've just got nice
23:53time for the last word,
23:55which is celadon, and Barry,
23:57it's your kick-off. It's a
23:59stone that is alleged to lurk
24:01in the belly of an eagle, and it
24:03is said to have beneficial results
24:05when wrapped up in liniment or
24:07lint, rather, and applied to
24:09stricken areas. It probably isn't
24:11from an eagle's belly, but it's supposed to be.
24:13It's a healing stone.
24:15No!
24:17What's he talking? Celadon is a
24:19wax-like substance that you get from rubbing
24:21sticks of sugar cane, and in
24:23culinary uses, it's
24:25heated up and liquidised and made into
24:27a smooth, waxy,
24:29rather delicious substance
24:31for putting over cakes and fruit.
24:33Celadon.
24:35Frank.
24:37I plump for celadon being a colour
24:39or tint.
24:41A very subtle, pale
24:43green, which I suppose you
24:45could liken it to
24:47a willow tree in spring
24:49or a child with a
24:51bilious attack.
24:53It's a lovely, soft,
24:55subtle green colour.
24:57So it's a species of green, it's a kind of
24:59a wax, which is edible, and it's
25:01a kind of a stone, which has the property
25:03of healing. Dinsdale, fairly
25:05quick choice.
25:07I think it's that stone that has a kind of
25:09healing. You don't like the other two? No, I don't like the other two
25:11at all, no. I just dismiss them.
25:13It's that stone.
25:15Barry.
25:17I knew I
25:19couldn't win them all.
25:21APPLAUSE
25:23APPLAUSE
25:25APPLAUSE
25:27Now,
25:29let us hear the true definition.
25:31Celery.
25:33It is.
25:35APPLAUSE
25:37APPLAUSE
25:39Thank you.
25:41I think I've known two words in the whole
25:43series of Call My Block.
25:45That's the third. I knew that that meant green.
25:47I knew the word for
25:49your word,
25:51the cell, for the monk's cells, because
25:53it's what they call the little booth in the library
25:55at St Andrews University.
25:57Ah, splendid. Well, well, well.
25:59It's the stone in a turkey's rum.
26:01LAUGHTER
26:03Well, enough...
26:05Enough of this rather modest
26:07boasting that we're going in for.
26:09The score standing at 8-1, there's no doubt about it,
26:11Frank and his team has won!
26:13APPLAUSE
26:15APPLAUSE
26:17APPLAUSE
26:19APPLAUSE
26:21So, more nonce words
26:23from the OED next time.
26:25Until then, goodbye from Barry Norman.
26:27Thank you.
26:29Dinsdale Landon.
26:31Gemma Jones.
26:33Anushka Temple.
26:35Frank Muir.
26:37Hello.
26:39Patrick Campbell. Hello.
26:41And goodbye.
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27:15APPLAUSE
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27:19Good evening. This is Call My Bluff,
27:21featuring the only eight-foot
27:23leprechaun in the business,
27:25Anushka Temple.
27:27APPLAUSE
27:29APPLAUSE
27:31APPLAUSE
27:33Last week,
27:35battered into the ground under my careful guidance,
27:37my two companions begged
27:39if they could come back again
27:41to make even more of a mess of it.
27:43We have
27:45a kind of female mess here
27:47called Anushka Temple.
27:49APPLAUSE
27:51APPLAUSE
27:53An actor called Dinsdale Landon.
27:55APPLAUSE
27:57Bye.
27:59APPLAUSE
28:01The man with all the wooden hate in his
28:03Frank Muir.
28:05APPLAUSE
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28:09Back, of course, comes the old Duchess
28:11of Duke Street
28:13herself, Gemma Jones.
28:15APPLAUSE
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28:19And on my left,
28:21Mr Spocket Hole himself,
28:23Barry Norman.
28:25APPLAUSE
28:27APPLAUSE
28:29Technical reference there.
28:31Now we get on with it. Yes, ring the bell.
28:33Get the first word. Pin Jane.
28:35And as you probably remember,
28:37Patrick Campbell and his team on this occasion
28:39will define Pin Jane three different ways.
28:41Two of the definitions are false. One is
28:43true. That is the one that
28:45Frank and co. try and pick out.
28:47So, Patrick, what of this word
28:49Pin Jane?
28:51It's called Pin Janey.
28:53Ah. It's an old
28:55American and old West Indian
28:57word.
29:01A kind of Spanish
29:03silver coin. It ought to be
29:05called Pinjami.
29:07But seeing that it's old American and old West Indian,
29:09it's called Pin Janey.
29:11A silver doubloon,
29:13a half a doubloon...
29:15A single loon.
29:17A moment, please, a moment.
29:19In those days,
29:21retailing it rounded by 75 units.
29:25It might
29:27interest you to know that Washington Irving
29:31did a bit of
29:33it quite on his watch chain.
29:35And he called it even a
29:37Pin Janey too, like everybody else.
29:39I don't know.
29:41Next, please.
29:43So, the next is indeed
29:45Dale Landon.
29:47I don't know if any of you collect
29:49pewter, but if you do,
29:51if you do collect pewter, and it goes
29:53off, it goes a bit rusty, et cetera, and you've run out
29:55of pewter polish, may I suggest
29:57the plant Pin Jane?
29:59Hmm? You know the plant Pin Jane?
30:01Well, the leaves of Pin Jane,
30:03that's a herb known also
30:05as a shepherd's thistle,
30:07you'll find, will, if rubbed
30:09upon pewter, bring it back to
30:11a lovely sort of, lovely
30:13sulphur metallic colour.
30:15Very good stuff.
30:17Annushka Hempel this time.
30:19Well, Pin Jane
30:21is a regional word, peculiar
30:23to the Isle of Man, and it
30:25means curds and whey,
30:27or coagulated milk.
30:29And probably
30:31the poet who was writing
30:33Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet eating
30:35her Pin Jane
30:37substituted curds and whey because
30:39it didn't rhyme.
30:41OK,
30:43so it's a kind of a polish that's
30:45OK for pewter, it's
30:47a coin, and it's
30:49some part of milk.
30:51Frank Muir.
30:53What is
30:55the note then?
30:57Right.
30:59Here we go.
31:01Oh, good.
31:03I haven't got an idea in my head.
31:05We are
31:07in some slight disarray here.
31:09Old
31:11coin dangling on
31:13Washington Irving's
31:15watch chain.
31:17Even if true,
31:19the Oxford dictionary wouldn't note that,
31:21would it?
31:23Plant which you rub on pewter.
31:25It does sound like a plant, doesn't it?
31:27Coagulated milk.
31:29We haven't had the Isle of Man before, have we?
31:31Don't think so.
31:33What do you think, audience? No, I'd better not.
31:35I think it's
31:37the...
31:39Oh, God, I don't know.
31:41I'll have the
31:43plant, the rubbing the
31:45stuff on the pewter. Polish, yes, plant
31:47from which they get polished. Dinsdale,
31:49True or Bluff. It's there.
31:51No, no.
31:53APPLAUSE
31:57Nothing to do with that.
31:59Let's have the true definition. Someone must
32:01have given it. Oh, no.
32:03It's there.
32:05No, not that one.
32:09No, not that one.
32:11A lot of acting going on.
32:13It's all yours.
32:15The suspense.
32:17APPLAUSE
32:23It certainly is milk.
32:25It's that part of milk of which Anushka spoke.
32:27Guffin is our next word
32:29and Frank Muir defines it.
32:31Guffin.
32:33Guffin, Patrick might
32:35just know because it's
32:37really very old lower deck
32:39naval slang for...
32:41Hugh Rotter.
32:43Government stores
32:45which have gone mouldy
32:47or no longer fit for use.
32:49Hence the fact
32:51that due to the
32:53love-hate relationship between the lower deck
32:55and Royal Marines,
32:57a Royal Marine was known to a sailor
32:59as a guffin once.
33:01Not twice, cos he'd be hit.
33:05Barry Yorter.
33:07When you've got the porcelain out
33:09and you're dusting it, when you've got the
33:11ming on the table and you're giving it a once-over
33:13with a feather duster, a guffin is the very
33:15last person you want about.
33:17If you see a guffin coming down the garden path, you bolt the door
33:19and you shout, go away, guffin!
33:21Because a guffin is a very clumsy fellow.
33:23And indeed,
33:25on Somerset or in the Isle of Man,
33:27when the fellow trips over his third foot,
33:29you hear them saying, ah, I bet you'll be a great guffin.
33:33Pardon?
33:35Ah, bet you'll be a great guffin.
33:37Great guffin there.
33:39Or even in Mommaset.
33:41Or in Mommaset they might even say it.
33:43Gemma, have a go.
33:45A guffin is an American stickleback.
33:47There's little fish
33:49that little boys catch and put in jam jars.
33:51But as it's an American stickleback,
33:53of course it's much larger and gaudier
33:55than an English stickleback.
33:57In fact,
33:59the stickles on its back
34:01can sometimes grow to be an inch,
34:03which is a pretty big guffin.
34:05So, it's kind of
34:07naval stores, it's a clumsy person,
34:09and it's a special kind
34:11of stickleback.
34:13And Patrick is to choose at this juncture.
34:15What about this love-hate
34:17relationship between the Royal Marines
34:19and the lower deck?
34:21That's what you said, wasn't it?
34:23I did indeed say that, sir.
34:25Well, it's
34:27fairly filthy, isn't it?
34:29Not to pure minds, sir.
34:31Is it true?
34:33What, the definition?
34:35I'm not entitled to divulge that.
34:39It was a trap. I nearly fell in this.
34:41Nearly fell in.
34:43We've got Barry with his ming out
34:45and the guffin coming up.
34:49There's a thing called
34:51a guppy,
34:53and it's more than a stickleback.
34:57Oh, I think it's
34:59a little stickleback or a fishery.
35:01The stickleback, Gemma.
35:03True or bluff?
35:05Smiling too sweetly.
35:07She doesn't mind.
35:13She was only fooling you it wasn't true.
35:15Who gave the true one?
35:17Ah, but you'd be a lot of good.
35:23Yeah.
35:25Guffin is a clumsy person.
35:27One all.
35:29Tribuke is the next word.
35:31Dinsdale Landon to define it.
35:33Tribuke or tribuke.
35:35It's a card game
35:37known to card players.
35:39If you're about to give a
35:41game of whist, and obviously you need
35:43four people, if only three people turn up
35:45you play a card game which is known
35:47as tribuke.
35:49It's a very simple game.
35:51A three-handed whist.
35:53A game played with 30 cards
35:55and a game which, furthermore,
35:57might well have wild away the time
35:59of the three old ladies in the dirty ditty.
36:05Well, yes.
36:07Yes and no.
36:11Oh dear, what can
36:13the matter be?
36:15I believe, Frank, you paid
36:17Dinsdale to lead with that.
36:19We can't hang around. Anoushka, your turn.
36:21Well, a tribuke was
36:23a medieval engine
36:25of war that was
36:27used to sort of batter fortresses
36:29into rubble and it was a sort of
36:31marvellous wooden
36:33framework
36:35with a spot that you put the boulder
36:37in and there was a multiplicity
36:39of ropes all hanging off the side of it
36:41and when you got yourself lined up
36:43you either rammed yourself against the wall
36:45or you parabolically
36:47sort of went zoop over the top and
36:49landed in the middle of it.
36:51It was, you know...
36:53Very technical minded, yes, indeed.
36:55Very well done, Patrick.
36:57You want to build a small bridge
36:59over a muddy bottomed
37:01river.
37:03Not particularly, no.
37:05You want...
37:09You want
37:11about four tribukes.
37:13Because they're, of course,
37:15rectangular.
37:17They're hollow tubes.
37:19And you bash them into the bottom
37:21of the muddy river.
37:23About six feet down.
37:25Pour in your concrete
37:27then, which expels
37:29the mud.
37:31You leave your tribuke there for two or three weeks.
37:33That's clever. And you've got
37:35four little columns.
37:39You put the bridge over
37:41on. Yes, you could, couldn't you?
37:43Do you
37:45still have a muddy bottom?
37:49It comes up, doesn't it?
37:51I don't think there's any more you could usefully
37:53tell us about that. No, no, no.
37:55It's kind of a
37:57concrete tube that you pour the
37:59concrete down. It's a sort of a
38:01card game and it's an engine
38:03of war. Barry Norman.
38:05Well, I don't know. I mean, this card
38:07game known to card players, it's very subtle, isn't it?
38:09I mean, there may be some significance in that.
38:11Then there's parabolic engine of war
38:13and a bridge over a
38:15muddy bottom.
38:17Patrick's muddy bottom?
38:19Or... Not my personal
38:21muddy. Not your personal muddy.
38:23I'm glad you cleared that up, Patrick.
38:25I'm worried.
38:27Oh, eeny, meeny,
38:29miny, moe. I think they're all lying, frankly.
38:31It's a card game for three-handed
38:33whist players. Now, that was Dinsdale,
38:35he said. That was Dinsdale. True or bluff,
38:37Dinsdale? One tries one's best.
38:39Oh, you see...
38:41APPLAUSE
38:47No, twant that, twant that. What was it?
38:51It's the young lady there.
38:53Yes, indeed.
38:55See, there it is.
38:57APPLAUSE
38:59Engine of war. Did all those
39:01things she said it did. And then
39:03some. Gatch is the next thing.
39:05And word, I should say. Barry Norman.
39:07A gatch is a big
39:09bellied jug.
39:11Which you carry things in.
39:13It's a pot-bellied pot, if you
39:15like. And, er,
39:17if I may read you some of me poetry,
39:19there's a little ditty
39:21that goes, I think
39:23it's from the Isle of Man, possibly, or
39:25Suffolk. Again? It goes,
39:27A gatch o' milk oid bin to fill.
39:29You shouldered oit and make it spill.
39:31So gatch and oi spun down the hill.
39:33Very good.
39:35And that's what a gatch is. A pot-bellied pot.
39:37In the Isle of Man?
39:39I often wondered how they'd speak in the Isle of Man.
39:41They speak exactly like that.
39:43LAUGHTER
39:45I'll try and remember that.
39:47Now, whose go is it? Yes, Gemma.
39:49Well, now, if you've ever taken
39:51a stroll round Adadan
39:53or Tehran,
39:55you will surely have noticed that
39:57all the roofs are covered in
39:59gatch.
40:01Because gatch is a Middle Eastern
40:03builder's plaster.
40:05It's rather like plaster of Paris.
40:07So I suppose it should really be called
40:09plaster of Persia, but it isn't. It's called
40:11gatch.
40:13Wit, isn't it?
40:15Three jokes in one.
40:17Gatch,
40:19fairly buoying and not
40:21helped by the way I tell it,
40:23is a bit of a glove.
40:25And in the...
40:27When gloves were handmade, it was the important
40:29bit of a glove, because it's the bit
40:31which determines the fit of the glove,
40:33and it's the
40:35thumbpiece that comes into there.
40:39Gotcha.
40:41Yeah. Well, it's a glove
40:43thumbpiece. It's plaster of...
40:45Well, it's plaster, and it's
40:47a large jug.
40:49Dinsdale, to pick.
40:51Oh, dear.
40:53As for this pot-bellied pot...
40:55Shall I do me poem?
40:57These Devonshire people
40:59live in the Isle of Man.
41:01Very tricky. Middle Eastern
41:03plaster, and a
41:05bit of a glove.
41:07It's awfully tricky, isn't it?
41:09Nevertheless...
41:11Oh, dear.
41:15I'm going to go for this pot-bellied pot
41:17in the Isle of Man. I don't know why,
41:19but that's what I'm going for.
41:21Well, it was Barry who said it.
41:23It was I who said it.
41:25Sorry about this, Frank.
41:27APPLAUSE
41:31So, no jug. Who gave the true
41:33definition? Let's have it.
41:35Gemma Jones did.
41:37APPLAUSE
41:41Plaster. That's what it is.
41:43She was right. To all.
41:45Skittybat's the next one.
41:47Anoushka Hample to define it.
41:49Now, skittybat.
41:51It's not me. It's a
41:53Scandinavian word that
41:55is a loop...
41:57How do I explain it? It's a loophole.
41:59It's a hole in the middle of one of those walls,
42:01medieval castle walls, and you can put your
42:03cannon in it and fire out from it.
42:05Or any kind of artillery.
42:07What? You're hearing all castle.
42:09Speak to him, my darling.
42:11I've got the castle scene going.
42:15Anyway, there's a legend about the Duke of Monmouth
42:17who escaped from Dunster
42:19Castle, and he was caught
42:21escaping from a skittybat.
42:23Yep.
42:25Patrick's turn.
42:27In Victorian times,
42:31a gentleman's gentleman
42:35put his gentleman's
42:37feet
42:39not into a skittybat
42:41but a pair of skittybats.
42:45A gentleman said,
42:47pottering around
42:49the garden,
42:51I've got your skittybats for you.
42:53A kind of pre-welly,
42:55really.
42:57They're laced up above the shinbone
42:59about six inches
43:01above the anklebone for gardening.
43:03But wellies
43:05were pre-Victorian anyway.
43:07This is not my fault
43:09or your fault.
43:13It's Dinsdale Landon
43:15to do it now. He will.
43:17Well, all I
43:19can say is, if any of you are
43:21going to Glasgow, and you go up to
43:23some Glaswegian, you say,
43:25you skittybat.
43:27Don't do it.
43:29Don't do it at all.
43:31It's a very nasty criticism
43:33of a Glaswegian.
43:35It means he's a touch balmy,
43:37he's off his head. And if you do say,
43:39OK, you skittybat,
43:41I think you're fine. You're in
43:43for a very nasty punch-up.
43:45That's all I have to say.
43:47So, it means you're a bit daft
43:49in that way. Yes, I have read that kind of thing.
43:51Special pair of boots
43:53and a hole for a cannon
43:55to go through. Jeremiah Jones?
43:57Well, they all
43:59seem totally improbable to me.
44:01I mean, how the Duke of Monmouth
44:03escaped from a Scandinavian
44:05skittybat
44:07out of an English castle
44:09is, um... Oh, the word
44:11Scandinavian, not the castle.
44:13I see. Hmm. Hmm.
44:15And
44:17Prewellies.
44:19It's a nice name for Prewellies.
44:21Put your skittybats on, we'll go
44:23for a walk. I rather like that.
44:25Um, or this
44:27balmy Glaswegian.
44:29I think I like the
44:31Prewellies. Yes.
44:33Of Patrick. Yes.
44:35True or bluff, Patrick?
44:41Oh!
44:43APPLAUSE
44:45Well done.
44:47Skittybat.
44:49Skittybat was an
44:51early form of Wellington.
44:533-2.
44:55You have the word gomper.
44:57Jemma Jones will tell us about it.
44:59Yes. A gomper
45:01is where a
45:03llama goes to get away from it all.
45:05LAUGHTER
45:07I don't mean that four-legged
45:09furry thing that I've mentioned.
45:11But a llama, a Tibetan monk,
45:13goes into his gomper,
45:15which is a Tibetan
45:17hermitage. Sort of retreat.
45:19Exactly. Sits and...
45:21Don't encourage that. So sorry.
45:23Meditates in his saffron robe for days,
45:25weeks, months in
45:27his gomper.
45:29Right now,
45:31Frank.
45:33In the teak forests of Burma,
45:35they had
45:37one heck of a problem.
45:39Because you chop a teak down
45:41and the
45:43steamer which is going to carry it away
45:45or the sawmills are a long way away.
45:47How to get
45:49the teak tree from there
45:51to there? Somebody said,
45:53why not build
45:55a narrow-gauge railway line,
45:57build a long, thin
45:59truck with iron wheels,
46:01get an elephant or something to push it or pull it,
46:03and I'll tell you what,
46:05call the carriage a gomper.
46:07I guessed that.
46:11Marvellous story.
46:15Barry Norman's turn.
46:17Gomper is a slang word
46:19for a very, very powerful
46:21South American drink.
46:23Are you listening to me?
46:25Distilled from... Just a bit.
46:27Distilled from
46:29maize and
46:31when they were building the Panama Canal
46:33around about 1908,
46:35they had to keep gomper away
46:37from the workers because they drank it
46:39and they were gompered out of their minds.
46:43One drink and you could virtually be breathalysed.
46:45So gomper, the sale of gomper was banned
46:47in the whole canal area while they were building
46:49the canal. It's a drink made out of maize.
46:51So it's a kind of a
46:53hermitage to which a
46:55llama retires. It's a
46:57trolley for transporting teak and
46:59it's a strong drink. Anushka.
47:01A trolley for
47:03transporting llamas.
47:05So confusing.
47:07No, I know.
47:09I know.
47:11I don't think it's the
47:13llamas going off to the Tibetan hermitage.
47:15I don't think it's a slang word
47:17in gomper.
47:19I think it's your railway thing
47:21in Burma.
47:23The trolley.
47:25I am prepared to give you another chance.
47:27Oh my God.
47:29He's not alive.
47:33It's true, isn't it?
47:41They don't call him
47:43Gilles Deray for nothing.
47:45Dear me. Who gave the true definition?
47:47Some fool over there.
47:55It's the retreat for the llama.
47:57Gotta go somewhere.
47:594-2. Pennant is the next one.
48:01Patrick defines it.
48:03A pennant was a kind of
48:05semi-capacious tent
48:07for military purposes
48:09in number of the Afghan
48:11wars.
48:13I thought you were going to say Afghan dogs.
48:15No, wait.
48:17No interruptions, please.
48:19Is that awful? Perhaps even from Knightsbridge
48:21with your pennant.
48:23A penny head in the jungle.
48:27A shanty wars as well.
48:29The trouble with the pennant
48:31was that it would
48:33accommodate only
48:35three second lieutenants
48:37or one brigadier
48:39or half a
48:41major general.
48:43Not on, is it?
48:47So, Dinsdale tells us a thing.
48:49Well,
48:51pennant is quite simply
48:53a centuries old
48:55dialect word
48:57for a stick of barley sugar.
48:59A twisty,
49:01a sticky twist of barley sugar, rather.
49:03Known also to some children
49:05as Peggy's leg.
49:07Lovely.
49:09Way back in the year 1470,
49:11pennants were on sale
49:13in the city of Ripon in Yorkshire
49:15for about fourpence each.
49:17That's all I can tell you about it.
49:19It seems more than enough
49:21an ushka.
49:23No, no, pennant.
49:25Pennant.
49:27Was a small piece of musical notation,
49:29musical calligraphy.
49:31And it's a little hook-shaped mark
49:33that converts a crotchet into a quaver.
49:35You know, so you halved the whatever it was
49:37and sort of a semi-quaver
49:39had two on it and a demi-semi-quaver
49:41had three on it.
49:43So it's a musical hook.
49:45So it's a kind of a mark
49:47on a musical script.
49:49It's a kind of a tent you couldn't get
49:51many people in and it's Barley Sugar
49:53once on sale in Ripon. Frank Muir.
49:55Well, I don't know.
49:57I wrote a film about the British Army
49:59in Afghanistan, Fleshman.
50:01It was never made, don't worry.
50:03They cancelled the project.
50:05And I don't remember
50:07anything about the British Army having tents
50:09like these or anything like them.
50:11So I don't think that can be true.
50:13Perhaps you meant the Isle of Man.
50:15Fixation.
50:17Barley Sugar
50:19in 1493 at
50:21Falklands would be about 140 quid
50:23present day prices.
50:25I feel there's a bit of a
50:27fallacy lurking there.
50:29So it must be the musical hook.
50:31The musical thing. Yeah, that's right.
50:33Anushka, was that true, my dear?
50:35Well...
50:37Oh!
50:39It never!
50:41APPLAUSE
50:43APPLAUSE
50:47No, it wasn't that.
50:49Here comes the true definition.
50:51Can you wait? Yes, you'll...
50:53There he goes.
50:55APPLAUSE
50:59The thing was, it was worth
51:01140 quid.
51:03Good stuff in Ripon. They never read anything else.
51:05That's why their teeth dropped out.
51:07Let's go on now and have another word.
51:09Bankit. Frank, you go.
51:11Bankit is a very simple
51:13little thing, really.
51:15It's a mid-western
51:17in America.
51:19A sort of cake-y thing
51:21which they used to eat.
51:23Harvesting or something.
51:25It was a plainish kind of pastry
51:27with a bit of squodgy sweet stuff in the middle.
51:29A bit of lemon curd or jam or something.
51:31Rather nice, actually.
51:33I like a nice one occasionally.
51:35Right, Barry.
51:37If you were prospecting for gold
51:39in the Transvaal
51:41and you dug down into the earth
51:43and you were lucky enough to turn up
51:45a little almond-shaped
51:47stone,
51:49that would be a bankit.
51:51It's a little stone that carries
51:53gold ore and is found
51:55in the Transvaal. Of course, it doesn't have to be almond-shaped.
51:57It doesn't necessarily have to be quite
51:59that kind of stone.
52:01It's a stone that carries
52:03gold and you find it in the Transvaal.
52:05It could be cake-shaped.
52:07It could be cake-shaped.
52:09Gemma?
52:11A bankit
52:13is a poor man's hassock.
52:15Not those nice, soft,
52:17upholstered, embroidered
52:19cushions that you kneel on in church
52:21but a really rough mat
52:23made out of reeds or rushes
52:25to prevent wear and tear
52:27on the kneecaps when in an attitude
52:29of prayer.
52:31A bankit. It's a kind of a nice cake.
52:33It's a piece of gold ore
52:35and it's a poor man's hassock.
52:37Patrick?
52:39It must be easier
52:41than I have found
52:43up to now to guess right.
52:45Yes.
52:47Deep analysis here.
52:49There are no hassocks for poor people
52:51because we are all in the community
52:53of the new rich people.
52:55Those were one of the luxurious hassocks.
52:57Nonsense.
52:59Good idea.
53:01Transvaal.
53:03Transvaal.
53:05You are so
53:07thin and silly, Frank.
53:09I think it's this awful American
53:11Midwestern cake. Am I right?
53:13I think it's the cake.
53:15Sometimes it's cake on this programme
53:17and then sometimes not. True or bluff, Frank?
53:19You leave off that smoke.
53:21Sorry, sir.
53:23APPLAUSE
53:29Just like it's sometimes Norfolk
53:31That's the true definition. Let me get another word in.
53:33Who knows? Yes.
53:35The Iron Man.
53:37APPLAUSE
53:41Gold ore
53:43is what it is.
53:45Now we have our last word.
53:47Nidor, nidor.
53:49It's called a nidor, actually.
53:51A nidor is quite simply
53:53a solid hanger.
53:55A sort of nimbus
53:57over a saint's head that is
53:59made not as a whitish ring but as a solid
54:01white disc.
54:03Hmm?
54:05There are some nidors
54:07in old-fashioned stained glass windows
54:09appear ominously like
54:11sort of, you know, flying saucers.
54:13Now I'm going to have to ask you,
54:15Anoushka, to move a little swiftly, if you will.
54:17Well, it's a
54:19gastronomic pong
54:21that comes from sort of the unsavoury
54:23sort of smell
54:25of cooking, you know, sort of
54:27unslurpable smell
54:29from cooking.
54:31Now Patrick has a go.
54:33Well, nidor...
54:35And most birds
54:37are feathered, most birds build little nests
54:39and they are called nidors.
54:41There are some hares that make
54:43little nests, they're called forms.
54:45But no cuckoo is a nidor
54:47because it doesn't make its own little nest.
54:49Thank you.
54:51So it's little tiny animals who make their nests.
54:53It's the smell of cooking not altogether
54:55agreeable and it's a solid type
54:57halo.
54:59Barry, swiftly if you will.
55:01I didn't understand the halo.
55:03Not a single word, no.
55:05So, quickly, quickly, I think it was
55:07what Dinsdale said it was.
55:09You think it was what he said?
55:11He said it was the halo.
55:13APPLAUSE
55:19If I could squeeze one in, you'd know I would.
55:21Who gave the true definition of thing,
55:23nidor? Of course.
55:25You see, it was she.
55:27APPLAUSE
55:31It was the smell of cooking.
55:33How could you disbelieve her when she speaks like that?
55:35So, we come to the end. Ah!
55:37Not much of a gap but still gap there be.
55:394-5, no doubt about it.
55:41Frank, Muir and Co have won.
55:43APPLAUSE
55:45APPLAUSE
55:49So, we shall have...
55:51We'll be having some more broken springs
55:53from the Oxford English Dictionary next time.
55:55Till then, goodbye from Dinsdale Landon.
55:57APPLAUSE
55:59Barry Norman.
56:01APPLAUSE
56:03Annie Stample.
56:05APPLAUSE
56:07Gemma Jones.
56:09APPLAUSE
56:11Patrick Campbell.
56:13Goodnight.
56:15And goodbye.
56:17APPLAUSE