>Our British friends will recognize this form as one >popularized on the BBC's "My Word" program, where two of >the panelists (always the two men, of course, Frank Muir >and Dennis James) were given a phrase at the beginning >of the program and had to concoct such a story by the >end.

Mark,

I think you'll find it was the loate Frank Muir and Dennis Norden (who is still doing the rounds).