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Thread #76655   Message #2601596
Posted By: Newport Boy
31-Mar-09 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: help: british comic monologuist
Subject: RE: help: british comic monologuist
Just back to Stanley Unwin, briefly. He used wonderful nonsense words, which somehow you understood. My favourite was a phrase from an advert for Flowers Keg Bitter - remember that?

"Flowers - the true picket of the blueflade"

We all knew he meant the flavour of the hops.

Phil