BS: Ministry Of Silly Names

Subject: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: GUEST,Menzies Dalziel
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 10:47 AM

Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen
(A-hem...)

I wish to propose that a new Government Department be instituted.
I speak here of The Ministry Of Silly Names'.

Do we have any other nominees?

I believe, however that because I have the silliest name of all of you, I should be chosen to head this very important arm of our Civil Service.

I leave the podium to the floor.

Menzies Dalziel CBE GC KGB VCR DVD CD-RW

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 08:09 PM

Is this like the Minsitry of Silly Walks---John Cleese (who really came into his own in Fawlty Towers)?

By the way if you get the DVD of the episodes---check the spelling on the titles---never noticed it on the weekly episodes---a clever bit.

Bill Hahn

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: John O'L
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 08:31 PM

I noticed it. It was different every week. It was something we all at my house looked for. What will it be this week?

(We don't get out much.)

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 09:05 PM

Oh yes, let's do have it. I hear these all the time. Now there will be a place to post them, hooray!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: the one
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 11:16 AM

fanny puckering. i knew this lady she would get so red faced, when asked surname first.

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: GUEST,Judge dread
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 12:30 PM

At the Ministry of silly names. Miss Franny was about to start work and the Director decided he should gather the staff together to introduce her. Her name amused him and before the introduction he said to himself, over and over again "I must remember the 'R' I must remember the 'R'"
When the time came to introduce her he actually remembered the 'R' but his introduction did not go quite right! Having forgotten her actual name, he introduced her as miss 'Prussy'

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 03:06 PM

For those who don't know the Guest who started this discussion on 'silly names' it should be pointed out that he is also known as Mingiss Dee-Ell

CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 03:13 PM

Donuel
Dale Neverno

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 03:23 PM

never know what?

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: MudGuard
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 03:26 PM

Not my idea *), but still a good one:

The ministry for the reduction of bureaucracy



*) the idea is from a British TV series at least 10 years old, in Germany it ran under the title of "Yes Minister".
I don't know the exact name used in the original TV series - I only saw the German translation.

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 03:28 PM

"I leave the podium to the floor."

I did that once. It was the result of drinking some 30-year-old Scotch.

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 03:55 PM

I once aspired to be the Director of the Ministry of Running Up the Steps Two at a Time and Shouting Out Ha Ha Mabel I Caught You.
But I don't think I could handle the responsibility any more.

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 03:57 PM

"I was a receptionist once for two days. I couldn't take the pressure. Sometimes the phone would ring; sometimes it wouldn't."

Can't recall which comic that's from.

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 04:00 PM

Silly names of people, or silly names of Ministries?

Englebert Humperdinck needs to know.

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: lady penelope
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 04:06 PM

Oooh, that's not funny - I'm really bad for suffereing from antici.............pation.....

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: GUEST,Judge dread
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:28 PM

Condaleesa rice sounds like a nice sort of Chinese foos

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: GUEST,Judge dread
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:28 PM

sorry 'food'

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:30 PM

Englebert Humperdinck--born 1854 and died 1921.

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 07:04 PM

Hey, what's wrong with a little Chinese foos now and then?

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Snuffy
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 07:08 PM

It was "Yes, Minister" in Britain too, Andi.

And when I first heard the joke in the 1960s he said "Miss Crunt", not "Miss Prussy"

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 07:51 AM

Sure it wasn't Miss Regina? (Canadian version)

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 08:14 AM

There is a driving school near me with the very silly name of "Impact".

I also thought it was Miss Vaginia Crunt, but I'm also very silly.

Sketch stopped!!

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 09:57 AM

Obviously a woman of many parts...

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Snuffy
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 08:02 PM

Apparently Miss Crunt's name is Deirdre

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: number 6
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 08:43 PM

"It's all chief and no father
down the avenue of lane
The soap has lost its lather
the loves gone down the drain
It's all time and no future
at the Department of Breath
The clothes aint made to suit you
the peas are boiled to death"

... excerpt of the Ministry of Bag by Jack Bruce

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Bert
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 09:04 PM

Menzies is that kinda like Menses?

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: GUEST,Menzies Dalziel
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 09:35 PM

Could I further entreat our noble company to consider our very own Ralph Fiennes.

Who, I ask you, would want to have a name that was straightforward to pronounce?

Not I.
Not I.

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 11:14 PM

Berkeley Breathed (the author of the comic strip Bloom County)

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 17 Jan 06 - 04:13 AM

Mingies old boy, do you by any chance mean Sir Ranulph Twisleton Wykeham-Fiennes Bt.OBE (b.1944), described as Britain's greatest living explorer. Or are you really referring to the actor chappie who's only claim to silliness is the fact that Ralph is pronounced Rafe?

Snuffy - Deirdre Crunt is, I believe, the granddaughter of Vaginia. This is, of course, an old Fenland name from East Anglia and is believed to be a corruption of an older Norse version.

Yours sincerely

Loada Billhooks (Gentleman)

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: GUEST,Janine
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 03:59 AM

Heard on end of radio programme "...the associate producer was Jo(e) King..." They can't be serious!

Janine

Subject: RE: BS: Ministry Of Silly Names
From: GUEST,L. Eytus
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 04:20 AM

It's OK for you lot taking the Mick but have a thought for me and my brother, Arthur

Our mum & dad must've had a seriously warped sense of humour (or not)

Cheers
Laurenge