[Tagging] Off topic - Re: Drain vs ditch

[Warin]

On 19/02/19 10:39, Paul Allen wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 23:30, Graeme Fitzpatrick 
> <graemefitz1 at gmail.com <mailto:graemefitz1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
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>     On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 09:23, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:pla16021 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         According to a sketch in a comedy show from so long ago I can
>         barely remember it, the source
>         of the River Thames was traced to a dripping tap.  Which was
>         fixed and the river dried up.
>
>         I don't think it was Monty Python, though it might have been. 
>         Possibly one of Python's
>         precursors.
>
>
>     Seem to remember that one!
>
>     Goodies?
>
>
> Going well off topic here.
>
> It was an isolated sketch, whereas Goodies had themed episodes.  TW3, 
> maybe.  Something like
> that.  The only reason I don't think it was the Python's is I can't 
> find it on youtube or even google.  I
> was beginning to wonder if I'd imagined it.
>
> --

Thought it might have been the Goons .. but only got
BLOODNOK: What? He's brilliant I tell you. Eccles? Did you know that the 
Thames is two hundred and eighteen miles long

ECCLES: Two hundred and eighteen miles long, ayy

BLOODNOK: And you know it's thirty yards wide

ECCLES: Thirty yards wide

BLOODNOK: You see he has the answer to both questions

SEAGOON: Ahh, you know how wide it is, you know how long it is. But! Can 
you tell me where the source is?

ECCLES: Oh I think it's on the dinner table. ha ha, you're a funny man 
Eccles ..

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