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The Catchphrases That Never Were

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    The Catchphrases That Never Were

    I was just watching that wonderful foilm The Public Enemy with Jimmy Cagney & my BFF (who is a real film buff) assured me that Jimmy never uttered those immortal words "You dirty rat".

    And that got me thinking.

    Because it sems yheres a whole host of cathcphrases that wrere never uttered by the stars to whom they are attributed.

    e.g. JohnWayne: Get off your horse and drink your milk
    Bogey: Play it again Sam
    Geldof: Give me yer fecking money

    Any more?

    #2
    Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View Post
    I was just watching that wonderful foilm The Public Enemy with Jimmy Cagney & my BFF (who is a real film buff) assured me that Jimmy never uttered those immortal words "You dirty rat".

    And that got me thinking.

    Because it sems yheres a whole host of cathcphrases that wrere never uttered by the stars to whom they are attributed.

    e.g. JohnWayne: Get off your horse and drink your milk
    Bogey: Play it again Sam
    Geldof: Give me yer fecking money

    Any more?
    I haven't heard from that tedious sockie Pip-in-a-Poke for ages!.

    We can only dream..............

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      #3
      In 'Brief Encounter' Celia Johnson never actually said "...I'd just been to Boots to change my library book and order a coconut".

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        #4
        close enough



        The milk one was an impressionist though this one is worth hearing.

        Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”
        - John Wayne in a 1971 Playboy interview
        the Casblanca one was wrong.

        Rick: You played it for her, you can play it for me!

        Sam: [lying] Well, I don't think I can remember...

        Rick: If she can stand it, I can! Play it!
        still one of the best films ever.
        Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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          #5
          Originally posted by vetran View Post
          close enough

          [
          Ah, so it was "Get away from the door you dirty yellowbelly rat"

          Not quite how Mike Yarwood used to do him.

          You'll be telling me next that dennis Healey never used to say You Silly Billy

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            #6
            Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View Post
            Ah, so it was "Get away from the door you dirty yellowbelly rat"

            Not quite how Mike Yarwood used to do him.

            You'll be telling me next that dennis Healey never used to say You Silly Billy
            At the end of every show Mike Yarwood would say '...and this, is me.." Trouble is you couldn't tell cos his impressions were so crap....

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              #7
              Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View Post
              Ah, so it was "Get away from the door you dirty yellowbelly rat"

              Not quite how Mike Yarwood used to do him.

              You'll be telling me next that dennis Healey never used to say You Silly Billy
              Come out and take it you yellow bellied dirty rat.

              I imagine the yellow bellied bit was considered too much at the time.
              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                #8
                Originally posted by vetran View Post
                Come out and take it you yellow bellied dirty rat.

                I imagine the yellow bellied bit was considered too much at the time.
                But did he turn yellow at the end of Angels with Dirty Faces or was he trying to scare the delinquent boys?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by stek View Post
                  At the end of every show Mike Yarwood would say '...and this, is me.." Trouble is you couldn't tell cos his impressions were so crap....
                  No, when he said that he just used to carry on sounding like Harold Wilson. Because he just did.

                  To be fair thiugh, I loved his Brian Clough.

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                    #10
                    "They don't like it up 'em" - Julian Clary.
                    What happens in General, stays in General.
                    You know what they say about assumptions!

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