Reply to: The Catchphrases That Never Were

[Moose423956]

Marie Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake", she said "Let them eat brioche". I think.

[Mordac]

Geldof did say that, I remember it well.

Impressionists are usually responsible for the non-quote.

You remember it badly, he actually said "F**k the address, give 'em the phone number".

You only remember the satirists.

[stek]

Geldof did say that, I remember it well.

Impressionists are usually responsible for the non-quote.

He deffo didn't - I sat through the entire broadcast unable to move hardly due to several cracked ribs after a car accident the week before....

He used the eff word, but didn't say that...

[LondonManc]

Darth Vader didn't say "Luke, I am your father."

Major of Hiroshima didn't say, "What the f*** was that bang?"

[NigelJK]

Geldof did say that, I remember it well.

Impressionists are usually responsible for the non-quote.

[MarillionFan]

one of your more intimate moments?

You love it you slut and you know it.

[vetran]

"They don't like it up 'em" - Julian Clary.

one of your more intimate moments?

[MarillionFan]

"They don't like it up 'em" - Julian Clary.

[Pip in a Poke]

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.

[stek]

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?

[vetran]

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.

[stek]

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....

[Pip in a Poke]

close enough

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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

[vetran]

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.

[stek]

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