h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"This is our finest wine. Not a drop is drunk 'till it's at least three weeks old."

Hum, probably a comedy. A comedy involving a vintnery? Again I must confess to not having the foggiest.

Britsh comedy from the 50's Bagpuss.

Hmph. Well I don't recognise it and I live in British comedy from the 50's.

Is there a Carry on Drinking?

There's not but there ought to be.

Not a Carry-On, and not an Ealing comedy either (I think). It *was* a Boulting Brothers film though

This is going to be something else I've never heard of, I suspect.

and yet it rings a faint bell...

I don't remotely recognise the line and I must have seen loads of Boulting Brothers films. I shall desist from merely listing a handul; I'd feel such a fraud if I struck lucky. Please Mr Gosho, might we have another clue?

Well, actually... it does star Terry Thomas
Like another recent film in the quote quiz, this one also concerns matters of state.

Well, I was going to suggest Lucky Jim till that last clue...

I'm All Right Jack or Carlton Browne of the F.O.?

Pick one mate, you've got a 50-50 chance of getting the

Oh trousers... um... oo it could so easily be either. Ah... hmph, this'll teach me to have two guesses at once. Okay, while I feel that the line is perhaps more likely to have come from Carlton Browne, on the grounds of its fame I'll pick I'm All Right Jack.

Well now you've left me with a conundrum spimcoot. You've picked the wrong one, which means that the other one must be right. So you got it wrong and you got it right

Just take the before I disappear up my own fundament in a puff of logic... ow

A moral victory methinks (phew, thank God I took two guesses where I should have taken one; who says cheating doesn't pay?).

We do speak the same language.
But I don't have a clue as to what
was just said in the last 17 or so posts.

I say, I hope we're not befuddling you, what?