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

Job for the week: to take a 300-page document full of corporate bullshit, strip it, disembowel it, kick it around the floor, and turn it into *real* English.

That's the kind of shit I love.

*saunters off, swinging hatchet*

When I saw that subject line I thought it was going be about Derek Guyler.

"I was a Desert Rat you know, ho yus. Me and Monty, we was like that *crosses fingers*".

I can't help it, I'm mired in popular culture you see

It could potentially be Windsor Davies, too!

True, but that was one of Derek Guyler's catchphrases from Please Sir!, usually accompanied by the 'Ho yus' which was delivered in a very distinctive manner (and which my friend Pete can do perfectly ), and there was another one to do with "My wife Ruby", who was one of those characters often mentioned but never seen, like 'Er Indoors from Minder.

And yet again I've completely tangent-ified one of your journals

I wouldn't worry. It's not like it's a crime I never commit in others' journals, after all. I think Dmitri mumbles "here we go again..." when he sees I've posted in his journal.

Please Sir and The Fenn Street Gang. That takes me back!

Well gorblimey, I never knew this existed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-KxthGDsQI

There's a couple of good "Oh yus"es in there

Incidentally, just this week I watched an old episode from the 'Sykes and a...' series called 'Sykes and a Plank', from 1964, which I never knew until now was the germ for his classic short film with Tommy Cooper, 'The Plank' (1967), and the later (and I must say, inferior) TV version in 1979). The reason I mention this here is because 'Sykes and a Plank' featured not only Hattie Jacques as his sister, of course, but Derek Guyler as a copper, presumably also the germ of an idea for DG as Corky in the 'Sykes' series in later years

The storyline of Sykes and Plank is different from The Plank, but plenty of ideas were carried over from the former to the latter. And Jimmy Edwards, not Derek Guyler starred as the PC