Peter Cook

[davewitley]

quin peel us wrote:
> Interesting Dave wrote:
>  
> > Hm. Reminds me of Peter Cook.  And Chinese proverbs.
> 
> OK, the Chinese proverb reference I get, but not Peter Cook.  (I 
mean, 
> I know who he is--very funny man IMO--but not the connection.)  
> Explain?

Was, not is.  He died a year or two ago.  OK, here's where my memory 
goes to pieces.  IIRC it was a Peter Cook and Dudley Moore radio 
sketch.  Moore is sitting on a park bench, and Cook comes up to him 
and starts regaling him with various 'interesting' facts.  Everything 
Moore can think of to put him off elicits the response 'That's very 
interesting', in an incredibly nerdy voice.  It ends up I think with 
Cook saying he doesn't like the way Arabs whine in your ears; when 
pressed he admints he gets confused 'on account of them being next to 
each other in the dictionary'.
Moore: What?
Cook: Mosques and mosquitoes.

Well, it was funny when I heard it, anyway.  All long before 
political correctness, of course.

Me: 
> > Do you know, I found a joke in GOF...
 <joke snipped as you should never repeat them>
> > All right, you all got that the first time.  Never mind.

Amy again: 
> Nope, I didn't!  Not the first time or the subsequent 8.

May I keep and frame this post?

>  Page,  please?  I could add it to my sigs.

I will look it out when I get home (British first edition, with the 
*real* wand order) filial duties to visiting parents permitting