Malcolm Muggeridge

[Panjandrum]

To turn the late Kenneth Tynan on his head, I fear I could never love anyone who loves Withnail And I.

Phew, that's a relief. I wasn't relishing the idea of having to tell you that you're just not my kind of gal.

[Mandryka]

Well, Mandy. I fear our brief affair must now be over .............

Ah, c'mon Anna, don't cry...it was good mindless fun while it lasted!

Caliban - I'm not much of a one for comedy, I'll admit, and certainly not film comedy. I (still) find the Henry Root Letters books as funny as the day I first read them, though.

[MrGongGong]

You can't possibly have any interest in music if you don't rate Spinal Tap as in the top 11

[Panjandrum]

Caliban - I'm not much of a one for comedy, I'll admit, and certainly not film comedy.

Don't do yourself down: you're providing us with plenty of cheap laughs!

[Mandryka]

Don't do yourself down: you're providing us with plenty of cheap laughs!

You're referring to a couple of posts I made which I intended to be funny? Why, thank you for the compliment, little boy (or girl).....must be quite galling for someone like you who only ever succeeds in provoking indifference.

[Stunsworth]

must be quite galling for someone like you who only ever succeeds in provoking indifference.

If Panjandrum was provoking indifference then you wouldn't have felt the need to respond.

[Mr Pee]

If Panjandrum was provoking indifference then you wouldn't have felt the need to respond.

Bullseye!

[amateur51]

Bullseye!

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Super! Smashin'!! Grrrreat!!!

[Lateralthinking1]

I see a lot of the facial mannerisms of Malcolm Muggeridge in Prince Charles.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I see a lot of the facial mannerisms of Malcolm Muggeridge in Prince Charles.

And what, precisely, do you mean to infer by that comment, SIR????!!!!

[Lateralthinking1]

Whoops, my apologies Your Royal Highness. frenchfrank didn't flag up that we had a Windsor on the forum.

[Mandryka]

If Panjandrum was provoking indifference then you wouldn't have felt the need to respond.

I think, to get the full effect, you need to picture me yawning, turning over the toast, then posting my response to his latest little whinge, in the manner that one might swat a fly - analogy that is entirely appropriate.

[Bryn]

The Muggerishi could be amusing, in a court jesterish kind of way, but was fundamentally a lightweight. As for 'Merv the Perv', as he was known to many in the Gay Christian movement, he was a hypocrite through and through. I used to work with a member of that movement who was quite explicit about his own direct experience of the fiction of Stockwood's 'celibacy', yet he (Stockwood) did not hesitate to haul a lowly vicar over the coals for blessing same sex unions.

[Mandryka]

The Muggerishi could be amusing, in a court jesterish kind of way, but was fundamentally a lightweight. As for 'Merv the Perv', as he was know to many in the Gay Christian movement, he was a hypocrite through and through. I used to work with a member of that movement who was quite explicit about his own direct experience of the fiction of Stockwood's 'celibacy', yet he (Stockwood) did not hesitate to haul a lowly vicar over the coals for blessing same sex unions.

By all accounts, Stockwood was a 'career cleric' at a time when the CofE was still considered 'the Conservative Party at prayer'. I think it would have been expecting far too much of him to do anything remotely radical.

[Panjandrum]

I think, to get the full effect, you need to picture me yawning, turning over the toast, then posting my response to his latest little whinge, in the manner that one might swat a fly - analogy that is entirely appropriate.

Stay off the shandies Mandy, there's a good love.