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Berberis
14-10-2005, 08:56
I've just been emailed this... It made me laugh out loud. Its a shame he's gone!

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A Friday story from dear old Ronnie!

Subject: In memory of Ronnie Barker

This was originally shown on BBC TV back in the seventies. Ronnie Barker could say all this without a snigger (though god knows how many takes). Irony is that they received not one complaint. The speed of delivery must have been too much for the whining herds. Try getting through it without converting the spoonerisms [and not wetting your pants] as you read ...

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This is the story of Rindercella and her sugly isters.

Rindercella and her sugly isters lived in a marge lansion. Rindercella worked very hard frubbing sloors, emptying poss pits, and shivelling shot.

At the end of the day, she was knucking fackered.

The sugly isters were right bugly astards. One was called Mary Hinge, and the other was called Betty Swallocks; they were really forrible huckers; they had fetty sweet and fetty swannies. The sugly isters had tickets to go to the ball, but the cotton runts would not let Rindercella go.

Suddenly there was a bucking fang, and her gairy fodmother appeared. Her name was Shairy Hithole and she was a light rucking fesbian. She turned a pumpkin and six mite wice into a hucking cuge farriage with six dandy ronkeys who had buge hollocks and dig bicks

The gairy fodmother told Rindercella to be back by dimnlight otherwise, there would be a cucking falamity.

At the ball, Rindercella was dancing with the prandsome hince when suddenly the clock struck twelve. "Mist all chucking frighty!!!" said Rindercella, and she ran out tripping barse over ollocks, so dropping her slass glipper.

The very next day the prandsome hince knocked on Rindercella's door and the sugly isters let him in. Suddenly, Betty Swallocks lifted her leg and let off a fig bart. "Who's fust jarted??" asked the prandsome hince.

"Blame that fugly ucker over there!!" said Mary Hinge. When the stinking brown cloud had lifted, he tried the slass glipper on both the sugly isters without success and their feet stucking funk.

Betty Swallocks was ducking fisgusted and gave the prandsome hince a knack in the kickers. This was not difficult as he had bucking fuge halls and a hig bard on.

He tried the slass glipper on Rindercella and it fitted pucking ferfectly.

Rindercella and the prandsome hince were married. The pransome hince lived his life in lucking fuxury, and Rindercella lived hers with a follen swanny.

Greenback
14-10-2005, 09:08
I very much doubt that's got anything to do with Ronnie Barker to be honest. His humour was more refined (and funnier) than all that.

Berberis
14-10-2005, 09:38
Originally posted by Greenback
I very much doubt that's got anything to do with Ronnie Barker to be honest. His humour was more refined (and funnier) than all that.

Can we have a whip round to pay for Greenbacks sense of humour transplant?

If you're not already you will no doubt become one of those grumpy old men children dear each other to run in their garden or look in abject fear as their ball goes over your fence!

I think I remember seeing it on TV and to be sure I googled it. I found a number of others who claimed to have seen this sketch and vouch for its authenticity.

Ronnie Barker was well known for this type of humour!

Lea1979
14-10-2005, 09:46
I don't remember this one in particular to be honest, but I do remember lots of Ronnie Barker sketches with spoonerisms!

Either way - I found it funny !

Greenback
14-10-2005, 09:48
Originally posted by serapis
Can we have a whip round to pay for Greenbacks sense of humour transplant?

If you're not already you will no doubt become one of those grumpy old men children dear each other to run in their garden or look in abject fear as their ball goes over your fence!

I think I remember seeing it on TV and to be sure I googled it. I found a number of others who claimed to have seen this sketch and vouch for its authenticity.

Ronnie Barker was well known for this type of humour!

I guess humour is a personal thing, and this doesn't really do it for me.

But I guarantee you that it isn't the work of Ronnie Barker. It's another in a long line of email stories ascribed incorrectly to topical figures...

mojoworking
14-10-2005, 09:50
This story is all over the net right now.

I dare say that Ronnie Barker did similar wordplay/Spoonerisms on The Two Ronnies, but this one is a little too risqué for TV, especially primetime BBC1 back in the 70s, wouldn't you say?

Berberis
14-10-2005, 10:07
This sketch does seem to be attributed to the late Ronnie Barker but I personally cant say for sure If I had seen or heard it. I remember similar spoonerisms by the two Ronnie’s but this one does look a little risqué.

Maybe it was penned by Ronnie Barker but was never performed.

I don’t know, but there are a lot of forums with people claiming to have seen this sketch performed by Ronnie Barker.

fnkysknky
14-10-2005, 11:30
It was on Archie Campbells 'Have a laugh on me' LP from 1966...........

the_rudeboy
14-10-2005, 11:38
For some reason I do recollect Ronnie Barker doing this sketch. However, everything I can find seems to suggest he didn't do it.