What is your screensaver? Page 4

Awww

Oops, bringing the mood down again...

Anyway, Benny from Crossroads, he was funny in a stupid kind of way, wasn't he......

Thinking back though, in the late 70s/early 80s, most children's abuse was politically incorrect and fairly offensive. "Flid" and "Mong" especially. Though you hardly heard any of us swear.

In the '90s spastic was big.

Quote: zooo @ September 10 2009, 12:24 AM BST

I never knew about the Benny insult until The Office right now in this thread. I heard the Joey one first in Spaced, but my older brother had to explain it to me. right now in this thread.

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Heh, bless.

"You got some e'splaining to do!"

"Miss Diane."

Quote: Tim Walker @ September 10 2009, 12:17 AM BST

I presume its origins lay in Benny from Crossroads. Blimey, that takes me back...

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I assumed it came from 'bender'.

Nah, it was the simple Benny from Crossroads.

You mean a benny isn't a wise-cracking robot?

I think this is going to be my new screensaver.