My Word

No-one will probably remember this but centuries ago there was a radio panel show with Frank Muir & Dennid Norden called My Word with questions about the English Language.

At the end ofeach programme they would each be given a saying or proverb and by twisting it a bit came up with it's origin.

I thought we could do something similar in a more abbreviated way - newspaper headlines and stories.

I knocked up the follwing in about 10 minutes. Surprised it took so long eh?

A 6-piece group were playing some gigs. However 4 of them thought the other 2 weren't pulling their weight so they decided to kick them out.

The headline in the papers read “A third of the Band have been given the Push”.

(to explain - if I need to - "A bird in the Hand is worth Two in the Bush")

*pats David on the head*

Bless.

I thought someone might come up with some - maybe a weakly (???) comp with one proverb and everyone takes it differently (??!!).

No idea where my original post came from but does anyone else remember this?

This is from the BBC website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/myword/

I just discovered this too.

https://archive.org/details/ClassicRadioMyWordHomeRecordings

I think it's only me and thee that remembers this excellent prog. Chappers, and thanks very much for the archive link. Ahh, such good memories.