Chappers
Saturday 16th August 2014 2:51pm
Surrey
35,730 posts
There was an episode a couple of weeks ago where they were on manoeuvres and there were some regular COs there too.
I saw 2 instances that I'm sure inspired Harry Enfield.
They were talking about Manwairing pronouncing it Mannering and the CO mentioned someone he knew called Cholmondley who pronounced it Chumley.
Harry Enfield had a character called Mr Chalmondley-Warner.
In the same episode there was a drinking game where they had to remember a phrase and add to it and Mainwaring kept getting it wrong and got progressively drunk.
This reminded me of a similar sketch with Martin Clunes.