On Sun, 10 May 2015 15:08:57 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

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Johnny B Good wrote:
You *do* realise, don't you, that using the phrase "tee hee" in usenet
postings endows upon you the persona of a "Beano" character prone to
nervous titterings?

Actually, for me at least, that phrase rather puts me in mind of Billy
Bradshaw, a character from an ongoing comedy saga aired by Radio
Merseyside in daily five minute episodes.

Billy Bunter here. Can still see Gerald Champion saying it. They'd never
get away with a middle aged man playing a boy on TV these days. ;-)

Coincidentally, that's how I refer to that radio show's host. :-)

I do like to derail crass commercialism in product names such as, for
example, that electric griddle named after a boxing champion which I
always refer to as "The George Formby" after hearing this mentioned by a
stand up comic offering up an anecdote about one of his aged female
relatives misnaming said domestic appliance.

If a name is to be immortalised, I'd rather it was for a more worthy
personage than the one chosen by the marketing division of a commercial
enterprise.

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Johnny B Good