Three Nibs

Tiny Tuesday: Three Nibs

Cathy's out with the book club this evening, and I'm sorting out some of the paperwork etc that has been backing up recently.  Here for Tiny Tuesday is a shot of 3 Montblanc pens that I've had for many years now.  

I was saddened to learn of Rodney Bewes death this evening. Those of you that are a certain age will remember him from The Likely Lads on the BBC, where he played Bob Ferris to James Bolam's Terry Collier.  The second series made in the 70's "Whatever happened to the Likely Lads?" was compulsory viewing in our house when I was growing up and used to get audiences of 20 million.  

Bob and Terry's on screen chemistry was the stuff of sit-com heaven but sadly Bewes and Bolam fell out at some stage after the second series which put paid to a third ever getting made.  As I understand it, the two never actually made up, which seems a terribly tragedy - certainly from this viewer's perspective.  

So here is an excerpt from one of the scripts, written by Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais (who also wrote Porridge):

Bob: I bet we could go right round the world and you'd have a pat response ready.
Terry Collier: I've travelled man, I've seen a bit of the world now you know.
Bob: What do you think of Koreans, for instance?
Terry Collier: Not to be trusted. Cruel people. Much the same as all Orientals.
Bob: That's a third of the world's population dismissed in a phrase. Russians?
Terry Collier: Sinister.
Bob: Egyptians?
Terry Collier: Cowardly.
Bob: Oh? I thought you might have saved that for Italians.
Terry Collier: No, no, they're greasy aren't they? Not as greasy as the French mind.
Bob: Germans?
Terry Collier: Arrogant.
Bob: Spaniards?
Terry Collier: Lazy.
Bob: Danes?
Terry Collier: Pornographic.
Bob: Well that's just about everyone. Oh, Americans?
Terry Collier: Well, they're flash aren't they?
Bob: So it's just down to the British, is it?
Terry Collier: Well, I haven't got much time for the Irish or the Welsh, and the Scots are worse than the Koreans.
Bob: And you never could stand Southerners.
Terry Collier: To tell you the truth I don't like anybody much outside this town. And there's a lot of families in our street I can't stand either. Come to think of it, I don't even like the people next door.
Bob: I see, so from the distant blue Pacific through the barren wastes of Manchuria, to 127 Inkerman Terrace, you can't abide anyone.