The greatest comedian ever - on judges
I am deeply indebted to NHS Blog Doctor for having found on YouTube a film that I did not know existed of Peter Cook performing his "Judge/Miner Monologue". Apropos of nothing in particular, here it is.
Recent Comments
Recent Posts
- An American's view of the world
- Crewe & Nantwich
- Apologies for absence
- The greatest comedian ever - on judges
- Tony Blair to buy John Gielgud's former home
- I am confused...
- Johnson wins London mayoral race
- Littlejohn -vs- Toynbee
- What am I?
- Iain Dale's Diary: Vote in the April Political Performance Index
Categories
- 18 Doughty Street
- AC Grayling
- Biased BBC
- Blog of the Week
- Blogpower
- Blogpower Testimonial
- Books and Authors
- Civil Liberties
- Climate Change
- Conservatives
- Crime & Punishment
- Current Affairs
- Economics
- Education
- European Union
- Family
- Food and Drink
- Games
- Greenery
- Guardianistas
- Guest Author
- History
- Humour
- Hypocrisy
- Images
- Islam
- Justice
- Labour
- Law
- Leftist lunacy
- Libertarianism
- Medicine
- Moscow
- Music
- Person of the Month
- Pop Culture
- Racism
- Religion
- Science
- Snouts in the Trough
- Social Science
- Society
- Stupid time-wasting online quizzes
- Taxation
- Technology
- Television
- The Blogger
- The British Constitution
- Travel
- United Kingdom
- Untied Kingdom
- US Constitution
- Web/Tech
- Weblogs
Quotes
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Nationalism cannot exist in a conflict-free condition; it cannot exist as a thing devoid of grudges and claims. Wherever the nationalism of one group rears its head, immediately, as if from beneath the ground, this group's enemies will spring up. - Richard Lindzen (climate scientist, MIT)
Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life. - Edward R. Murrow
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. - Mark Twain
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. - Frederic Bastiat
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty. - Peter Hain
People are uniting behind Gordon whether they are Blairites, Brownites or Nothingites like me. - AA Gill
But don’t for a moment imagine that the bicycle-riding, organic-hedgerow-grazing, self-denying, 40-watt miserablists are in fact selfless crusaders for the common good. Never underestimate the sustaining pleasure in a hair shirt. Just look at George Monbiot, and witness a man who couldn’t be happier about the imminent demise of life as we know it. It’s given him purpose, prestige and celebrity: without global warming he’d be a geography teacher. - John W. Gardner
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. - Gary Bushell
The Green Party will go from green to red faster than a frog in a blender. - Tom Paine
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Blogspot Archives
« Tony Blair to buy John Gielgud's former home | Main | Apologies for absence »
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/1080445/28811718
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The greatest comedian ever - on judges:
Comments
Blogpower
- Defending the Blog / Manifesto
- Blogpower Blogroll
- Blogpower RSS Feeds
Tools
Other sites I like
Testimonials
- The Tin Drummer
It was a brilliantly thoughtful post on atheism which first drew Tom Paine to my attention and since then he has continued to inspire, with his well-reasoned and often furious posts on politics. His devotion to his series of testimonials has revealed a keen eye for character and a real interest in the motivations of the bloggers he writes about. A class writer and thinker. - James Higham
Whilst bloggers like yours truly are rabbiting on twenty words to the dozen, Tom is taking it all in, rarely commenting and then coming out with sheer common sense, whatever the topic. You need to know what you’re talking about when you approach Mr. Paine and I strongly suspect there’s a wealth of life experience tucked away behind that moniker and it comes through in his support of good causes. Little wonder Tom is on most of the A list blogrolls and all of ours as well.
My Photos
-
From time to time I will upload photos of Russia and in particular my "home town", Moscow. It is an amazing city, more New York than Paris, but beautiful at times in an anarchic way. You can't have so many people living in one place without interesting things happening.
Well thank you TP, for bringing this to my attention. I remember this well. Beyond the Fringe and this skit, Sitting on the Bench. I once wrote a post on my blog, based on my memory of it and the fact that I studied The Latin for many years. For you see I too could have been a Judge, for I definitely had The Latin, unlike the regretful Peter Cook. But instead I used it in Pharmacy instead, well not much but a little.
Posted by: JMB | Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 01:25 AM
Well I guess to avoid having egg on my face I should have listened to the whole video instead of just the first bit before making my comment. Obviously he took the idea of the judging/Latin/mining before or after this and fleshed it out into Sitting on the Bench.
Crawling back under my rock now.
Posted by: JMB | Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 01:38 AM
Stop Common Purpose
If you don't know what Common Purpose is, I suggest you find out.
Common Purpose is a corrupt organisation which must be stopped:
http://www.stopcp.com
In particular, consider how they have corrupted the British police:
http://www.stopcp.com/cppolice.php
Posted by: Stop Common Purpose | Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 09:41 AM