to have chuckled when the lady in the card shop asked for.......

[phantomnamechanger]

OK, so i was in the card shop, the customer in front of me asks for "a four candle" - i chuckle and say "I've never heard that in real life, it's like the 2 Ronnies!"

blank stares from both customer and shop assistant.
Had to try to explain the word play involved - neither of them even seem to have heard of the 2 Ronnies never mind the flippin hilarious sketch to which I was referring.

Maybe I am just ancient.
Still, I went on my way still chuckling to myself about it.

I'd have laughed.

Had a very similar experience in Sainsbury's a couple of weeks ago - we needed a 4 and a 0, they had every other number except 4, the late teen/early 20s shop assistant we asked laughed too

A comedy classic. I'm buying a 4 candles t-shirt for my dad for his birthday this year!

There's a pub in Oxford called The Four Candles. (Quite a new one, a Wetherspoons). Never occurred to me that it might be lost on some people.

Love love love that sketch. I also like to do varying takes on the Morecambe and Wise 'I am playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order' sketch whenever I mark timelines.

Hahaha brilliant

DD 2 is 4 tomorrow and I've been replaying that sketch in my head all week each time I think of her cake

So no. YADNBU...

9, V F N 10 E X.

Y?

V F E 10 M.

Between this thread and another one about geeky puzzles, I really feel MN is my spiritual home tonight :o

Hahaha mydog not seen that one before. "all it does is mess up windows" :o

I love it. Friend sent it to me when Blackberry had their massive outage a few months ago. Love "egg box £3.60"

Mydog never saw that. Fantastic

Fuzzpig - I can never remember how that sketch ends, thank you, you have made my night

Aww thanks I haven't seen it in years but it stuck with me - I hope it's an accurate memory! I've just put 'best of the two Ronnies' on my amazon wishlist, apparently it includes that sketch.

I love that sketch too. Amazing how many people haven't seen famous comedy programmes though! I was thrown out of court once to compose myself after the judge and appellant's solicitor were commiserating over a missing bundle. They kept repeating "I'm appalled" to each other over and over again. They then asked me what I thought and I snorted really loudly was sent out to compose myself. ( famous scene from Yes Minister)

lol thanks mydogs ........ loved that sketch, not seen it before

the 4 candles on is a classic and phantom I would not have been able to resist commenting in the shop either

I would have cracked up too - I am old, but then, so would dd1, and she's 14... it's one of her favourite comedy moments (along with Fawlty Towers) .
Would love to have been there watching you try to reference it without either of them knowing what you were talking about

I too love that sketch

DDs were relaying, in Spanish, Monty Python's dead parrot sketch to a classmate in the car. I was PMSL whilst driving.