Furthermore...

I read in a TV column that RT made a fuss over a Dando joke in Queer As Folk2.

The scene involved a character saying that a certain cocktail was called a Dando because 'one shot goes straight to your head'.

RT printed a warning about this in their episode guide, apparently.

>Furthermore...
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>I read in a TV column that RT made a fuss over a Dando joke in Queer As Folk2.

I have a problem with this one. I just don't find this sort of thing funny. But I suppose it is allowable. What was stupid was someone telling Dando jokes at a BBC staff party at which some of her former colleagues were attending. Some of the audience were a bit put out, to say the least.

That was Peter Kay, wasn't it? Telling the unfunny joke about Jill Dando's cat.

I wasn't condoning the Dando death joke, just mentioning it.

Myself, I can't stand jokes about Douglas Bader, which is why I've always been against T.Slattery since I saw him do a sketch about DB giving dance lessons.

Peter Kay told a crap joke, but did it deserve to make the main story in The Sun?

And if people were sacked for telling sick jokes (as the editorial urged), how many News International staff would survive the immediate purges?

In Richard Branson's autobiography he talks about Douglas Bader being a friend of the family when Branson was a boy, and how on more than one occasion when Bader came round for tea the kids would hide his legs in the bushes for a laugh. Luckily he found it extremely funny.

Similar to the stories about Ian Dury - when he was getting particularly lairy (lary? larey?) or ill-tempered with everyone backstage, the band would just hide his calipers until he'd calmed down...

Sorry Jon... but its not actually sick.. or funny...

Whats black and white and flies?

Douglas Badger.

There's no need to defend Douglas Bader from this sort of thing... he can stand up for himself.

>Furthermore...
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>I read in a TV column that RT made a fuss over a Dando joke in Queer As Folk2.
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>RT printed a warning about this in their episode guide, apparently.


They did say that the rest of it was jolly amusing, though. So that's alright then.

I did leave the room when that bit came up, so the warning was well worth it.

















I didn't really.

>There's no need to defend Douglas Bader from this sort of thing... he can stand up for himself.

<wah wah>

"Sick, sick, sick... you're just sick all of you..."

- Dr Phil Hammond

Imagine the time he saved not having to tie shoelaces.

But I suppose that would have been cancelled out by the time he spent being rescued from toilets.