Brian and the Yeti

[flamingpig0]

If Brian Blessed says something is true I am tempted to believe him


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/brian-blessed-says-giant-prehistoric-apes-exist-in-modern-china/ar-AA15Bn7w?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=24eb5fa50ff2492683220ad7c69aa6b2

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

He did claim he saw one while trying to climb Everest
Then he punched a polar bear

[O Dinas Powys]

Didn't he talk about this QI 

...before reveal that he'd shagged a wolf... 

[John Cook]

Don't laugh.  Gurkhas, who should know a thing or two about the Yeti, told me, very seriously, that Yetis do exist but the reason nobody has seen one is because they have huge breasts (both sexes apparently) they have to walk down mountain sides backwards in order not to fall over, which means that if you try to follow their footprints, you are actually going in the wrong direction.  This is where European explorers have gone wrong, apparently.  All completely true.  On the other hand, Gurkhas are very mischievous with a keen sense of humour, so maybe it was all for my benefit. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I rather suspect thats a wind up John

[FierceKitty]

Don't laugh.  Gurkhas, who should know a thing or two about the Yeti, told me, very seriously, that Yetis do exist but the reason nobody has seen one is because they have huge breasts (both sexes apparently) they have to walk down mountain sides backwards in order not to fall over, which means that if you try to follow their footprints, you are actually going in the wrong direction.  This is where European explorers have gone wrong, apparently.  All completely true.  On the other hand, Gurkhas are very mischievous with a keen sense of humour, so maybe it was all for my benefit. 

I think someone has been Ghurked (to ghurk, verb (trans), variant gerund and active participle: gherkin).

[John Cook]

I rather suspect thats a wind up John

Surely not!

[pierre the shy]

I remember when I was quite a bit younger, having just seen Doctor Who and UNIT fighting the Yeti in the Underground in glorious B&W on the BBC, that I was fairly apprehensive about getting on the Tube the next time we went to Inner London (which was not very often).   

[FierceKitty]

First time I visited York, I remember thinking quite often "Large city, but always some danger of plague on an event card". I knew London before Kingmaker, so haven't felt the same there, but stopped off at York later in life.

[flamingpig0]

I remember when I was quite a bit younger, having just seen Doctor Who and UNIT fighting the Yeti in the Underground in glorious B&W on the BBC, that I was fairly apprehensive about getting on the Tube the next time we went to Inner London (which was not very often).   

The Tube in central London has gotten more anxiety-inducing since then.

[fsn]

  

[fred.]

Custume department spared no expense there!

If that was the level of scariness in the 60s then the tube has definitely become more scary since!


York, still has enough of a medieval feel to it, that a 'risk of plague' feels possible. London on the other hand just has a certainty of dirt and pollution. 

[John Cook]

I think someone has been Ghurked (to ghurk, verb (trans), variant gerund and active participle: gherkin).

We need to submit this as a new word to the OED in 2023.

[O Dinas Powys]

London on the other hand just has a certainty of dirt and pollution.

Oh, I don't know, since the congestion charge and clean air zone were introduced, blowing your nose after a trip into (the city formerly know as) The Big Smoke just isn't quite the same gritty experience of yore ... 

[fsn]

It is said that the Scouse tone has become less nasal and softened somewhat because of the air becoming cleaner in Liverpool due to the death of the docks, particularly the coal burning ships. 

Still incomprehensible if heard in the native form.