DIFFERENCES # 1

 

There is a difference between

A skinny blonde schmuck

And a counterfeit US dollar

Is that one is a phony buck

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – GREEN FOR DANGER (1946)

 

“Green for Danger” is a crime thriller, based on the book by Christianna Brand and Directed by Sidney Gilliat.

The film is set in a rural English hospital during World War II, where a postman Joseph Higgins (Moore Marriott) dies on the operating table after which one of the theatre staff Sister Carter (Wendy Thompson) states publicly that Higgins was murdered and she has proof of who the murderer is, but before she can unmask the killer she is then murdered herself.

So the facetious and enigmatic Scotland Yard Inspector Cockrill (Alastair Sim) arrives to investigate and very soon suspects one of the doctors and nurses who were in the operating theatre during the surgery to be the assassin, but which one?

In this straightforwardly plotted mystery Leo Genn, Henry Edwards, Trevor Howard, Ronald Adam, Judy Campbell, Wendy Thompson, Rosamund John, Sally Gray and Megs Jenkins make up the medical contingent in a little gem from the heyday of British Cinema.

WARNING TO DRINKERS # 10

 

New health warnings should be

On bottles and tins for us to see

Warnings clearly on display:

That the consumption of alcohol may

Especially when drinks are mixed

Result in you getting your ass kicked

PICKUP # 23

 

When you’re on the pull

If you want to break the ice

Say something funny

Or say something nice

Be devastatingly witty

Or say something clever

Be complimentary

Or just lie in your endeavour

“I know milk does a body good”

Is something to get her thinking

“But what I want to know

Is how much you’ve been drinking”

THE OLD SAYING GOES

 

The old saying goes

Don't put all your eggs in one basket

But surely it should be

Or was it don’t put both legs in one gusset

IT WAS FOGHORN LEGHORN’S BIRTHDAY

 

It was Foghorn Leghorn’s birthday

And he celebrated with his mates

When they threw him a great party

And served up his favourite coop-cakes

ADVERSITY MAKES FOR STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

 

Adversity makes for strange bedfellows

Is how they put it proverbially

But in my house estranged bedfellows

Makes for a good deal of adversity