What ho, no, not the bird

Lord Bosham: "'Then, by Jove', he said, 'this bird is the bird, after all! I thought for a while,' he explained, 'that he couldn't be the bird, but now you've told this it's quite clear he must be the bird. The bird in the flesh, By Jingo! Well, I'm dashed!'"

 In Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P. G. Wodehouse

By Bean & Crumpet

And there's something else

Jim Hacker: "Sir Humphrey! To what do we owe this pleasure?"

Sir Humphrey Appleby: "Prime Minister, I must protest in the strongest possible terms, my profound opposition to the newly instituted practice, which imposes severe and intolerable restrictions upon the ingress and egress of senior members of the hierarchy and which will, in all probability, should the current deplorable innovation be perpetuated, precipitate a constriction of the channels of communication, culminating in a condition of organisational atrophy and administrative paralysis, which will render effectively impossible the coherent and co-ordinated discharge of the function of government within Her Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!"

Jim Hacker: "You mean you've lost your key?"

In the episode The Key in Yes, Prime Minister

By Bean & Crumpet

That's the way to talk

Denise Laroque: "The love of my life. My heart pounds like a sea of passion, crushing on the rocks of my desire. I have but to look at you and I see clouds scatting across the moon, trees bending on a tropical shore."

René Artois: "Did you have cheese for supper?"

In 'Allo, 'Allo

By Bean & Crumpet

How do you mean, got her?

He swam underwater towards me, slowly observing, like a shark lurking on its prey. When he surfaced, he said to me smiling contently: "I can see your crackle (meaning my butt-crack)."    

By Crumpet

Let me think

We've been planning of getting walkie-talkies, because they would be convenient way of keeping in touch through work day - we happen to work fairly closely. We already have our codenames figured out..

Bean: "Hello, hello, (static, static), do you hear me Fat, this is Pile?"

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Olemme suunnitelleet radiopuhelinten hankintaa, niillä kun pitäisi kätevästi yhteyttä työpäivän aikana - työpaikkamme sattuvat sijaitsemaan melko lähekkäin. Meillä on jo koodinimetkin valmiina..

Bean: "Haloo, haloo (rätinää, rätinää), kuuleeko Läski, täällä Läjä?"

By Bean & Crumpet

You haven't any conception what it means to sweat your way through one of these damned books

Reflect.

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Reflat.

By Bean & Crumpet

What's all this?

"Well, they asked me to substitute for a German teacher and I said nein, which I thought meant yes. But apparently nein means no, so I blew a big opportunity."

Peggy Hill in King of the Hill

By Bean & Crumpet

You are thinking that you have never had a butler in love with you before

  

Mies puhelimessa: "Mennään vaan sinne Manhattan Stiik Haussiin (Manhattan Steak House), ei mihinkään Cheese Dominiikkkiin (Chez Dominique) tai muuhun yläluokan paikkaan, mistä ei alle viiden tonnin selviä.."

By Bean

Waxing poetic

Ruokalistalta luettua:

"Chicken Curry and Rice on the Side"

on suomeksi kääntynyt paljon runollisempaan muotoon:

"Riisi ja kana curry ja syrjään lausutut sanat"..


By Bean & Crumpet

Early in the morning

If you don't think it's difficult to say "lips could lisp," try it yourself.
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Jos kuvittelet, että ei ole vaikeaa sanoa "mustan kissan paksut posket", kokeile ihmeessä itse.

By Crumpet

This,'he said, 'is a little awkward

Nyt kun vappu lähestyy, on mukava palauttaa mieliin muutamia oikeinkirjoitussääntöjä, sillä kuten eräs henkilö totesi "kirjoittamalla tiettyjä sanoja jatkuvasti väärin, esimerkiksi 'Juhannus' tai 'Englanninkielinen', luo itsestään hieman ...tietämättömän vaikutelman"..

By Crumpet