06-08-2015 6:16 PM
06-08-2015 6:30 PM
@electric*mayhem*band wrote:...now sadly no more. Actor George Cole has passed away, aged 90. Best known for his role as Arthur Daley in 'Minder', him and Dennis Waterman were the best comedy duo since Laurel & Hardy. The phrase that he coined 'Er indoors', winning a place in the Oxford Dictionary.
Will the phrase "Er indoors" get deleted from OED, as sexist?
06-08-2015 7:11 PM
06-08-2015 7:49 PM
Ah shame! Unforgetable in minder great script interpreted with great skill. Wonder who will pick up his Tab at Daves club?
06-08-2015 7:50 PM
@******lynda****** wrote:
I hope not. Everything is getting too PC for my liking
Nobody likes PC. But we must pretend to agree with it. Otherwise, the police will come round.
06-08-2015 7:54 PM
06-08-2015 8:11 PM
on 06-08-2015 8:19 PM - last edited on 06-08-2015 8:21 PM by kshah008
If we don't say PC things, like we welcome "diversity", even though we know it's **bleep**, won't we get in trouble?
See that is the problem these days, we daren't speak the truth.
06-08-2015 8:38 PM
@electric*mayhem*band wrote:...now sadly no more. Actor George Cole has passed away, aged 90. Best known for his role as Arthur Daley in 'Minder', him and Dennis Waterman were the best comedy duo since Laurel & Hardy. The phrase that he coined 'Er indoors', winning a place in the Oxford Dictionary.
I've been calling mine 'er indoors for thirty odd years
08-08-2015 6:03 AM
Can't have a thread about George
without a mention of, for some, myself included,
His best loved character
Flash Harry
08-08-2015 11:34 AM
Yes McB, the epitome of a 'spiv', and playing alonside his mentor, Alastair Sim.
Ironic though, that the role he was most famous for, he detested.
The late George Cole hated playing his most famous character, Arthur Daley.
He wrote about his distaste for the wheeler dealer character from ITV show ‘Minder’ in his autobiography ‘The World Was My Lobster’.
“He was a dreadful character,” he wrote.
“I don’t understand how he became so popular. It used to be worrying when I got letters from young kids saying Arthur
Daley was just like their dad. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
“He behaved terribly to people who got in the way of him making a quick quid - and the audience still loved him.”
https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/post/126080906416/george-cole-hated-playing-arthur-daley
08-08-2015 11:55 AM
"Guten morgen"
"Hi Mr Morgan, I'm Arfur Daley"
Then to Terry " He don't sound Welsh"
08-08-2015 1:06 PM
RIP.