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Jan. 27th, 2009 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcJust heard yesterday's Quote, Unquote on Listen Again. And I was mentioned!
In the last series they quoted the alleged William McGonagall poem that starts "The chicken is a noble beast..." and I wrote in to say that it didn't sound like McGonagall, and I suspected it was one of Spike Milligan's. And in this episode they read out my letter, and confirmed that the poem comes from Milligan's The Great McGonagall. So that was a nice surprise.
(On the subject of McGonagall, I noticed recently that the Gellions [a venerable Invernesian pub] now has a blue plaque outside announcing that McGonagall once performed there. And, in smaller letters, that some other, and evidently less significant, poet once stayed in the hotel across the road. I forget his name, but I think it was his birthday last week...)
In the last series they quoted the alleged William McGonagall poem that starts "The chicken is a noble beast..." and I wrote in to say that it didn't sound like McGonagall, and I suspected it was one of Spike Milligan's. And in this episode they read out my letter, and confirmed that the poem comes from Milligan's The Great McGonagall. So that was a nice surprise.
(On the subject of McGonagall, I noticed recently that the Gellions [a venerable Invernesian pub] now has a blue plaque outside announcing that McGonagall once performed there. And, in smaller letters, that some other, and evidently less significant, poet once stayed in the hotel across the road. I forget his name, but I think it was his birthday last week...)
