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Old 16-01-2008, 09:50 AM
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Driving home last night, listening to Radio 2 as I do (isn't Chris Evans great?) and there was an advert for the Radcliffe and Maconie show. During the advert they played soundbites from each of teh two presenters. I forget what Mark Radcliffe said, that's not important for now, but what caught my ear was the potentially grapevine damaging quote something along the lines of "...doing without all the Flummery and Flammery..."

For starters, I didn't know Flum and her husband were so well matched name-wise, but to make such inFlummetry remarks on a live broadcast is surely tantamount to terrorism?

Fleas and lice! Can we let them get away with such behaviour?
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Old 16-01-2008, 09:56 AM
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hehe yep - I've heard Terry Wogan mentioning Flummery as well, always makes me smile, our Flums is soooo famous
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It's a word that Morse used quite a lot when he described religion and in his will he said he didn't want any of the flummery associated with dying.
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I think Flum should be entitled to royalties!!
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I AM royal! (Well, I feel like I am sometimes - you know, when you say 'Jolly well do this' and everyone does. And then I wake up!)

Flummery is originally a soft jelly-like pudding made from boiling oats (until dead) and letting the resulting goo set. It's used for something vapid, like flim-flam etc. I chose the name because I think I'm soft and jelly-like - and a bit vapid. Never thought of charging people for (mis)using my name though!
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