[LazyScot]

Trust me, this won't be worth it. Please move along to the next post in this thread....

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

My darned sense of humour and silly cross-references of irrelevant, otherwise unknown trivia. Let me try and explain.

'Allo, 'Allo was a very successful BBC sitcom. It was set during the 2nd World War in France at a small restaurant run by Rene. Among the cast of characters (whose main task was to poke fun at the French accent, it seemed) was the woman in charge of the French Underground. She would regularly appear in the restaurant and approach Rene and the associated French, together with the two trapped British Airmen, and always started with "Listen very carefully; I shall say this only once." (Or something like that.) Needless to say, she had to repeat it many times.

Okay; background over.

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Okay, I"m only going to clean this off once, so pay attention!!!

Now that sounds, to my somewhat deranged interpretation (look -- its probably the ZCDs, or Post-PNS Stress Syndrome), like the catch phrase of the leader of the French Resistance.

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

*watching attentively from over here in the comfy chair. fully concentrated. really, i promise.*

Sounds like someone who didn't know 'Allo, 'Allo.

Originally Posted by LazyScot

And there was I thinking that 'Allo, 'Allo had made it to France.

and hence the response. Told you wasn't not worth it.