Decorate the fence

[davidn]

Of all the things I could have shown Whitney, I think that It'll Be Alright on the Night would have been fairly low on the list of things that I would have expected to go down well - but we've been enjoying the archives of it on Youtube for the past few nights. It was a set of special out-take programmes that were presented by the shambling corpse of Denis Norden and his clipboard, but it was pretty much unique among its genre for actually being funny - this could be to do with hand-picking clips internationally, or because of the contrast given to them by the smug, bold and confident complete unfunniness of Denis's script (he was very aware that people would skip him, opening one edition with "Hello, or to those of you who wind through me to get to the funny bits - goodbye.")

One of my favourite sections was a collection of verbal slip-ups, one of which is a scene that abruptly ends when Sean Blowers declares that he has to "decorate the fence". But I couldn't work out - what on earth did he mean to say? I was running bits of the words backwards through my head last night and couldn't get them to make any sense in any combination.

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that -- I nearly threw up laughing at 'hypodeemic nerdle'. :)

All I can guess is "_____ around the _____", like "deck around the face" or "fuck around the dents". Not that either of those make more sense, but that kind of sentence..

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

Ooh, "fence around the deck" actually makes ssense, if wildly improbable...

[kibet.livejournal.com]

I think the 'decorate the fence' was just more about being absurd thing to say. It may be that the fence next to him was in his mind.

I was not a fan of the show, but I think it was because when I would be watching it, I either could not understand the double entendres or could not work out when they would bleep out words. Same with Beadle's About, I also found that hard to follow.

[davidn]

On the very first episode of this I ever saw, I remember asking my mum what the bleeping sound was, and was only offered the explanation "Because she made a mistake"! I remember also appreciating the people falling over at that age and not so much the verbal ones.