l'Esprit de l'Escalier

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Former I.T. analyst. Language teacher. Proud European. From the north west of one country, now resident of the south east of another.

The Hood from Thunderbirds
In the background, buildings collapsed and on fire and people rushing around. In the foreground Leslie Nielsen with his arms raised, shouting "Nothing to see here, folks, move along!"
Still from the film 'Idiocracy' showing a cityscape with skyscrapers lashed together with ropes and falling down, and the rest of the scene a heap of rubble and litter.
'Elsmere', the house in Grassington where Absalom Sheldon and Margaret Storey lived.
people playing Bingo
Punch cartoon of 2 hippos in a river. One says "I keep thinking it's Tuesday".
Barry White, king of soft soul
Helga from Allo Allo
AZERTY keyboard showing the Euro symbol on the letter E key.
Father Jack from Father Ted
Zimbabwean banknotes issued during their period of hyper-inflation. The top note is for a hundred billion dollars.
1930s Berlin, festooned with Nazi flags and banners
Jabba the Hutt
Cast stone balls - a reference to Mike Graham's famous on-air remark that you can grow concrete.
famous 'he wants your cookie' cartoon
Maille mustard in a container that can be used as a drinking glass
Trigger telling Rodney he thought he was called Dave
Slim Pickens as B-52 Bomber pilot Air Force Maj. T. J. "King" Kong, in the 1964 movie "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,"
Spanish Jesus wall painting 'touched up' by old lady parishoner
Rupert Murdoch telling a white manual worker that the brown man wants his cookie, while keeping a whole plateful for himself.
comedian Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen)
Spanish fresco of Jesus painted over by 80 year-old woman
Korthals Griffon
FarSide cartoon of what we say to dogs vs what they hear
Cartoon of Rupert Murdoch at the table with a black man, and a white man in hard hat and hi-viz. Murdoch has a big plate of biscuits and hi-viz has one, black man has none. "Careful, mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!"
Space 1999 Moonbase Alpha
A 1930s German city full of hundreds of Nazi banners
Marvyn the paranoid android from HHGG
Hal 9000 meme from 2001 A Space Odyssey "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
Shaun the Sheep toilet roll holder.
Bernard Cribbins, Lord Mayor's show 1987.
Walkers Wotsits
packet of TUC crackers
Tiny violin
Muppet Show image of "Pigs In Space" sketch.
an extra villain for Wallace and Grommit
"When I use a word", Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things"."The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
The 3 characters from the "I know my place" sketch from BBC's The Frost Programme
Supermarket display of Crownfield Choco Bits in a box labelled Backside
The TV sitcom character Alf Garnet
Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough as Cissie and Ada
In 1931, American journalist Dorothy Thompson secured what many considered an impossible interview -- a rare audience with Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany's rapidly ascending Nazi party, at the Kaiserhof Hotel in Berlin. For one of her three permitted questions, Thompson asked Hitler a direct challenge: "When you come to power, will you abolish the constitution of the German Republic?" Hitler's response was shockingly direct: "I will get into power legally. I will abolish this parliament and the Weimar constitution afterward. I will found an authority-state, from the lowest cell to the highest instance; everywhere there will be responsibility and authority above, discipline and obedience below." Thompson believed he was telling the truth about his dictatorial ambitions, yet she couldn't fathom that he would be successful. The very idea struck her as absurd: "Imagine a would-be dictator setting out to persuade a sovereign people to vote away their rights."
Commander's wife Serena Joy Wharton from The Handmaid's Tale
The original dachshunds did not look quite like the one’s today. For one, they had longer legs and shorter necks than they do now. Today, because of breeding dachshunds by exaggerating features just so that they look cute, dachshunds have long bodies, short legs, and long necks which makes them look jutted forward. Because of this body shape, dachshunds are also the most prone to Intervertebral Disc Disease (IVDD).
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Song "Tomorrow belongs to me" from Cabaret
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho from the film Idiocracy