Just A Minute

Hello everyone, I've been wanting to post a few things on this forum
for quite a while and hadn't got round to it, but here goes my
first. On my massive but delightful trawl through all the six
hundred and something episodes available to the group I was
listening to a show from 1988 or 1989. I'm not sure of the date
exactly but it was soon after Kenneth's last appearance and the
subject was hoax. When Clement got to speak he told a story about a
man going to a police station and reporting that a group of students
were digging up Piccadilly Circus. Then going up to the workmen at
Piccadilly Circus and telling them that a group of students
pretending to be policemen was coming to se what they were up to.
As many of you may know this is a story which Clement has told more
than a couple of times over the many years he has been on the show.
I noticed that hearing the first few words of this anecdote and
knowing what was coming, was almost like turning on the radio and
recognising the notes of a familiar song. That familiarity is just
great. Anyway, the real point of this post was to ask if anyone
else here has any particular favourite routines or stories that
certain members of the panel come up with. I'm pretty sure Clement
and Kenneth are the most common protagonists of this type of thing
but when they're talking its such a gem anyway, who cares. Another
point is of course that these repetitions will seem all the more
obvious to us die-hard listeners. It might be months and maybe even
years between retellings of certain jokes or stories but as a lot of
us on this board probably listen to multiple episodes at any one
sitting, we will hear them only days apart from each other. Just a
topic for discussion anyway because its one of the things I really
like about listening through to all these shows.
PS, as a first time contributor to this board I did also want to
pass on my thanks, to anyone and everyone who has taken the time and
effort to upload shows here, its down to you that we can all enjoy
these wonderfully entertaining shows, so here's to you

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