Coming out of Chokey

Coming out of Chokey: 'Chokey' is a British slang term for prison, from the Hindi word 'cauki' for shed or outhouse, quite possibly the same derivative as the slang 'carzey' for toilet. Anyway as far as I know Ian Dury never spent any prolonged (or possibly any) period in prison, but as a man of the people he would know that coming out would be a reason to be cheerful. Here we see Norman Stanley Fletcher as portrayed by Ronnie Barker in the TV series Going Straight, a follow up to Porridge, which sees Fletcher coming out of chokey. You'll find my Porridge post on my A to Z of comedy blog http://afterlafter.blogspot.com/2011/05/porridge.html

Porridge Oats

Porridge oats: I don't really see porridge as a reason to be cheerful (except the BBC sitcom, but that may appear later, who knows?). I do like the Scott's guy though, with his kilt and red socks and ball throwing. I am slightly concerned about his left arm movement, but I'm prepared to let that go. Porridge is more fashionable of late. I was talking to someone who was using porridge as part of a diet, they didn't like it much though and were adding spoons of sugar to it, thus making the diet pointless, they may as well be eating cake. Now if cake rhymed with 'nanny goats' I could have a nice picture of a piece of battenburg here.