mr angry wrote:Its an outrage!! I will have to write a stern note to the Tadworth Advertiser about it (google the Wikipedia entry for Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells!)
I assume you mean this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgusted_ ... idge_Wells That seems more like the recollection I had of it, especially the Take It From Here connection which spread the phrase nationwide.
Can't quite see the connection to Tadworth, which is in Surrey, whereas Tunbridge Wells is in Kent? I must admit that, whenever I hear the name Tunbridge Wells, I'm reminded of a wonderfully disastrous interview used by BBC Training as an example of what can go wrong, in which an extremely posh (and increasingly worried and exasperated ) BBC lady interviews Mr Alfred Crunwell, aged 103 in 1954, about his life in Tunbridge Wells during which he fails to answer every question about the town, claiming that he doesn't know anything about the place despite slagging off various other people who he says don't know anything about it! Absolutely hilarious - well worth hearing if you get the chance.