http://www.word-detective.com/2011/08/right-as-rain/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.word-detective.com/2011/08/right-as-rain/comment-page-1/#comment-21947 Marcus Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:30:24 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=5348#comment-21947 'All Gas and Gaiters' was the name of a comedy series on the BBC in the late 60s/early 70s about senior church officials of exactly that description. Wikipedia has all the nerdy details for anyone interested, and you can sometimes catch repeats of the radio version on the BBC iPlayer (radio4extra). It is from that school of British humour that gets called 'gentle', i.e. a side-splitter it ain't! ‘All Gas and Gaiters’ was the name of a comedy series on the BBC in the late 60s/early 70s about senior church officials of exactly that description. Wikipedia has all the nerdy details for anyone interested, and you can sometimes catch repeats of the radio version on the BBC iPlayer (radio4extra). It is from that school of British humour that gets called ‘gentle’, i.e. a side-splitter it ain’t!

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