Episode 42

🎼. Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum ...

Jim:  Jazzer, I have come up with a plan to get you out of this house and on with your life.

Jazzer:  Aw naw, yur no gonnae chuck me oot ?

Jim:  No of course not.  I love having you around.  Who else could I patronise all day ?  I have come to the conclusion that your main problem is that very few people understand a word you say.

Jazzer:  Dae ye think so ?  Ah suppose Ah’ve seen folk lookin glaikit when Ah open ma mooth.

Jim:  I think I just proved my point.  I feel I could be Professor Higgins to your Eliza Doolittle.

Jazzer:  Whit !  Ah’m nuthin like a lassie.  Just ask the ladies frae ma auld milk roond.

Jim:  Only metaphorically my dear boy.  You must remember the film My Fair Lady ?  I have so much in common with Rex Harrison.

Jazzer:  Ah dinnae think so.  He’s deid fur wan thing an naebuddy has ever thocht Ah wis like Audrey Hepburn.

Jim:  You are just being contrary.  Professor Higgins taught Eliza to speak properly and as a result changed her life.

Jazzer:  Och hud yur wheesht !  Why wid Ah need tae change the way Ah speak ?

Jim:  I think once again, dear boy, you prove my excellent point.  How about trying, ‘ In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly happen’.

Jazzer:  Hawa wi yur haverin - is that enough aitches ?  How is that gonnae get me a pint in The Bull ?   Efter a’, Ah’m no a performin dug.

Jim:  It’s a dog.

Jazzer:  Well it’s awfy like a dug.

Jim:  Let’s start again shall we ...

🎼. Dum ti dum ti dum ti dum ...

(Ed.  Let’s not.  We’ve had enough complaints about racial stereotyping from north of the border.)







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