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Mortartube | 15:17 Mon 08th Jan 2007 | Phrases & Sayings
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Did Johnny Craddock ever say this of his wifes doughnuts in their cookery programme, or is it all an urban myth?
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No myth, I was lucky enough to have been watching the program where he said it!
If I remember right, he actually said, 'And if you follow the recipe, all your doughnuts will look like Fannies!'.
That's "Fanny's", folks!
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Thanks for the reply and thanks for the correction Quizmonster.
Truth is stranger than fiction. LOL
To be even more pedantic, it's Cradock, not Craddock...
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Pedantic! Isn't that a large ocean between Britain and America?
Given that the whole joke depends on the fact that, while Johnnie said "Fanny's" = belonging to Fanny, everyone pretends to have misheard it as "fannies" = the plural of "fanny"...it's not really 'pedantic' to point that out, surely.
Pedantic is when you know something that somebody else doesn't know.
Actually Grunty, pedantic means having a narrow and fussy interest in detail, which is not the same as pointing out a fact known to the writer, and not the reader(s).

QM is quite right - he is not being pedantic - the spelling and perceived meaning of JC's statement is integral to the humour of mis-interperation, so he is underlining a salient point, not picking out detail needlessly.
QM, it's not on record whether Johnny meant one thing or the other!
What is on record is that they didn't get on at all well, and he was definitely the under-dog. So he just might have been playing with words on that occasion.
I like to think so!
Thanks for that, Andy.
Whichever way around Johnnie might have meant it, H, there remains a differentiation to be made, even if it is only that the 'f' in 'fannies' should - if your suggested interpretation is correct - be lower case rather than upper!
(A ghastly pair in toto, in my view.)
Is still funny however you spell it!
I confess I barely remember them as a child when they were on, but I recall who scary FC seemed with her deep voice and OTT make-up. i like to think people who are such grotesques wouldn't get TV space these days, but then I think of Anthony Worrall-Thompson ... and i think maybe they would!
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