Talk:Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister

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From The Goon Show cast members and characters

Miss Minnie Bannister, elderly spinster with a quavering voice, with an interesting past (she was presumably a "flapper" in her heyday. She was known as the Darling of Roper's Light Horse, which was apparently a previously unheard of military unit) and has an addiction to saxophone playing and "sinful modern-type dancing". Minnie is as flirtatious as a girl a third her age. She is also a one-time lover of Major Dennis Bloodnok. They were forever being reunited in various adventures. ("She looks the same as the last time I saw her," Bloodnok once said, "Horrible!") Milligan's contribution to vocal technique here was to speak in a high voice while jiggling the flap of skin over his Adam's apple.

Henry Crun, aged idiot inventor and beau of Minnie Bannister. His famous catchphrase, "You can't get the wood, you know" was a satirical reference to British postwar austerity, and like "lurgi" it also quickly passed into the vernacular.