Forgetting to put up an Easter display is an interesting phenomenon. Hitherto 'Christian' was the default background cultural context for everyone. The shops are all full of "Easter&qu… (View Post)

I always think of Arthur English in Are You Being Served?. (View Post)

True. But a representation of the "boffin" at about the time the term was coined. (View Post)

Boffins... (View Post)

I've posted a 1940s image of Boffins elsewhere in the thread (from The Small Back Room) which is precisely as you describe. Post-war I imagine much the same image, but Richard Wattis is behind t… (View Post)