Subj : Something for the Weekend?
To   : All
From : kim
Date : Thu Aug 04 2005 03:49 am

From: kim@takeawaymedia.co.uk

Can you help get Monty Python into the dictionary?

BBC Two is asking viewers to join The Wordhunt Project and help rewrite the 
Oxford English Dictionary (OED), 'the greatest book in the English language'. A 
major series next year will present the results and will be the biggest boldest 
attempt yet to ask the nation "where do words come from?"  For more information 
visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/wordhunt

One phrase that we are very interested in is the expression "something for the 
weekend".  At the moment the OED has no evidence for this term before 1990, but 
someone has suggested that there is a python sketch which takes place in a 
barbers shop and includes the following dialogue:
"The usual then sir?"
"Perhaps a little off the back?"
"Rangers played well last week, didn't they sir?" "Do you need...err... 'a 
little something for the weekend' sir? If you know what I mean."

Can anyone tell me when this sketch was first performed and where I might find 
it?  Or is there an earlier usage?  Or perhaps we can thank Python for one of 
our other appeal words "bonk" perhaps?  Please visit 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wordhunt for the full list.

Thanks in advance

Kim

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