Here is a story I found on the BBC comedy site. Someone has set up an internet petition to get the phrase "yeh-but-no-but" from Little Britain put into the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Apart from the fact that the dictionary lists words and not phrases, this is ridiculous, surely!
For one thing, it doesn't mean anything.
There are better quotes from other programmes that should really be ahead of this in the queue (for example "you're about as edgy as a satsuma" from the Mighty Boosh, and "Smell My Cheese" or "Jackanackanory" from Alan Partridge - and they all have meanings...)
Ok, so the person's a fan of Little Britain, which is understandable, but really. How much time must they have spare to think this is a good idea?! It'd be interesting to see just how many people sign the petition though... Even if its so we get a good idea of how hard we'll have to work to get through to people these days!
Oh, and by the way, I think I have been proved right with the whole Big Brother thing. I was listening to an interview with the producer of BBC2's Springwatch, and somebody said that they were expecting more viewers for the last episode than Big Brother. At last, proper reality TV with interesting subjects (nature) has won over the trash!
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