Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › "biological biz" Please help Search for: This topic has 14 replies, 11 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 6 months ago by Hamish. Scroll to bottom Viewing 15 posts - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) Author Posts August 17, 2017 at 10:20 pm #220590 VeronikaParticipant Hi all, could you please help me understand one line from the “Kryten” epizode? English is not my mother tongue and I am lost here. “You look like Clive of India! Or the one whose mum does use new biological biz!” I know who Clive of India was, but who is the other one? And what is meant by “biological biz”? It’s supposed to be hilarious and I’m not laughing :-( Thanks a lot! August 17, 2017 at 11:18 pm #220591 RidleyParticipant It’s a reference to washing powder comparison adverts, such as this where the promoted brand, like Daz, cleans your whites better than an unnamed competing brand. They often demonstrate using a child’s clothes and a mother relieved that she can get the stains out. —- Also, there’s a YouTube channel that archives washing powder adverts. August 17, 2017 at 11:26 pm #220592 RidleyParticipant Biz?! August 17, 2017 at 11:39 pm #220593 VeronikaParticipant Ah yes, the whiteness of his uniform! The commercials haven’t changed that much since then. Thanks! August 22, 2017 at 1:25 pm #220660 International DebrisParticipant Could anyone do a thread like this, but for several jokes in every single episode of Seinfeld? August 22, 2017 at 4:07 pm #220661 Plastic PercyParticipant It took me years to realise that Lister’s geography teacher wasn’t shagging a robot of Ganymede. August 22, 2017 at 6:56 pm #220663 Lord FlashheartParticipant Plastic Percy – You are not the only one on that front August 22, 2017 at 7:30 pm #220664 John HoareParticipant Now I think about it, vibrator jokes are quite atypical for Dwarf, aren’t they? August 23, 2017 at 12:09 am #220665 HamishParticipant For me as a kid it was a joke from Hitchhiker’s Guide that threw me, the one where Ford says that going through Hyperspace is “unpleasantly like being drunk”, and when Arthur questions this, Ford says “Ask a glass of water.” I thought it had something to do with a glass of water not being alcoholic, and perhaps having a rivalry with drinks that are, rather than twigging the wordplay. In fairness I was about six when I first heard it. August 24, 2017 at 1:08 am #220678 MANI506Participant I literally just got that Hitch Hikers glass of water joke this year 25 years after I first heard it August 24, 2017 at 9:39 am #220679 Seb PatrickKeymaster Oh man, that’s one of the most beautiful jokes ever written, too. August 24, 2017 at 12:30 pm #220680 DaveParticipant The one gag it took me absolutely years to get was the Brasseye one about it being “not so much the nineties as the yardanketies”. I think I actually had to see someone explain in writing what the “yardanketies” were for the penny to drop. August 24, 2017 at 12:36 pm #220681 Plastic PercyParticipant I’ve only just got it now. Thought it was something to do with the relative benefits of drinking a glass of water compared to the intoxicating, dehydrating qualities of an alcoholic beverage. August 24, 2017 at 12:50 pm #220682 (deleted)Participant Took me years for the penny to drop with “nein-ties/ja-danke-ties” as well, I wouldn’t worry. August 25, 2017 at 12:23 am #220702 HamishParticipant You mean I’m not alone? Author Posts Viewing 15 posts - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In