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Run, John, Run
Do you like shopping? John does. When Janet and John go to the big department store, Janet says, 'I'm going to have a look around the kitchen department. I'll see you back here in half an hour.' Janet has bought some new kitchen scissors.
Janet says, 'Have you been a good boy?' 'Yes,' says John. 'I saw Mrs. Llewellyn. She was complaining that her husband wasn't very well served in the trouser department and said that I looked like a man who knew how to treat a lady properly. After that I saw Mrs. Steward. She said she was always on the lookout for a partner with good ballroom and asked if I'd like to come to her special club and learn how to Mazurka'. Do you know how to get scissors out of plastic packaging in under a second? Janet does. See Janet chase John. Run John, run.
During its transmission, 8 million listeners to BBC Radio 2's Wake Up To Wogan were beguiled and bewitched by the naughty but nice adventures of John and his wife Janet. As a favourite segment, the stories moved with Terry Wogan to his Sunday morning show, Weekend Wogan . In the style of children's stories of yesteryear, John gets up to all sorts. Then he tells Janet all about his day, by which time every perfectly innocent big end, back passage and stiff one acquires a whole new meaning. This second instalment promises even more devilish double entendres, with over seventy new stories to tickle your funny bones.
Janet says, 'Have you been a good boy?' 'Yes,' says John. 'I saw Mrs. Llewellyn. She was complaining that her husband wasn't very well served in the trouser department and said that I looked like a man who knew how to treat a lady properly. After that I saw Mrs. Steward. She said she was always on the lookout for a partner with good ballroom and asked if I'd like to come to her special club and learn how to Mazurka'. Do you know how to get scissors out of plastic packaging in under a second? Janet does. See Janet chase John. Run John, run.
During its transmission, 8 million listeners to BBC Radio 2's Wake Up To Wogan were beguiled and bewitched by the naughty but nice adventures of John and his wife Janet. As a favourite segment, the stories moved with Terry Wogan to his Sunday morning show, Weekend Wogan . In the style of children's stories of yesteryear, John gets up to all sorts. Then he tells Janet all about his day, by which time every perfectly innocent big end, back passage and stiff one acquires a whole new meaning. This second instalment promises even more devilish double entendres, with over seventy new stories to tickle your funny bones.
1056 pages, Hardcover
First published October 13, 2011
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December 18, 2017
Run John, Run is a weird book to try and review. If you never listened to Terry Wogan's morning radio programme on BBC Radio 2 then these will fly straight over your head, or will at least only be rather repetitive double-entendre laden short, short stories.
In the 50s and 60s, there were children's books about Janet and John, two children who got in to all sorts of mild adventures and knee grazes. Fast forward 50 years and you've got a parody being read out by an Irish man on the radio. It sounds ridiculous and rather crass, but for those TOGs who listened and looked forward to such readings, this collection is an absolute must.
Based roughly on those early Janet and John books and slipping innuendos in to every sentence: it's just a collection of the stories. It's hard to express the delight these stories give, because it was never the stories. It was always just Terry.
In the 50s and 60s, there were children's books about Janet and John, two children who got in to all sorts of mild adventures and knee grazes. Fast forward 50 years and you've got a parody being read out by an Irish man on the radio. It sounds ridiculous and rather crass, but for those TOGs who listened and looked forward to such readings, this collection is an absolute must.
Based roughly on those early Janet and John books and slipping innuendos in to every sentence: it's just a collection of the stories. It's hard to express the delight these stories give, because it was never the stories. It was always just Terry.
January 1, 2023
This is a book for those who remember listening to Terry Wogan on Radio 2, when he would read out short (very short!) stories about the adventures of John Marsh (a flamboyant man who comes across as innocent) and his wife Janet (described as 'long-suffering' in the book blurb).
This book is written in the style of a children's book, but it is not! There is double entendre, innuendo and childish behaviour which is meant for adults.
These stories are meant to be a modern take on the Punch and Judy stories of old, so do bear this in mind if you do want to read this. Similar styles of discipline are used in this if you catch my drift.
This book is written in the style of a children's book, but it is not! There is double entendre, innuendo and childish behaviour which is meant for adults.
These stories are meant to be a modern take on the Punch and Judy stories of old, so do bear this in mind if you do want to read this. Similar styles of discipline are used in this if you catch my drift.
April 4, 2018
Do you like pink? John.does, see John in his pink hat. Oh dear Lord, how I laughed, in fact I cried, needed my Asthma Spray, absolutely hilarious! Taken from the Terry Wogan's radio show, this is Janet and John for grownups, so for God's sake,don't leave it where the kids can get it..
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