One Final Lap At Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy on Twitter
July 2, 2009 by Ewan
Americans fail to get the joke as UK honours death of Mollie Sugden.
As the news of the death of Mollie Sugden, 86, spread round the UK yesterday, people turned to Twitter, and like good Twitterers, gave the subject a hashtag, and passed the message on to others
Molly Sugden R.I.P. #MrsSlocombesPussy is the topic if you’d like to show your respects by having her trend. Bless her.
@wossy
Trending is where a popular word on Twitter is noticed and listed on the home page. Unfortunately for some reason Twitter decided that Mrs Slocombes Pussy was not going to be on display and promptly nailed it into the dustbin of spam. US sites were up in arms at an apparent attack on decency, when in fact it was just the UK doing what the UK do best – celebrating a celebrity death and not proclaiming the end of the world is nigh.
Mike Butcher, who oversees the UK Techcrunch beat, summed it up perfectly
Why, it’s just people having fun, right? #MrsSlocombespussy is a joke from way back in the 70s in the UK
Promptly followed by a huge smiley face. What a pity there isn’t an emoticon for nudge nudge wink wink say no more.
But we salute the life of Mollie here at The Daily Dust, from Are you Being Served and I’m sure Sugden is enjoying one final laugh as the double entendre rears its ugly head once more.
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Hey Ewan, I wrote the article for TechCrunch, I still think it was an honest mistake although I feel kind of like an idiot not remembering the running gag from the show
Also funny: everyone in the UK automatically assumed I’m American (a ‘Yankee’) while I’m most certainly not – I’m Belgian – which goes to show how some UK folks think about the US.
Robin, just unfortunate you;re the point man on this one for all the commenters, people lifting the story (ahem) to other sites, etc. And you know I know you’re belgian!
Ha I didn’t realize you were *that* Ewan!
As a Brit living in the US for the last 30 years. I was saddened by Mollie’s passing, but joined in the #MrsSlocombesPussy fun on Twitter.
Mollie and her fans should be proud, #MrsSlocombesPussy reached the number 2 spot on Trending Topics before Twitter pulled the plug.
This was above Michael Jackson and The Iran Election. I think it was a fitting tribute.
While I nodded in agreement to some of the people dissing Robin for the mistake, Mrs Slocombe’s pussy highlights one thing: that we should not expect blogs to deliver well researched journalism at this point in 2009. Oftentimes it is the writer’s viewpoint, for better or for worse, and it is based strictly on that writer’s knowledge. That is the whole point of having comments: to deliver arguments or corrections when appropriate. If we did not have the luxury of feeding back instantly, then we can get on our high horse about the writer’s apparently appalling lack of research.
[...] filters already have blocked false positives. The most obvious example of this is the hashtag #MrsSlocombesPussy a popular one among UK users and a censored one by the US Twiter admins with no understanding of British [...]
[...] filters already have blocked false positives. The most obvious example of this is the hashtag #MrsSlocombesPussy a popular one among UK users and a censored one by the US Twitter admins with no understanding of British [...]