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After 50 Years, Knees Are Still Ridiculous
Friday March 1, 2002
FIFTY years on, The Goon Show's anarchy and wordplay has been so absorbed into our culture that it is hard to remember the impact it once had. I was won over at the age of 11 by a single line on the radio. Neddy Seagoon, the show's dim hero, was relating how there were no oars in his lifeboat, ``but luckily we found two outboard motors and we rowed with them".