From: kim{at}takeawaymedia.co.uk

Can you help get Monty Python into the dictionary?

BBC Two is asking viewers to join The Wordhunt Project and help rewrite the
Oxford English Dictionary (OED), 'the greatest book in the English
language'. A major series next year will present the results and will be
the biggest boldest attempt yet to ask the nation "where do words come
from?"  For more information visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/wordhunt

One phrase that we are very interested in is the expression "something
for the weekend".  At the moment the OED has no evidence for this term
before 1990, but someone has suggested that there is a python sketch which
takes place in a barbers shop and includes the following dialogue:
"The usual then sir?"
"Perhaps a little off the back?"
"Rangers played well last week, didn't they sir?" "Do you
need...err... 'a little something for the weekend' sir? If you know what I
mean."

Can anyone tell me when this sketch was first performed and where I might
find it?  Or is there an earlier usage?  Or perhaps we can thank Python for
one of our other appeal words "bonk" perhaps?  Please visit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wordhunt for the full list.

Thanks in advance

Kim

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