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Ah, that classic phrase.

Apparently, Billy Boyd turned his fellow hobbits on to Chewin The Fat while filming in New Zealand. There is footage of Elijah Wood trying to say Gonnae no dae that in his California surfer boy accent.

Quite sad, really.

You certainly did, for which I am grateful. It is such a monumentally good story, it deserves a chapter all of its own in a book.

Curiously, it's the kind of thing I could easily imagine the late, unlamented sleazeball Alan Clark doing.

Errm, remind me, what is it I'm no gonnae dae?

Anyway, I have some comedy to watch. Night-night.

Well, as far as Meat was concerned, the thing he wouldn't do was sleep around. Or was it buy a round?

Unlike the very generous Beach Boys who always stood their turn.

I thought it was, marry her.

I haven't given the song much thought, to be honest. I'm still trying to work out who put the bam into bamalangadingdong.