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Sergeant Wilson and Private Pike get the officers uniforms as Captain Mainwaring is too fat for them.
Sieg Heil ! Laban 2005
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Sergeant Wilson and Private Pike get the officers uniforms as Captain Mainwaring is too fat for them.
Archive 2005-01-09 Laban 2005
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In recent days I have come across two examples using Captain Mainwaring from Dad's Army as an exemplar of the sort of traditional bank manager whose demise we now regret.
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Liberal England: John Thurso joins campaign for Captain Mainwaring bank managers. comment-link {margin-left:. 6em;}
John Thurso joins campaign for Captain Mainwaring bank managers 2009
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Liberal England: Captain Mainwaring as cultural hero. comment-link {margin-left:. 6em;}
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If we still had bank managers like Captain Mainwaring this crisis would never have happened.
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John Thurso joins campaign for Captain Mainwaring bank managers
John Thurso joins campaign for Captain Mainwaring bank managers 2009
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Last week I noted that two journalists had cited Captain Mainwaring from Dad's Army as the sort of bank manager we should return to.
John Thurso joins campaign for Captain Mainwaring bank managers 2009
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I know that the series has hardly been off our screens since then, but it is still a tribute to the way that comedy enters the culture that references to Captain Mainwaring are still instantly understood.
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The classic banker of the old school was Arthur Lowe's Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army; a solid, pompous martinet who made sure his books balanced.
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